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Saturday Oct. 25, 2025

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All day

Menagerie: A Tribute to Animals Through Coney Island’s History and Beyond

Art
Free

Coney Island USABrooklyn

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All day

Día de Muertos in Flatiron NoMad

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All day

AkumuFest – An Interactive Japanese Horror Experience

Japan Village at Industry CityBrooklyn

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Midnight – 5 pm

CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Art
Free

33 Bowery St., (Confucius Building Exhibition Hall)33 Bowery St.

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8 am – 3 pm

Maria Hernandez Farmers Market

Maria Hernandez ParkBrooklyn

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8 – 9 am

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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 – 9:30 am

(BLACK) DYKE DECK (Workshop)

Auditorium 103 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Ethical Digitization Considerations: Preserving Lesbian Culture (Workshop)

Medium 110 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Let’s Process, a Lesbian Procession! (Workshop)

Medium 202 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Fat Lesbians: Intersectional Identities, Positive Representations, and Naked Photos (Workshop)

Medium 203 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Re-membering: The Lesbian Poetic Body (Workshop)

Free
LGBTQ+

Medium 214 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

The Sound Revolution: Sonic Practices for Lesbian Liberation Across Space and Time (Workshop)

Medium 302 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Empowering Lesbian Art & Artists (Workshop)

Medium 310 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Radical Imagination as Resistance: Dreaming the Future to Transform the Present (Workshop)

Small 201a LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Decentering Men and Redefining Lesbianism (Workshop)

Small 304 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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8 – 9:30 am

Radical Resonance: Queer Embodiment, Co-regulation, and Femifesto Writing (Workshop)

Small 305 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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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 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

9 am – 3 pm

Washington Square Park Dog Halloween

Free

Washington Square ParkWest Village

9 am – 1 pm

SBH Health System Trunk or Treat

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

SBH Health System – Sycamore GroveBronx

9 am – 1 pm

SBH Health Halloween Trunk or Treat

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Festivals
Free

SBH Health System – Sycamore GroveBronx

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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

10 am – 8 pm

FIL Ciudad de Nueva York (FILNYC)

Free

Gerald W. Lynch TheaterMidtown

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10 – 11 am

Nature Journaling

Free

Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn

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10 – 11:15 am

The Great Disappearing Act: Germans in New York City

Virtual via ZoomManhattan

Kids Clinics AT

10 am – noon

FREE Kids Pickleball Clinics presented by Raising Cane’s

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free
Sports

CityPickle Atlantic TerminalBrooklyn

10 am – 8 pm

Staten Island Spook-tacular Craft and Vendor Market

Ages: All
Family
Free

Empire OutletsSaint George

10 am – 3 pm

Harlem Grown Halloween Festival

134th Street FarmHarlem

FAD Market at The Invisible Dog

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Cobble Hill]

St. Paul ChurchBrooklyn

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