Street fairs

(Credit: SteveIsaacs.com)

Cheap socks, fried dough, chair massages, sausage and pepper heroes, 99 cent Thai food...while the spirit of street fairs seems a little lost (they rarely represent the neighbors they're placed in), NYC street fairs offer up a predictably inexpensive shopping excursion, as well as a nightmare scenario for cab/bus riders trying to get across town. Here's a few happening this weekend (most of these take place 10 a.m.-6 p.m.)

Saturday, October 11
3rd Avenue "Bronx" Fall Festival
3rd Avenue from 156th-149th Sts.

West 4th Street Festival
West 4th Street between 6th Ave - University Pl.

8th Avenue Autumn Festival
8th Avenue between 42nd-57th Sts.

Taste of Chinatown
Mott Street between Canal-Worth Sts.

Upper West Side Street Fair
Broadway betweem 110th-116th Sts.



Sunday, October 12

Amsterdam Avenue Fall Fair
Amsterdam Ave. between 76th-86th Sts.

Global Role Models Festival
6th Avenue from 42nd-56th Streets

Hispanic Columbus Day Parade
Fifth Avenue between 44th-72nd Sts. (starts at noon)

Muslim Festival
Madison Avenue from 23rd-26th Sts.


Monday, October 13
Greenpoint Avenue Festival
Greenpoint Avenue between Queens Blvd.-44th St.