New York's street festival season has begun in earnest (one of the many reasons for the bad Manhattan traffic this past weekend). While in recent years, many street fairs have become odd clones of each other with similar foods and vendors, there are still a few legitimately unique ones like this weekend's 32nd Annual Ukrainian Festival on Seventh Street between Second and Third Avenues. A quirky reminder of some of the East Village's denizens before the dorms took over, the Ukrainian Festival, sponsored by Seventh Street's St. George Church, features piles of authentic Ukrainian cuisine like handmade pierogies, blintzes, shashlyk (Ukrainian shish-kebabs) and more. There are also stands devoted to crafts including embroidery, nesting dolls and, of course, painted eggs. Culture buffs will want to check out the relatively new Ukrainian Museum on Sixth Street, which will be open all weekend, as well as the enthusiastic dance performance that's a part of the festival each year (May 18, 4–11 PM; May 19, 11 AM–11 PM; May 20, 1–5 PM).