This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 6-12, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening This Week and Beyond (in order of appearance):

Happier Hour / Making Gay History Live Fall Events / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / Free Programming at Bella Abzug Park /

“Happier Hour” at Bella Abzug Park: Wednesday, October 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 was 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 | 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). For all essential info, including how to purchase tickets, click here.

Free Events at Chelsea Green Park (140 w. 20th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | The Friends of Chelsea Green continue to bring free programming to the micro-but-mighty West Chelsea park. Contact them via email at chelseagreenpark@gmail.com. See belowfor a flyer full of info. about October 18’s PARKTOBERFEST event–and mind that chill in your bones, that provides a fittingly spooky premonition. (Its message: Get that costume ready for Chelsea Green Park’s annual block-long Halloween celebration; details to come in next week’s This Week In & Around Chelsea column).

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. 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.

—Compiled by Scott Stiffler

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This Week In & Around Chelsea: October 6-12, 2025 is posted on October 6, 2025