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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

90 events shown on this page

  1. Responding in Ink: Comic Books, Graphic Novels

    National September 11 Memorial & Museum
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  2. Birding with NYC Bird Alliance

    Free
    Van Cortlandt Nature Center, The Bronx
    Free

  3. The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors

    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  4. Clove Lakes Park

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

  5. American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting

    Spokane WA, USA
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. ISS / U.S. EVA #100

    Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Zion and Bryce Hiking and Glamping

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Las Vegas Climbing and Paddling Weekend Adventure

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. 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

  11. Healing Leaders Book Tour

    220 Central Park South, Manhattan

  12. Stones in the Water

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

  13. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  14. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  17. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan
  19. · Starts in 7h 6m

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan
  20. · Starts in 8h 6m

    BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 8h 6m

    Forest Fridays

    Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
  22. · Starts in 8h 6m

    New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  23. · Starts in 8h 6m

    Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 8h 6m

    Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  25. · Starts in 8h 36m

    Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem
  26. · Starts in 8h 36m

    Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  27. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  28. · Starts in 9h 6m

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

  29. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  31. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 9h 36m

    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
  33. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  34. · Starts in 9h 36m

    Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  35. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  36. · Starts in 10h 6m

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

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  37. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza
  38. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
  39. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  40. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center
  41. · Starts in 10h 6m

    Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  42. · Starts in 11h 21m

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

    Dyker Library
  43. · Starts in 11h 34m

    Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  44. · Starts in 12h 6m

    Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio
  45. · Starts in 12h 6m

    BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
  46. · Starts in 12h 6m

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem
  47. · Starts in 13h 6m

    Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
  48. · Starts in 13h 6m

    The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  49. · Starts in 13h 6m

    Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  50. · Starts in 13h 6m

    Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan
  51. · Starts in 14h 6m

    Discover-ween Festival

    Free
    Queens Central Library
    Free
  52. · Starts in 14h 6m

    Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem
  53. · Starts in 14h 6m

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 14h 6m

    Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  55. · Starts in 14h 26m

    A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  56. · Starts in 14h 36m

    Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis

    With Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
    CASPARY AUDITORIUM
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  57. · Starts in 15h 6m

    Fall Teen Fest: Imagining Futures

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  58. · Starts in 15h 36m

    Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 17h 6m

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  60. · Starts in 17h 6m

    Longevity Stick Class

    WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
  61. · Starts in 17h 6m

    Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  62. · Starts in 17h 6m

    Kids Night Out: Haunted Houses 2 at Art Strong

    Art Strong NYC, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  63. · Starts in 17h 36m

    Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  64. · Starts in 18h 6m

    Public Stargazing

    Stull Observatory
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  65. · Starts in 18h 6m

    Smithsonian Sleepover at the American History Museum

    American History Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  66. · Starts in 19h 6m

    Public Viewing Sessions

    Free
    UNM Campus Observatory
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Family Drop-in Mask Making

    Free
    MoMA, Manhattan
    Free

  2. 32nd Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF 2026)

    Bangkok, Thailand
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. AI Week Events

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  6. Children's Class Term 1

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Teen Tech Time

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. · Starts in 6h 6m

    Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. · Starts in 7h 36m

    Info Session | M.S. Urban Data Science

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free
  11. · Starts in 9h 6m

    American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library
  13. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 9h 6m

    Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 11h 21m

    Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 12h 6m

    Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 13h 36m

    Asphalt Screams

    Free
    Asphalt Green
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  18. · Starts in 14h 6m

    Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 14h 36m

    Kids Create: Halloween Special!

    Clarendon, Meeting Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  20. · Starts in 14h 36m

    Wicked Walker Family Fun and Halloween Event

    Free
    Walker Park Field House
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 15h 6m

    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
  22. · Starts in 15h 6m

    Mad Monster Lab Haunted House & Fall Festival

    Free
    Bowne Park Field House in Bowne Park
    Free
  23. · Starts in 16h 6m

    Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan
  24. · Starts in 18h 6m

    J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

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

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

10 events shown on this page

  1. Reading in Italian & Musicalinasce in Costume for Halloween

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York

  2. Spooktacular Girls in Business

    338 W 36th St., Manhattan

  3. Dia de los Muertos at the Queens Zoo

    Queens Zoo
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Ready, Set, Kindergarten

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free
Show 6 more on Saturday · rated lower

  1. East New York Farms Volunteer Days

    ENY Youth Farm, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Fall Foliage Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Explore Schools Fall Festival

    Remsen Park, Brooklyn

  4. Seaport Halloween + Kids Food Festival

    Pier 16, Seaport, Manhattan

  5. Babies & Toddlers Playtime

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  6. Parole danzanti

    By Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York · with Arianna Stendardo Gamble
Open Saturday, 2026-10-31
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