Drop-In Chess
Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning — plus it’s fun! For ages 5 and up.
Free
Events
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Events
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Best of All Worlds
Launch of Kenneth Oppel's instant YA classic: Best of All Worlds. Kenneth (the Silverwings Trilogy) will be joined in conversation by the brilliant David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing; Every Day) […]
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Ceylon Sapphires
Book reading and signing by Mailan Doquang, author of Ceylon Sapphires.
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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower
Thirty years ago a New Yorker article, “The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis,” recounted the little-known drama of the threatened collapse of a Manhattan skyscraper. In a new book, The Great Miscalculation: The […]
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Preservation of Record
Authors Lee Hawkins (I Am Nobody’s Slave) and Maud Newton (Ancestor Trouble) explore the complexities of family history and the intergenerational legacies we carry. In conversation, they discuss race, inheritance, […]
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The Kooks
The All Over the World tour.
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Figure al Fresco
This BPC park offers a unique setting to observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/ […]
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Bach at One
This afternoon, hear Musikalische Exequien, op. 7, by the great German composer Heinrich Schütz, a funeral piece that parallels the traditional Latin Requiem in expressing mortality, comfort, and hope. This […]
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Downtown Beats Chorus
Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events […]
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Elements of Nature Drawing
Join our community of artists of all skill levels as we are inspired by our surroundings to create with drawing materials, pastels and watercolors. Embolden your artwork amidst the flower-filled […]
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Battery Dance: The Frozen Zone
Battery Dance, a lower Manhattan–based dance company, held a public dance festival at the World Trade Center Plaza every year between 1982 and 2001. Just two weeks after the 9/11 […]
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A Song for Katy Shayne
Book reading and signing by Jim Fusilli, author of A Song for Katy Shayne.