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The event encourages knitters to get to know each other and the city's independent shops.
The event will offer crafting classes, "Knitting 'Jeopardy,'" and a knit-couture fashion show.
The new craft store opens at Nostrand Avenue and Hancock Street this weekend.
A former yarn store owner knit colorful art pieces for the entrance to P.S. 87.
Fans of the fiber arts will be hitting different yarn shops before the cool weather arrives.
London O'Donnell, 24, has been crocheting designs all over the streets of Bed-Stuy.
Michael Wright's "Troutman Collection" names each men's clothing piece after a Bushwick street.
Artist Olek's "Synthetic Nature" opens March 15 at the Krause Gallery on Orchard Street.
Guerilla street artist Olek knit a pink and purple cover for the famous Astor Place "Alamo" cube sculpture early Monday.
Yarn artist Olek covered a new sculpture in Tompkins Square Park in one of her trademark designs.
A guerrilla knitting project became a family collaboration when a local resident decided to decorate a park fence.
"Crocheted Grapefruit," by yarn artist Olek, is based on an idea from Yoko Ono's book.
The artist recently gained attention for crocheting a cover for downtown's bull sculpture.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov should be spared the death penalty.
The actress spotted the suspect outside her third-floor balcony, sources said.
A shortage of bilingual therapists has made the problem especially difficult in some districts.
The victim suffered a fractured skull base, multiple spinal fractures, bruised lungs and other injuries.
The break happened just after 4 a.m. on Pacific Street near Albany Avenue.
Officer Ryan Nash shot Sayfullo Saipov who killed eight people with a rented truck, officials said.
The new owners have no plans to change the properties, according to a realtor who brokered the deal.
The deadly attack left eight people dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
Five men from Argentina, a woman from Belgium, a West Village resident and a man from N.J. were killed.
The vote paves the way for developers to build a complex with retail space and 1,146 apartments.
The Queens County Bird Club is hoping to install two bird feeders in the park by the end of November.
Sayfullo Saipov was charged by federal prosecutors on Wednesday with aiding ISIS in a terror attack.
A new art gallery features the work of recovering addicts in East Harlem.
Catwalks, balconies, a secret staircase and elaborate ceiling panels were uncovered at the theater.
Preservation groups are writing letters — in crayon — to the library, which owns the home.