UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Sunday is shaping up to be a busy day in the neighborhood, with a street fair, a dog costume parade and a charity bike ride to the Upper East Side.
The Lexington Avenue Festival will bring food and small-business vendors to the avenue, while hundreds of costumed dogs are expected to strut their stuff at Carl Schurz Park.
Cyclists in the annual Bike MS ride will also travel along the FDR Drive.
Here are three events to check out on Oct. 18.
The Lexington Avenue Festival will fill 17 blocks, from East 79th to East 96th streets, with food and small-business vendors.
The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lexington Avenue is expected to close to traffic between East 79th Street and East 96th Street during the event, at the NYPD's discretion.
Lexington Avenue between 42nd Street and 57th Street will also be closed to traffic for a fall festival.
Learn more here.
Dogs in costumes. Need we say more?
More than 200 costumed dogs are expected at the Carl Schurz Park Conservancy's annual Halloween Howl on Oct. 18.
The event begins at 1 p.m. at Carl Schurz Park's John Finley Walk.
Dogs can be registered from 11:30 a.m. to noon; spectators can come for the costume parade and fair.
Learn more here.
Cyclists will be biking up FDR Drive on Sunday for a good cause.
The National MS Society's annual bike ride will raise money to support people with Multiple Sclerosis.
The 30-mile ride starts at Pier 76 in Hell's Kitchen and circles Manhattan, traveling up through the Upper East Side on FDR Drive.
The FDR Drive, between the Battery Park Underpass and Harlem River Drive, will be closed to traffic.
Learn more here.
For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.
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