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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

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  1. The Bowery Boys: Ghost Stories of Old New York

    Joe's Pub
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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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
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    AKATA

    Ticketed
    H0L0, Queens
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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

95 events shown on this page

  1. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    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. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  10. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Forest Fridays

  14. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. 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

  21. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  23. Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free

  27. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  29. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. 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

  31. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  32. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

  33. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

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

  36. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  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. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

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

  42. Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

  44. The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  45. Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn

  46. Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem

  48. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

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

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  53. Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

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

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

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn

  56. Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University

  58. Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  59. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  60. Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn

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

    SOB’s

  62. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Reggaeton Rooftop Halloween Party

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Hotel Chantelle, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Harlem Haunt: Early Trick-or-Treating

    Manhattan Borough President's Office

  3. Jazz & Gin: A Speakeasy Soirée

  4. Haunted Reggaeton Warehouse (18+)

    By allevents.in
    Lottus Event Center

  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. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Live Music Nightly

    Prohibition, Upper West Side
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Live Music

    The Long Room, Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Halloween Norteño y Banda Yacht Party in NYC

    By allevents.inTicketed
    Skyport Marina, Manhattan

  18. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

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

  30. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. 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

  33. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

Open Friday, 2026-10-30
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