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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. Open hours for "The Carver's Order"

    The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, Manhattan

  2. NYC Tour por Times Square, Broadway, Grand Central y la NY Biblioteca

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 7h 50m

    New York State Conference on the Environment (recycling, climate)

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan
  4. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Nike: Form Follows Motion Gallery Talk

    Ticketed
    Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  5. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 8h 50m

    BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Forest Fridays

  9. · Starts in 8h 50m

    New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 8h 50m

    The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. · Starts in 9h 20m

    Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem
  14. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 9h 50m

    AWW: “A Fever Crept In”: Typhus, Malaria, and the Fate of Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment

    With Woody Holton
    Classroom Building, Room 229, Boyd Seminar Room
    CancelledUnconfirmed
    CancelledUnconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Rain Garden Stewardship, Sponge Park and Bond Gardens

  18. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  20. · Starts in 9h 50m

    Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 10h 20m

    Visiting NYC's Iconic Monster Movie Sites

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  22. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free
  23. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Taking Street Photography from Camera to Print

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  25. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Hood Playin' Tricks On Me: East Palo Alto and the Sonic Afterlives of Redevelopment

    With Antonio de Jesús López
    Bryan Center - Multicultural Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  26. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza
  27. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein
  28. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Sculpting the (Un)Spoken: A Participatory Performance with Iris van Herpen

    With Iris van Herpen
    Rotunda
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  29. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  31. · Starts in 10h 50m

    Cempazúchitl: Mexico's Marigold Workshop

    Watson Education Building, The Bronx
  32. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Lunchtime workshop

    FA 218
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  33. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong

    ThinkChinatown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  34. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Revolutionary Echoes: Chinese-Language Radio in the Cold War Era

    With Jie Li
    Columbia University, International Affairs Building (IAB)
  35. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Proximity Exhibition

    Free
    Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  36. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  37. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Building of the Day: Vagelos Innovation Laboratories

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture
    Vagelos Innovation Laboratories, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  38. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Halloween Hang with the LUAG Museum Educators

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  39. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Creative Aging: Canvas of Memories with Natalie Del Villar

    With Natalie Del Villar
    Flatbush, Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center
  40. · Starts in 12h 18m

    Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  41. · Starts in 12h 50m

    Exhibition Tour: “Untitled” (America)

  42. · Starts in 12h 50m

    Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  43. · Starts in 12h 50m

    Architectural Tours

    Plaza33
  44. · Starts in 12h 50m

    BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
  45. · Starts in 12h 50m

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem
  46. · Starts in 13h 20m

    Crafting Community: Work on Personal Projects & Make New Friends

    Free
    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Manhattan
    Free
  47. · Starts in 13h 50m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  48. · Starts in 13h 50m

    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

  49. · Starts in 13h 50m

    Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  50. · Starts in 13h 50m

    Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
  51. · Starts in 13h 50m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  52. · Starts in 13h 50m

    Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn
  53. · Starts in 13h 50m

    Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 13h 50m

    NY | Hands On: Lotería

    Free
    American Indian Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  55. · Starts in 14h 20m

    Collage Party

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab
  56. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem
  57. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free
  58. · Starts in 14h 50m

    The Tumultuous Lives of Luminous Stars: Mass Loss, Mass Transfer, and White Dwarf Kicks

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  60. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  61. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free
  62. · Starts in 15h 20m

    SVA Conversations: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Screening and Q&A with Cinematographer Frankie DeMarco, ASC

    BFA Film
  63. · Starts in 15h 20m

    Annual Ridgway Lecture: Oplontis: New Discoveries at Villas A and B

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  64. · Starts in 15h 20m

    Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

    With Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
    CASPARY AUDITORIUM
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  65. · Starts in 15h 50m

    Tricks and Treats: TV’s Scariest Episodes

    The Paley Museum
  66. · Starts in 15h 50m

    Brooklyn Heights at Twilight: The Weird, Wonderful, and In-Between

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn
  67. · Starts in 15h 50m

    Whitney Halloween Teen Night

    Whitney Museum of American Art
  68. · Starts in 15h 50m

    Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem
  69. · Starts in 16h

    CCA Seminar: Jenny Ni, “Remaking Places: Comanche Politics, Rock Art, and the Shaping of Landscapes”

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University
  70. · Starts in 16h 50m

    Movie Night: Beetlejuice

    Free
    Public Square and Gardens, Hudson Yards
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  71. · Starts in 16h 50m

    Friday Evening at the Art/History Museum

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  72. · Starts in 16h 50m

    Visita Guiada en Español: Diseñados para ser Rojos

    Free
    Poster House
    Free
  73. · Starts in 17h 20m

    Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  74. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  75. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Fine Artist Discusses Art Book on the Rocky Films

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  76. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Red Hook Art Project: Adult Figure Drawing Night

    Red Hook Art Project Studio, Brooklyn
  77. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
  78. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Mural & Mingle

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  79. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Halloween Movie Night: Honoring Tim Curry

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  80. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Visions of the American Landscape: Films by Allison Janae Hamilton, with Imani Perry in Conversation

    With Allison Janae Hamilton and Imani Perry
    Studio Museum in Harlem: The Stoop
  81. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  82. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Fine Art of Rocky

    Free
    Free
  83. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Weeksville Watch Night: Black Stories, Unbound

    By Weeksville Heritage Center
  84. · Starts in 18h 20m

    Highlights of the Exhibition “Untitled” (America)

  85. · Starts in 18h 20m

    Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  86. · Starts in 18h 20m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  87. · Starts in 18h 50m

    Halloween Screening: Train to Busan

    With Yeon Sang-hoFree
    Asian Art Museum
    FreeUnconfirmedNotable speaker
    Unconfirmed
  88. · Starts in 18h 50m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  89. · Starts in 18h 50m

    Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 6h 50m

    Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 8h 50m

    Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 9h 50m

    American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  5. · Starts in 11h 50m

    Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 12h 5m

    Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 14h 50m

    Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. · Starts in 15h 50m

    Halloween in the Park: Magic Show, Science Show, Face Painting, Trick-or-Treating, & More

    With Chris Capehart and Crazy ScienceFree
    Lawn, Bryant Park, Manhattan
    Free
  9. · Starts in 16h 50m

    Friday Night Function at Whitney Museum of American Art

    Free
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 17h 50m

    Movies Under the Stars: Hoppers | PG

    Free
    Kissena Corridor Park, Manhattan
    Free
  11. · Starts in 18h 50m

    Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland
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