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Thursday · Oct 29, 2026

39 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. Compelling Perspectives Featuring President George W. Bush

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. NS Pharma Innovation Research Partnership Day

    MassBioHub

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

    NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  22. STEM Club

    Queens Library Langston Hughes, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  23. Ecology of the Bronx River Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Poetry Reading by J Brooke

    35-11 35th Ave, Queens

  25. ISS / U.S. EVA #100

    Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. Zion and Bryce Hiking and Glamping

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  27. Las Vegas Climbing and Paddling Weekend Adventure

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

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

    Free
    Center for Book Arts (Chelsea)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. 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. 32nd Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF 2026)

    Bangkok, Thailand
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Fall Session

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Chelsea Market, Manhattan

  4. Early Voting

    NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Conflicting details
    Conflicting details

  6. What’s New in the NYS Energy Code

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture

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

    New York, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    The Obelisk, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Ruppert Park Capital Renovations

    Ruppert Park, Manhattan, New York, NY
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Pumpkin Patch

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

Friday · Oct 30, 2026

61 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. Evening of astronomy

    JBENC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Tastes of Chinatown: Neighborhood History and Food Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. West Harlem Forest Tree Club

    Outdoors - Open Spaces,Parks & Streets
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Amazing Conifers Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    NYC Free Tours, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    Cornell Tech, Manhattan

  9. Brooklyn Bridge History Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. BioE Seminar: Dr. Millicent Sullivan

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Transportation in NY Summit

    New York Law School, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Forest Fridays

  13. New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery

    Free
    Central Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire

    Amphitheater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  15. Morning Birding at Prospect Park with Gabriel Willow

    Free
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  16. Kissena Park Forest Restoration

    Free
    Kissena Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  17. Ambassador & Volunteer

    Free
    Battery Maritime Building
    FreeHidden gem

  18. Repetition, Contingency, Dialectic

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

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

    With Themis Sapsis
    Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  20. 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

  21. Voices of 1776

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

  23. Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour

    Free
    Smithsonian Gardens
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  24. Daffodil Bulb Giveaway & Volunteer Gardening Registration

    Idlewild Environmental Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  25. Central Park Woodland Walk: The Ramble

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  26. 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

  27. Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community

    Free
    Conference House Park, Manhattan
    Free

  28. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  29. 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

  30. Fall Splendor Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Magnolia Plaza

  31. Jewish Brighton Beach Walking Tour

    With Svetlana Kershtein

  32. Multiscale Analysis of Wave Propagation in Random Media

    With Josselin Garnier
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Jinxin Xue
    Warren Weaver Hall 512
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

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

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

    Dyker Library

  36. Local Noon in the Gottlieb Transit Corridor

    Free
    Gottlieb Transit Corridor
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

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

    With Intan Suwandi
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  38. Short Story Discussion Group

    Central Library, Art Studio

  39. BCEats Farm Build

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

  40. Seasonal Highlights Tour

    By Brooklyn Botanic GardenFree
    FreeHidden gem

  41. Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  42. Discover New York City's Jazz Age History

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  43. Resilient Jamaica Bay

    Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

  44. The Sky Tonight

    Strasenburgh Planetarium Star Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  45. Highlights of Brooklyn's Gravesend

    Neck Road Subway station, Brooklyn

  46. Iconic Views of Central Park Tour

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  47. Open Day – CUNY Graduate Center Classics Department

    CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan

  48. Dominic Frank, PhD - Mount Sinai Neuroscience Seminars

    Hess Building
    Hidden gem

  49. Halloween Prelude: Haunted Greenwich Village Tour

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

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

    With Jim Fuller
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  51. Discovery Tank Guided Gallery

    Hudson River Park
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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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. Fall Garden Highlights Tour

    At the Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Shenandoah Hiking, Winery, and Sunsets Weekend

    Explorer Chicks of NYC
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Early Voting

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. American Museum of Natural History + All Ticketed Exhibitions

    Ticketed
    American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Mother Goose Magic

    By The New York Society LibraryFree
    Whitridge Room
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Weekly AFSC Action Hour for Palestine

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Neuroscience WIP series: Dr. Oriol Basquets Figueras

    By montefioreeinstein.org
    Bronx- 1410 Pelham Parkway South
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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