Sunday, September 13, 2026 · No. 32
A quiet Sunday on the wire, a loud one on the calendar. Today the outdoor pools swim their final laps and the Gracie Square Art Show folds its tents on East End Avenue — but the real story is next Saturday, when three street events land at once in and around the neighborhood: a street fair running twenty blocks of Third Avenue, a craft market a block below our line, and the Steuben Parade marching up Fifth — west of our patch — toward its old German Broadway home, all on Sept. 19. Also worth circling: no school a week from Monday. Plus a corrections note we owe from Saturday. Here's your Sunday.
The Lead
Next Saturday is Yorkville's big day out: parade, street fair and craft market, all at once
The German-American Steuben Parade steps off at noon on Saturday, Sept. 19, marching up Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th Street — west of our patch, but the tradition that made East 86th Street, then 'German Broadway,' its home in the late 1950s — per the parade committee and Loving New York's guide, with an Oktoberfest to follow at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield from 1 p.m. The same day, the 3rd Avenue Community Benefit Festival runs Third Avenue from 66th to 86th Street, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., per the city's events calendar — the 79th-to-86th stretch is ours — and the Makers Manifest craft market sets up on Third between 78th and 79th, a block below our line, per its Eventbrite listing. Pick an avenue — or make a day of both.
via German-American Steuben Parade Committee
Schools & Kids
No school a week from Monday: Yom Kippur closes the public schools Sept. 21
New York City's public schools are closed on Monday, Sept. 21 for Yom Kippur, per the district's 2026-27 calendar — a date NBC New York and Chalkbeat both reported when the calendar was released in the spring. It lands right after the first full week of the school year, so if that Monday needs childcare or becomes a long weekend, now is the time to arrange it.
via NYC Public Schools
Corrections
For the record
In Saturday's edition (#31), as first published, we carried a Citi Bike age-verification item that we pulled the same morning: it was a third run of our Aug. 31 and Sept. 10 coverage with no new development, and it misdescribed Julie Menin — the sitting District 5 Council member, now Council Speaker — as a former Council member. The same edition's history corner, as first published, also carried a detail about memorial stones at the East 85th Street firehouse that we could not corroborate, and removed. Both were live on the site before the fixes. We regret the errors.
via The Yorkville Ledger
Yorkville, Remembered
Yorkville's plaque marks a Yankee legend's birthplace — almost
A plaque mounted by the New York Yankees in November 1990 at 309 East 94th Street names the Yorkville tenement as the birthplace of Lou Gehrig, born June 19, 1903 to German immigrants Heinrich and Christina Gehrig and later baseball's 'Iron Horse.' But Gehrig's own birth record lists the family's first address as 1994 Second Avenue near East 103rd Street in East Harlem, where a second plaque went up in 2005 — leaving two markers, nine blocks apart, each claiming the spot where the Yankee captain was actually born.
source: Ephemeral New York
Summer files its last dispatch today: the art show packs up East End Avenue — rain or shine, per the Conservancy — and the pools take their final laps. Next Saturday, the whole neighborhood is due back outside anyway.