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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

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  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. Birding with NYC Bird Alliance

    Free
    Van Cortlandt Nature Center, The Bronx
    Free

  6. The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors

    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  7. Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Clove Lakes Park

    By New York Mycological Society
    Cloves Lakes Park, Staten Island
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting

    Spokane WA, USA
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. NYC Marathon: 50 Years Through the Five Boroughs

    Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan

  11. On this Day: Hurricane Sandy

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. ISS / U.S. EVA #100

    Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Zion and Bryce Hiking and Glamping

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Las Vegas Climbing and Paddling Weekend Adventure

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. 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

  17. Healing Leaders Book Tour

    220 Central Park South, Manhattan

  18. Stones in the Water

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

  19. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  20. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan
  26. · Starts in 4h 36m

    New York State Conference on the Environment (recycling, climate)

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan
  27. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  28. · Starts in 5h 36m

    BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  29. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Forest Fridays

    Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
  31. · Starts in 5h 36m

    New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 5h 36m

    The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  33. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  34. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  35. · Starts in 6h 6m

    Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem
  36. · Starts in 6h 6m

    Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  37. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  38. · Starts in 6h 36m

    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
  39. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  40. · Starts in 6h 36m

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

  41. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  42. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  43. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  44. · Starts in 7h 6m

    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
  45. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free
  46. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  47. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  48. · Starts in 7h 36m

    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
  49. · Starts in 7h 36m

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

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  50. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza
  51. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein
  52. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
  53. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center
  55. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  56. · Starts in 8h 36m

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

    With Jie Li
    Columbia University, International Affairs Building (IAB)
  57. · Starts in 8h 51m

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

    Dyker Library
  58. · Starts in 9h 4m

    Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  60. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio
  61. · Starts in 9h 36m

    BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
  62. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem
  63. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  64. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  65. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
  66. · Starts in 10h 36m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  67. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn
  68. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  69. · Starts in 10h 36m

    Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan
  70. · Starts in 11h 36m

    Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem
  71. · Starts in 11h 36m

    Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free
  72. · Starts in 11h 36m

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  73. · Starts in 11h 36m

    Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  74. · Starts in 11h 36m

    Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free
  75. · Starts in 11h 56m

    A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  76. · Starts in 12h 6m

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  77. · Starts in 12h 6m

    Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

    With Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
    CASPARY AUDITORIUM
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  78. · Starts in 12h 36m

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn
  79. · Starts in 12h 36m

    Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem
  80. · Starts in 12h 46m

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University
  81. · Starts in 14h 6m

    Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. 32nd Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF 2026)

    Bangkok, Thailand
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. AI Week Events

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Curbside Pick Up Aluminum/Tin Cans/Glass & Plastic - South/East

    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  5. Ruppert Park Capital Renovations

    Ruppert Park, Manhattan, New York, NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Harlem Haunt: Early Trick-or-Treating

    Manhattan Borough President's Office

  7. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. · Starts in 3h 36m

    Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 5h 6m

    Info Session | M.S. Urban Data Science

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free
  11. · Starts in 5h 36m

    Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. · Starts in 6h 36m

    American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. · Starts in 6h 36m

    Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 8h 36m

    Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 8h 51m

    Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 11h 36m

    Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  18. · Starts in 12h 36m

    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
  19. · Starts in 13h 36m

    Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan
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