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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  2. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    The Victoria Theater Restaurant

  5. Dev Lemons, Venus & the Flytraps

    Elsewhere - The Hall, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  7. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

  9. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  11. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Forest Fridays

  13. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

  17. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

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

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  20. Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. 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

  24. Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

  26. Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  28. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. 5 Tips for Success in Entertainment, Media, and the Arts

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  31. Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7

  32. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Central Library, Business & Career Center

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

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Dyker Library

  36. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  38. BCEats Farm Build

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

  39. Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem

  40. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

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

  41. Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

  42. The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  44. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  45. Discover-ween Festival

    Free
    Queens Central Library
    Free

  46. Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  48. Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

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

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

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  52. Fall Teen Fest: Imagining Futures

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  53. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  55. Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn

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

    SOB’s

  57. Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Art Strong NYC, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  59. VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center

  60. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  61. Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  62. Smithsonian Sleepover at the American History Museum

    American History Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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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. Live Music Nightly

    Prohibition, Upper West Side
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Live Music

    The Long Room, Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Halloween Norteño y Banda Yacht Party in NYC

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skyport Marina, Manhattan

  11. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free

  20. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library

  22. Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

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

  25. Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Asphalt Screams

    Free
    Asphalt Green
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. Kids Create: Halloween Special!

    Clarendon, Meeting Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Wicked Walker Family Fun and Halloween Event

    Free
    Walker Park Field House
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. 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

  32. Mad Monster Lab Haunted House & Fall Festival

    Free
    Bowne Park Field House in Bowne Park
    Free

  33. Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan

  34. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

  35. Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  36. Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church

  37. J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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