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Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

6 events shown on this page
  1. · Starts in 15h 48m

    Watson Adventures’ Fright at the Met Scavenger Hunt

    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 19h 48m

    Storytelling Live Presents "The Black Cat"

    By The Bronx County Historical Society · with Dr. Steven Payne and Youssef Alaoui
    Poe Cottage
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  1. · Starts in 16h 33m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. · Starts in 16h 48m

    Dyckman Marina Movie Nights

    Free
    Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
    Free
  3. · Starts in 17h 48m

    Nightmare before Christmas

    Free
    Hunters Point South Park
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  4. · Starts in 18h 48m

    Scream

    Ticketed
    The 3 Luxembourg
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Saturday, 2026-10-31

Sunday · Nov 1, 2026

74 events shown on this page

  1. Mindful Pottery Wheel Throwing Class

    96 Bogart St, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Welding and Metal Fabrication 101: Make a Steel Planter Box

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Walk-In Workshop: Fall Foodscapes

    Staten Island Children's Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Water Marbling Workshop

    The Arts Building, Manhattan

  5. Intro to Woodworking: Make a Custom Longboard

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Hands in Clay: A Pottery Workshop for Beginners

    Art Barrio, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Dig Plant Grow Goodnight, Garden

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Make Your Own Copper Lamp - Art Class by Classpop!TM

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Other Desert Cities

    Hudson Theatre - New York
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Before New York: A Traveling Pop-Up Exhibition

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. 37th Planetary Congress of the ASE (?)

    Wenchang, Hainan, China
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn

  13. Storm King Arts Center/Brotherhood Winery Tours and Lunch

    89 East 42nd Street, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Inwood Hill Park Circumambulation - 3.5 miles

    The Inwood Farm, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Pruning Principles and Practices

    New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  16. Family Art Project: Day of the Dead

    By Wave Hill
    Wave Hill, The Bronx

  17. IAU Symposium 409: Innovative Research and Techniques in Astronomy Outreach

    Tokyo, Japan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Sunday Bird Outing

    Free
    Prospect Park: Audubon Center, Brooklyn
    Free

  19. Autumn Bulb and Plant Sale

    Free
    Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Fall Foliage Tree ID

    Free
    Sunset Park Playground (in Sunset Park)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Sunday Platform: 'Beware the Power of Prediction' Video and Discussion

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Elliott Library (507), Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Art Deco Murray Hill / Gramercy

    With Anthony W. RobinsTicketed

  23. Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Botany

    With Urban Park RangersFree
    Vermont Place Parking Lot in Highland Park
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Festival of Arts and Music

    Prospect Park Boathouse, Brooklyn

  25. Fall Canoeing

    Free
    Wolfe's Pond Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Woodworking Foundations Ii

    With Dan WitrockTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Pumpkin Smash

    Free
    Queens Botanical Garden
    Free

  28. Family Day

    Sky Rooms North and South

  29. Sculpting the (Un)Spoken: A Participatory Performance with Iris van Herpen

    With Iris van Herpen
    Rotunda
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Japanese Culture Day Festival

    Free
    Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  32. Education Resource Room: Día de los Muertos

    By The Noguchi Museum
    The Noguchi Museum

  33. Some Other (Note) Books: A Bookmaking Workshop

    Free
    Printed Matter, Manhattan
    Free

  34. Day of the Dead + Visit the Morbid Anatomy Library

    The Morbid Anatomy Library, Brooklyn, New York

  35. The Shining: International Version with Garrett Brown and Michael Chaiken

    Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  36. Studio 41 Celebrates 5 Years with New Exhibitions

    Free
    Studio 41
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Garden Highlights Walk

    By Wave HillFree
    Wave Hill, The Bronx
    Free

  38. Discovery Hike: Micro Hike

    Free
    Van Cortlandt Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  39. Día de los Muertos Celebration

    Morbid Anatomy, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  40. Beyond the Studio Workshop: Embroidery with Capital Stitch Co

    With Miri Artyukhina
    American Art Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. Our General Meeting – Special Guest Dr. David Helfand

    With Dr. David HelfandFree
    Hofstra University, Berliner Hall, Room 117
    FreeUnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  42. NYC Livecode Meetup

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab
    Hidden gem

  43. Seabird ID Mini-Workshop

    Avalon Seawatch

  44. Bracelet-Making Party

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  45. NY | Hands On: Lotería

    Free
    American Indian Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  46. The Touch Grass Book Club Meet-Up: Mary Oliver's Upstream

    Prospect Park Boathouse, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. The Walk Project: Umbilical City (Walk 1)

    Free
    Gantry Plaza State Park, Queens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  48. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (week 4)

    By NYC Philosophy and Psychology Readers CommunityFree
    Maiden Lane Public Atrium, Manhattan
    FreeHidden gem

  49. Day of the Dead Celebration

    Free
    Museum of the Moving Image
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. BYOB Intro to Pottery Wheel

    Ticketed
    Brooklyn Clay Indust...
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. Special Instructions hosted by Ella Hussle

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  52. PhD&D

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan

  53. Antarctica – Peninsula and South Shetlands

    New York - Bucket List Group Travel
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  54. Happily Everyone After Book Club

    The Ripped Bodice, Brooklyn

  55. Comedians Interview Experts: Astronomy and mythology with Ben Lillie and Moiya McTier

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan
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  1. Forest Bathing

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Native Plant Garden Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Union Square Holiday Market

    Union Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Silvermine 8.5 miles

    Appalachian Mountain Club New York-North Jersey

  5. Weekly Meeting for Worship

    Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Sunday Gardening

    Free
    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
    Free

  7. Member Science and Sip

    Museum & Science Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Central Park Beginner Runners

    Gapstow Bridge, Manhattan

  9. American Museum of Natural History

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. The Museum of Modern Art Presents Sundays with Steven

    The Museum of Modern Art
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. The Nightmare Before Christmas Sing-Along

    New York Hall of Science
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Queens Zoo Dia de los Muertos

    Queens Zoo
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Weekly Meeting for Worship

    15th Street Friends Meetinghouse, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Creation Station

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Children's Library
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Paint and Plaster

    With Allen Hansen, Elisa Lendvay and 2 more
    Incubator Studio Gallery, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center (Weekends)

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. The Brights Museum Walk and Talk with Charles

    By The New York City BrightsFree
    The American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Free

  18. Inwood Pumpkin Pageant

    Free
    Isham Park
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Practical Philosophy Meetup

    By Practical Philosophy Club - New YorkFree
    Olympic Tower Atrium, Manhattan
    Free
Open Sunday, 2026-11-01

Monday · Nov 2, 2026

20 events shown on this page

  1. Tapa: Art of the Gift in Polynesia

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Midnight Release Party with Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

    Barnes & Noble, Manhattan

  3. Neighborhood Tech Help

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  4. Life Sciences Investment Week in Vancouver

    Vancouver Convention Centre West
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Movie Screening I “La salita”

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York · with Massimiliano Gallo, Alfredo Francesco Cossu and 1 more

  6. Million Dollar Hands: A Two-Day Master Barber Class with John Carlo

    Cre8ive NYC - Multipurpose Office/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces, Manhattan

  7. Radiological Emergency Management

    Harvard Longwood Campus
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Ai Basics

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  9. Gusto Build

    Spring Studios, Manhattan

  10. Welding 101: Make a Rose out of Steel

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. European Space Weather Week

    Florence, Italy
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. DMFT-QE Symposium

    With Giovanni Sordi and Jakša Vučičević
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  14. Point-and-Shoot Photography for Beginners (Part 1)

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
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  1. Test

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx - 1300 Morris Park Ave - Belfer Building Conference RM 1006E
    Conflicting details
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  2. The Business Behind the Content: Careers in Advertising Technology

    SVA Theatre, Manhattan

  3. Public Craft Night Mondays and Thursdays

    NYC Resistor, Brooklyn

  4. November Exhibitions

    Manhattan
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  5. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Forest for Trees Collective

    Governors Island, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Monday, 2026-11-02
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