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NYC Village Halloween Parade
Dyckman Marina Movie Nights
Experience Civil War Living History at Fort Totten
Canstruction: giant sculptures made of food cans
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Botany
Brooklyn FAM Festival: Shine Your Light
Historic New York: Fort Totten
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way at Lefferts Historic House
Indian Food Festival & Diwali Mela
Day of the Dead Celebration featuring Mariachi Real de Mexico
Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image
Guggenheim Pay What You Wish hours
Cooper Hewitt Pay What You Wish hour
Día de Muertos Celebration with Guachinangos
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Wednesdays at the Museum of the City of New York
Mornings@LIM: Enduring Hearts gallery visit
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Pay What You Wish evening at the Museum of Arts and Design
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Public Gallery Tour
Asilah Oui: Free Films at Anthology Film Archives
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Fridays at Poster House
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Friday late hours at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Free First Friday: America in Motion
Whitney Free Friday Nights
Stop In and Sketch at the Hudson River Museum
Teen sculpture workshop: Arts and Activism
MoMA PS1 November Open House
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Queens Fiber Arts Festival
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
5th Annual Community Banquet
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Public Gallery Tour
Poets House: In Memoriam Stephen Dobyns
Before It's Gone: Archive to Survive book launch and panel
Fall Birding
Whitney Free Second Sunday
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Folktales
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Native American Heritage Month: Early Food Traditions at the Old Stone House
Art in Public Places 40th Anniversary Celebration
Historic New York: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
Artist Talk with Cecile Chong and Alexander Zev
Second Sunday Castle Tours
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Hart Island: Honoring Our Military and Veterans (North Island)
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Structure, Status, and Strategy: Business Entities for Creatives
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Public Gallery Tour
Chef Judy Joo book signing at Pearl River Mart Foods
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at) at the Long Island Museum
Neue Galerie free First Friday: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home, public exhibition opening
Hot Five Centennial Listening Session, Part 3
Poets House: Verge Books launch of The Tablets by Armand Schwerner
Community Archiving Day at Queens Museum
Lifelong Studio Printmaking: First Session for Adults 55+
Comfy Classical at Dyckman Farmhouse
Stealing America: Free Virtual Lecture with Linford D. Fisher
Wayzgoose Holiday Kick Off at the Seaport Museum
Free Adult Printmaking Workshop at Queens Museum
Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) Hanukkah menorah lightings
Neue Galerie free late-night admission
Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival
Pleasantville Public Menorah Lighting
Wave Hill Winter Solstice Wishes
BAM 41st Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your library is the best plan you forgot about.
A little Nyack. A new discovery.
Paid & ticketed events (18)
Museum of Ice Cream
Museum of Illusions
Museum of Sex
Irving’s ‘Legend’ at Sunnyside
The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze
Twilight Village at Sleepy Hollow
Begotten (4K restoration) Midnite Movie at Nitehawk Williamsburg
Halloween (1978) Midnite Movie at Nitehawk Williamsburg
🗽 Other places to go: Arts & culture
Sloomoo Institute
📍 475 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
A slime museum: hands-on slime bars, a slime-rain room and a DIY slime station.
● Closed now
Official site ↗Museum of Sex
📍 233 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016
Adults-only (18+) exhibits plus the inflatable "Super Funland" rooms.
● Open now
Official site ↗The Museum of Broadway
📍 145 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036
Costumes, set pieces and the history of Broadway shows. Last entry 90 min before close.
● Closed now
Official site ↗Mercer Labs
📍 21 Dey St, New York, NY 10007
Immersive art-and-technology rooms of light, sound and mirrors near the WTC.
● Open now
Official site ↗SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
📍 45 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
Mirrored rooms and glass ledges above Grand Central.
● Open now
Official site ↗ARTECHOUSE NYC
📍 439 W 15th St, New York, NY 10011
Room-sized digital art in an old boiler room under Chelsea Market. Now showing: Twilight Zone, an ocean show.
● Open now
Official site ↗Ford Foundation atrium garden
📍 320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
A 12-story glass-walled indoor garden, with a free art gallery next to it.
○ Closed today
Official site ↗Brookfield Place Winter Garden
📍 230 Vesey St, New York, NY 10281
A glass atrium with 16 palm trees overlooking the Hudson marina. Free to enter.
● Open 24/7
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