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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

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

    Whitehall Terminal, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Halloween Decor Tour with Just Ask Christine

    Starbucks, Manhattan

  13. On this Day: Hurricane Sandy

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. After Hours: New York City School Construction Authority

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. 1-on-1 ADHD-Friendly Math Session for Grades 4–9 | Catcher Academy

    37-18 Northern Blvd, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Holly EJ Black and Rob Swainston

  17. Spooky Nature Trivia

    Marsha P. Johnson State Park, Brooklyn

  18. Computer Basics

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Compelling Perspectives Featuring President George W. Bush

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. Mastering Fermentation - Food Preservation

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. NS Pharma Innovation Research Partnership Day

    MassBioHub

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

    NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. STEM Club

    Queens Library Langston Hughes, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Ask-A-Tech

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  26. Ecology of the Bronx River Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Poetry Reading by J Brooke

    35-11 35th Ave, Queens

  28. ISS / U.S. EVA #100

    Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. Zion and Bryce Hiking and Glamping

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  30. Las Vegas Climbing and Paddling Weekend Adventure

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Chelsea Market, Manhattan

  5. Brainy Babies Gerritsen Beach

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  6. Early Voting

    NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. AI Week Events

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  9. What’s New in the NYS Energy Code

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture

  10. Children's Class Term 1

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    New York, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    The Obelisk, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. Ruppert Park Capital Renovations

    Ruppert Park, Manhattan, New York, NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Pumpkin Patch

    Free
    Queens County Farm Museum, Queens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Thursday, 2026-10-29

Friday · Oct 30, 2026

54 events shown on this page

  1. Healing Leaders Book Tour

    220 Central Park South, Manhattan

  2. Stones in the Water

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

  3. Soulful Maximalism Book Tour

    Adanne Bookshop, Brooklyn

  4. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Kids Create: Halloween

    Free
    Brower Park Library, Brooklyn
    Free

  8. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Bartending Academy Open House: Shake Your First Cocktail

    Coexist GameHouse, Manhattan

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  12. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  13. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Forest Fridays

  16. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

  21. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

  22. Capturing previously un-seen extreme events in complex systems

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. 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

  24. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  26. Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  28. Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. 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

  30. Big Moments, Little Stories

    Free
    Anacostia Community Museum
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  31. Fall First Discoveries

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

  32. Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free

  33. Multilingual Business Help

    Sunset Park Library
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  34. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  35. 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

  36. 5 Tips for Success in Entertainment, Media, and the Arts

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  37. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  38. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

  39. Tech Help for Your Job Search

    Central Library, Business & Career Center, Room 7

  40. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  41. Drop-In Resume & Career Help (Central Library)

    Central Library, Business & Career Center

  42. Minimal hypersurfaces with variable asymptotic directions and the Bernstein problem

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Harlem Haunt: Early Trick-or-Treating

    Manhattan Borough President's Office

  2. Teen Tech Time

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Discover Green-Wood Trolley Tour

    Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Info Session | M.S. Urban Data Science

    By NYU Center for Urban Science + ProgressFree
    Free

  7. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Hanzi of the Week 本周汉字

    New Utrecht Library

  10. Play at BCM

    Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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