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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  2. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. The New Renaissance - A Masquerade Celebrating Black Music in NYC

    The Victoria Theater Restaurant

  4. Dev Lemons, Venus & the Flytraps

    Elsewhere - The Hall, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan

  8. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. 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

  13. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. 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

  15. Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free

  16. Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  19. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. 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

  21. 5 Tips for Success in Entertainment, Media, and the Arts

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

  23. Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7

  24. Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center

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

    With Jie Li
    Columbia University, International Affairs Building (IAB)

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

    Dyker Library

  27. Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  29. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor), Manhattan

  31. Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn

  33. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  34. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free

  35. Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free

  36. A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Musicology Lecture: Andrea Bohlman, UNC-Chapel Hill

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn

  40. Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University

  42. Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    SOB’s

  46. Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  48. VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center

  49. Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  51. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  52. Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan

  53. Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  54. Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle with support from Solaris

  55. Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free

  56. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  57. Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  58. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  59. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. Piano in Bryant Park

    Free
    Bryant Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. New York Tamasha Bhoots: Bollywood Halloween Party

    1150 Broadway, Manhattan

  3. Live Music Friday

    Claret Wine Bar, Sunnyside Gardens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. The Cafe Wha? House Band

    Cafe Wha?, Soho

  5. Biggest Halloween Party New York

    The Palace, Queens

  6. NYC Halloween Afterparty Feat. A Boogie

    By allevents.in
    Stage B

  7. The Haunted House: Reggaeton Halloween Party

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skinos, Manhattan

  8. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Live Music Nightly

    Prohibition, Upper West Side
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Live Music

    The Long Room, Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Halloween Norteño y Banda Yacht Party in NYC

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skyport Marina, Manhattan

  12. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. The Amazing Ken Presents: Spooky Halloween Comedy Magic Show

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Info Session | M.S. Urban Data Science

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free

  19. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan

  25. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

  26. Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church

  28. Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland

  29. J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Poor Unfortunate Souls

    With The Little Mermen & the Princess PalsTicketed
    SoHo Live
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. A Citadel Halloween

    By partiful.com · with jeanchalant, Pea$y and 6 more
    Rodeo BK, Brooklyn

  33. ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Machine Girl Halloween

    By Pioneer WorksTicketed
    Pioneer Works

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

    Ticketed
    Nowadays, Queens

  36. Yacht Party Cruise (Drinks, DJ, Dancing)

    299 South St, Manhattan

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

    BASEMENT, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Late Night Sessions

    Ticketed
    Dizzy's Club, Midtown

  39. 8Ball-O-Ween

    Ticketed
    8 Ball Community
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. Karaoke Friday

    The Local Bar, Astoria
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. Dianne Brill Presents Hot or Horror @ The Nines

    By partiful.com
    The Nines
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