The best things to do in NYC this March 2026, from major cultural openings and Broadway premieres to the annual traditions that mark the city’s turn toward the new season.
March is when New York shifts seasons without hesitation. The city does not ease into spring; it accelerates. This month brings the world’s largest parade, a rare concentration of major Broadway openings, a Blood Moon over the skyline, and one of the most anticipated art exhibitions in the country. Whether you have been here for thirty years or thirty days, this is the month to pay attention.
This guide is updated annually. For 2026, we prioritized the 50th-anniversary milestones and the rare Broadway “triple-threat” preview window.
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This March Edit
The Whitney Biennial
📍Location: 99 Gansevoort Street — Meatpacking District, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Whitney Museum of American Art | Date: Opens Sunday, March 8, 2026
Every two years, the Whitney Museum presents the most closely watched survey of contemporary American art. The Biennial is not a comfortable show. It is designed to reflect where the culture actually is, which means it is occasionally difficult, frequently surprising, and always worth seeing before the conversation settles around it.
For locals, Friday evenings are the right time to go. The energy skews younger, the crowds are looser, and the pay-what-you-wish admission makes it one of the better cultural values in the city. Go early in the run before the critical consensus calcifies around a handful of works, and you can form your own.
BKLS Note: Friday evenings, pay-what-you-wish. Book timed entry in advance — walk-up availability is limited during the opening week.
Details: The Whitney Biennial
Dog Day Afternoon
📍Location: August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street — North Theater District / Hell’s Kitchen Border, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Dog Day Afternoon | Date: Previews—Begin Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | Opening Night: Monday, March 30, 2026
Dog Day Afternoon stars Jon Bernthal as Sonny and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Sal, reuniting the two leads from The Bear on stage for the first time. The adaptation comes from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, updated for 2026 to lean into the raw atmosphere of 1970s Brooklyn, and directed by Rupert Goold.
Interest built quickly as tickets were released, driven by the Bernthal–Moss-Bachrach pairing and the production’s limited 16-week run. Esteban Andres Cruz plays Leon, a casting choice that honors the story’s queer history. Already the hardest ticket of the season.
Hannah Hausman & Guthrie Galileo Single Release Show
📍Location: Rubulad, 338 Flushing Avenue — Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Rubulad | Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Time: 7:30 PM | Tickets: $15
There are certain venues in New York that shape the experience as much as the performance itself. Rubulad is one of them.
For one night, indie soul songwriter Hannah Hausman joins electronic producer Guthrie Galileo to release “Marry The Night,” a single from their upcoming collaborative EP. The project was created remotely between Vermont and Brooklyn, and that contrast carries through layered vocals set against heavier, synth-driven production.
This is not a polished concert hall setting. It is a smaller, more immersive room where the line between performer and audience tends to blur. The kind of night you stay for longer than planned.
Details: Hannah Hausman & Guthrie Galileo: Marry The Night
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Location: Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street — Midtown West, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Shubert Organization | Date: Previews Start — Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | Opening Night: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | Runtime: 2 hours and 45 minutes [including one intermission]
After a sold-out extended run at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in 2024, Cats: The Jellicle Ball transfers to Broadway this spring. And it is not a traditional revival.
The junkyard becomes a high-fashion runway. Performers compete in Ballroom categories for the Jellicle Choice. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score remains, reworked with Ballroom and club influences that shift the energy of the original.
The cast includes Tony winner André De Shields as Old Deuteronomy. Ballroom Hall of Famer Tempress Chasity Moore makes her Broadway debut as Grizabella. Leiomy, known as the Wonder Woman of Vogue, appears as Macavity. Choreography by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons draws directly from Ballroom culture and history.
The Broadhurst has been reconfigured with stage seating flanking the runway. It is one of the most immersive theatrical experiences on Broadway right now.
BKLS Note: Stage-side seating delivers the most immersive experience, placing you along the runway as the categories unfold. These sections are limited and tend to sell first, so book early if you want to feel the Ballroom energy up close.
Details: Cats: The Jellicle Ball
NEA Jazz Masters: A Tribute to Miles Davis at 100
📍 Location: 137-35 Northern Boulevard — Flushing, Queens | 🌐 Website: Flushing Town Hall | Date: Friday, March 20, 2026 | Time: 8 PM | Tickets: From $45
Miles Davis would have turned 100 this year. The centennial deserves more than a playlist and Flushing Town Hall delivers. Trumpeter Jimmy Owens, who first shared a stage with Davis at 15, leads an ensemble that includes Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Donald Harrison, and Kenny Davis. Four NEA Jazz Masters in one room in Queens. This institution has been doing this work for two decades and it never feels routine.
BKLS Note: Take the 7 to Flushing-Main Street. Plan dinner in the neighborhood before the 8 PM curtain.
Details: NEA Jazz Masters: A Tribute to Miles Davis
Printemps New York — First Anniversary Dinner
📍 Location: Red Room, 1 Wall Street — Financial District, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Printemps New York | Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026 | Time: 6 PM – 10 PM | Price: $310
One year in, Printemps New York closes out its first chapter by transforming the Red Room into something it almost never becomes—a proper dining room. Culinary Director Gregory Gourdet has built five courses around the arrival of spring: green asparagus, a clear consommé, Maine lobster with lemongrass and coconut, roasted stuffed pork with morels and citrus, and a rhubarb, strawberry, and pistachio close. Bouchaine Vineyards pours throughout. Eva Vos sets the evening’s tone as dinner becomes night. The Red Room on a Saturday in March, set for one occasion only, that is worth knowing about.
BKLS Note: Reservations via the Printemps website. Book now.
Bronx Rising!: Women in Horror Panel & Screening of Queens of the Dead
📍 Location: Bronx Music Hall, 438 East 163rd Street — Morrisania, Bronx | 🌐 Website: Bronx Music Hall | Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026 | Time: Panel: 7 PM – 8 PM [Free] | Screening: 8 PM – 10 PM [$12]
The conversation runs first, an hour with writer-director Tina Romero, journalist Xero Gravity, filmmaker and actress Gigi Saúl Guerrero, and author Vincent Tirado on how women in horror have moved from the margins of the genre to its center. Then the lights go down for Queens of the Dead, a film in which drag queens and club kids discover that surviving a zombie apocalypse requires exactly the skills a Brooklyn drag show produces. Romero takes questions after. The panel is free. The film is $12. The combination is the best value on the March calendar.
BKLS Note: Arrive before 7 PM. This will fill. Get Tickets.
A Man Under the Influence: Steven Soderbergh Film Series at Nitehawk
📍 Location: Nitehawk Cinema — Prospect Park & Williamsburg | 🌐 Website: Nitehawk Cinema | Date: Every Wednesday through April 15, 2026 | Time: 7:15 PM [Happy Hour from 5 PM]
Soderbergh turned 63 and decided to celebrate by pairing nine decades of cinema with nine bespoke cocktails. Each Wednesday at Nitehawk, one film from his personal selection screens alongside a Singani 63 cocktail created by a NYC bar chosen to match it. The Happy Hour begins at 5 PM. The film follows at 7:15 PM. It is a more considered Wednesday night than most people manage in March.
BKLS Note: The cocktail pairing is half the experience. Arrive at 5 PM for the full evening.
Details: A Man Under the Influence
The Big Moments
The Total Lunar Eclipse — Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The first major event of the month happens before most of the city is awake. On March 3, a Blood Moon will be visible over the New York skyline at approximately 6:45 AM. The full lunar eclipse turns the moon a deep amber before sunrise pulls it from view. It is a brief window. Set the alarm.
Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 1 and the High Line both offer unobstructed sightlines with the skyline as a backdrop. Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport is worth considering if you want elevation. Arrive at least twenty minutes early; you will not be the only one there.
Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade — 51st Anniversary
📍 Location: Park Slope [Starts 15th St & Prospect Park West] | 🌐 Website: Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade | Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 | Time: 1 PM
While Fifth Avenue has the scale, Park Slope has the soul. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Brooklyn parade, a neighborhood institution that feels less like a formal procession and more like a massive block party working its way through one of Brooklyn’s most beloved streets.
BKLS Note: The sweet spot for viewing is near the Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance to Prospect Park, where you get the full effect of the march coming toward you with the park as backdrop. Afterward, Farrell’s Bar & Grill on Prospect Park West is the only logical next stop. It is a rite of passage.
The 265th St. Patrick’s Day Parade
📍Route: Fifth Avenue, 44th Street to 79th Street — Manhattan | 🌐 Website: NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade | Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Time: 11 AM – 5 PM
The largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the world has been running in New York since 1762. In 2026, it marks its 265th year, with a reported tribute section honoring the city’s founding Irish families woven through the procession.
The standard advice is to watch from the upper 70s on Fifth Avenue, where the crowds are thinner and the view is unobstructed. Arrive by 9 AM. Regardless of where you position yourself, the route fills faster than it looks on a map.
If you are a local who has done Fifth Avenue before, the St. Pat’s for All parade in Sunnyside, Queens, runs the same day. It is shorter, more neighborhood in scale, and the post-parade pub scene is genuinely better.
Broadway’s Star-Studded Spring
March 2026 is bringing an unusual concentration of major theatrical talent to Broadway in a short window. Three productions are opening in quick succession, and all three are generating the kind of pre-opening attention that makes tickets difficult before the reviews land.
Every Brilliant Thing
📍Location: Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street — Theater District, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Every Brilliant Thing | Date: Opens Thursday, March 12, 2026
Daniel Radcliffe returns to the stage in this one-person show. It has already built a significant following during its Off-Broadway run. The piece is immersive. Audience members are pulled into the performance. It moves between comedy and genuine emotional weight in ways that have caught critics off guard.
See it now, before the word fully spreads.
BKLS Note: Check the production website for venue and ticketing. Earlier performances often have the best availability.
The Fear of 13
📍Location: James Earl Jones Theatre, 138 West 48th Street — Midtown West / Rockefeller Center Border, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: The Fear of 13 | Date: Previews—Begin Thursday, March 19, 2026 | Opening Night: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Fear of 13 brings Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson to Broadway for the first time, telling the true story of Nick Yarris, who spent 22 years on death row before DNA evidence proved his innocence. Brody originated the role in London to an Olivier nomination; this production is a new staging. Thompson plays Jackie, with Tony nominee Ephraim Sykes also joining the cast.
Directed by Tony winner David Cromer, the production leans into an intimate, emotionally direct style. Offstage, the show has partnered with the Innocence Project, whose Executive Director Christina Swarns was among Yarris’s original attorneys. Already one of the most anticipated dramatic productions of the season.
Fallen Angels
📍Location: Todd Haimes Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street — Times Square, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Fallen Angels | Date: Previews—Begin Friday, March 27, 2026 | Opening Night: Sunday, April 19, 2026 | Note: This is a Roundabout Theatre Company production
Fallen Angels brings Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara together on stage for the first time, playing two happily married friends who discover they once had an affair with the same man, who is, inconveniently, on his way to see them. When Noël Coward premiered the play in 1925, it caused a moral panic. A century later, it returns as a stylish, fast-moving comedy directed by Scott Ellis.
Mark Consuelos makes his official Broadway debut, with Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald, Aasif Mandvi, and Tracee Chimo rounding out a cast built for precision timing.
If Dog Day Afternoon and The Fear of 13 lean toward intensity, this is the counterweight, sharp, funny, and carried by two performers at the top of their range.
BKLS Note: All three productions are in preview through March, which means tickets are more available and often less expensive than post-opening night. Lottery programs run through the TodayTix and Broadway Direct apps — set alerts now. For Dog Day Afternoon specifically, check daily. Cancellations move fast.
Arts & Culture
Katha Cato: Reassembled
📍 Location: The Local LIC, 13-02 44th Avenue, Long Island City — Queens | 🌐 Website: Queens World Film Festival | Exhibition Dates: March 4 – March 31, 2026 | Live Performance Event: Saturday, March 14, 2026 | Time: Doors at 6:30 PM [for “nibbles and mingling”]; Performance at 7:30 PM
Katha Cato co-founded the Queens World Film Festival and was a pioneer of the NYC improv movement in the 1980s. Reassembled is her return to both roots — a month-long exhibition of sculptures and textile works made from fabric, buttons, nails, and lumber, exploring how we piece ourselves together over time, paired with a fully improvised one-woman performance on March 14.
The exhibit runs throughout March in the public spaces of The Local, an industrial-chic hostel and bar in Long Island City, and is free to view. The live show on March 14 has doors at 6:30 PM for nibbles and mingling, performance at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $22–25. The evening doubles as a fundraiser for the Queens World Film Festival.
BKLS Note: Fifth Hammer Brewing Co. is a five-minute walk; go for a pre-show flight before the 6:30 PM doors. The Local itself has the right energy for the mingle hour before the performance starts.
Details: Katha Cato: Reassembled
The 25th Flamenco Festival
📍 Location: New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street — Midtown, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: NYCC | Date: Through Sunday, March 8, 2026
The Flamenco Festival marks its 25th year at City Center this month, and the programming reflects the anniversary, ambitious, varied, and reaching beyond the traditional. The late-night Flamenco-Jazz fusion sets have been drawing a younger crowd and generating real buzz in the West Village. If you have never seen flamenco performed at this level, the festival is the right introduction. If you have, the fusion programming is the reason to return.
BKLS Note: Performances run through March 8. Check City Center’s website for the full schedule. The late-night sets sell out faster than the main program.
Details: 25th Flamenco Festival
ARTECHOUSE: Blooming Wonders
📍 Location: 439 West 15th Street — Chelsea, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: ARTECHOUSE | Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 Through Sunday, May 31, 2026
ARTECHOUSE’s spring installation is an immersive digital garden. High-resolution projections, interactive visuals, and vivid floral imagery are designed to move through the space around you. It runs through May, which means it will be there when the real flowers arrive. Go early in the run before it becomes the default date-night destination for the next three months.
BKLS Note: Timed entry, book in advance. Better on a weeknight.
Details: Blooming Wonders
Accent Dance: NEXT
📍 Location: Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street — Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Accent Dance NYC | Dates: Friday, March 13, 2026 & Saturday, March 14, 2026
NEXT: New Voices, Shared Stories brings together five distinct works in a single evening: Will Ervin’s Narcissus, a fusion of modern, contemporary, and street dance that examines self-love and acceptance through the lens of Greek mythology, with race, community, and identity shaping how we see ourselves; Miaotian Sun’s Echoes Between Us, a world premiere blending traditional Chinese dance with Western contemporary movement to explore the re-excavated Bronze Age civilization of Sanxingdui; Danielle Diniz’s A Place for Us, an American immigrant story; Pedro Ruiz’s Mar y Tierra, a new contemporary ballet by the Cuban choreographer; and an African dance performance with live drumming.
Friday’s performance includes a live Q&A with the artists. Saturday closes with a cocktail reception. Either night is worth your time. Together, they are a reminder of why live performance in New York still does things no other city can replicate.
BKLS Note: Tickets available through the Accent Dance website. Friday for the conversation, Saturday for the celebration.
Museum of Jewish Heritage: Three Evenings Worth Marking
📍Location: 36 Battery Place, Battery Park, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Museum of Jewish Heritage | Dates: March 15, March 19, and March 25, 2026
The Museum of Jewish Heritage at Battery Park is presenting three distinct programs this month, each one standing on its own.
Dedication on Sunday, March 15, is a one-person show by pianist Roger Peltzman. It traces his family’s escape from Nazi Europe and the story of his uncle, a gifted young pianist murdered at Auschwitz at 21. The piece moves between drama, humor, and live music, ranging from blues to Chopin.
InsightALT: Tevye’s Daughters on Thursday, March 19, is a concert performance of a new opera by Alex Weiser and Stephanie Fleischmann, drawing from the darker Sholem Aleichem stories that Fiddler on the Roof left out. The work moves between a Ukrainian shtetl in 1907 and the Catskills in 1964. It centers on silenced women’s voices across generations. Tickets are $40.
All in the Telling on Wednesday, March 25 features actor and writer Saul Rubinek performing excerpts from his novel about his Holocaust-survivor parents, accompanied by clips from his 1986 documentary So Many Miracles. It is reported to be part family drama, part love story, part excavation of long-buried secrets.
Any one of these would anchor an evening. All three together represent the kind of month the museum rarely has.
BKLS Note: Check individual event pages for ticketing. Programs and pricing vary.
JASA Art Show
📍 Location: Evelyn & Louis Green Residence at Cooper Square, 200 East 5th Street — East Village, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: JASA | Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | Time: 6 PM – 8 PM | Admission: Free
JASA’s annual exhibition brings together seniors from across the five boroughs, some with decades of practice behind them, others who found painting for the first time in a JASA class this year. The range is the point. There is no curatorial agenda here beyond the work itself, and that absence of pretension makes it one of the more honest evenings on the March calendar. Free admission. Cooper Square on a Wednesday night. Go.
BKLS Note: No tickets required. It is a free, open exhibition—walk in, take your time, stay as long as the work holds you.
Details: JASA Art Show
The New Museum Grand Reopening
📍Location: 235 Bowery — Lower East Side, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: New Museum | Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
After an $82 million expansion, the New Museum on the Bowery reopens this month, having doubled its physical footprint. The inaugural exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, features over 200 artists. It is designed to inaugurate the expanded space with the kind of scale and ambition the institution has been building toward for years.
The New Museum has always been the most forward-leaning of the city’s major contemporary art institutions. The reopening is one of the more significant cultural moments of the spring, worth seeing early before the crowds build.
BKLS Note: Check the New Museum website for timed entry and opening week programming.
Spring Equinox Festival: Persian Heritage and Culture During Purim and Nowruz
📍 Location: Edmond J. Safra Plaza, Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place — Battery Park, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Museum of Jewish Heritage | Date: Sunday, March 29, 2026 | Time: 12 PM
Purim and Nowruz arrive together this year, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage marks both with a full day at Edmond J. Safra Plaza, live music, dance, food tastings, games, and short films rooted in Persian Jewish culture. Two holidays, one plaza, a story of survival and continuity that stretches back further than most New Yorkers stop to consider. The Battery Park waterfront in late March is its own reward.
BKLS Note: Check the museum website for the full day schedule and individual program times.
Details: Spring Equinox Festival
Nidia Góngora: Afro-Colombian Music
📍 Location: Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard — Flushing, Queens | 🌐 Website: Flushing Town Hall | Date: Sunday, March 29, 2026 | Time: 1 PM | Tickets: From $15
Nidia Góngora carries the music of Colombia’s Pacific coast the way only someone born into it can. Her voice and her compositions draw from a tradition the marimba de chonta, bombo, and cununo have held for generations. Her work with Canalón de Timbiquí earned a Latin Grammy nomination and helped bring UNESCO recognition to this musical heritage. A Sunday afternoon in Flushing, from $15, with one of the most important voices in Afro-Colombian music. Flushing Town Hall keeps proving it is the outer borough venue the rest of the city should be paying closer attention to.
BKLS Note: Take the 7 to Flushing-Main Street. If you are attending the Miles Davis tribute on March 20, mark this one too. Two events, same hall, the African diaspora in full expression across two Sundays.
Details: Nidia Góngora: Afro-Colombian Music
The Other Art Fair
📍 Location: ZeroSpace, 337 Butler Street — Gowanus, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: The Other Art Fair | Date: This weekend — check the website for full schedule
The Other Art Fair removes the gallery intermediary and puts independent artists directly in front of the people who might actually buy their work. The result is a fair that feels genuinely unfiltered—the range is wide, the conversations are direct, and Gowanus is the right neighborhood for it. Every ticket holder receives a $25 art purchase credit toward any onsite purchase of $50 or more. Book with code THEOTHERARTFAIR25 and the credit arrives by email automatically.
BKLS Note: Thursday through Sunday. Book in advance.
The Orchid Show: “Concrete Jungle”
📍 Location: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx | 🌐 Website: nybg.org | Date: Now through April 26, 2026
The NYBG Orchid Show is a reliable early-spring institution, but the 2026 edition is doing something genuinely unexpected. The concept is street culture translated into floral sculpture. Sounds like it should not work, and from all early indications, it does. Ten-foot installations built entirely from exotic orchids, referencing the visual language of streetwear and sneaker culture, inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
It is a trip to the Bronx for many. It is worth it.
BKLS Note: The Botanical Garden is accessible by Metro-North from Grand Central, and the Botanical Garden stop drops you at the entrance. Buy tickets in advance. Weekday mornings are significantly less crowded than weekends.
Details: The Orchid Show
For Families
New York International Children’s Film Festival
📍 Location: SVA Theatre, Film at Lincoln Center, and Village East Cinema — Manhattan | 🌐 Website: NYICFF | Date: Through March 15, 2026
This is not a cartoon program. The NYICFF is an Academy Award-qualifying festival featuring animated, live-action, and documentary films for ages 3 to 18 — the kind of cinema that introduces children to storytelling that goes well beyond the Hollywood standard. It runs across three venues through March 15.
BKLS Note: If you have toddlers, look for the Shorts for Tots programs specifically. Films run under five minutes each, and the lights stay slightly dimmed rather than pitch black — a genuinely thoughtful first cinema experience for young children.
Classical Kids Fair at Brooklyn Children’s Museum
📍 Location: 145 Brooklyn Avenue — Crown Heights, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Brooklyn Children’s Museum | Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 | Time: 11 AM – 4 PM
A major collaboration between WQXR, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. The afternoon includes an instrument petting zoo where kids can try strings and percussion, an abbreviated performance of Peter and the Wolf by BKCM, performances by the Met Opera Ballet, and composition workshops led by the NY Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program. That is an unusual concentration of institutional talent for a single Sunday afternoon in Crown Heights.
BKLS Note: Use promo code WQXR26 online or at the door for 50% off museum admission. Since this falls on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, arrive closer to 11 AM — the museum typically adds themed programming in the Totally Tots area for younger children as the day goes on.
Details: Classical Kids Fair
The Hula Hoopin’ Queen
📍 Location: Theatre Row, Theatre 5, 410 West 42nd Street — Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: NYCCT | Date: Through Sunday, March 15, 2026
A world-premiere musical commission by New York City Children’s Theater, adapted from the beloved picture book. Fifty minutes, designed for ages 5 and up, built around intergenerational community and the kind of joyful, soulful energy that holds a room of children without condescending to them. Final weekend runs two shows daily — 11:00 AM and 2:30 PM on both March 14 and 15.
BKLS Note: Theatre Row’s intimate setting means there is no bad sightline in the house — a meaningful difference from the scale of Times Square venues for a child’s first live theater experience. The Saturday, March 14 [11 AM] and Sunday, March 8 [2:30 PM] performances are designated Sensory Friendly, making them the right recommendation for families with neurodivergent children.
Details: The Hula Hoopin’ Queen
Food & Drink
The Golden Steer
📍 Location: 1 Fifth Avenue — Greenwich Village, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: The Golden Steer | Date: Now Open
Las Vegas’s legendary Rat Pack-era steakhouse opens its first New York location at 1 Fifth Avenue this month. Think Frank Sinatra’s regular table, old-school Italian-American red sauce, and booths designed for long evenings and slow conversations. The original Golden Steer has operated in Las Vegas since 1958. The New York outpost brings the same format: serious steaks, serious history, and a room already becoming one of the hardest reservations in the Village.
The “Rat Pack booths” are reservable and will book up months in advance. Check for cancellations now if you want one in March.
BKLS Note: Reservations via the restaurant website. Cancellations are your best path to a booth this month; check OpenTable regularly.
Agave Tasting Class at Obvio
📍 Location: 3 East 28th Street — Flatiron, Manhattan | 🌐 Website: Obvio | Dates: Tuesday, March 10 & Tuesday, 24, 2026 | Time: 5 PM – 6 PM | Price: $120
In honor of Women’s History Month, Obvio is presenting an intimate agave tasting led by General Manager Meg Norman, a WSET Agave Spirits Certified professional. The evening opens with an Obvio Martini. It then moves through an introduction to agave and light bites, followed by a guided tasting of three artisanal spirits produced by leading female destiladoras in Mexico. It closes with a Posada Daiquiri and an open Q&A.
At $120, it is a focused, well-structured evening for anyone serious about agave. It is also a rare opportunity to taste spirits from female Mexican producers who rarely get this kind of platform in New York. For more on the women reshaping the city’s food and drink culture, explore our guide to women shaping New York dining.
BKLS Note: Reservations required. Small group format—book early.
Straker’s
📍 Location: 55 Grand Street [The former Lucky Strike space] — SoHo, Manhattan | Date: Opening Mid-March
Thomas Straker — the London-based chef whose technique-driven, hyper-seasonal cooking built a following well before TikTok made him the “Butter King” — opens his first New York restaurant in the former Lucky Strike space on Grand Street. The menu is an elevated British-American bistro, built around small plates and the compound butters that made him famous. The corner is one of SoHo’s most storied, and the reservation is already one of the hardest gets of the spring.
BKLS Note: Reservations drop on Resy fourteen days out at midnight. Set your notifications now — this will be the most gatekept table in March.
Bar Ferdinando
📍 Location: 151 Union Street — Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Bar Ferdinando | Date: Opening March 2026
Ferdinando’s Focacceria operated at this address for 120 years before closing. The space has now been handed to Sal Lamboglia — the chef behind Cafe Spaghetti and Swoony’s — who is keeping the Sicilian soul intact while adding a natural wine list and an all-day cafe-to-wine-bar format. Arancini, panelle, and octopus salad anchor the menu. The transition from neighborhood institution to new-school classic is about as good an origin story as a Carroll Gardens opening can have.
BKLS Note: Built for a low-key Sunday afternoon that turns into a long evening of Sicilian snacks and skin-contact wines without anyone planning for it to go that way.
Devoción Coffee Education Series
📍 Location: 148 Grand Street — Williamsburg, Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: Devoción | Date: Every Saturday through April 25, 2026
Devoción has built a proper curriculum inside its Williamsburg Laboratorio — four distinct classes led by Education Director James McCarthy, each capped at four to eight participants so the instruction actually lands. The Coffee Tasting is an hour and $12.51. Pour Over Fundamentals runs two hours at $215.26 and sends you home with a bag of Devoción coffee and a brew guide. Latte Art is the same price and duration, focused on milk science and the pours that make it visible. The Espresso Basics intensive is three hours at $321.91 — for anyone serious about building a real foundation rather than guessing at it.
BKLS Note: Book through Eventbrite. Classes sell quickly. The Pour Over session is the right entry point if you are starting from scratch.
The Social Scene
GOLFZON Social
📍 Location: 15 Hoyt Street, Downtown Brooklyn | 🌐 Website: GOLFZON Social
Twenty-two state-of-the-art simulator bays at the base of the 15 Hoyt tower, with access to over 240 courses, including St. Andrews. The Opening Day Party on March 25 runs with live DJs, craft cocktail specials, and a first look at the full food and drink menu. The timing — right in the middle of March Madness — is either very intentional or very fortunate.
BKLS Note: If you are tired of watching the bracket, you can play a round at Pebble Beach between games. The most Brooklyn-specific answer to a sports bar March has produced in a while.
QC New York: Spring Sunsets and Polaroid Portraits
📍 Location: 112 Andes Road — Governors Island | 🌐 Website: QC New York | Date: Every Thursday through April 30, 2026 | Time: 2 PM – 5 PM
Every Thursday afternoon through April, a photographer works the pools at QC New York, capturing instant Polaroid portraits in keepsake frames. The heated pools and the spring skyline are already reason enough to cross to Governors Island on a Thursday. The portrait is the thing you bring home from it.
BKLS Note: Check the QC New York website for ferry schedules. Thursdays are the quietest day on the island—go before the weekend crowds discover the season has changed.
Sports
Mets Home Opener
📍 Location: Citi Field, 126th Street — Flushing, Queens | Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026 | Time: 1:10 PM first pitch
Baseball returns to Queens with an unusual scheduling gift this year. The Mets open at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates and remain at Citi Field for the entire opening weekend, with additional games on March 28 and 29. Three days of baseball in Flushing to start the season is not typical. It turns Opening Day into a neighborhood event rather than a single afternoon.
BKLS Note: Take the 7 train directly to Mets-Willets Point. Opening Day at Citi Field has a particular energy. Go for the first pitch, stay for the full nine innings, and plan dinner in Flushing afterward. The neighborhood around the stadium rewards the extra hour.
College Basketball: MSG vs. Barclays
Two major college basketball tournaments run at the same time in New York this month. It is either a scheduling conflict or the best possible problem to have.
Madison Square Garden hosts the Big East Tournament from March 11 through 14, marking the 44th consecutive year at the Garden. It is the prestige ticket, the traditionalist’s choice, and the tournament with the deeper history of iconic moments.
Barclays Center hosts the Atlantic 10 Championship from March 11 through 15. Tickets are more accessible, the crowd skews younger, and for anyone based in Brooklyn, it removes the Midtown commute. The stakes are the same: win-or-go-home basketball without the MSG premium.
BKLS Note: Choose MSG for tradition and atmosphere. Choose Barclays for value, easier access, and a more relaxed crowd. Both tournaments run the same week, so check schedules early before planning around specific matchups.
Also on the Calendar
Titanique Moves to Broadway — Wednesday, March 26. The Celine Dion-fueled Titanic parody that built a devoted Off-Broadway following for years finally arrives at the St. James Theatre. If you missed it downtown, this is the moment. If you saw it downtown, the larger stage will be a different experience.
Off-Broadway Week — Through Thursday, March 12. Two-for-one tickets across a range of productions, including The Play That Goes Wrong and Little Shop of Horrors. The best option for visitors who want the live theater experience without full-price Broadway tickets. Book through the NYC Tourism website.
VNTG CON — Saturday, March 14. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street. An expanded showcase of vintage clothing, accessories, and collectibles from local and national sellers. $17 entry, noon to 7 PM. Arrive early for the best selection.
One Last Thing
March in New York is a month of thresholds — the city moving from one season into the next, from one version of itself into another. This year, the shifts are worth watching. A Blood Moon before dawn. A biennial that will shape the cultural conversation. A Broadway season arriving all at once. Pay attention. Spring in New York does not arrive quietly.
