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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

30 events shown on this page

  1. Exclusive Tour Inside the Woolworth Building: NYC’s Cathedral of Commerce

    The Woolworth Building (Inside Lobby), Manhattan

  2. Secrets of the East River: NYC's Hidden Infrastructure by Ferry

    Starbucks (110 Pearl Street), Manhattan

  3. Responding in Ink: Comic Books, Graphic Novels

    National September 11 Memorial & Museum
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  4. In Their Honor: 25 Years of Service

    National September 11 Memorial & Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors

    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  6. Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. NYC Marathon: 50 Years Through the Five Boroughs

    Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan

  8. You’re Hiring a CRO to Manage Your Trial, Who’s Managing Your CRO?

    MassBioHub
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Twilight Tour: Death in New York (Lower Manhattan)

    Whitehall Terminal, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Halloween Decor Tour with Just Ask Christine

    Starbucks, Manhattan

  11. On this Day: Hurricane Sandy

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. After Hours: New York City School Construction Authority

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Book Discussion: The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art

    With Holly EJ Black and Rob Swainston

  14. Compelling Perspectives Featuring President George W. Bush

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Jones Day's Annual Labor & Employment Law Discussion Group

    NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Dance As If UCARE

    1561 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn

  18. Poetry Reading by J Brooke

    35-11 35th Ave, Queens

  19. PODD: Partnership Opportunities in Drug Delivery

    Boston
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Is Everything Predictable?: AI, Prediction Markets, and the Philosophy of Foresight

    With Emma Stamm
    Index Greenpoint, 698 Manhattan Ave Floors 2 & 3, Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Chelsea Market, High Line & Hudson Yards Food & History Tour

    Chelsea Market, Manhattan

  3. Tai Chi

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Early Voting

    NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. What’s New in the NYS Energy Code

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture

  6. Ice Skating at Winter Village at Bryant Park

    Free
    Winter Village at Bryant Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. New York City: The Battery Park Private Walking Tour

    New York, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Solve the mysteries of New York with our thrilling escape game

    The Obelisk, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Ruppert Park Capital Renovations

    Ruppert Park, Manhattan, New York, NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Thursday, 2026-10-29

Friday · Oct 30, 2026

69 events shown on this page

  1. Ice Skating at Wollman Rink

    Ticketed
    Wollman Rink, Central Park, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. The Fitness Mixer

    re-Creation Fitness

  3. Stones in the Water

    By BAM · with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith and 2 more

  4. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  5. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. OncoHeart 2026 International Conference

    Marine Biological Laboratory
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. BU Health & Life Science Conference Featuring Big Tree ACORN Summit

    Rafik B. Hariri Building (Questrom School of Business), 9th Floor Ballroom & Kenmore Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Medicine Grand Rounds: 2026 Clipp-Speer Lecture - Shared Values: Evidence, Compassion, and Fairness

    With Laura Svetkey, MD, MHS
    Duke North, Room 2002
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Chinese-American Planning Council and CaringKind to Provide Caregiver Workshop Series in Queens

    EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Tai Chi (Outdoors)

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  12. Morning Yoga on the Plaza

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Adult Mental Health First Aid Training

    Central Library, Dweck Center

  14. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Nephrology Grand Rounds

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 2026 International Mental Health Research Symposium

    Free
    Free

  19. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

  20. Atlah World Ministries

    Atlah World Ministries 38 West 123rd Street New York NY 10027, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Older Adult Wellness Walk

    Free
    Prospect Park Boathouse + Audubon Center, Brooklyn
    Free

  22. 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

  23. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at Saratoga

    Saratoga Library

  25. 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

  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. 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

  29. Sit and Be Fit (Seated exercise for adults)

    Rugby, Meeting Room

  30. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

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

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

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

    Dyker Library

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

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  35. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  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. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  39. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

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

  40. Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free

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

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn

  44. Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University

  46. Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  49. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  50. Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  52. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  53. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  54. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  55. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. Harlem Haunt: Early Trick-or-Treating

    Manhattan Borough President's Office

  2. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Tai Chi

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. OncoHeart 2026 International Conference

    JAHARIS FAMILY CENTER
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at Gerritsen Beach

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Library
    Free

  7. The Cycle Alliance's Period Pantry at McKinley Park

    McKinley Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Zumba Workout for All

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Chair Yoga for Everyone

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Adler Study (514), Manhattan

  11. Yoga with Shape Up NYC

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch, Brooklyn

  12. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland

  14. J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

    The Hugh, Manhattan
Open Friday, 2026-10-30

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

1 event shown on this page

  1. Reading in Italian & Musicalinasce in Costume for Halloween

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York
Open Saturday, 2026-10-31
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