Fall Festivals & Annual Events

The New York Fashion Week

The New York Fashion Week welcomes the best models, celebrities, designers, and performers to the Big Apple. Many designers from brands like Telfar, Rebecca Minkoff, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Siriano, and The Blonds show up to showcase their Spring/Summer 2023 collections. This is also their chance to set the pace of style trends for the coming year. Are you a fashion fanatic? If so, this is your chance to be part of one of the biggest seasonal events that happen each year.

While you can’t really know what to expect at the NYFW, there are several things you should plan for. For instance, if you are driving to the Big Apple, you should arrange parking for your vehicle. Parking can be quite expensive in New York City. As such, you need to research and find out how you can reduce the cost of parking for your vehicle. According to Fortune, on average, a car in the United States is parked 95% of the time. You will probably part for longer periods during the NYFW. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to save money on parking, including taking advantage of specials, night parking, early bird parking, and more.

The Brooklyn Book Festival

This is another popular gathering in NYC travel gathering. The festival was started in 2006 by the then Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. In subsequent years, the festival has gone beyond showcasing Brooklyn authors only to hosting non-Brooklyn and international writers. This festival can have attendances of up to 30,000. As you might imagine, that means lots of competition for accommodation and parking spots. Activities at the Brooklyn Book Festival include panel discussions, vendors, themed readings, and author signings. You’ll also find several parties and stand-up shows at various public venues in Brooklyn.

These are some of the fall events and festivals held in New York City annually. It’s crucial to ensure that you take advantage of all the chances to get cheaper parking rates, overnight parking, and weekend parking for your vehicle. Take advantage of our parking app for unbeatable convenience during your NYC travel.

Other Annual Events

• Feast of San Gennaro: Monday, September 19th. The Feast of all feasts!
• Museum Day: September 17th
  • Eight museums and institutions either in NYC or around the area are participating in this annual culturally-rich celebration on September 17th Admission is free to participating museums.
• New York Film Festival: September 30th – October 16th
• Oktoberfest: September 2nd – October 31st
• New York City Food and Wine Festival: October 13th – October 16th
  • Including walk around tasting, intimate dinners, culinary demos, signature events, family fun, cocktails & spirits and more!
• New York Coffee Festival: October 7th – October 9th
  • The New York Coffee Festival is New York’s flagship coffee event, celebrating the burgeoning specialty coffee scene in this great city.
• New Yorker Festival: October 7th – October 9th
  • The New Yorker Festival is an annual event organized by The New Yorker magazine bringing together “a who’s-who of the arts, politics and everything in between.”
• New York Comic Con: October 6th – October 9th
• Village Halloween Parade: October 31st
• New York City Marathon: November 6th
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: November 24th

Music Festivals & Dance Performances

• Global Citizen Festival: September 24th
  • Annual music festival where fans take actions toward ending extreme poverty in order to earn free tickets.
• Fall for Dance Festival: September 21st – October 2nd
• Rolling Loud: September 23rd – September 25th
  • International hip hop music festival this year featuring Nicki Minaj, A$AP Rocky, Big Sean, Busta Rhymes and more!
• Electric Zoo: September 2nd – September 4th
• BRIC JazzFest in Downtown Brooklyn: October 21st – October 23rd
  • The 2022 BRIC JazzFest lineup brings together jazz world legends, rising stars, and emerging musical geniuses at BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn.
• The Metropolitan Opera Fall season: September 2022 – June 2023
• New York City Ballet Fall Repertory Season

Broadway Shows

• New York City Broadway Week: September 6th – September 25th
  • 2-for-1 Tickets!
• Off-Broadway Week: September 26th – October 9th
  • 2-for-1 Tickets!
• The Kite Runner: A stage adaption of Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 book The Kite Runner. An unforgettable story about two young boys whose lives are shaped by regrettable decisions.
• Cost of Living: Opens October 3rd: The story of four very different people, in four very different circumstances, each trying to get by.
• The Piano Lesson: Starring Samuel L Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks. “THE PIANO LESSON is the play for now. It reaches into the souls of the present, revealing startling truths about how we perceive our past—and who gets to define our legacy.”
• Take Me Out: Take Me Out follows Darren Lemming, star center fielder for the Empires, who reveals he is gay and faces a barrage of long-held unspoken prejudices. Opens October 27th.
• The Collaboration: In the summer of 1984, Andy Warhol and the art scene’s newest wunderkind, Jean-Michel Basquiat, agree to work together on what may be the most talked about exhibition in the history of modern art. Previews November 29th. Opens December 20th.

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