NOTABLE NYC EVENTS, HAND-PICKED BY SUGARY

Every event is hand-picked by Sugary and analyzed through our signature methodology to help you find your perfect cultural match in NYC.

Monday 7/14

6:30 – 8:00 pm 📍 McNally Jackson Seaport, 4 Fulton St, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Page-turning introverts who’d rather debate anarchist fiction than small-talk about the weather.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 📚💎 Lit Lounge • Hidden Gem

🎲 Soup Soup — NYC: Guided TM meditation, BYO-soup “SOUPluck,” and soft-landing community vibes in Bushwick.

7:00 – 10:00 pm 📍 Bushwick (exact address after RSVP)
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Mindful slurpers who can chant a mantra and ladle minestrone without missing a beat.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🥣🧘‍♂️ Mindful Pace • Hidden Gem

Tuesday 7/15

⭐️ Bubbles & Botanicals with Norïe: Free tasting of flower-fermented NA sparkling wines plus take-home bloom

5:00 – 7:00 pm 📍 La Compagnie, Flatiron, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Sober-curious sippers and floral-forward foodies seeking low-stakes mingling.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🍷💎🧘 Social Hour • Hidden Gem • Mindful Pace

Wednesday 7/16

⭐️ Fabrik’s Built By Builder Series: Zach Hawtof: Fireside chat with Tightknit’s CEO on scaling community & serendipity

10:00 am – 12:00 pm 📍 Tribeca, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Community-obsessed operators who love structured Q&A and post-talk networking.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🍷🎨 Social Hour • Creative Energy

🎲 Paul Russell — Hudson Yards Summer Concerts: “Lil Boo Thang” hit-maker serenades the Vessel at golden hour

5:00 – 8:00 pm 📍 Wells Fargo Stage, Hudson Yards
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: TikTok-savvy pop lovers looking to vibe with skyline views and zero cover charge.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎤☀️ Sunset Set • Social Hour

🎲 After Hours Cookbook Club: Rebecca Firkser — Galette: Hands-on tasting + chat with the author of Galette over Lillet cocktails and pastry crumbs.

6:00 – 8:00 pm 📍 Big Night, 154 Franklin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Flour-dusted cookbook lovers who believe butter is a personality trait.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 📚🥂 Lit-Lounge • Ticketed ($5 GA / $30 w book)

🎲 Kanso: Here & Now: Phone-free cocktail salon fostering deep, distraction-free conversation

6:30 – 9:00 pm 📍 Union Square, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Builders & founders craving digital-detox connection—with zero doom-scrolling.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🧘🎭 Mindful Pace • Interactive

Thursday 7/17

⭐ New To NYC with Tiny Dinner @ Fabrik DUMBO: Panel + mingling to hack the NYC-friend-making curve—wine, cheese, zero cover.

6:00 – 8:00 pm 📍 20 Jay St Suite 218, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Fresh transplants eager to swap bucket lists and land their first borough-besties.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🍷💎 Social Hour • Hidden Gem

🎲 Summer Mixer & Networking with Universal Blockchain: Multi-chain campaign kick-off bringing builders & clubs together over drinks

5:30 – 9:00 pm 📍 Midtown, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋🔋🔋 High Extrovert
Your people: Crypto-curious students, devs and investors hunting for cross-chain collabs.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🍷🌍 Social Hour • Global Perspective

🎲 Artificially Un-Intelligent: NYC Tech Comedy: Tech-inside-joke stand-up night featuring comedians from Netflix & NPR

7:00 – 9:00 pm 📍 Broadway Comedy Club, Hell’s Kitchen
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Founders, VCs & devs who’d rather laugh at Jira tickets than file them.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🔥🍷 Hot Right Now • Social Hour

Friday 7/18

🎲 Warm Up 2025 — Opening Night: Six-hour courtyard rave marrying cutting-edge electronic sets with MoMA-PS1 art vibes

4:00 – 10:00 pm 📍 MoMA PS1, Queens
Social Battery: 🔋🔋🔋 High Extrovert
Your people: Dance-floor lifers who treat BPM as a vital sign and call their friends “legend” unironically.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🔥🎛️ Hot Right Now • Social Hour

⭐️ POP UP PARTY: art gurl’s 3rd Birthday: Open-air craft stations, raffles & mocktails to celebrate three years of “bad” art joy

6:00 – 8:00 pm 📍 McCarren Parkhouse, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Color-marker maximalists and DIY creatives ready to make friends over glitter & glue.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🎭🎨🍷 Interactive • Creative Energy • Social Hour

Saturday 7/19

⭐️ Not Your Garden Variet(al) Tasting Pt. II: Small-pour natural-wine garden party with refreshed bottle lineup & bites

1:00 – 5:00 pm 📍 Brooklyn, NY
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Chill nat-wine nerds looking to lounge, sip and chat without sommelier snobbery.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🍷💎 Social Hour • Hidden Gem

⭐️ DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra Beyond: Bollywood bass, Bhangra dance lesson, and Queens-sized Desi pride

6:00 – 9:00 pm 📍 Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
Social Battery: 🔋🔋🔋 High Extrovert
Your people: Rhythm-addicted global citizens who think dhol beats count as cardio.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🥁🌏 Global Groove • Interactive

🎲 Found Footage Festival: VHS Deep Cuts: Hosts Joe & Nick roast bizarre thrift-store tapes—nostalgia served snark-hot

8:00 – 10:30 pm 📍 The Bell House, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Meme historians who still own a VCR and laugh in tracking-line static.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 😂📼 Throwback Reels • Social Hour

Sunday 7/20

⭐️ The Roots + DJ Scratch — SummerStage: Questlove, Black Thought & co. bring live-band hip-hop thunder to the World’s Borough

7:00 – 10:00 pm 📍 Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
Social Battery: 🔋🔋🔋 High Extrovert
Your people: Lyric-soaked soul-philes who’ve argued over greatest-rapper lists since dial-up.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎤🌳 Outdoor Jam • Hot Right Now

Monday 7/21

⭐️ Creator Economy NYC × Visa: Creators Mean Business – mixer + panel on why “influencer” now means “LLC”

6:30 PM start 📍 Midtown (venue revealed once approved)
Social Battery: 🔋🔋🔋 High Extrovert
Your people: Brand builders who swap CPM stats for sport; expect elbows-out networking and hot takes on the algorithm.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🔥🍷🎨 Hot Right Now • Social Hour • Creative Energy

Tuesday 7/22

🎲 Calida Milonga – tango lesson + late-night dance with DJ Super Suave and live band

7:30 PM 📍 Salon on Kingston, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: New-to-tango romantics who don’t mind stepping on a few toes before the music takes over.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 💃🎭🍷 Interactive • Social Hour • Steamy Vibes

Wednesday 7/23

🎲 BKLYN MILE Workout #2 with HOKA – speed session on McCarren Track for anyone chasing a PR

Check-in 6:30 PM, run 7:00 PM 📍 Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Runners who think lactate-threshold chat counts as mingling; structured sets, shared suffering.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • ⚡🎭🔥 Quick Hit • Interactive • Hot Right Now

🎲 Summer Arts Institute – NYC public-school prodigies play a one-night orchestral showcase

5:30 PM 📍 Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center)
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Supportive arts lovers who clap like proud parents for kids they’ve never met.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎻🧘💎 Mindful Pace • Hidden Gem

Thursday 7/24

⭐️ BORDERLESS Happy Hour — July – cocktails + culture mash-up at Latin hotspot San Antonios

6 – 9 PM 📍 247 Eldridge St, Lower East Side
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Medium Extrovert
Your people: Expats, third-culture kids, and anyone collecting passport stamps (real or aspirational).

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🌍🍹🎭 Social Hour • Interactive • Global Perspectiv

🎲 The Becoming Sessions: Style Archaeology – a wardrobe-ritual workshop that treats clothing like therapy

5:30 – 8:30 PM 📍 DUMBO, Brooklyn
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Style nerds who’d rather dissect the meaning of a blazer than chase runway hype; banter optional, reflection guaranteed.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🎭🎨🧘 Interactive • Creative Energy • Mindful Pace
Use code G9Z190 at checkout

🎲 Flowers Mix & Match – BYO blooms, raid the communal bouquet bar, craft your own arrangement (Specifically for Women)

6:30 – 8:30 PM 📍 Fabrik Community, Tribeca
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Craft-curious extro-intro hybrids who bond over eucalyptus and mocktails; solo-friendly (you’ll share scissors anyway).

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🎨🍷🧘 Creative Energy • Social Hour • Mindful Pace

🎲 DASSAI SAKE: Benihana & Beyond – fireside chat with Dassai’s chairman + sushi & sake reception

7 – 9 : 30 PM 📍 Midtown East (venue revealed on list)
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Sushi savants, Japanophiles, and “I actually pair my sashimi” flexers.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🍶🍣🎭 Interactive • Taste Maker

🎲 GONIA – Korean rhythms meet jazz in the group’s NYC debut

7:30 PM 📍 David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Genre-blending audiophiles who know a janggu isn’t a typo.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎷🔥💎 Hot Right Now • Hidden Gem

Friday 7/25

🎲 Do Protests Help or Hurt? – Salon to Save America – after-hours debate on whether disruption moves the needle

6:00 – 9:00 PM 📍 Tribeca, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 Low Extrovert
Your people: Policy junkies who love a civil cage-match and a free-flowing wine pour; come ready to spar, leave with new LinkedIns.

RSVP HERE 🎟️ • 🍷🎭🌍 Social Hour • Interactive • Global Perspective

🎲 50th Anniversary of A Chorus Line – Panel Discussion – original cast spill Broadway tea

3–4 PM 📍 Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center)
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Musical-theatre insiders who know every “step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch.”

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎭🧘💎 Mindful Pace • Hidden Gem

🎲 Silent Film Screenings with Live Piano – two rare 1920s comedies + Q&A with archivists

7 PM 📍 David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center
Social Battery: 🔋 Low Introvert
Your people: Film buffs who’d rather hear rag-time than Marvel quips.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🎹🎞️🧘 Vintage Vibe • Mindful Pace

Saturday 7/26

🎲 AGI Bookclub #11: Ethics of AI Warfare – debate autonomous weapons after reading two papers

1 PM 📍 377 Broadway 11th Fl (TriBeCa)
Social Battery: 🔋🔋 High Introvert
Your people: Philosophical nerds who call ChatGPT “comrade” and still argue about Asimov’s laws.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🤖🎭⚡ Quick Hit • Interactive

Sunday 7/27

🎲 Startup Friends – Coffee & Chill – grab a latte, sprawl on Sheep Meadow, collect ambition points

Late-morning 📍 Central Park, Manhattan
Social Battery: 🔋 Ambivert
Your people: Side-hustle founders who can network horizontally on a picnic blanket; zero pressure, plenty of caffeine.

RSVP HERE 🆓 • 🍷🧘💎 Social Hour • Mindful Pace • Hidden Gem

Support for the Unsent Letter Project!

The Unsent Letter Mailbox is a grassroots storytelling movement creating anonymous spaces for vulnerability and radical honesty in New York City.

Over the past year, we’ve hosted 20 park installations, 8 sold-out salons, we've seen countless people in public, and received over 1000 unsent letters capturing the full spectrum of human emotion and has captured the attention of press outlets such as Secret NYC, NBC Nightly News and the Kelly Clarkson Show.

We’re thrilled to launch our pilot Curator Program, inviting like-minded folk to host anonymous gatherings in their communities. If you're keen, fill out this form!

Join The Unsent Letter Mailbox as a Social Media Intern!

The Unsent Letter Mailbox — an NYC-born art project that lives at the intersection of anonymous writing, emotional healing, and urban play — is growing FAST. We’re looking for a volunteer content collaborator who wants to grow with us.

You:

• Are emotionally fluent and creatively intuitive

• Know how to make something stop the scroll without screaming

• Love language, letters, and soft power

• Want to build something you can be proud of

We:

• Have been featured on NBC + The Kelly Clarkson Show

• Are planning scavenger hunts, secret salons, and continued urban pop-ups

• Are small, self-funded, and full of momentum

• Will give you full credit, mentorship, and future paid work if things align

This is 3-5 hours a week. Remote is cool. And vibes are everything.

If you're curious, email [email protected] or DM @unsentlettermailbox on IG! 

Connect IRL. Experience Fabrik.

Get a taste of NYC community leaders and make new friends.

Fabrik is a home for communities and where everyone has a place to belong. With spaces designed to feel more like your living room than your office, Fabrik’s 'third spaces' are vibrant hubs where you can come together in real life, explore interests, forge meaningful connections, and enjoy a sense of community.

Sign-up here to experience a free trial at Fabrik.

See weekly events at Fabrik HERE

Call To Gather

‘Call to Gather’ champions creative play as essential for health and wellness; fostering mental, emotional, and social well-being. They believe everyone is a maker, and that its through shared creative experiences human beings build trust, collaboration, and can develop a deep sense of community. Gather Artists are all highly experienced in their craft, providing quality creative sessions from a wide range industries for individuals to begin to explore their creative potential, heal, and connect - ultimately igniting personal and collective transformation in community.

Start your creative play HERE

Othership offers immersive sauna and ice bath experiences that help human beings feel good now. A sanctuary for social self-care to move you from city buzz to inner calm.

Dive into the largest performance saunas in North America, experience otherworldly ice bath spaces and connect in an intimate amphitheater-style tea lounge surrounding a cozy fire place for socializing.

Expect towel-waving performances, aromatherapy, guided breathwork, visualizations, and somatic release to help you shift your state and regulate your emotions, in a world that can’t be regulated.

The founders of Othership have gifted us a New York 2 for 1 Deal. Get yours while they last!

EMPATHY PROJECT

Support the Empathy Project by purchasing any of the items from the collection. Be a part of a unique initiative that empowers seven diverse artists to create one-of-a-kind empathy-inspired t-shirts. These shirts serve as iconography tied to our identity, promoting compassion-driven societal impact. 

Each artist picked a 501(c)3 charity of their choice to donate a portion of the sales of their t-shirt design. Your purchase also empowers voices, amplifies the message of empathy, supports charities, and elevates storytelling within our communities, all while building a network for compassion-driven societal change. Join us in making a lasting impact through art and empathy.

You can check out and purchase the 7 different empathy tees HERE

Thank you for being part of this journey.

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