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1411 events

Wednesday · Nov 4, 2026

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  1. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Grand Central Terminal

    With MAS DocentTicketed

  3. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  4. AAPI Trailblazers Conference: Owning Our Stories in the Age of AI

    Ticketed
    135 Madison Ave, 8th Floor, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies – Book talk with Prof. Seth Schwartz

    With Seth Schwartz
    Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies

  6. Learn to Juggle in the Park

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  7. Camille Donoho: Connectomics-derived functional predictions in the Drosophila visual system

    With Camille Donoho
    Bryan Research 103
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Dispatches from the Field: Jonathan Shafter & John Malone

    By The Explorers Club
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. New York City Hall Guided Tour

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeHidden gem

  10. Chronic Skin Inflammation - Lessons Learned from Eczema and Cutaneous Lymphomas

    With Patrick Brunner, M.D., MSc
    CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Wellness Wednesday

    With Aparna SadanandaFree
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. The Unusual Type II SN 2018ivc: Hints of a Binary Progenitor and a Young Pulsar Wind Nebula

    With Annika Deutsch
    622 Space Sciences Building
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Creative Aging: Transforming Paper into Art

    Dyker Library, Auditorium

  14. Futures & Options Market Analytics

    By Baruch College
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Antibodies by Design: Accelerating biotherapeutic R&D

    Online webinar
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  16. Midwood Creative Writing Group @ Clarendon w/ Dave Johnson

    With Dave Johnson
    Clarendon, Meeting Room

  17. Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station

    By New York Transit MuseumTicketed
    Off-Site
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. PCB | Wang: Molecular Basis of Transcription and Transcription-coupled Repair

    With Dong Wang, PhD
    Nanaline Duke 147
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Nutrition Clinic Grand Opening

    By Brooklyn College
    West Quad Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Laser Cut Pins

    Cambria Heights, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Artistic Noise: Art & Care

    Studio Museum in Harlem, Manhattan

  23. Gallery Talks

    The Frick Collection
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Immigration Imagination Lab: Practice English Through Theater

    Flatbush Library

  25. Photo Walk with Hudson River Views & Historic Architecture

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Math in Bloom: Fibonacci Stepping Stone Creation

    Queens Botanical Garden

  27. Aspects of Aging: Aging in Place and Dying at Home: What Does it Take?

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Adler Study (514), Manhattan

  28. The Invention of Park Avenue

    By The Skyscraper Museum · with Carol WillisFree
    The Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan
    Free

  29. Teen Time: Book Discussion Group

    Bay Ridge Library, Meeting Room

  30. Library Lab: Oobleck

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  31. Pumpkin Smash

    Lehman College
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. Math Encounters

    By National Museum of Mathematics · with Skip GaribaldiFree
    National Museum of Mathematics
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  33. Arts, Culture & Fun: BE BOLD - Ballet Programming

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Gallery Talks

    The Frick Collection
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  35. Here’s Johnny: A Salute to NBC Icon Johnny Carson with Mark Malkoff

    With Mark Malkoff
    The Paley Museum

  36. Live Conversation with Winners of 2026 Humanities Prizes

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Artistic Practices in Times of Ecological Crisis

    With Andrea Conte
    Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Masterclass: Mark Kroll, harpsichord

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

  39. Ancient Nubia: Reframing Power Dynamics in the Nile Valley

    UNCG Greensboro
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. At the Hearth: A Close Look at Helena Hernmarck's Tapestry

    With Susan Brown and Mae ColburnFree
    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan
    Free

  41. At the Hearth

    With Susan Brown and Mae ColburnFree
    Carnegie Library
    FreeHidden gem

  42. XRP Workshop

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Cursing, Curing, Creating: The Culture of Magic in Ancient Egypt

    With Foy ScalfFree
    ISAW lecture hall
    Free

  44. Thousands of Years, Thousands of Stories: Five Years of Excavations at Gird-I Matrab

    Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus
    Hidden gem

  45. Making Music from Our Surroundings

    Central Library, Info Commons, Room 4
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  46. Make It ’Til You Make It, Vol.2

    MFA Interaction Design

  47. Methods of Measurement: Health, Safety, Welfare in Architecture and Happy Hour

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture
    Center for Architecture

  48. Exclusive Truffle Pasta Making Experience at The Urbani Truffle Lab NYC

    Urbani Truffles USA Corp, Manhattan

  49. An Evening with Gaël Faye and Peter Godwin

    By Albertine · with Gaël Faye and Peter Godwin
    Albertine, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. First Wednesdays Open Mic

    With Kevin Crane
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. In the Wake of Abuse: Hilda O. vs. The State of New York

    Columbia University, Casa Hispanica

  52. Tith Kanitha: ស្ដាប់មិនជាក់ កុំអាលញាក់ចិញ្ចើម

  53. After-Hours Conservation Lab Tour

    Ticketed
    New-York Historical Society, Manhattan

  54. Deafula: B-Horror Movies & ASL

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab

  55. Paul Taylor Dance Company 2026 Season

    Ticketed
    Jazz at Lincoln Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  56. Intro to Fabric Painting

    Park Slope Brainery
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  57. Book Talk: Claying Architecture, Making Machine and Material Kin

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture · with Shelby Doyle, Frank Melendez and 3 more
    Center for Architecture, Manhattan

  58. Skirball Salon: On Butoh

    By NYU Skirball
    NYU Skirball Center, Manhattan

  59. Sorority FOCUS

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  60. Oil Paint Stick Monotype

    With ALESSANDRO LEVATOTicketed
    EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan

  61. Beyond Dreamers: Undocumented Youth Imagining Futures

    CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Lounge
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  62. Listen to Your Earrings: Remaking…

    By Bard Graduate Center · with Henrietta Lidchi
    Bard Graduate Center, Manhattan

  63. Journalists Share Books on Boundary-Breaking Art & the Ongoing Fight To Defend Creative Freedom

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  64. Knit, Hook & Stitch

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  65. Members-Only Tour: Center for Book Arts

    Free
    Center For Book Arts
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  66. Minds behind Storied Architecture Studio Share Their Book, JSa: Built in Mexico City

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  67. Gut Feelings: How Our Nervous and Immune Systems Communicate

    With Daniel MucidaFree
    Simons Foundation, Manhattan
    Free

  68. Intro to Fabric Painting

    By Brooklyn BraineryFree
    Brooklyn Brainery, Brooklyn
    Free

  69. Make It in Brooklyn Sustainable Materials Pitch Contest

  70. Members-Only Tour: Center for Book Arts

    Poster House
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  71. The Boathouse Jam: Winter Edition

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, Brooklyn

  72. Gender in Motion: Bijayini Satpathy and Sophiline Cheam Shapiro

    With Bijayini Satpathy and Sophiline Cheam-ShapiroTicketed
    Asia Society, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  73. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture

    With Matthew Zajic, PhD, Erica Musser, PhD, ABPP and 1 moreFree
    Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Manhattan
    Free

  74. It Started on Delancey Street: New York's Lower East Side in Jack Kirby's Comics

    By Center for Jewish History · with Roy Schwartz, Randolph Hoppe and 1 moreFree
    Center for Jewish History, Manhattan
    Free

  75. Santos Bravos: Dual — Behind the Music

    The Paley Museum
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  1. Campus Tours

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Pearl Street Matinee

    Pearl Street Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. How to have a Difficult Conversation

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Amazon Free Afternoons

    Free
    Museum & Science Center
    Free

  5. Understanding LED Fixture Performance

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture

  6. Read and Play

    Greenpoint, Eco Lab 1

  7. Daily Walking Tour

  8. After-School Kids Art Studio

    By Museum of the City of New York
    Museum of the City of New York

  9. SUNY Westchester Community College Information Session

    SUNY Westchester Community College

  10. Kids Explore: Divali - Words & Worlds with Ms. Geshu

    Leonard, Auditorium

  11. TBA

    With Daniel Litt
    Warren Weaver Hall 109
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine 6th Anniversary

    Jasmine's Caribbean Cuisine
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Culture Bridge: Celebration of Diwali

    Free
    Flushing Library
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Mountain Hawk Birding GBM

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Late-Night Wednesdays

    By Museum of the City of New YorkFree
    Museum of the City of New York
    Free

  16. Dollars Sense

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Meet & Mingle: Ladies’ Networking Night

    Ticketed
    Bananas

  18. Zumba Rhythms Workout in the Park

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. One-Time Events

    With inti figgis-vizueta and Maya AckermanFree
    American History Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Quiet Reading Meet Up

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Lidia Bastianich Event

    Alley Pond Golf Center

  22. Plant Propagation

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

  23. BCR Craft Club

    Brooklyn Creative Reuse
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Life Sciences Cares Impact Night

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Kevin Powell with V at Pratt

    With Kevin PowellFree
    Free
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