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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

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

    Whitehall Terminal, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Halloween Decor Tour with Just Ask Christine

    Starbucks, Manhattan

  10. On this Day: Hurricane Sandy

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. After Hours: New York City School Construction Authority

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Holly EJ Black and Rob Swainston

  13. Compelling Perspectives Featuring President George W. Bush

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Poetry Reading by J Brooke

    35-11 35th Ave, Queens

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. 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

  19. Southern Book Prize Winner Shares His Latest Novel

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Chelsea Market, Manhattan

  3. Early Voting

    NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. What’s New in the NYS Energy Code

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture

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

    New York, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    The Obelisk, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Ruppert Park Capital Renovations

    Ruppert Park, Manhattan, New York, NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Literary Dinner: On Dystopias

    By Lit Club NYCTicketed
    Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Thursday, 2026-10-29

Friday · Oct 30, 2026

47 events shown on this page

  1. Stones in the Water

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

  2. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  3. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

  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. 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

  15. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

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

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

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

    Dyker Library

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

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  20. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn

  23. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  24. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

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

  25. Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free

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

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn

  29. Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University

  31. Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  32. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  35. Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  36. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  37. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  38. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  39. Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery

  40. 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. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland

  7. J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

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

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

26 events shown on this page

  1. Reading in Italian & Musicalinasce in Costume for Halloween

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York

  2. Highlights Tour

    Governors Island, Manhattan

  3. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Walking Tour of Historic Turtle Bay

    1st Avenue & East 47th Street, Manhattan

  6. Revolution in Old New York: Soldiers, Spies & Statesmen

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. No Kimchi for Me Story Time with Aram Kim

    McCarren Park Greenmarket, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Greenwood Cemetery Halloween Hike

    500 25th Street, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. DC | Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

    With Grupo los Tecuanes, David Amorozo and 1 moreFree
    American Indian Museum DC
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Magicians and Mediums Trolley Tour

    By The Green-Wood CemeteryTicketed
    Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

  12. Empricism and the Philosophy of Mind Week 1

    By NYC Philosophy and Psychology Readers CommunityFree
    Pier 57, Manhattan
    FreeHidden gem

  13. High Line Tour: From Freight to Flowers

  14. Spooky Story Time with Natalie Cronin

    82nd Street Greenmarket, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Finding Your Story: The Power of Personal Narrative with Judith Hannan

    With Judith Hannan
    Adams Street, Small Meeting Room

  16. Current Events in Government & Politics

    Dyker Library

  17. Explore a Unique Pocket of NYC: A Look at History, Design, & Environment

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  18. Exhibition Workshop: Halloween Amulet Making

    With Carl Walsh and Leopoldo Fox-ZampiccoliFree
    Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
    Free★ Pick

  19. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

    With Cetiliztli NauhcampaFree
    National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Dia de los Muertos Celebration at Brooklyn Army Terminal

    Free
    Brooklyn Army Terminal Arches
    Free

  21. Jewel in the Crown: Old City Hall Station

    By New York Transit MuseumTicketed
    Off-Site
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. South Street Seaport Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Dinner with Entrepreneurs | Manhattan (Giving Back Edition)

    Restaurant of the Week, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Book Chat

    Brooklyn Heights Library, Orange Meeting Room

  5. Weekly Vigil for Yemen

    One Union Square South, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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