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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    The Victoria Theater Restaurant

  3. Dev Lemons, Venus & the Flytraps

    Elsewhere - The Hall, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  5. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  8. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Forest Fridays

  10. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

  14. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

  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. 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

  21. Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  24. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  26. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Dyker Library

  29. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  31. BCEats Farm Build

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

  32. Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem

  33. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

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

  34. Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

  35. The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  36. Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  38. Discover-ween Festival

    Free
    Queens Central Library
    Free

  39. Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

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

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

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  45. Fall Teen Fest: Imagining Futures

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  46. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  48. Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn

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

    SOB’s

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

    Art Strong NYC, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center

  52. Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  53. Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  54. Smithsonian Sleepover at the American History Museum

    American History Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  55. Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan

  56. Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  58. Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free

  59. Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  60. Public Viewing Sessions

    Free
    UNM Campus Observatory
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. The Cafe Wha? House Band

    Cafe Wha?, Soho

  2. Biggest Halloween Party New York

    The Palace, Queens

  3. NYC Halloween Afterparty Feat. A Boogie

    By allevents.in
    Stage B

  4. The Haunted House: Reggaeton Halloween Party

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skinos, Manhattan

  5. Live Music Nightly

    Prohibition, Upper West Side
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Live Music

    The Long Room, Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Halloween Norteño y Banda Yacht Party in NYC

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skyport Marina, Manhattan

  8. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library

  18. Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

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

  21. Asphalt Screams

    Free
    Asphalt Green
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Kids Create: Halloween Special!

    Clarendon, Meeting Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Wicked Walker Family Fun and Halloween Event

    Free
    Walker Park Field House
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. 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

  27. Mad Monster Lab Haunted House & Fall Festival

    Free
    Bowne Park Field House in Bowne Park
    Free

  28. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

  29. Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church

  31. J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  33. Poor Unfortunate Souls

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

  34. A Citadel Halloween

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

  35. ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  36. Machine Girl Halloween

    By Pioneer WorksTicketed
    Pioneer Works

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

    Ticketed
    Nowadays, Queens

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

    299 South St, Manhattan

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

    BASEMENT, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. Late Night Sessions

    Ticketed
    Dizzy's Club, Midtown
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