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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

79 events shown on this page
  1. · Starts in 8h 35m

    Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 8h 35m

    The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 9h 5m

    Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 9h 35m

    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
  5. · Starts in 9h 35m

    Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 10h 5m

    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
  7. · Starts in 10h 5m

    Visiting NYC's Iconic Monster Movie Sites

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  8. · Starts in 10h 35m

    Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free
  9. · Starts in 10h 35m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 10h 35m

    Taking Street Photography from Camera to Print

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 10h 35m

    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
  12. · Starts in 10h 35m

    Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein
  13. · Starts in 10h 35m

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

    With Iris van Herpen
    Rotunda
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 10h 35m

    Cempazúchitl: Mexico's Marigold Workshop

    Watson Education Building, The Bronx
  15. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Lunchtime workshop

    FA 218
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong

    ThinkChinatown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 11h 35m

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

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

    Proximity Exhibition

    Free
    Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  20. · Starts in 11h 35m

    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
  21. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Halloween Hang with the LUAG Museum Educators

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  22. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Creative Aging: Canvas of Memories with Natalie Del Villar

    With Natalie Del Villar
    Flatbush, Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center
  23. · Starts in 11h 50m

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

    Dyker Library
  24. · Starts in 12h 35m

    Exhibition Tour: “Untitled” (America)

  25. · Starts in 12h 35m

    Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  26. · Starts in 12h 35m

    Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio
  27. · Starts in 12h 35m

    Architectural Tours

    Plaza33
  28. · Starts in 13h 5m

    Crafting Community: Work on Personal Projects & Make New Friends

    Free
    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Manhattan
    Free
  29. · Starts in 13h 35m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 13h 35m

    The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

  31. · Starts in 13h 35m

    Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 13h 35m

    Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn
  33. · Starts in 13h 35m

    Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan
  34. · Starts in 13h 35m

    NY | Hands On: Lotería

    Free
    American Indian Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  35. · Starts in 14h 5m

    Collage Party

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab
  36. · Starts in 14h 35m

    Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free
  37. · Starts in 14h 35m

    Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  38. · Starts in 14h 35m

    Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free
  39. · Starts in 14h 55m

    A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  40. · Starts in 15h 5m

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

    BFA Film
  41. · Starts in 15h 5m

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  42. · Starts in 15h 35m

    Tricks and Treats: TV’s Scariest Episodes

    The Paley Museum
  43. · Starts in 15h 35m

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn
  44. · Starts in 15h 35m

    Whitney Halloween Teen Night

    Whitney Museum of American Art
  45. · Starts in 15h 35m

    Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem
  46. · Starts in 15h 45m

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University
  47. · Starts in 16h 35m

    Movie Night: Beetlejuice

    Free
    Public Square and Gardens, Hudson Yards
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  48. · Starts in 16h 35m

    Friday Evening at the Art/History Museum

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  49. · Starts in 16h 35m

    Visita Guiada en Español: Diseñados para ser Rojos

    Free
    Poster House
    Free
  50. · Starts in 17h 5m

    Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  51. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  52. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Fine Artist Discusses Art Book on the Rocky Films

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  53. · Starts in 17h 35m

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Red Hook Art Project: Adult Figure Drawing Night

    Red Hook Art Project Studio, Brooklyn
  55. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Mural & Mingle

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  56. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Halloween Movie Night: Honoring Tim Curry

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  57. · Starts in 17h 35m

    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
  58. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Fine Art of Rocky

    Free
    Free
  60. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Weeksville Watch Night: Black Stories, Unbound

    By Weeksville Heritage Center
  61. · Starts in 18h 5m

    Highlights of the Exhibition “Untitled” (America)

  62. · Starts in 18h 5m

    Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  63. · Starts in 18h 5m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  64. · Starts in 18h 35m

    Halloween Screening: Train to Busan

    With Yeon Sang-hoFree
    Asian Art Museum
    FreeUnconfirmedNotable speaker
    Unconfirmed
  65. · Starts in 18h 35m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  66. · Starts in 19h 5m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  67. · Starts in 19h 35m

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Original Cast Spooktacular Tour

    With Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell and 1 more
    The Town Hall
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  68. · Starts in 19h 35m

    Nosferatu with Live Piano Accompaniment

    Ticketed
    Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  69. · Starts in 19h 35m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  70. · Starts in 20h 5m

    Zones Troubles

    Ticketed
    The 3 Luxembourg
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  71. · Starts in 20h 5m

    15-Minute Tour: The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

  72. · Starts in 20h 5m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. · Starts in 8h 35m

    Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 9h 35m

    Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 11h 35m

    Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 16h 35m

    Friday Night Function at Whitney Museum of American Art

    Free
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  5. · Starts in 17h 35m

    Movies Under the Stars: Hoppers | PG

    Free
    Kissena Corridor Park, Manhattan
    Free
  6. · Starts in 18h 35m

    Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland
  7. · Starts in 18h 35m

    J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan
Open Friday, 2026-10-30

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

21 events shown on this page

  1. Reading in Italian & Musicalinasce in Costume for Halloween

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York

  2. Highlights Tour

    Governors Island, Manhattan

  3. Halloween Pottery: Ghost Candleholders

    136 Bowery, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Art in the Park: Upcycled Bike Jewelry

    Shirley Chisholm State Park, Brooklyn

  5. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Knifesmithing 101: Forge a Survival Knife

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Exhibition Tours: A Nation of Artists

  8. Mixed Media Collage Workshop with Anthony Ciambella

  9. Woodworking for Beginners: Make a Side Table

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Procession of Puppets: La Catrina and Skeleton Puppets

    New York Botanical Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Intro to Leatherwork: Make a Leather Tote Bag

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Walking Tour of Historic Turtle Bay

    1st Avenue & East 47th Street, Manhattan

  14. NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop

    Dixon Place, Manhattan

  15. Revolution in Old New York: Soldiers, Spies & Statesmen

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Stained Glass Art for Beginners

    Ticketed
    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
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  1. Be a Part of the Magic - New York’s 53rd Annual Village Halloween Parade

    Greenwich Village, Manhattan

  2. Halloween Harvest Festival

    By allevents.in
    Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. South Street Seaport Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Dinner with Entrepreneurs | Manhattan (Giving Back Edition)

    Restaurant of the Week, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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