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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

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    Aaron McCann, Emma Willmann, Dan Ahdoot, Riley Lassin

    With Aaron McCann, Emma Willmann and 2 moreFree
    New York Comedy Club Upper West Side
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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    The Big Woozy Band & Kelsey Pierce

    Haswell Green's, Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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    AKATA

    Ticketed
    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
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    Late Night Sessions

    Ticketed
    Dizzy's Club, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
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Open Thursday, 2026-10-29

Friday · Oct 30, 2026

96 events shown on this page

  1. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    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. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  6. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  9. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Forest Fridays

  11. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

  15. Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  17. Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  23. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  25. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. BCEats Farm Build

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

  29. Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem

  30. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

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

  31. Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

  32. The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  33. Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Discover-ween Festival

    Free
    Queens Central Library
    Free

  35. Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

    With Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
    CASPARY AUDITORIUM
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. Fall Teen Fest: Imagining Futures

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  42. Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn

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

    SOB’s

  44. Kids Night Out: Haunted Houses 2 at Art Strong

    Art Strong NYC, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  45. VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center

  46. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  48. Smithsonian Sleepover at the American History Museum

    American History Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  49. Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan

  50. Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  52. Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free

  53. Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  54. Public Viewing Sessions

    Free
    UNM Campus Observatory
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Reggaeton Rooftop Halloween Party

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Hotel Chantelle, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Jazz & Gin: A Speakeasy Soirée

  3. Haunted Reggaeton Warehouse (18+)

    By allevents.in
    Lottus Event Center

  4. Teen Tech Time

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. The Night Before Halloween Reggaeton Party at Don Rique

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Don Rique's, Brooklyn

  6. An Evening of Live Entertainment

    Dejavu, West Village
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Piano in Bryant Park

    Free
    Bryant Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. New York Tamasha Bhoots: Bollywood Halloween Party

    1150 Broadway, Manhattan

  9. Live Music Friday

    Claret Wine Bar, Sunnyside Gardens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. The Cafe Wha? House Band

    Cafe Wha?, Soho

  11. Biggest Halloween Party New York

    The Palace, Queens

  12. NYC Halloween Afterparty Feat. A Boogie

    By allevents.in
    Stage B

  13. The Haunted House: Reggaeton Halloween Party

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skinos, Manhattan

  14. Live Music Nightly

    Prohibition, Upper West Side
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Live Music

    The Long Room, Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Halloween Norteño y Banda Yacht Party in NYC

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skyport Marina, Manhattan

  17. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library

  27. Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. Asphalt Screams

    Free
    Asphalt Green
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. Kids Create: Halloween Special!

    Clarendon, Meeting Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  33. Wicked Walker Family Fun and Halloween Event

    Free
    Walker Park Field House
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. 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

  35. Mad Monster Lab Haunted House & Fall Festival

    Free
    Bowne Park Field House in Bowne Park
    Free

  36. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

  37. Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. Poor Unfortunate Souls

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

  41. A Citadel Halloween

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

  42. ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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