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Saturday Nov. 1, 2025

Día de Muertos in Flatiron NoMad_2025

All day

Día de Muertos in Flatiron NoMad

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

Flatiron North PlazaFlatiron North Plaza

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All day

Resistance in Memory: Visions of Sudan

Art
Free

The Africa CenterEast Harlem

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2 am – 3 pm

Public Gallery Tour

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8 am – 3 pm

Maria Hernandez Farmers Market

Maria Hernandez ParkBrooklyn

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8 – 9 am

Brooklyn Bridge parkrun

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1Brooklyn

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8 am – 10 pm

Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant ParkManhattan

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8 am – 11 pm

The Rink at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

Ages: All
Attractions
Family
Free

Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant ParkManhattan

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9:30 am – noon

Randall’s Island Fall Cleanup

Randall’s Island ParkRandall’s Island

9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Bronx River Slow Roll

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Bronx River Slow RollBronx

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10 am – 5 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

10 am – 8 pm

Halloween Hunt

Ages: All
Attractions
Family
Free

Brookfield PlaceTribeca

Kids Clinics AT

10 am – noon

FREE Kids Pickleball Clinics presented by Raising Cane’s

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free
Sports

CityPickle Atlantic TerminalBrooklyn

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10 am – 9 pm

Mano Mano’s Día de Muertos at Flatiron NoMad

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Flatiron North PlazaFlatiron District

MaM Day of the Dead

10 am – 9 pm

Mano a Mano’s Día de Muertos Celebration at Lincoln Center

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln CenterUpper West Side

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10 am – 7 pm

Canstruction New York at Brookfield Place

Brookfield PlaceTribeca

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10:30 – 11:30 am

Family Program: Skyscraper Monopoly

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

The Skyscraper MuseumBattery Park

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10:30 – 11:30 am

Brutalism: Ugly or Cool?

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

The Skyscraper MuseumBattery Park

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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

11 am – 2:30 pm

Family Movies @ the Library: “Coco” and “The Book of Life”

Ages: 3 – 12
Family
Film
Free

Kings Bay LibraryBrooklyn

11 am – 11:30 pm

Spooky Staten Island History Hike

Ages: All
Family
Free

Silver Lake ParkStaten Island

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Noon – 5 pm

L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New YorkManhattan

Brooklyn Brooklyn Charter School Fair & Kids Activity Expo

Noon – 3 pm

Brooklyn Charter School Fair & Kids Activity Expo

Ages: All
Expo
Family
Free

Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community CenterBrooklyn

Noon – 3 pm

Swish & Skill at Faber: Free Instructional Basketball Clinic for Kids

Ages: 5 and up
Family
Free
Sports

Faber ParkStaten Island

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Noon – 8 pm

Holiday Shops at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

Ages: All
Family
Free
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Bryant Park 6th Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018Manhattan

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Noon – 5 pm

Mano a Mano’s Day of the Dead at St. Mark’s Church

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

St. Mark’s Church in-the-BowerksEast Village

Noon – 6 pm

Super Sábado: Día De Los Muertos Celebration

El Museo del BarrioManhattan

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Noon – 3 pm

Pumpkin Smash at Hudson River Park

Ages: All
Family
Free
Halloween

Pier 84 Hudson River ParkManhattan

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Noon – 1 pm

Story time and craft with author Tess Thomas

Mcnally Jackson SeaportManhattan

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Noon – 3 pm

Queens Book Launch — Called to Purpose (Nov 1)

131-29 Farmers Blvd, Springfield Gardens, NY 11434Springfield Gardens

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Noon – 7 pm

IKEA House Warming

Ages: All
Family
Free

IKEA House WarmingManhattan

Fungi sp.

1 – 3 pm

Fungi Frolic

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, Nature Interpretive CenterStaten Island

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1 – 3 pm

Family Time Día de Muertos 2025

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Bronx MuseumBronx

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