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

The London Terrace Street Fair / Sherry Vine / West Side Community Fund Grant Applications Due Sept. 19 / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis / Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund / Chelsea Waterside Community Celebration / The Longest Table

PICK OF THE WEEK

The London Terrace Street Fair: Saturday, September 20, 10am to 5pm on West 24th Street (btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) | Strolling shoppers, schmoozing stakeholders, and priced-to-go purveyors of slightly used stuff have reason to rejoice. Having closed down in 2024 after nearly 30 years, that much-missed annual harbinger of autumn–The London Terrace Street Fair–is returning, with 2025 and 2026 dates booked (Sept. 20 and Oct. 3, respectively). Vendors lining both sides of West 24th Street include area artists, local clubs and organizations, and tenants of event namesake London Terrace–whose eclectic inventory of clothes, furnishings, kitchenware, and collectibles earns the Street Fair its “something for everyone” reputation. Keep updated by clicking here to visit the London Terrace Street Fair Facebook page. For more on the how and why of the Street Fair’s return, click here for our recent article.

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.

Events at Verdi Cannabis (158 W. 23rd St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.) | Legal cannabis distributor Verdi Cannabis offers free arts programming via gallery-style displays of artwork on their walls, and a live Thursday night music series called The Green Room. “The goal is to always have something fun, interesting, and unique happening here at Verdi,” says Assistant GM and Events Coordinator Kenny Cunningham (featured in this Q&A segment). To keep up with what else is up with Verdi, click here to visit their website. To visit the EVENTS page of their website, click here. 

The 4th Annual Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund Benefit: Thursday, September 18, 6pm-9pm at Chelsea Market  | Dense with culinary delights created by over 130 of NYC’s leading premiere chefs, artisans, and mixologists, this annual gathering sees Chelsea Market transformed into a moveable feast that feeds the needs of up-and-coming talent committed to creating and sustaining the face of future food and farming. For one-night-only, the Market shuts down to host the likes of Gage & Tollner, I Sodi, Celestine, Carbone, Rolo’s, Celestine, Grand Army Bar, and more. That’s a fitting tribute to late, much-loved Anne Saxelby–the trailblazing cheesemonger and steadfast advocate for sustainable agriculture who helped reshape the food landscape. Proceeds from the Benefit go toward hands-on farming apprenticeships that help carry Saxelby’s mission forward by training the next generation of food changemakers. Sure, you could click here and click here to live vicariously via our coverage of past Legacy Fund Benefit events at Chelsea Market, but you’ll stop woefully short of the multitude of tactile pleasures that can only be had via in-person attendance. Tickets can be purchased at ASLF BENEFIT TICKETS, starting at a base price of $175 for general admission or $75 for kids under 12, an industry price of $135 and featuring packages ranging up to $10,000.

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.

—Compiled by Scott Stiffler

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