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Weekly Highlights in New York

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Halloween at the Natural History
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Halloween at the Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History throws its annual Halloween Celebration on Saturday, October 31, 2026, with trick-or-treating, a costume parade and live music beneath the Blue Whale.

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Halloween at the Seaport Museum
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Halloween at the Seaport Museum

A free day of scavenger hunts aboard the 1885 tall ship Wavertree, a Mommy Poppins craft fair, a costume parade and Seaport-wide trick-or-treating takes over the South Street Seaport Museum on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

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Wave Hill-O-Ween in the Bronx
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Wave Hill-O-Ween in the Bronx

Wave Hill-O-Ween returns to the Bronx's Wave Hill garden on Halloween night, October 31, 2026, with a scavenger hunt, lawn dancing and drop-in art at 4900 Independence Avenue.

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Spot P! at Dyckman Farmhouse
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Spot P! at Dyckman Farmhouse

Kasper Klop, Morwenna Spagnol and Deron Gopie's survey-based exhibition on Peter Stuyvesant's slavery legacy opens with a free reception at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on October 29, 2026.

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New York flag
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Bryant Park Winter Village Turns

The Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park opens its 25th season on Oct. 28, 2026, with 180 local shops and a free-admission ice rink skating daily through Feb. 28, 2027.

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Spooky City at MCNY
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Spooky City at MCNY

The Museum of the City of New York's annual family Halloween festival, Spooky City: Faces and Places of NYC, takes over the Fifth Avenue museum on Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with gallery mysteries, crafts, a costume contest and DJ Stormin' Norman.

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Double Dutch in Washington
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Double Dutch in Washington

The Double Dutch Aunties teach free street-style and competitive jump rope lessons in Washington Square Park every Thursday at 5:30 p.m., including October 22, 2026.

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Pumpkin Point at Governors Island
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Pumpkin Point at Governors Island

Governors Island's free Pumpkin Point pumpkin patch and fall festival returns to historic Nolan Park on October 24 and 25, 2026, with thousands of pumpkins, ghost tours, folk music, and trick-or-treating.

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Haunted Car Wash at Foam & Wash
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Haunted Car Wash at Foam & Wash

Foam & Wash Car Wash on Route 9 in Poughkeepsie turns its tunnel spooky for a Haunted Car Wash on October 23, 2026, from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

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Open House New York Weekend 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Open House New York Weekend 2026

Open House New York Weekend returns October 16-18, 2026, unlocking 300 sites across all five boroughs, most of them free and open to drop-in visitors.

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Jackie Robinson Museum Free
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Jackie Robinson Museum Free

The Jackie Robinson Museum at 75 Varick Street opens free for Open House New York Weekend, with gallery tours, a digital scavenger hunt, and hands-on art for all ages.

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Columbus Day Parade Returns to
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Columbus Day Parade Returns to

The 82nd annual Columbus Day Parade steps off at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, marching up Fifth Avenue from 44th to 72nd Street with Ray Dalio as grand marshal.

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Open House New York Weekend 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Open House New York Weekend 2026

Open House New York Weekend returns October 16-18, 2026, unlocking more than 300 buildings, infrastructure sites, and private spaces across all five boroughs, most of them free to walk into.

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Costumed Canines on the Bay
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Costumed Canines on the Bay

Little Bay Park's Halloween Pooch Parade sends costumed dogs along a Queens waterfront that was nearly turned into something else entirely.

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Corn, Cloth, and Memory
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Corn, Cloth, and Memory

At Wave Hill, a hands-on corn husk doll workshop and a Lenape storytime turn Indigenous Peoples' Day into something families can hold in their hands.

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Alvarado Avenue
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Alvarado Avenue

Brooklyn co-names a Bushwick street for Knicks champion Jose 'GTA' Alvarado, the kid from Los Sures who brought the title home.

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New York flag
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Strum Club: Potluck & Strings

A free monthly potluck-and-strum gathering in a rescued 1829 Vermont meeting house turns the darkest months into a neighborhood ritual.

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The Subway Garage Sale
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Subway Garage Sale

Every fall, New Yorkers line up by the thousands on a Gravesend lot to buy the city's battered transit history — turnstiles, station globes, and the orange seats of a retiring fleet.

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The Tree Lady's Garden: How a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Tree Lady's Garden: How a

GreenThumb's annual Harvest Fair returns to Herbert Von King Park and the Hattie Carthan Community Garden, where a competitive cook-off now shares the stage with a legacy of guerrilla gardening.

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A Navy Ship, a Billion Oysters
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Navy Ship, a Billion Oysters

Aboard a decommissioned Vietnam-era landing trainer moored at West Harlem Piers, a free monthly talk makes the case for bringing a billion oysters back to the waters that once made New York 'The Big Oyster.'

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The Monsters Are Behind the
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Monsters Are Behind the

At the Ozoner 29 Twin Drive-In in Broadalbin, a family that once fought to keep its projectors running is now sending guests into the forest behind the upper screen for an R-rated haunt, a horror movie, and a craft fair — all in one night.

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Two Live Records, One Night: A
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Two Live Records, One Night: A

Raedwald Howland-Bolton and The Travis Prinzi Band debut their live albums, recorded at Bop Shop Records, in an intimate show at Lovin' Cup.

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110 Stories of Remembrance
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

110 Stories of Remembrance

Firefighters and community members climb the equivalent of the World Trade Center towers at ESL Ballpark to honor the 343 FDNY firefighters lost on September 11, 2001.

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Carrying a 16,900-Pound Memory
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Carrying a 16,900-Pound Memory

A World Trade Center steel beam travels 10,500 miles across 21 states before returning to New York City on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, honoring the sacrifice of firefighter Stephen Siller.

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A Century of Blinking: Beacon's
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Century of Blinking: Beacon's

Howland Public Library celebrates the centennial of one of America's rarest traffic signals with a juried exhibition of original artwork.

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Wednesday Nights at the
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Wednesday Nights at the

Every September, the Campus Cycling Collective turns a rolling corner of Delaware Park into an open-air classroom where riders of every age and ability learn the joyful art of cyclocross.

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Where the River Remembers
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Where the River Remembers

On the banks of the Niagara where freedom seekers once crossed to Canada, a weekly summer gathering turns the water's edge into a place of music, memory, and communal restoration.

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Fifteen Years of Fringe: How a
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fifteen Years of Fringe: How a

Rochester's festival of the unexpected returns for its 15th year, bringing more than 715 performances and the spirit of Edinburgh to upstate New York.

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40 Years After the Great Chain, the Hudson Valley Reaches for Each Other Again
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

40 Years After the Great Chain, the Hudson Valley Reaches for Each Other Again

On the 250th birthday of American democracy, nine Indivisible groups form a human chain across the Hudson — no signs, no megaphones, just joined hands and the ghost of 1986.

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40 Years After the Great Chain
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

40 Years After the Great Chain

On the 250th birthday of American democracy, nine Indivisible groups form a human chain across the Hudson — no signs, no megaphones, just joined hands and the ghost of 1986.

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