Folsom Street East (New York)
About This Event
Folsom Street East is New York's outdoor leather, fetish and kink street fair, the East Coast cousin of San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair. It started in 1997 and lands on a June weekend shortly before the NYC Pride March, which makes it the kink community's big daytime moment of Pride season.
It is a one-day block party: gear vendors, rope and impact demonstrations, performance stages, and a crowd dressed in everything from full rubber to a harness and boots. Entry is a paid ticket, and the money goes to local causes; the 2026 beneficiaries were JUNTOS, the Ali Forney Center, Club A Kitchen and Cabrini Immigrant Services.
Practical: strictly 18+ with photo ID, and it runs rain or shine. Tickets were $25 in 2026, sold online or at the gate by card, phone or cash, with a $5 coat check. One warning: the old folsomstreeteast.org address no longer belongs to the organizers and now redirects to an unrelated adult site. The real one is folsomstreeteast.com.
The 2026 edition ran on Sunday 21 June, 11am to 6pm, on West 27th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues in Chelsea, under the theme 'Fetish Frontiers'. The organizers don't publish attendance figures. The 2027 date hadn't been announced when we checked.
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Free street fair but donations at the gate unlock the beer garden.
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