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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

70 events shown on this page
  1. · Starts in 8h 15m

    Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 8h 45m

    Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem
  3. · Starts in 8h 45m

    Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 9h 15m

    Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

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

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

  6. · Starts in 9h 15m

    Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 9h 15m

    Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. · Starts in 9h 15m

    Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. · Starts in 9h 45m

    Story Time and Meet the Author: A Quilt Of Stars: Astronaut Karen Nyberg Stitches a Dream

    With Karen Nyberg and Ann McCallum StaatsFree
    Air and Space Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Arts, Culture & Fun: Be Bolder - Senior Ballet Programming

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free
  12. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. · Starts in 10h 15m

    5 Tips for Success in Entertainment, Media, and the Arts

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza
  15. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
  16. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center
  18. · Starts in 10h 15m

    Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 11h 30m

    Dyker's Book Discussion: Too Old for This by Samantha Downing

    Dyker Library
  20. · Starts in 11h 43m

    Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 12h 15m

    Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio
  22. · Starts in 12h 15m

    BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
  23. · Starts in 12h 15m

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem
  24. · Starts in 13h 15m

    The People Versus Lenny Bruce

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor), Manhattan
  25. · Starts in 13h 15m

    Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
  26. · Starts in 13h 15m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  27. · Starts in 13h 15m

    Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  28. · Starts in 13h 15m

    Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan
  29. · Starts in 14h 15m

    Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem
  30. · Starts in 14h 15m

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  31. · Starts in 14h 15m

    Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 14h 35m

    A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  33. · Starts in 14h 45m

    Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

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

    Musicology Lecture: Andrea Bohlman, UNC-Chapel Hill

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  35. · Starts in 17h 15m

    Paper Cuts: Independent Publishing in the United States, 2000-2025

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  36. · Starts in 17h 15m

    Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
  37. · Starts in 17h 15m

    Molly & June's Honky Tonk: Line Dance Classes & Country Music

    SOB’s
  38. · Starts in 17h 15m

    Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  39. · Starts in 17h 45m

    VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
  40. · Starts in 18h 15m

    Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  41. · Starts in 18h 15m

    Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan
  42. · Starts in 18h 45m

    Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  43. · Starts in 18h 45m

    Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle with support from Solaris

  44. · Starts in 18h 45m

    Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free
  45. · Starts in 18h 45m

    Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  46. · Starts in 19h 15m

    Public Viewing Sessions

    Free
    UNM Campus Observatory
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. · Starts in 9h 15m

    American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 9h 15m

    Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 11h 30m

    Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 12h 15m

    Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  5. · Starts in 14h 15m

    Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 14h 30m

    Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 15h 15m

    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
  8. · Starts in 16h 15m

    Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan
  9. · Starts in 17h 15m

    Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

    Whitney Museum of American Art
  10. · Starts in 17h 45m

    Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 17h 45m

    Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church
  12. · Starts in 18h 15m

    J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan
  13. · Starts in 18h 15m

    New York Night Train 21st Annual Haunted Hop: Devil's Night Edition

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 18h 15m

    Poor Unfortunate Souls

    With The Little Mermen & the Princess PalsTicketed
    SoHo Live
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 19h 15m

    A Citadel Halloween

    By partiful.com · with jeanchalant, Pea$y and 6 more
    Rodeo BK, Brooklyn
  16. · Starts in 19h 15m

    ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 19h 15m

    Machine Girl Halloween

    By Pioneer WorksTicketed
    Pioneer Works
  18. · Starts in 21h 15m

    Halloween Nonstop: DJ Stingray, Convextion, Rene Wise, Juliana Huxtable, DJ Koolt + more

    Ticketed
    Nowadays, Queens
  19. · Starts in 21h 15m

    Yacht Party Cruise (Drinks, DJ, Dancing)

    299 South St, Manhattan
  20. · Starts in 21h 45m

    BOUND Blackout: Laure Croft / SKIN / Katie Rex / Kim Anh / Dj Warning / likeholywine / nonsuit

    BASEMENT, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 22h

    Late Night Sessions

    Ticketed
    Dizzy's Club, Midtown
  22. · Starts in 22h 15m

    8Ball-O-Ween

    Ticketed
    8 Ball Community
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  23. · Starts in 22h 15m

    Karaoke Friday

    The Local Bar, Astoria
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 22h 15m

    Dianne Brill Presents Hot or Horror @ The Nines

    By partiful.com
    The Nines
Open Friday, 2026-10-30

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

30 events shown on this page

  1. Reading in Italian & Musicalinasce in Costume for Halloween

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York

  2. Spooktacular Girls in Business

    338 W 36th St., Manhattan

  3. Dia de los Muertos at the Queens Zoo

    Queens Zoo
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Japanese Maples Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Central Park Fall Bird Walk - Bluebirds

    Location to be announced to all who RSVP

  6. ILOA Galaxy Forum Jakarata, Indonesia

    Jakarta, Indonesia
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Halloween Bird "Tweets" in Green-wood Cemetery

    By Brooklyn Bird Club
    Green-wood Cemetery Main Gate

  8. Concrete to Trails: Hogencamp Mountain

    Appalachian Mountain Club New York-North Jersey

  9. Boston – Franklin Park – Scarboro Pond

    Boston – Franklin Park Tennis Courts (Meeting Spot)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Birding

    Pelham Bay Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Halloween Bird "Tweets" in Green-wood Cemetery

    By Brooklyn Bird Club
    Green-wood Cemetery Main Gate
Show 19 more on Saturday · rated lower

  1. Show Brain Halloween at Tompkins Sq Park

    Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan

  2. Saturday Open Mic

    The Local Bar, Astoria
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Standup Show

    Free
    The Gaf West, Manhattan
    Free

  4. Nexo NYC Halloween Edition - District Saturday | The Sound of New York

    NEXO NYC, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. The Official Village Halloween Parade Silent Disco

    By allevents.inTicketed
    New York's Village Halloween Parade, Manhattan

  6. Haunted Ballroom with Live Performance by Rack

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Melrose Ballroom, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Purgatory

    Refuge, Brooklyn

  8. Slow Jams NYC - Halloween Slow Jams & RnB Party

    Littlefield, Brooklyn

  9. Bronx Carnival - Dancehall & Soca Halloween Day Party

    Bronx Brewery Back Yard Entrance, The Bronx

  10. Saints or Sinners: Reggaeton Halloween Night

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skinos, Manhattan

  11. East New York Farms Volunteer Days

    ENY Youth Farm, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Fall Foliage Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. The Reggaeton Halloween Party

    Lot45, Brooklyn

  14. Halloween Dance Cruise

    Liberty Belle, Manhattan

  15. Halloween Spooky Silent Disco 21+

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden, Queens

  16. Halloween Perreo on the Roof - Costume Party

    High Bar New York, Manhattan

  17. R&B Saturdays Halloween party

    By allevents.in
    The RnB room at Kiss Lounge (queens), Queens

  18. Much Ado About Nothing

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Winter Garden Theatre

  19. Off The Record | Halloween Edition

    ARTSPACE, Manhattan
Open Saturday, 2026-10-31
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