Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance):
Happier Hour / Making Gay History Live Fall Events / MCB4 Full Board Meeting / Oktoberfest / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / Free Programming at Bella Abzug Park / Coffee at the Curb / Blessing of the Animals / The Longest Table / Parktoberfest
“Happier Hour” at Bella Abzug Park: Wednesday, October 1 & 8, 5pm to 6:30pm Near the Paradis in the Park kiosk (524 W. 34th St.) | Deals on food and drink and free music comprise the appeal of this Happy Hour observance–which has one more feature to boast about: It is “Hour” in name only; the actual run time is 90 minutes, hence the name change from plain old “Happy” to “Happier.” On October 1, the live entertainment is provided by Wayne Tucker Music (“Miles Davis meets Stevie Wonder”); and on October 8, it’s music from Brass Meets World, a NYC-based brass band, playing the best songs of the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
Making Gay History Live Fall Events Beginning Tuesday, September 30, 7:30pm at The Center (208 W. 13th St.) | The popular podcast Making Gay History becomes a brick-and-mortar thing this fall, via an imaginative initiative from its creators (among them, Eric Marcus–editor of Chelsea’s informative and opinionated Neighborhood Newsletter). First up, at 7:30pm on Tues., Sept. 30, Movie Night invites you to “travel back nearly six decades in time for an exclusive screening of The Queen, a rare pre-Stonewall documentary featuring drag icons from across the country in competition for a national title, filmed 40+ years before RuPaul’s Drag Race and 20+ years before Paris is Burning. Stay for a live recorded interview with Elyssa Maxx Goodman (Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City) and Kevin Smith Kirkwood (Broadway’s Kinky Boots). Plus, a special one-night-only performance!” For all essential info, including how to purchase tickets, click here.




Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park (524 W, 24th St.) from HYHK (The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) | HYHK offers fun programming for all ages in Bella Abzug Park (524 W. 34th St.). Among the events–all of them free and open to the public–are a series of yoga classes from Bien Good Well (Mondays and Wednesdays at 6pm, Saturdays at 10:30am). To register for a class, click here. For the kids, head to the playground at Bella Abzug Park on Tuesday mornings through October, for acoustic concerts with Mike Messer Music. To access the HYHK Alliance events calendar, click here.
Neighbors of 300 West 21st, 22nd, 23rd Streets Block Association Present Coffee at the Curb: Saturday, October 4, 10am to 12pm at 360 West 22nd Street btw. 8th & 9th Aves.) | It costs nothing to chat up your neighbors at his monthly gathering, where the drinks, eats, and daffodil bulbs are on the house. See the below flyer for details.
St. Peter’s Chelsea Presents an Outdoor Blessing of the Animals: Sunday, October 5, 11:30am in the Courtyard of St. Peter’s, 346 West 20th Street (btw. 8th & th Aves.) | See the below flyer for more info on how and where the fur flies, at this beloved annual event.
The Longest Table: Sunday October 5, 12pm-2pm on West 21st St. (btw. 9th/10th Aves.) | Sharing a meal with old friends–or new ones–is the simple, lasting appeal of this recently established annual tradition that takes the premise of the potluck dinner and widens it out to fill the length of an entire crosstown block. For more information, visit www.longesttablecommunity.org. If you’d like to volunteer or have questions, email longesttablecommunity.org.
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—Compiled by Scott Stiffler
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