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Wednesday Nov. 12, 2025

6:30 – 7:30 pm

Interior Design Master Class: 100 Rooms

New York School of Interior DesignUpper East Side, 70 East 70th Street New York, NY, 10021

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7 – 8:30 pm

TOM TORO: AND TO THINK WE STARTED AS A BOOK CLUB…

Joe’s PubNoho

Saturday Nov. 15

Noon – 1 pm

Saturday Storytime: Meet Taylor Hill, Author of A Kids Books About Pets & Love

Ages: 5 – 12
Books & Readings
Family
Free

McNally Jackson Books SeaportDowntown Manhattan

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Sunday Nov. 16

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10 am – 6 pm

New York Jewish Book Festival

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the HolocaustBattery Park City

2 pm

Sugar Hill Kids’ Lit

Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & StorytellingManhattan

Tuesday Nov. 18

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Little New-Yorkers: Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

New-York Historical SocietyManhattan

Wednesday Nov. 19

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7:30 – 10 pm

WORD PLAY – Free Poetry Jam

Sugar MouseEast Village

Friday Nov. 21

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Little New-Yorkers: Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

New-York Historical SocietyManhattan

Saturday Nov. 22

11 – 11:45 am

Book Reading and Performance: Hello, Broadway!

Children’s Museum of ManhattanManhattan

11 am

Story Reading + Craft Time at an Art Gallery

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Books & Readings
Family

FUGUE GALLERYChinatown

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Saturday Nov. 29

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Saturday Dec. 6

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11 am – noon

Family First Saturdays: Storytime at the Morgan

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Books & Readings
Family

The Morgan Library & MuseumMurray Hill

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Saturday Dec. 13

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Saturday Dec. 20

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Saturday Dec. 27

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2 – 5 pm

Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl

The Four Faced LiarGreenwich Village

Tuesday April 28, 2026

Burstyn NY

7 – 10 pm

An Evening with Ellen Burstyn: Live in Conversation in New York City

The Great Hall at Cooper Union,New York

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