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👻 Make the most of this final week of October in NYC, from leaf-peeping tours and Halloween parades to an architectural pumpkin carving competition and tracking down a buried time capsule!
Friday, October 24th
NYC Art Deco Tour
⏰ 4 pm - 6 pm ET 📍Grand Central Terminal Main Concourse
Explore some of Manhattan’s most celebrated landmarks from above and below, admiring both their skyscraping towers and overlooked underground passageways. From the shimmering Chrysler Building and historic Graybar Building, to the shocking General Electric Building facade, and a sleek subterranean spot below Rockefeller Center, this tour will look at NYC’s Art Deco icons from a fresh new perspective...
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👻 Make the most of this final week of October in NYC, from leaf-peeping tours and Halloween parades to an architectural pumpkin carving competition and tracking down a buried time capsule!
Friday, October 24th
NYC Art Deco Tour
⏰ 4 pm - 6 pm ET 📍Grand Central Terminal Main Concourse
Explore some of Manhattan’s most celebrated landmarks from above and below, admiring both their skyscraping towers and overlooked underground passageways. From the shimmering Chrysler Building and historic Graybar Building, to the shocking General Electric Building facade, and a sleek subterranean spot below Rockefeller Center, this tour will look at NYC’s Art Deco icons from a fresh new perspective.
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Spooky Speakeasy Jazz & Gin Soirée
⏰ 7 pm - 11 pm ET 📍The Urbane Arts Club, Brooklyn
Enjoy live music, dance lessons, and craft cocktails in a former 1920s speakeasy!
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More Friday Events
Photos Courtesy of BravinLee (Left) Traci Johnson’s van “Safe Space” (Right) Tom Sanford’s “The ParKING”
🎨 From October 24–26, BravinLee Programs will transform a Harlem parking lot at 128th Street and Convent Avenue** **into Stay Frosty—an open-air exhibition where twenty-four parking spaces become artist installations reimagining vehicles as mobile galleries. The exhibition is part tailgate, part trunk show, part art fair.
Highlights include: Willie Cole’s H₂O Harlem Coupe, a sculptural car built from 2,000 recycled water bottles - Traci Johnson’s Safe Space van—a plush, faux-fur sanctuary offering warmth and reflection– Jeila Gueramian cocoons her 1982 Volvo in crocheted textiles - Eric Doeringer’s Flea Market gathers art and “stuff” by more than thirty artists, reimagining the flea market as a space of exchange and collaboration. 🕐 Friday 12 - 7pm, Saturday 12 - 7pm, Sunday 12-6pm
Saturday, October 25th
Remnants of the World’s Fair Tour
⏰ 1 pm - 3 pm ET 📍Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
Discover what architectural souvenirs have been left behind from both the 1939/40 and 1964-65 World’s Fairs, when nations from across the globe came to Queens! Track down a buried time capsule, an ancient column, abandoned mid-century structures, and more.
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Grand Central Nightcap Tour
⏰ Every Fri. & Sat. at 6 pm - 8 pm ET 📍Grand Central Terminal Main Concourse
Soak up the evening splendor of NYC’s iconic train terminal as you uncover secrets (lost theater remnants, design flaws, hidden symbols, etc) and toast to the night with a specialty drink from Grand Brasserie (included with your tour ticket!).
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1960s Pop in NYC: Brill Building to The Beatles Tour
⏰ 11 am - 1 pm ET 📍Meets outside Carnegie Hall
Explore the birthplace of mid-century pop music in Manhattan with the guidance of a music industry professional!
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More Saturday Events
🐶 Bring your pooch to the 5th Annual Halloween Pet Parade at Elizabeth Street Garden for a chance to win prizes from local businesses, or join as a spectator to see the creative costumes - $20 + RSVP required to participate, free to watch 🕐 2 - 4 pm (There is also a pet parade in Washington Square Park)
💻 Historian Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson discusses her book, The Great Disappearing Act: Germans in New York City, 1880-1930, in a virtual talk presented by Village Preservation. Free - Register Here 🕐 10 am
🏙️ It’s the final week of Archtober, NYC’s month-long architecture and design festival! Take part in building tours, exhibits, workshops, and more events from over 100 partners throughout the five boroughs. See all events here!
Sunday, October 26th
Fall Foliage Photo Walk at The Green-Wood Cemetery
⏰ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET 📍The Gothic Arch
Capture striking photographs of the gorgeous landscapes and ornate Victorian statuary of Brooklyn’s scenic burial ground, with guidance from a professional photographer!
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Hike an Abandoned Rail Trail in Queens
⏰ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm ET 📍Metropolitan Avenue
Hike through graffiti-covered tunnels and lush trees along an abandoned rail line set to be transformed into a park.
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More Sunday Events
👻 Spooky meets cute at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s 2nd annual Kawaii Creatures Festival where Halloween and anime collide in a celebration of candy, costumes, and Japanese culture! Included with museum admission 🕐 10 am – 6:30 pm
🍂 Take in sweeping views of the changing fall colors from aboard a historic vessel on the Hudson River. Book Here 🕐 Multiple Dates & Times
Next Week
Monday, 10/27
✈️ Join Village Preservation for the ceremonial unveiling of a plaque honoring pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart at Greenwich House, where she once lived and worked as a social worker. Free - Register Here 🕐 6 pm
Tuesday, 10/28
😈 Dive into the underbelly of the scenic Hudson Valley to uncover tales of ghosts, crime, and justice as author A. J. Schenkman shares shocking tales from his Wicked Ulster County: Tales of Desperadoes, Gangs & More in a virtual talk. Free - Register here 🕐 6 - 7 pm
🎤 Acclaimed recording artist, performer, producer, author, and professor Richard Barone (the subject of Village Preservation’s oral history) shares memories of his lifelong mentor, Tiny Tim, stories of folk music history, and discusses the social and economic contours of Greenwich Village’s various music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s in a virtual talk. Free - Register here 🕐 6 pm
Wednesday, 10/29
🔪 Watch teams of architects go gourd-to-gourd in at Pumpkitecture!, a live architectural pumpkin carving contest! See who will take home the Pritzkerpumpkin Prize and vote for the People’s Choice. $15 - Register Here 🕐 6 - 8:30 pm
Thursday, 10/30
🎃 Spend Halloween Eve on the Harlem Meer in Central Park and watch a flotilla of hundreds of glowing jack-o-lanterns float across the water’s surface! Your carved pumpkin can be part of the show if you drop it off between 4:00 pm and 5:30 pm (Enter at 110th Street and Lenox Avenue) - Free 🕐 4 - 7 pm
🥫 See incredible sculptures made out of canned food inside Brookfield Place for the annual Canstruction exhibition
Halloween, Friday, 10/31
🎃 Artist Jane Greengold’s pumpkin impalements are a beloved annual Halloween tradition in Cobble Hill! Head to the corner of Kane Street and Strong Place to see dozens of pumpkins impaled on fence posts, left to decompose and transform as time passes.
🧟 Dress up and march in the 52nd Annual Village Halloween Parade where hundreds of giant puppets will float through the streets - See the route 🕐 7 pm
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🧙♀️ Meet fellow “witches and weirdos” at Madame Morbid & The Spooky Social Club’s *Hocus Pocus-*inspired Halloween Party, a fully immersive social mixer with live music, costume contests, a spell candle station, face painting, mummy wrapping contests, and spooky treats. 21+ Book Here 🕐 10:30 pm
🏚️ Admire the spooky Halloween decorations of your neighborhood, or check out some of the decoration hotspots
🍬 Satisfy your sweet tooth at a candy-speakeasy in Brooklyn run by “The Wonka of Bushwick”
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