NYC Runs Go Nuts For Donuts 5K
NYCRun’s final Governors Island 5K race of 2025.
Events
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Events
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Governors Island
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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BPC Book Club
Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today's book is James by Percival Everett
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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.
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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 a move that opened the northward extension of the commercial concentration of the Loop. To celebrate the publication of the handsome new monograph The Wrigley […]
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Hotel Melikov
Book reading and signing by Jonathan Payne, author of Hotel Melikov.
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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 stretch and form mozzarella. You will be able to try a sample and get a few tips and tricks for making your own at home.
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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 Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume, four writers discuss their love for the Danish literary sensation and speculate on what might come next.
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“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 primary sources and brand new scholarship, historian Suzanne Cope illuminates the roles played by women – working as couriers, taking up arms as combattants, helping […]
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