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Canstruction: giant sculptures made of food cans
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
Free lunchtime juggling in Bryant Park
Día de Muertos at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
Whitney Free Friday Nights
Cooper Hewitt Pay What You Wish hour
Open-air film: Ten Minutes to Live (1932) with a live vinyl score
Halloween DJ Sets at the Whitney (Free Friday Night)
Watch Night: Black Stories, Unbound at Weeksville
Candlelight Ghost Tours
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
R&B Beats Dance
Free Saturday juggling in Bryant Park
Discovery Hike: Urban Wildlife
Howl-oween Doggie Day Hike
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Shape Up NYC: Dance Fitness
Outdoor Skills: Animal Tracking
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way at Lefferts Historic House
Sleepy Hollow folklore hike with the Urban Park Rangers
Howl-oween Doggie Day Walk
Folklore Tales on the Trail Hike
Free Halloween Piano Concert with Rob Schwimmer
Public Gallery Tour
Bird Friendly Garden Management Workshop
Inwood Hill Park After Dark Hike
NYC Village Halloween Parade
Dyckman Marina Movie Nights
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
Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image
Día de Muertos at Lincoln Center: Community Ofrenda + Guachinangos
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
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
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
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
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
Holiday silent disco at Pelham Fritz
Free First Friday: America in Motion
Stop In and Sketch at the Hudson River Museum
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at) at the Long Island Museum
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
Poets House: Verge Books launch of The Tablets by Armand Schwerner
Juilliard MAP Open Recital (free)
Ranger walk on Hunter Island
Community Archiving Day at Queens Museum
Lifelong Studio Printmaking: First Session for Adults 55+
Juilliard Concerto Competition Finals (free)
Stealing America: Free Virtual Lecture with Linford D. Fisher
Salsa Party at the Brooklyn Museum
Ranger hike from Forest Park's Overlook
Ranger walk in Springfield Park
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.
🗽 Other places to go
FAO Schwarz
📍 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111
The classic toy store with the giant floor piano from "Big."
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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.
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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 ↗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 ↗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.
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Official site ↗David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
📍 61 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023
A free indoor public atrium with seats and Wi-Fi, plus free performances on many nights.
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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
Official site ↗The Oculus (World Trade Center)
📍 185 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007
Calatrava's white-ribbed station hall. Free to walk through and look up.
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