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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

97 events shown on this page
  1. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 8h 16m

    BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Forest Fridays

    Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
  5. · Starts in 8h 16m

    New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 8h 16m

    The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. · Starts in 8h 46m

    Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem
  10. · Starts in 9h 16m

    Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 9h 16m

    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
  12. · Starts in 9h 16m

    Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. · Starts in 9h 16m

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

  14. · Starts in 9h 16m

    Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 9h 16m

    Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 9h 16m

    Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free
  18. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  20. · Starts in 10h 16m

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free
  21. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  22. · Starts in 10h 16m

    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
  23. · Starts in 10h 16m

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

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza
  25. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein
  26. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
  27. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  28. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center
  29. · Starts in 10h 16m

    Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 11h 16m

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

    With Jie Li
    Columbia University, International Affairs Building (IAB)
  31. · Starts in 11h 44m

    Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 12h 16m

    Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  33. · Starts in 12h 16m

    BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
  34. · Starts in 12h 16m

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem
  35. · Starts in 13h 16m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  36. · Starts in 13h 16m

    The People Versus Lenny Bruce

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Ceremonial Hall (4th Floor), Manhattan
  37. · Starts in 13h 16m

    Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  38. · Starts in 13h 16m

    Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
  39. · Starts in 13h 16m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  40. · Starts in 13h 16m

    Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn
  41. · Starts in 13h 16m

    Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  42. · Starts in 14h 16m

    Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem
  43. · Starts in 14h 16m

    Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free
  44. · Starts in 14h 16m

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  45. · Starts in 14h 16m

    Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  46. · Starts in 14h 16m

    Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free
  47. · Starts in 14h 46m

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  48. · Starts in 14h 46m

    Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

    With Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
    CASPARY AUDITORIUM
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  49. · Starts in 15h 16m

    Musicology Lecture: Andrea Bohlman, UNC-Chapel Hill

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  50. · Starts in 15h 16m

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn
  51. · Starts in 15h 16m

    Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem
  52. · Starts in 15h 26m

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University
  53. · Starts in 16h 46m

    Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 17h 16m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  55. · Starts in 17h 16m

    Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
  56. · Starts in 17h 16m

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

    SOB’s
  57. · Starts in 17h 16m

    Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  58. · Starts in 17h 16m

    Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 17h 46m

    VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
  60. · Starts in 17h 46m

    Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  61. · Starts in 17h 46m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  62. · Starts in 18h 16m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  63. · Starts in 18h 16m

    Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  64. · Starts in 18h 16m

    Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan
  65. · Starts in 18h 46m

    Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  66. · Starts in 18h 46m

    Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle with support from Solaris

  67. · Starts in 18h 46m

    Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free
  68. · Starts in 18h 46m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  69. · Starts in 18h 46m

    Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  70. · Starts in 19h 16m

    Public Viewing Sessions

    Free
    UNM Campus Observatory
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  71. · Starts in 19h 16m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  72. · Starts in 19h 46m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. · Starts in 8h 16m

    Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 9h 16m

    American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. · Starts in 11h 16m

    Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 11h 31m

    Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  5. · Starts in 12h 16m

    Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. · Starts in 14h 16m

    Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. · Starts in 14h 31m

    Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. · Starts in 15h 16m

    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
  9. · Starts in 16h 16m

    Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan
  10. · Starts in 17h 16m

    Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

    Whitney Museum of American Art
  11. · Starts in 17h 46m

    Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. · Starts in 17h 46m

    Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church
  13. · Starts in 18h 16m

    Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland
  14. · Starts in 18h 16m

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 18h 16m

    Poor Unfortunate Souls

    With The Little Mermen & the Princess PalsTicketed
    SoHo Live
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 19h 16m

    A Citadel Halloween

    By partiful.com · with jeanchalant, Pea$y and 6 more
    Rodeo BK, Brooklyn
  17. · Starts in 19h 16m

    ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  18. · Starts in 19h 16m

    Machine Girl Halloween

    By Pioneer WorksTicketed
    Pioneer Works
  19. · Starts in 21h 16m

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

    Ticketed
    Nowadays, Queens
  20. · Starts in 21h 16m

    Yacht Party Cruise (Drinks, DJ, Dancing)

    299 South St, Manhattan
  21. · Starts in 21h 46m

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

    BASEMENT, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  22. · Starts in 22h 1m

    Late Night Sessions

    Ticketed
    Dizzy's Club, Midtown
  23. · Starts in 22h 16m

    8Ball-O-Ween

    Ticketed
    8 Ball Community
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 22h 16m

    Karaoke Friday

    The Local Bar, Astoria
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  25. · Starts in 22h 16m

    Dianne Brill Presents Hot or Horror @ The Nines

    By partiful.com
    The Nines
Open Friday, 2026-10-30

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

3 events shown on this page
Show 3 more on Saturday · rated lower

  1. Show Brain Halloween at Tompkins Sq Park

    Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan

  2. Saturday Open Mic

    The Local Bar, Astoria
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Standup Show

    Free
    The Gaf West, Manhattan
    Free
Open Saturday, 2026-10-31
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