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Beginning Saturday, October 6
Pumpkin Patch
11am-4:30pm
Queens County Farm Museum
All Ages
Enjoy a day of searching for a pumpkin at Queens County Farm Museum. Bring the family to search high and low for the right pumpkin to carve or eat. Come quickly before someone else gets your perfect pumpkin! Please note: While patch admission is free, pumpkin prices start at $4 and depends upon size. Runs weekends through Saturday, October 27.
7th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival
10am-5pm
Old Stone House & Washington Park
All Ages
Spend the day with natural fiber artists, crocheters, dyers, felters, knitters, quilters, spinners and weavers during the 7th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival. The full-day event will include a marketplace for independent fiber artists from the tri-state area, demonstrations, an art exhibit and more!
Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards
11am
Lincoln Center
Ages 2-5
Ages two through five will love this Mardi Gras–inspired performance. Jazzy Ash and her Leaping Lizards will lead kids through the music of New Orleans with their four-piece band, using jazz and zydeco.
9th Annual Harlem Harvest Festival
11am-4pm
St. Nicholas Avenue (between 117th and 118th Streets)
All Ages
Come up to Harlem for a re-imagined state fair! There will still be fresh produce and harvest food, but with a slight twist! Local restaurants will be on hand to serve their food alongside the farm fresh fare. A Kids Corner will have games, arts and crafts and pumpkin carving. There will also be music pumping and performances on display.
Kickoff to Fall
11am-4:30pm
Queens County Farm Museum
All Ages
Celebrate the harvest season with fresh cider, donuts, apples, locally-made pies, pumpkin patch fun, and one of the area’s best corn mazes at the Queens County Farm Museum’s Kickoff to Fall.
Fall for Arts Festival
11am-5pm
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
All Ages
Enjoy mural painting, face painting, live music, kids’ games, food trucks, and much more during the Fall for Arts Festival!
Sunday, October 7
25th Annual Bus Festival
10am-4pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park
All Ages
An annual NYC classic, the New York Transit Museum’s Bus Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park provides the perfect opportunity to introduce children to vintage city buses. This day-long fest will feature more than a dozen vehicles including “Betsy,” a double decker bus from the ’30s, 1958’s Bus 9098, which was the first bus in the city equipped with sliding windows, and the Tunnel Wrecker, an emergency vehicle designed to remove disabled buses and cars out of tunnels.
