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Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Japan Village food hall in Industry City
Raaka Chocolate factory store in Red Hook
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Día de Muertos at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way at Lefferts Historic House
Free Halloween Piano Concert with Rob Schwimmer
Public Gallery Tour
Bird Friendly Garden Management Workshop
Inwood Hill Park After Dark Hike
Cooper Hewitt Pay What You Wish hour
NYC Village Halloween Parade
Dyckman Marina Movie Nights
Dope Jams Halloween Ball at Public Records (21+)
Long Island VW Club All VW Show
Experience Civil War Living History at Fort Totten
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Botany
Lenape history walk in Inwood Hill Park
Brooklyn FAM Festival: Shine Your Light
Saltwater Fishing
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape History and Ethnobotany
Fall Canoeing
Fall Foliage Tree ID
Historic New York: Fort Totten
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Naumburg Centennial Violin Competition: Final Round
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Garden Highlights Walk
Discovery Hike: Micro Hike
Indian Food Festival & Diwali Mela
Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Jeffrey Swann
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
Día de Muertos Celebration with Guachinangos
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Bryant Park tour
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Juilliard Composition Concert (free)
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Shape Up NYC: Latin Dance Fitness
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
Shape Up NYC: Cardio Dance
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness
Juilliard Rush Hour Performances (free)
Shape Up NYC: Flow Dance Cardio
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
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
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Repertorio Español/Scaramouches Puppet Theatre
Pay What You Wish evening at the Museum of Arts and Design
Shape Up NYC: Caribbean Dance Fitness
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ranger hike at High Rock Park
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
Mousse T. at Public Records (21+)
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
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
Holiday silent disco at Pelham Fritz
Free First Friday: America in Motion
Whitney Free Friday Nights
Stop In and Sketch at the Hudson River Museum
Chatroom: OSGEMEOS (free with RSVP, 21+)
House of Grooves: Eli Escobar All Night (21+)
Queens Super Hike (15 miles)
Queens County Parks Super Hike
Ranger walk at Snug Harbor
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness
Christ Church Pelham Classic Car Show
Teen sculpture workshop: Arts and Activism
MoMA PS1 November Open House
Staten Island North Shore Parks Super Hike
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Queens Fiber Arts Festival
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Playback's Free Street Party Outside BAM
5th Annual Community Banquet
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Autumn Eco Crafts and Exploration
Native American Heritage Month: Indigenous Plant Practices
Public Gallery Tour
Battle of Brooklyn Walking Tour
Poets House: In Memoriam Stephen Dobyns
Before It's Gone: Archive to Survive book launch and panel
Flava D + Made to Order at Elsewhere (21+)
Benji B, Louise Chen, Hidden Spheres and more at Public Records (21+)
Fall Birding
Whitney Free Second Sunday
Ranger walk at Soundview Park
Ranger hike in Forest Park
Fall Foliage Hike
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Folktales
Outdoor Skills: Orienteering and Geocaching Hike
Fall Foliage Tree ID Hike
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
Ranger hike in Central Park's North Woods
Art in Public Places 40th Anniversary Celebration
Garden Highlights Walk
Historic New York: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
Artist Talk with Cecile Chong and Alexander Zev
Second Sunday Castle Tours
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Bryant Park tour
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Civic Crash Course talk at Public Records (free RSVP, 21+)
Hart Island: Honoring Our Military and Veterans (North Island)
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Shape Up NYC: Latin Dance Fitness
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
Shape Up NYC: Cardio Dance
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness
Shape Up NYC: Flow Dance Cardio
Shape Up NYC: Soca Sweat Dance Fitness
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
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
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Repertorio Español/Scaramouches Puppet Theatre
Structure, Status, and Strategy: Business Entities for Creatives
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
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
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness Fiesta
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at) at the Long Island Museum
DURATIONS festival club night: Dasha Rush, Decoder and more at Public Records (21+)
Cut Copy (DJ set) at Elsewhere (21+)
Ranger walk at Conference House Park
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness
Fall foliage hike in Prospect Park
Ranger walk in Riverdale Park
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
Juilliard MAP Open Recital (free)
X-Coast (open to close) at Elsewhere (21+)
Ranger walk on Hunter Island
Community Archiving Day at Queens Museum
Lifelong Studio Printmaking: First Session for Adults 55+
Juilliard Concerto Competition Finals (free)
Comfy Classical at Dyckman Farmhouse
Stealing America: Free Virtual Lecture with Linford D. Fisher
Salsa Party at the Brooklyn Museum
Wayzgoose Holiday Kick Off at the Seaport Museum
Discostan with Omid Walizadeh and Mansaf Mama at Public Records (21+)
Ranger hike from Forest Park's Overlook
Sinéad, ketia, Bennet and more at Public Records (21+)
Free Adult Printmaking Workshop at Queens Museum
Ranger walk in Springfield Park
DICKAPPOINTMENT Invites TROMAC (21+)
Cinthie, Amir Alexander and more at Public Records (21+)
Ranger walk near Split Rock
Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) Hanukkah menorah lightings
Neon glow holiday silent disco
Neue Galerie free late-night admission
Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival
Pleasantville Public Menorah Lighting
SantaCon NYC
Wave Hill Winter Solstice Wishes
Plants of the holiday season walk
Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Drop
Prospect Park New Year's Eve Fireworks
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.
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Jefferson Market Garden
📍 Greenwich Ave between Sixth Ave & W 10th St, New York, NY 10011
A free, volunteer-run flower garden behind the old courthouse library, open to visitors April through October.
○ Closed for the season
Official site ↗FAO Schwarz
📍 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111
The classic toy store with the giant floor piano from "Big."
● Open now
Official site ↗Books of Wonder
📍 42 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011
NYC's classic kids' bookstore, with original illustration art and Oz rarities.
● Open now
Official site ↗Strand Bookstore
📍 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
"18 miles of books," plus the bargain carts outside.
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Official site ↗Economy Candy
📍 108 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002
A candy store since 1937, with retro and imported sweets floor to ceiling.
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Official site ↗Pearl River Mart
📍 452 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
An Asian-American emporium of lanterns, ceramics, slippers and snacks since 1971.
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Official site ↗Paley Park
📍 3 E 53rd St, New York, NY 10022
A tiny pocket park with a 20-foot waterfall that drowns out traffic. The water is off in January.
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Official site ↗Greenacre Park
📍 217 E 51st St, New York, NY 10022
A 25-foot waterfall and shaded terraces between two buildings.
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