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Friday · Oct 30, 2026

88 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. On this Day: Hurricane Sandy

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  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. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan
  18. · Starts in 8h 40m

    Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 8h 40m

    Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  20. · Starts in 8h 40m

    The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. · Starts in 9h 10m

    Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

    With Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder and 1 more
    Friedl 115
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  22. · Starts in 9h 40m

    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. · Starts in 9h 40m

    Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  24. · Starts in 10h 10m

    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
  25. · Starts in 10h 10m

    Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  26. · Starts in 10h 10m

    Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  27. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free
  28. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  29. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  30. · Starts in 10h 40m

    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
  31. · Starts in 10h 40m

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

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  32. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein
  33. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7
  34. · Starts in 10h 40m

    Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center
  35. · Starts in 11h 40m

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

    With Jie Li
    Columbia University, International Affairs Building (IAB)
  36. · Starts in 11h 55m

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

    Dyker Library
  37. · Starts in 12h 40m

    Indonesia in Global Value Chains: Understanding the New Economic Imperialism

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  38. · Starts in 12h 40m

    Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio
  39. · Starts in 13h 40m

    Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  40. · Starts in 13h 40m

    Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  41. · Starts in 13h 40m

    Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn
  42. · Starts in 13h 40m

    Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan
  43. · Starts in 14h 40m

    Discover-ween Festival

    Free
    Queens Central Library
    Free
  44. · Starts in 14h 40m

    Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

    By Exploring NYC History and NeighborhoodsFree
    Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Manhattan
    Free
  45. · Starts in 14h 40m

    Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn

    By Center for Brooklyn HistoryFree
    Center for Brooklyn History
    Free
  46. · Starts in 15h

    A 2-Dimensional Theory of Argument Strength with Applications

    With Branden Fitelson
    West Duke 202
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  47. · Starts in 15h 10m

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

    University of Washington
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  48. · Starts in 15h 40m

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

    Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn
  49. · Starts in 15h 40m

    Damian White | Designing the Just Transition

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Brooklyn
    FreeHidden gem
  50. · Starts in 15h 40m

    Fall Teen Fest: Imagining Futures

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  51. · Starts in 15h 50m

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

    With Jenny Ni
    Columbia University
  52. · Starts in 16h 10m

    Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  53. · Starts in 17h 10m

    Living History After Dark

    Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  54. · Starts in 17h 40m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  55. · Starts in 17h 40m

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  56. · Starts in 17h 40m

    Make A Cutting Board

    With Cade DrummerTicketed
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  57. · Starts in 17h 40m

    Historic Haunts of Lower Manhattan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  58. · Starts in 17h 40m

    Kids Night Out: Haunted Houses 2 at Art Strong

    Art Strong NYC, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  59. · Starts in 18h 10m

    Cool Kids Halloween Ice Cream Decorating Class

    Tipsy Scoop Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  60. · Starts in 18h 10m

    Sina Najafi Talks About Genocide With Eyal Weizman

    With Eyal Weizman and Sina Najafi
    Giorno Poetry Systems
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  61. · Starts in 18h 10m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  62. · Starts in 18h 40m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  63. · Starts in 18h 40m

    Smithsonian Sleepover at the American History Museum

    American History Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  64. · Starts in 19h 10m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  65. · Starts in 19h 40m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
  66. · Starts in 20h 10m

    Hereafter Hours

    By The Green-Wood Cemetery
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  1. Family Drop-in Mask Making

    Free
    MoMA, Manhattan
    Free

  2. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. AI Week Events

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Children's Class Term 1

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  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. Teen Tech Time

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. · Starts in 8h 10m

    Info Session | M.S. Urban Data Science

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free
  10. · Starts in 8h 40m

    Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. · Starts in 9h 40m

    Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library
  12. · Starts in 9h 40m

    Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. · Starts in 9h 40m

    Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. · Starts in 11h 40m

    Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. · Starts in 12h 40m

    Ask a Tech at the Sheepshead Bay Library

    Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. · Starts in 14h 10m

    Asphalt Screams

    Free
    Asphalt Green
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. · Starts in 15h 10m

    Kids Create: Halloween Special!

    Clarendon, Meeting Room
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  18. · Starts in 15h 10m

    Wicked Walker Family Fun and Halloween Event

    Free
    Walker Park Field House
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. · Starts in 15h 40m

    Mad Monster Lab Haunted House & Fall Festival

    Free
    Bowne Park Field House in Bowne Park
    Free
  20. · Starts in 16h 40m

    Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind

    Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan
  21. · Starts in 18h 40m

    Bill Blyer Presents Long Island and The Civil War

    By Queens Historical Society · with Bill Blyer
    Kingsland
  22. · Starts in 18h 40m

    J-KURU NEW YORK Evening Japanese Conversation

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

Saturday · Oct 31, 2026

12 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. Spooktacular Girls in Business

    338 W 36th St., Manhattan

  5. Ready, Set, Kindergarten

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free
Show 7 more on Saturday · rated lower

  1. South Street Seaport Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Restaurant of the Week, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Explore Schools Fall Festival

    Remsen Park, Brooklyn

  4. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Seaport Halloween + Kids Food Festival

    Pier 16, Seaport, Manhattan

  6. Babies & Toddlers Playtime

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  7. Parole danzanti

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