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Club Celsius
The Rink at Bryant Park (free-admission ice skating)
Canstruction: giant sculptures made of food cans
Spyder sample sale
SKULLPANDA “OFF MODE” pop-up experience
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Bryant Park tour
Holiday Shops at Bryant Park Winter Village
The Grand Ofrenda at Times Square
Free Entry to Vessel and Edge for Runners
Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Economy Candy: old-school candy store since 1937
Japan Village food hall in Industry City
Raaka Chocolate factory store in Red Hook
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Artists & Fleas Chelsea Market
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Music with Erin Lee
Bronx Medal Monday
Day of the Dead Family Celebration at Green-Wood
Cooper Hewitt Pay What You Wish hour
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Veronica Beard Sample Sale
Fusalp sample sale
SEA New York sample sale
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
Guggenheim Pay What You Wish hours
I PLAY ROCKY Advance Screening
Election Night Watch Party at Union Hall (21+, free)
Eloise at the Plaza Event
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Bird and Nature Walk at Freshkills Park North Park
Free Wednesdays at the Museum of the City of New York
Grant's Tomb (General Grant National Memorial)
Hamilton Grange Free Ranger-Led House Tours
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
Bronx Museum of the Arts (Always Free)
Grey Art Museum Late Wednesdays (NYU)
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (Suggested Donation)
Senior Happy Hour
Pay What You Wish evening at the Museum of Arts and Design
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Prospect Park Stroller Walk
Ranger hike at High Rock Park
Craft & Chill
Greenbelt Adult Hike - High Rock Park - Pouch Camp
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
Hispanic Society Museum & Library (Free Admission)
Public Gallery Tour
Free Environmental Education Center Open Hours
Asilah Oui: Free Films at Anthology Film Archives
Rally Reading Series at Pete's Candy Store (21+)
Native Voices Karenna: two short operas at Cooper Union's Great Hall
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Magnetic Me’s Holiday Playhouse
Restoration Fridays at Highland Park
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
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Free tasting: Sun Yum XO Sauce at Pearl River Mart Foods
TGIF! Afterschool story and craft hour at Green-Wood
NYSCI Free Community Hours (Fridays)
Kiehl's Williamsburg grand opening weekend
Open Tech Lab for Teens: 3D printing, robotics, VR (Queens Central Library)
Free First Friday: America in Motion
Whitney Free Friday Nights
Japan Society Gallery Free First Friday
Stop In and Sketch at the Hudson River Museum
Dead Pete's Society poetry open mic (21+)
Karaoke Tremendous at Union Hall (21+, free, midnight)
FAD Market fall pop-up in Dumbo
FIDO Coffee Bark in Prospect Park
Meet the Tree Day (Rockefeller tree arrival)
Early Morning Opening: To the Stars! Space Exploration (sensory-friendly)
Queens Super Hike (15 miles)
Queens County Parks Super Hike
Every Play Counts, Every Player Matters
Ranger walk at Snug Harbor
Care Bears Meet the Tree Day
The Hormone Project with LOLA
Teen sculpture workshop: Arts and Activism
Café Colmado test kitchen: taste a new release free
MoMA PS1 November Open House
Staten Island North Shore Parks Super Hike
Family Art Project: Raptors in Autumn Sky
Bulb Planting at Forest Park
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Introduction to Birdwatching Outings in Prospect Park
Fall Foliage Bike Tour with the Urban Park Rangers
Birding: Fall Migration at Salt Marsh Nature Center
Dumboween
Meet the Fleet at Riverside Park's Compost Compound
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Weekend Visits
Smorgasburg Williamsburg (Saturdays)
Queens Fiber Arts Festival
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Artists & Fleas Williamsburg
Nature's Workshop: Fall Foliage Leaf Art in Lincoln Terrace Park
Free Saturday Juggling at Bryant Park
Saturday house tours at the Wyckoff House Museum
Traditional Indigenous crafts at Bronx River House
Tree Maintenance Workshop at Snug Harbor
Bronx River Foodway's 5th Annual Community Banquet
Indigenous Art Workshop with NAIC-NY
5th Annual Community Banquet
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way at Lefferts Historic House
Free Community Paddle at Concrete Plant Park
Nathan Fielder Look-Alike Contest
Family Time: Día de Muertos at The Bronx Museum
Environmental Education Center: Saturday Open Hours
Autumn Eco Crafts and Exploration
Native American Heritage Month: Indigenous Plant Practices
Create Your Own: Seasonal Door Sign
Antiques Appraisal & Garden Party at Growing Good Community Garden
Diwali Lights Up Asia Society
Discovery Hike: Randall's Island Salt Marsh
Historical Walking Tour from the East 4th Street Community Garden
The Lott House: Update Talk at Salt Marsh Nature Center
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
New Italian Cinema Events
Strange Confessions: Free Play Reading in Riverside Park
Nature Journaling: Nature After Dark at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Fall Birding
Sleepy Hollow Street Fair
Family Art Project: Raptors in Autumn Sky
Whitney Free Second Sunday
The Owls of Staten Island
Ranger walk at Soundview Park
Ranger hike in Forest Park
Smorgasburg Prospect Park (Sundays)
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
Fantastic Fungi Mushroom ID Hike in Prospect Park
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Native American Heritage Month: Early Food Traditions at the Old Stone House
Second Sundays Free Open House at Pioneer Works
Faire & Flourish Holiday Market at Jody's Club Forest
Environmental and Tree Stewardship at Snug Harbor
Ranger hike in Central Park's North Woods
Art in Public Places 40th Anniversary Celebration
Fairy and Gnome Day
Garden Highlights Walk
Historic New York: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
Nature's Workshop: Create Your Own Nature Field Guide
Artist Talk with Cecile Chong and Alexander Zev
Second Sunday Castle Tours
Free Solar Observing at Pioneer Works
Leaf Peeping Hike in Central Park's North Woods
Grand Central Holiday Fair
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Bryant Park tour
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Zing! Kids Fitness
Conversations in Tusculum: Richard Nelson play at Cooper Union
Tuesday Stewardship at the Foodway
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Alice + Olivia Sample Sale
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
Rag & Bone Sample Sale
Isabel Marant Sample Sale
Free Evening Juggling Class at Bryant Park
Bacon, Eggs & Toons: Free Animation Screening (21+)
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa photography artist talk at Cooper Union
NYC Veterans Day Parade
Art Week NYC
Idlewild Park Forest Restoration
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
Boogie Down Service Project
Alex Crane Sample Sale
Proper Cloth Sample Sale
NYC Parks Girls Flag Football Festival
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Repertorio Español/Scaramouches Puppet Theatre
Senior Happy Hour
Structure, Status, and Strategy: Business Entities for Creatives
Storytime: Lenape and Corn
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Craft & Chill
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
Union Square Holiday Market
Public Gallery Tour
Chef Judy Joo book signing at Pearl River Mart Foods
Starting Seeds for Community Self-Sufficiency
Mark West lecture on pareidolia and form at Cooper Union
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at) at the Long Island Museum
Free Stargazing at Floyd Bennett Field
Neue Galerie free First Friday: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Beach & park clean-up at Conference House Park
Ranger walk at Conference House Park
Brooklyn Flea Holiday Market in Dumbo
Annual Leaf Lift Volunteer Day in Riverside Park
Roebling Rink Opening Day: Free Morning Skate Sessions
Roebling Rink Opening Day Celebration
Pearl River Food Truck Festival
Writing & Dramaturgy: A Bilingual Talk
Designing Women Market at The New York Historical
Discovery Hike: Waterfront Ecosystems at Bushwick Inlet Park
Recycling Holiday Scraps at Queens Farm — sold out
Free Solar Observing at St. Nicholas Park
Día de los Hongos: Free Myco-Drawing and Mushroom Walk at Green-Wood
Holiday Vendor Market at the St. George Theatre
Fairfield University Art Museum Family Day
Fall foliage hike in Prospect Park
Ranger walk in Riverdale Park
Fire Cider Workshop at Randall's Island Urban Farm
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
Free Stargazing at Great Kills Park
Juilliard MAP Open Recital (free)
Pre-Thanksgiving Bird Walk in Prospect Park
Winter Composting with Big Reuse on Randall's Island
Autumn Leaves Story Time and Craft at Greenbelt Nature Center
Gobble Games Family Board Game Extravaganza
Ricitos and the Three Bears
Ranger walk on Hunter Island
Community Archiving Day at Queens Museum
ArtAccess Museum Explorers for Children with Disabilities
Environmental and Tree Stewardship at Snug Harbor
Designing and Managing Community Composting Spaces
Junior Volunteer Corps: Family Leaf Raking in Prospect Park
Fireside Meditation at Crotona Nature Center
Battle of Fort Washington 250th Anniversary in Fort Tryon Park
ArtAccess Open Studio for Teens and Adults with Disabilities
Free Stargazing in Elmhurst
Free Stargazing at Pioneer Works
Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials at Pioneer Works
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Music with FunkyTown Playground
Wedding Salon NYC November 16
Lifelong Studio Printmaking: First Session for Adults 55+
Harlem Holiday Lights
Sean Lally architecture lecture at Cooper Union
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Magic with Lee Barrett
Comfy Classical at Dyckman Farmhouse
Stealing America: Free Virtual Lecture with Linford D. Fisher
In the Room: David Hume Kennerly at Cooper Union's Great Hall
Giving Thanks to Community at Success Garden
Free Third Thursday Evening at the Jewish Museum
Wayzgoose Holiday Kick Off at the Seaport Museum
Mall at Bay Plaza Christmas Tree Lighting
Free Stargazing in Parkchester
Discovery Hike: Pond and Freshwater Ecology at Silver Lake Park
Ranger hike from Forest Park's Overlook
Birding: Owls at Pelham Bay Park's Orchard Beach
Forest Park Super Hike with the Urban Park Rangers
Greenbelt Natural History Hike with Dr. Eric W. Sanderson
Free tasting: KYUNU instant noodles at Pearl River Mart Foods
Queens Center 'Let It Glow' Tree Lighting
Free Stargazing at Highbridge Park
Tamagotchi Times Square Spectacular (30th anniversary)
Muscoot Farm Holiday Gift Market
Autumn Mushroom ID Hike in Van Cortlandt Park
Outdoor Skills: Knot Tying in Travers Park
Magnetic Archery in Owl's Head Park
Environmental and Tree Stewardship at Snug Harbor
Hibernation and Brumation Hike in Cunningham Park
Native American Heritage Month: Walking Lenapehoking
Free Adult Printmaking Workshop at Queens Museum
Seal Exploration at Orchard Beach
Freedom Seekers: Stories by the Fire in Prospect Park
Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade (30th)
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Music with Andy & Suzanna
FOCKER IN-LAW Advance Screening
Santa's Mailbox in White Plains
Le Carrousel Extravaganza: Magic with Looney Louie
100th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Post-Thanksgiving Day Hike: The Alley Giant
Post-Thanksgiving Day Hike
Post-Thanksgiving Day Hike
Greenwich Reindeer Festival & Santa's Workshop
Post-Thanksgiving Day Super Hike
Post-Thanksgiving Day Hike: Northern Manhattan Parks Super Hike
Palmer Square Annual Tree Lighting
Northport Village Christmas Tree Lighting
Ranger walk in Springfield Park
Gather Around the Campfire at Hunter's Point South Park
Historic New York: Mount Morris Fire Watchtower Open Access
Santa's Arrival & Lighting of the Morristown Green
Manhasset Holiday Lighting Ceremony
Westfield Christmas Tree Lighting
Ranger walk near Split Rock
Discovery Hike: Marine Mammals at Rockaway Beach
FAD Market holiday pop-up at Empire Stores
Columbus Circle Holiday Market
Historic Downtown Jersey City Tree & Menorah Lighting
White Plains City Lights tree lighting
Holiday Tree Lighting
Springfield Park Christmas Tree Lighting
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting
CloseKnit at Noble Maritime
NYSE Tree Lighting
Dumbo Holiday Tree Lighting
Madison Square Park Holiday Tree Lighting
JC Library Holiday Tree Lighting
Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) Hanukkah menorah lightings
Greenwich Tree Lighting
Neue Galerie free late-night admission
Fort Greene Park Tree Lighting
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Holiday Tree Lighting
Mount Kisco Holiday Tree Lighting
Ridgefield Holiday Stroll
Zoodohos Peghe Church Christmas Tree Lighting
Stony Point Holiday Parade
Festival of Lights: Santa in the Park
Wave Hill Artisan Market
Snug Harbor Holiday Hop
Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival
Jersey City Happy Holiday Market
Sparkill Winter Wonderland
Dumbo Shop the Studios
Darien An Old Fashioned Holiday & Tree Lighting
Holiday Lights at Crawford Park
Woodside Holiday Tree Lighting
Bronx Little Italy Christmas Tree Lighting
Fort Lee Holiday Night Market
Holiday on the Hudson tree lighting
Pleasantville Public Menorah Lighting
Nanuet Tree Lighting Festival
Yorktown Holiday Electric Lights Parade & Tree Lighting
Birdwatching: First Sunday Outings in Prospect Park
Doggie Day Hike in Prospect Park
Main Street Pops Artisan Holiday Market
Dickens Festival Carols & Crafts
Festival of Lights: Chanukah
Astoria Park holiday festival & tree lighting
Bay Shore Holiday Spectacular & Tree Lighting
Tree Lighting at Argyle Park
Rye Holiday Bonfire & Sing Along
Stamford Heights & Lights
Long Beach Christmas Tree Lighting
Nyack Holiday Lights
Winter Wreath Workshop
Newark Museum of Art Community Day: Winter Wonderland
Sleepy Hollow–Tarrytown Winter Stroll
Free Stargazing at Floyd Bennett Field
Fifth Avenue Holiday Open Streets
Free Solar Observing at Pioneer Works
Elf on the Shelf kids' craft at Oak Ridge
Wave Hill Winter Solstice Wishes
Ranger holiday tea time at Biddle House
Handmade nature ornaments workshop
Winter Solstice Campfire and Storytelling
Holiday campfire & stories in Clove Lakes Park
Plants of the holiday season walk
NYRR Midnight Run fireworks (spectator)
NYC Parks New Year's Day Super Hike – Central Park
Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge (spectating)
NYC Parks New Year's Day Hike – Flushing Meadows
49th Annual Three Kings Day Parade
BAM 41st Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2027 TCS New York City Marathon
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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 ↗Harry Potter New York
📍 935 Broadway, New York, NY 10010
Three floors of wands, robes and Butterbeer, plus paid VR experiences.
● Closed now
Official site ↗M&M'S New York
📍 1600 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
Three floors and a wall of M&M's in every color.
● Open now
Official site ↗Hershey's Chocolate World Times Square
📍 20 Times Square (701 Seventh Ave), New York, NY 10036
Make-your-own candy bars, giant Reese's and s'mores.
● Open now
Official site ↗LEGO Store Fifth Avenue
📍 636 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10020
Big LEGO NYC builds, a Pick & Build wall and a minifigure factory.
● Closed now
Official site ↗Nintendo New York
📍 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
Nintendo's flagship store, with game demos and a display of vintage consoles.
● Closed now
Official site ↗FAO Schwarz
📍 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111
The classic toy store with the giant floor piano from "Big."
● Closed now
Official site ↗Disney Store Times Square
📍 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Disney's two-floor Times Square store.
● Closed now
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