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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. Halloween Pottery: Pumpkin

    136 Bowery, Manhattan

  2. Asanabenche "Invention Tour"

    Silvana, Manhattan

  3. Open hours for "The Carver's Order"

    The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, Manhattan

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Nike: Form Follows Motion Gallery Talk

    Ticketed
    Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. 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

  10. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Visiting NYC's Iconic Monster Movie Sites

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  12. Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free

  13. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Williamsbridge Oval, Manhattan
    Free

  15. Taking Street Photography from Camera to Print

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Pinocchio and Gepetto’s Big Apple Adventure

    Free
    Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. 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

  18. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

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

    With Iris van Herpen
    Rotunda
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Cempazúchitl: Mexico's Marigold Workshop

    Watson Education Building, The Bronx

  21. Lunchtime workshop

    FA 218
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong

    ThinkChinatown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

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

  24. Proximity Exhibition

    Free
    Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  26. Building of the Day: Vagelos Innovation Laboratories

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture
    Vagelos Innovation Laboratories, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

  27. Halloween Hang with the LUAG Museum Educators

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Creative Aging: Canvas of Memories with Natalie Del Villar

    With Natalie Del Villar
    Flatbush, Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center

  29. Exhibition Tour: “Untitled” (America)

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

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Architectural Tours

    Plaza33

  32. Crafting Community: Work on Personal Projects & Make New Friends

    Free
    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Manhattan
    Free

  33. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. The People Versus Lenny Bruce

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

  35. The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

  36. Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn

  38. NY | Hands On: Lotería

    Free
    American Indian Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  39. Collage Party

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab

  40. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

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

  41. Exhibition Tour: Roy Lichtenstein: Like New

  42. Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free

  43. SVA Conversations: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Screening and Q&A with Cinematographer Frankie DeMarco, ASC

    BFA Film

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Biddle Music Building, 104
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  46. Tricks and Treats: TV’s Scariest Episodes

    The Paley Museum

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn

  48. Whitney Halloween Teen Night

    Whitney Museum of American Art

  49. Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University

  51. Movie Night: Beetlejuice

    Free
    Public Square and Gardens, Hudson Yards
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  52. Friday Evening at the Art/History Museum

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  53. Visita Guiada en Español: Diseñados para ser Rojos

    Free
    Poster House
    Free

  54. Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  55. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  56. Fine Artist Discusses Art Book on the Rocky Films

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  57. Red Hook Art Project: Adult Figure Drawing Night

    Red Hook Art Project Studio, Brooklyn

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

    SOB’s

  59. Mural & Mingle

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  60. Halloween Movie Night: Honoring Tim Curry

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  61. Visions of the American Landscape: Films by Allison Janae Hamilton, with Imani Perry in Conversation

    With Allison Janae Hamilton and Imani Perry
    Studio Museum in Harlem: The Stoop

  62. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  63. Fine Art of Rocky

    Free
    Free

  64. Weeksville Watch Night: Black Stories, Unbound

    By Weeksville Heritage Center

  65. Highlights of the Exhibition “Untitled” (America)

  66. VOCES8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center

  67. Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  68. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  69. Halloween Screening: Train to Busan

    With Yeon Sang-hoFree
    Asian Art Museum
    FreeUnconfirmedNotable speaker
    Unconfirmed

  70. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  71. Abolish Everything: World Championship III

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan

  72. Ambrose Akinmusire and Aszure Barton

    Rose Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  74. Vaya Gerardo Contino

    Free
    Lincoln Center, Manhattan
    Free

  75. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  76. Thriller-Themed Zumba Session

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  77. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Original Cast Spooktacular Tour

    With Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell and 1 more
    The Town Hall
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  78. Nosferatu with Live Piano Accompaniment

    Ticketed
    Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  79. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. Live Music

    Ticketed
    Tomi Jazz, Turtle Bay
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Social Salsa at Greeley Square Park

    Free
    Greeley Square Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Machine Girl Halloween Afterparty

    H0L0, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. An FIT Future//Forward Conversation with Law Roach

    Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan

  6. Live DJ Nights

    Chorus Karaoke, Midtown
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Halloween NuevaYol Latin Fridays

    By allevents.inTicketed
    OUT OF ORDINARY, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Laser ABBA

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Friday Night Function at Whitney Museum of American Art

    Free
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Halloween DJ Sets: TYLERFROMWHERE and Lord Fascinator

  13. Movies Under the Stars: Hoppers | PG

    Free
    Kissena Corridor Park, Manhattan
    Free

  14. Dark Strings Trio

    Gallery 198
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Voces8 at Trinity Church

    By Kaufman Music Center
    Trinity Church

  16. Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland

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

    Knockdown Center, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Poor Unfortunate Souls

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

  19. A Citadel Halloween

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

  20. ROA

    Palladium Times Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Machine Girl Halloween

    By Pioneer WorksTicketed
    Pioneer Works
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