Union Square/Flatiron
Mad. Sq. Eats
This pop-up food fair is one of the city’s most delicious spring dining opportunities. The outdoor market offers treats from popular restaurants and well-respected chefs including Calexico, Eleni’s baked goods, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Roberta’s and many, many more.
May 3-31, daily 11AM-9PM
Madison Square Park, Worth Square, off Fifth Avenue between West 24th and West 25th Streets

Williamsburg
Food Book Fair
This meeting of the foodie and food activist minds promises to bring food lovers, authors, publishers, designers, farmers, entrepreneurs and chefs from around the corner and around the world. Expect over 200 books, visionary food experts, cooking demos, tasting events, a resource fair, panel discussions and a pitch competition.
May 2-5; see event site for schedule and events

Lower East Side
New Museum Ideas City
Founded by the New Museum in 2011, Ideas City is a major initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and community organizations. This four-day event explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers. Expect conferences, workshops, an innovative StreetFest around the Bowery and more more than a hundred independent projects and public events.
May 1-4; See event site for events and locations.

Downtown Brooklyn
Albee Square Farmers’ Market Grand Opening (via downtownbrooklyn.com)
Downtown Brooklyn is getting a new farmers’ market, where you’ll find locally-grown produce, dried fruits and nuts, breads and baked goods, Hudson Valley wine, flowers and goodies from local restaurants and bakeries.
Saturday, May 4, 11AM-5PM
DeKalb Avenue, corner of Bond Street and Fulton Street, Brooklyn

City-wide

May is Bike Month
Get your wheels turning with the month’s two biggest events, the TD Five Boro Bike Tour and Bike Expo New York.

Bike Expo New York, May 3-4
Pier 36, 299 South Street, Basketball City, South Street and Montgomery Street

TD Five Boro Bike Tour, May 5, see site for schedule and info.

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities at this annual literary fest include a workshop led by lit-wit Fran Lebowitz and author A.M. Homes, a glittering gala honoring author Philip Roth, a conversation on democracy and freedom of expression with Salman Rushdie, plus countless readings, workshops and other events featuring the most celebrated literary names of our time.
April 29 - May 5
Multiple venues, see site for details and schedule

Lucky Rice Festival
The annual Lucky Rice event celebrates Asian culinary culture through festivals and tastings, working with hundreds of chefs and mixologists as well as corporate and culinary partners to spotlight the diverse worlds of Asian culinary culture from home as well as abroad. A highlight: Night Market, this year being held in chic cabanas in the Maritime Hotel where ten participating eateries will offer traditional and interpretive Asian street grub tastings.
April 29-May 5
See event site for venues, schedule and tickets.