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11 Things to Do in Your Manhattan Neighborhood This Weekend

By DNAinfo Staff | September 3, 2015 4:52pm | Updated on September 4, 2015 7:29pm

 The Unicycle Festival features a variety of games, and chances to learn how to maneuver the mono-wheel.
The Unicycle Festival features a variety of games, and chances to learn how to maneuver the mono-wheel.
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These listings were compiled by DNAinfo's Manhattan reporters: Lisha Arino, Gustavo Solis, Gwynne Hogan, Danielle Tcholakian, Irene Plagianos and Shaye Weaver.

All Weekend

New York City Unicycle Festival

Where: Governors Island
When: Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

For those who love free wheeling, the New York Unicycle festival returns this weekend. You can watch hundreds of unicycle enthusiasts in action, or learn to ride and participate in games.

8th Annual Governors Island Art Fair

Where: Colonel’s Row on Governors Island
When: Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

View paintings, photography, sculpture and art installations while exploring 100 rooms within the abandoned military barracks on Governors Island this weekend. This is the first weekend of the month-long art fair.

Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit

Where: University Place, from East 13th Street to West Third Street
When: Saturday, Sunday and Monday, from noon to 6 p.m.

Craftmakers and visual artists will showcase their work at this sidewalk art show — not to be confused with a street fair, the organizers are quick to specify. Fun fact: Interior designer Jonathan Adler lives nearby and recently told Ad Week that whenever he passes by this particular art show, he remembers when he “started out as a potter, as an outsider who never expected to make a living at all [and] was certain he’d be… hawking [his] wares at rain-soaked craft fairs.”

Friday, Sept. 4

First Friday: Labor Day “Carnival” Edition

Where: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem
When: 6 to 10 p.m.

First Fridays is a free dance party in the public research library. There will be two DJs in the lobby and a third in the outdoor courtyard. Guests are encouraged to come dressed in the colors of a caribbean country. Apart from dancing and socializing, people will be able to see the exhibit, “The 75th Anniversary of the American Negro Theatre.”

Saturday, Sept. 5

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Where: 79 Division St., Lower East Side
When: 4 to 10 p.m.

Eat moon cakes, sample Asian cuisine and take in live music and other cultural activities in the annual street fair hosted by the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.

"The Muppets Take Manhattan" Outdoor Screening

Where: Luther Gulick Park, Delancey Street between Columbia and Willett streets, Lower East Side
When: 8 p.m.

Remember when Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy were still together? Relive the good times with a free outdoor screening of “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” Moviegoers are encouraged to arrive roughly 7:30 p.m. Limited seating for seniors and those with disabilities will also be available.

Labor of Love Disco Dance

Where: 92nd Street Y, 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side
When: 8 p.m.

Learn how to disco, hustle, Latin dance and West Coast Swing with teacher Lori Brizzi from 8 to 9 p.m. Open dancing begins at 9 p.m. $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Sunday, Sept. 6

► Last Chance to Gorge on Ice Cream Sandwiches on a Rooftop

Where: the Refinery Hotel rooftop, 63 W. 38th Street, Midtown

When: 2 to 10 p.m.

Custom make your own ice cream sandwich and enjoy it on the roof of a Midtown hotel this Sunday afternoon. Ovenly Cookies and OddFellows ice cream made sweet, sweet love and had ice cream sandwich baby that’s out of this world. Choose between oat currant and chocolate chip cookies, and buttermilk honey blueberry or vanilla bean ice cream. Garnish your creation with chocolate pearls or shavings, crushed butter cookies or pistachio nuts. Sandwiches run $5 a pop.

Harlem Meer Performance Festival: Dee Dee LeVant Gospel Ensemble

Where: Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center at 110th Street, Harlem
When: 2 p.m.

Gospel, jazz and Broadway singer Dee Dee LeVant will perform at this free festival.

Hands On Workshop: Art Is...

Where: Studio Museum, 144 W. 125th St., Harlem
When: 2 to 4 p.m.

This free workshop will encourage participants to think outside the box. First guests will take a look at Lorraine O’Grady’s art performance, in which she turned Harlem’s African-American Day Parade into a moving art gallery, then they will use art supplies and equipment to create their own original art pieces.

“Last Send Off for the Summer” Singaporean-Style Clambake

Where: Chomp Chomp, 7 Cornelia St., West Village
When: 5:30 to 10:30 p.m.

$50 gets you access to an “enormous spread,” to quote The Daily Meal, with a clambake of clams, mussels, shrimp, lobster, sausage, and corn cooked in a sauce of Singaporean Tiger Beer and “house spices,” plus crispy chicken wings marinated in shrimp paste and Tiger Beer spicy clams. (The meal is a partnership with Tiger Beer, a Singaporean brew.) Tiger Beer runs you just $1 all night long, and dessert offerings include banana fritters and pineapple pie.