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  • 2025 New York Jewish Book Festival

    Day-long event featuring talks, panels, and author signings, and themes of Jewish heritage, culture, and history, modern life and literature.

    $10
  • Concrete Central: Chicago’s Key Role in Concrete Engineering and Construction

    Historian of architecture, engineering, and the urban history of Chicago, Thomas Leslie, guest co-curator with Carol Willis for the Museum’s exhibition The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, will summarize the new avenues of research that grew from research on the exhibition. This in-person program traces the history of concrete skyscraper construction in Chicago, highlighting how the material […]

    Free
  • BPC Book Club

    Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today's book is James by Percival Everett

    Free
  • Lunch & Learn: The Menace of Prosperity

    Daniel Wortel-London will discuss his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: Economic Development and its Discontents in New York City, 1870–1981, which explores how generations of New Yorkers have struggled with the promises and perils of economic development. Spanning New York City’s post–Civil War boom to the 1970s fiscal crisis, Wortel-London will reveal how NYC’s […]

    Free
  • Mah Jongg & More

    Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up […]

    Free
  • The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon

    Chicago’s tallest skyscraper when it opened in 1921, the Wrigley Building could be called the Midwest’s Woolworth Building. The gleaming white terra-cotta tower at the head of Michigan Avenue marked […]

    Free
  • Zumba at Gotham Park

    Open to all—no experience needed, just come ready to dance and have fun.

    Free
  • Hotel Melikov

    Book reading and signing by Jonathan Payne, author of Hotel Melikov.

  • Holiday Chef Talk: Institute of Culinary Education

    Just in time for the fall holidays! Learn how to make a savory holiday appetizer from Lead Chef Samantha Landwehr from the Institute of Culinary Education. She’ll demonstrate how to […]

    Free
  • On the Calculation of Volume III

    Krithika Varagur, Rob Franklin, Sloane Crosley, and Zain Khalid in conversation about Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume III. On the publication day of the highly-anticipated third installment of […]

    $5 – $28
  • “Women of War” Book Talk

    From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi occupation and liberate Italy. Using […]

    $10
  • “The Director” Book Talk

    Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal). G.W. Pabst, one […]

    $10
  • Wayzgoose Holiday Kick Off

    Kick off the holiday season with an evening of creativity, community, light refreshments, and cheer at the Seaport Museum’s annual Wayzgoose—a 500-year-old printers’ tradition marking the change of seasons. This […]

    Free
  • The Empty Shell of War by Andrei Kureichik

    Reading of a new play, with music. A response to the policy of Holocaust denial pursued by Alexander Lukashenko’s dictatorial regime in Belarus, The Empty Shell of War follows the journey of a young Jewish girl from a Belarusian shtetl, through the horrors of World War II, to her life as a wife and mother […]

  • Mah Jongg & More

    Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.

    Free
  • Calligraphy, Music & Mandarin Meetup

    Experience performances featuring some of China’s most iconic instruments, try Chinese calligraphy guided by a master calligrapher (ink, paper, brushes are provided), and practice Mandarin with support from language instructors. Enjoy tea and light refreshments.

    $12
  • Garden Stewardship at Gotham Park

    Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!

    Free
  • Keith Michael’s The Nutc

    Winter Garden

    The beloved ballet returns to the Winter Garden! Experience three ticketed performances of The Nutcracker set to Tchaikovsky’s cherished score in Art Nouveau-style circa 1907 with innovative choreography by long-time New York Theatre Ballet choreographer, Keith Michael. Also November 22 at 7pm. Advanced registration is required to attend the performances.

    Free
  • The Big Red Thing Public Art Walking Tour

    WHAT: Mini tour of a mighty collection of modern art tailored to Lower Manhattan hosted by Reel New York City. WHAT TO EXPECT: 75 minutes in duration and includes stairs and some sidewalk slope (Total: 0.25mi/0.41 km) Begins: 140 Broadway (Between Liberty and Cedar Street) Ends: Zuccotti Park (Broadway between Liberty and Cedar Street) Directions: […]

    $29.00
  • Jazz Icons: Fred Hersch with special guest Miguel Zenón  

    Trinity Church

    A pivotal artist in shaping the sound of modern jazz piano, Fred Hersch has redefined the art form with boundary-pushing compositions. Nominated 17 times for Grammy awards, Hersch creates fearless and groundbreaking improvisations that have prompted The New York Times to describe him as “a master who plays it his way.” For this singular Jazz Icons […]

    Free
  • California

    Author John Freeman presents California, in conversation with Jennifer Egan.

    $5 – $30
  • The Radical Camera with Richard McBee

    In 1936, the Photo League was founded in New York City by a group of young idealistic photographers, mostly Jewish and, typical of the time, many with liberal to left sympathies. Their work encompassed modernist photography, social documentary, the Harlem Document, race relations and street photography until suppressed by the House Unamerican Activities Committee in […]

    $10