Free & Cheap Things to Do in New York This Weekend (October 27, 28, 29, 2017)

Friday October 27, 2017
Saturday October 28, 2017
Sunday October 29, 2017

Looking for free and cheap things to do in New York City this weekend?  We have scoured the internet to find fun, interesting, artsy, tasty, active, educational and unique experiences that you can do this weekend in the city for free or cheap.

If you’re on a budget (or even if you’re not), check out the list below for ideas on what to do this weekend without breaking the bank. Whatever your interests – food, music, movies, theater, dance, comedy, classes, tours, art or games – there’s definitely something here for you!

Friday October 27, 2017

Gravesend Inn Haunted House | Theater

• City Tech (Brooklyn), 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM & 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM ($10)
• Produced by Theatreworks, City Tech’s resident theatrical troupe, with design, construction and operating support provided by students and faculty of the College’s nationally unique Entertainment Technology Department.
• Event Website

Museum of Modern Art | Museum/Art

• 11 W. 53rd St., 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Free!)
• Free admission to the MoMA courtesy of Uniqlo
• Recurring every Friday.
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Free Music Fridays | Music

• American Folk Art Museum, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (Free!)
• This week’s feature includes Rust Dust, Caves&Clouds, and Meaghan Burke.
• Recurs every Friday.
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“Casper” Screening | Film

• Leif Ericson Park (Brooklyn), 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: Casper, a kind young ghost, falls in love with Kat, the teen daughter of a paranormal expert. But their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.
• Event Website

“Poltergeist” Screening | Film

• Sunset Park (Brooklyn), 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: This classic supernatural horror focuses on a family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct the family’s younger daughter.
• Event Website

Day of the Dead Festivities | Fair/Festival

• Virginia Park (Bronx), 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Celebrate the Mexican tradition, Day of the Dead, creating paper flowers, face painting, and book binding while enjoying Mexican music. Mascara Viva (http://www.mascaraviva.com/)  will bring her Catrina and Monarch Butterfly to dance with us!
• Event Website

“Ghostbusters” Screening | Film

• Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center (Queens), 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: Unemployed parapsychologists devise a system for neutralizing ghosts when New York City comes under attack from supernatural demons.
• Event Website

Roller Disco Party | Dance Active

• House of Yes (Brooklyn), 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM ($10)
• Glide, ride, and fly! Studio 50H brings his Roller Wave skate party to the legendary House of Yes for an evening of roll bouncing, boozing, and boogying. Get your workout and your happy hour on at the same time.
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Haunted Lantern Tours | Tour

• Fort Trotten Park (Queens), 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Join the Urban Park Rangers on an outdoor, haunted tour of the historic Water Battery at Fort Totten Park.
• Recurs Saturday.
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“Boo! A Madea Halloween” Screening | Film

• Basil Behagen Playground (Bronx), 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: Trying to win the approval of her friends, 17-year-old Tiffany sneaks out of the house to go to a Halloween bash at a fraternity. The fun soon ends when police and the cranky, fast-talking Madea arrive to crash the party. Unhappy with this sudden turn of events, the vengeful collegians decide to scare Madea and her cronies with a series of pranks.
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Think Olio Turning the Soul: Humanities and the Hero’s Journey | Class

• Strand Bookstore (Manhattan), 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ($20, complimentary beer and wine)
• This week’s topic: discusses the work of Freud and Nietzsche to demonstrate the need for a different kind of humanities which is not merely materialistic. The conception of the hero plays a central role in Nietzsche and Freud’s construction of humanities. Within their writings we meet with two different aspects of the hero on a spiritual quest. Applying the hero’s journey to the teacher-student dynamic makes room for a fulfilling and transformative kind of education.
• Teacher: Vishwa Adluri teaches Philosophy and Religion at Hunter College.
• Event Website

Morgan Library & Museum | Museum/Art

• Madison Ave & 36th St., 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Free!)
• Free admission to the library and museum.
• Recurring every Friday.
• Event Website

WBO Haunted House | Tour

• Williamsbridge Oval (Bronx), 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Free!)
• Be prepared to be scared! Venture through our Haunted House – you are likely to run into zombies, ghosts, vampires, and spiders. Make sure you are ready to scream!
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Whitney Museum | Museum/Art

• 99 Gansevoort Street (Chelsea), 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Free!)
• Free/pay what you wish admission to the Whitney Museum.
• Recurring every Friday.
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Cosmic Castoff Presents: “Sock-Hop Seance” | Dance Music

• Q.E.D. (Astoria), 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM ($8)
• Transporting the audience back in time to 1962 for a High School Halloween Dance to solve an ages-old mystery. Attendees will be encouraged to dress in period attire (or any costume of their choice) and will spend the evening immersed in a hilarious, haunting, and downright strange evening of comedy, music and mind-bending storytelling.
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“Ghostly Intimations” Screening | Film

• Alice Austen Park (Staten Island), 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM (Free!)
• Get Spooked at Fort Wadsworth! Featuring presentations exploring the fringes of photography, Victorian art, and occult phenomena. Join for a screening and talk with the directors of Cropsey. A cocktail reception will be held at the Alice Austen House at 10pm.
• Event Website

Monotony | Comedy

• Caveat (Manhattan), 9:30 PM ($8 Advance, $10 Door)
• Monotony! is the only show inspired by the mundane and finding humor in the trivial. Writers, comedians, and storytellers will take their passion for dull, the ultraspecific and the tedious and turn it into captivating and hilarious presentations. Topics will range from the science behind urinal cakes, the history of the rubber duck, to a comparative analysis of sailing knots.
• Event Website

Tainted Love – 80s Dance Party | Dance Music

• The Bell House (Brooklyn), 11:00 PM (Free!)
• Dig deeper into the catalog of massive hits and overlooked misses from the late 70s through the early 90s – pivotal years in musical history that blurred the lines between Analog and Digital, Disco and Synthpop, Funk and Hip-Hop.
• Event Website

Karaoke | Music Fun & Games

• Union Hall (Brooklyn), Midnight – Late (Free!)
• Karaoke!
• Recurring every Friday night.
• Event Website

Saturday October 28, 2017

Winter Village Opening Day | Fun & Games Food Active

• Bryant Park, 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Free!)
• Opening Day! Come check out NYC’s only free admission ice skating rink, the Holiday Shops food and gift boutiques, and Danny Meyer’s rink side eatery Public Fare. The first 100 skaters on the ice this season will receive free skate rentals, hot chocolate from Public Fare, and a pair of red gloves from Bank of America.
• Event Website

Day of the Dead Celebration | Fair/Festival

• St. Mary’s Park (Bronx), 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• Celebrate the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead with live music, traditional dance and parade, Calaveras Literarias (poetry readings), community altars, art workshops, and much more. Bring a picture of the person you want to commemorate to be part of the altar.
• Event Website

Halloween Harvest Festival | Fun & Games Fair/Festival

• Socrates Sculpture Park (Brooklyn), 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Free!)
• Join us for spooky costume- and art-making with Socrates artists and Free Style Arts Association, fantastical face-painting with Agostino Arts, and add your mementos and relics to an ancestral community altar.
• Event Website

Poetry & Coffee | Art

• Q.E.D. (Astoria), 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Free!)
• Bring a poem that you feel is “of the moment.” Interpret the theme broadly. There is no wrong poem.  All are welcome. The only rule is that the poem cannot be your own work.
• RSVP in advance.
• Event Website

The Amazing Maize Maze & Maze By Moonlight | Active

• Queens Farm, 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM ($10)
• Find your way out of this three-acre corn labyrinth! The adventure begins with a “Stalk Talk” to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles, and making your way out of the maze.
• This weekend (and next), the maze stays open until moonlight. Recurs weekends through October.
• Event Website

Halloween Festival | Fair/Festival

• Fort Trotten Park (Queens), 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Free!)
• Highlights include live entertainment, inflatables, interactive games, a hay ride, a hay maze/pumpkin patch, costume contests, and free goodie bags!
• Event Website

A 19th Century Home in Mourning | Tour

• Merchant’s House Museum (Manhattan), 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM ($15)
• Step back in time to 1865, when family patriarch Seabury Tredwell died at home in his second floor bedroom. Poignant scenes of death and grief recreated in the House will explore mid-19th century mourning customs. Pay your last respects at his deathbed upstairs, or join the mourning in the double parlor, hung with black crepe and set for a mid-19th century funeral. And stage your own “postmortem” photograph in our 19th century coffin.
• Recurs through October 30.
• Event Website

Cider Week | Drink Fair/Festival

• Various Locations in Manhattan & Brooklyn, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• All things cider! With tastings, dinners, classes, education, and more.
• Through October 29.
• Event Website

Gravesend Inn Haunted House | Theater

• City Tech (Brooklyn), 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM & 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM ($10)
• Produced by Theatreworks, City Tech’s resident theatrical troupe, with design, construction and operating support provided by students and faculty of the College’s nationally unique Entertainment Technology Department.
• Event Website

Washington Square Park Tour | Tour

• Washington Square Park, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Free!)
• Learn about this iconic park past and present. Take a journey through history and learn about the park’s beginnings as a parade ground, the unmistakable monuments and the many people that have made the park the cultural hub that it is today.
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To The Upside Down: A Costume Bar Crawl | Fun & Games Drink

• Floyd and Union Hall (Brooklyn), 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM ($10 Advance, $15 Door)
• Find a great costume and join us at Floyd NY, Fawkner, and Union Hall for drinks, music, fun surprises and a costume contest with a cash prize! Arrive at Floyd NY between 1pm & 3pm to retrieve your punch card good for one beer or Bloody Mary at each bar until 6pm. Be sure to make your way over to Union Hall by 5:30pm for the costume contest with cash prizes!
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Halloween Party and “Hocus Pocus” Screening | Fair/Festival Film

• Athens Square (Queens), 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM; 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• A day of Halloween-themed fun! Activities include crafts,  games, music, giveaways, Transformation Face Painting with Agostino Arts, and more followed by a screening of Hocus Pocus in the evening.
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Arts, Culture & Fun: Conversation Series | Class

• H.H. Biddle House (Staten Island), 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Free!)
• Join Associate Photo Editor for TIME and Kids Magazine, Nataki Alexander-Hewling for an afternoon of visual and spoken conversation with a focus on documentary photography through innovative multimedia readings.  
• Event Website

Halloween BKLYN BOO! | Fair/Festival

• City Point (Brooklyn), 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Free!)
• With live DJs, a costume contest, trick or treats, a pumpkin patch, wicked nail art and fun for all ages.
• Event Website

Chelsea Flea Market | Fair/Festival

• West 25th Street, between 6th Ave & Broadway, 6:30 AM – 6:00 PM ($1 admission)
• Features up to 135 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, ephemera, decorative arts, vintage clothing, jewelry, and other types of antiques (items more than 100 years old), vintage items (including Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern items), and other desirable items from the past.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market | Fair/Festival

• West 39th Street, between 9th & 10th Ave, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Free to enter, goods for purchase)
• A place where collectors and top-notch hagglers including fashion hunters, designers, celebs, tourists, and residents shop for antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing, home decorations, furniture, ephemera, jewelry, and more.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Highline Tour: From Freight to Flowers | Tour

• The High Line, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM (Free!)
• A 75-minute-long tour led by High Line Docents, knowledgeable volunteer guides, will offer you an insider’s perspective on the park’s history, design, and landscape.
• Recurs weekly through October.
• Event Website

Food Book Fair – Seamus Mullen | Food Fair/Festival

• Union Square, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Free!)
• Food Book Fair brings Seamus Mullen author of Real Food Heals: Eat to Feel Younger and Stronger Every Day to the Union Square Greenmarket. Meet the author and purchase signed copies of his book.
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The Green Team | Active

• Brooklyn Bridge Park, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Free!)
• Volunteer with the Green Team: The Green Team provides essential horticultural care to the Park, including planting, mulching, and removing invasive plants. The Green Team is a wonderful opportunity to learn about gardening, enjoy nature, and make the Park look its best.
• Recurs Saturdays.
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Garden Highlights Walk | Tour 

• Wave Hill, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Free!)
• Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights.
• Event Website

Pumpkin Painting | Fun & Games Class

• Berry Street Garden (Brooklyn), 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Free!)
• It’s that time of year to use your creative chops and turn pumpkins into festive decorations. GreenThumb will have pumpkins and paint ready – please bring any other supplies and decorations to add to the beauty of your seasonal creation.
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Harvest Festival | Fair/Festival

• Pier 6 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Free!)
• Haunted marsh, pumpkin patch, arts and crafts, face painting, music, and games await at this year’s Harvest Festival!
• Event Website

Haunted High Line Halloween | Fun & Games Theater

• High Line, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Free!)
• Travel back in time and learn the history of the High Line. Get into character with artistic face painting, capture memories with our old-time photo booth, dance, go on a scavenger hunt with candy, and watch live performances.
• Event Website

Smorgasburg | Food Fair/Festival

• Williamsburg, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Free to enter, food and drink for purchase)
• 75-100 food and drink vendors.
• Event Website

Hester Street Fair – Closing Day | Food Fair/Festival

• Hester Street (Manhattan), 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• Celebrate closing day for the season.
• Event Website

Long Island City Flea & Food | Fair/Festival Food

• 5-25 46th Avenue, LIC, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Free to enter, goods for purchase)
• The market has over 80 carefully curated vendors that sell items such as internationally inspired food & drink, antiques, art, furniture, fashion, jewelry, arts & crafts and much more.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Brooklyn Brewery Tours | Tour Food

• Brooklyn Brewery, 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• Tour the brewery and learn how beer is made.
• Recurs every Saturday & Sunday.
• Event Website

Union Square Park Tour | Tour

• Union Square, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Free!)
• Explore the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood and learn about the people and events that shaped this vibrant historical community.
• Recurring every Saturday.
• Event Website

Create Your Own Holiday Wrapping Paper | Class

• Poe Visitor Center, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Free!)
• Adults will make their own, creative gift wrapping paper for the coming holidays. Participants will take inspiration from fall and winter seasons, as well as the holidays for each month.
• October: Fall, Poe, Halloween
• November: Fall, Thanksgiving
• December: Whimsical Winter Wonder, Christmas, and Hanukah
• Recurs Saturdays through December.
• Event Website

Bargemusic | Music

• Brooklyn Bridge Park, 4:00 PM (Free!)
• Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge for a one-hour, family-friendly concert by Bargemusic.
• Recurs Saturdays.
• Event Website

Queens Night Market | Fair/Festival Food

• New York Hall of Science, 6:00 PM – Midnight (Free to enter, food and drink for purchase)
• Open-air market that celebrates the rich cultural and ethnic diversity of Queens and NYC through affordable street food, art, and performances.
• Recurring every Saturday.
• Event Website

Trivia Night | Fun & Games

• One Star Bar (Manhattan), 7:00 PM (Free!)
• Hosted by Tony Hightower of TriviaNYC and John Chaneski of NPR’s “Ask Me Another“.
• Recurring every Saturday.
• TriviaNYC Website
• Venue Website

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Screening | Film

• McCarren Park (Brooklyn), 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a scientist who cross dresses. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler.
• Event Website

“Ghostbusters 2016” Screening | Film

• Bensonhurst Park (Brooklyn), 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: This wonderful comedy follows paranormal enthusiasts, a nuclear engineer, and subway worker Patty Tolan after a supernatural invasion of Manhattan. They band together to stop the otherworldly threat and save the city.
• Event Website

“Monsters, Inc.” Screening | Film

• Hansborough Recreation Center (Manhattan), 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: A little, unsuspecting girl befriends two monsters.
• Event Website

“Hocus Pocus” Screening | Film

• Virginia Park (Bronx), 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Free!)
• Synopsis: After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.
• Event Website

Haunted Lantern Tours | Tour

• Fort Trotten Park (Queens), 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (Free!)
• Join the Urban Park Rangers on an outdoor, haunted tour of the historic Water Battery at Fort Totten Park.
• Recurs Saturday.
• Event Website

An Evening with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) | Music

• Kupferberg Center for the Arts (Queens), 8:00 PM ($35+)
• Peter Yarrow’s music and songs resonate with a history that he and his musical compatriots, Mary and Paul, not only helped to write, but one that has changed and inspired millions to continue to keep on keepin’ on and hold firm to principle. His performances create an environment in which a sense of reassuring commonality is shared at a time when society is deeply concerned for its welfare and its future.
• Event Website

H.P. Lovecraft Festival | Theater

• 81 Christopher St. (Manhattan), 8:00 PM ($24)
• Lit by flickering candlelight, bathed in ghostly mist, the players hope to chill the marrow in your bones as they celebrate Halloween with the 9th annual festival teeming with very special denizens of its own, so rich in bloodcurdling variety that the heart thuds loudly, sweat breaks and the cringing mind searches shudderingly for the next ghastly manifestation in this terrifying feast of fiendish delights! All live, onstage complete with our fabulous cast, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects.
• Recurs through November 5.
• Event Website

The Rub: Halloween Edition | Dance Music

• The Bell House (Brooklyn), 10:00 PM ($15)
• Great dance music mixed well, affordable drinks, and real people; no dress code, no bottle service and no celebrity DJs.
• Event Website

Last Stop Laughs | Comedy

• Q.E.D. (Astoria), 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM (Free!)
• Late night stand up.
• Recurs every Saturday.
• Event Website

DJ Party | Music Dance

• Union Hall (Brooklyn), Midnight – Late (Free!)
• DJ Colleen Crumbcake (East Village Radio) spins a late night mix of heavy hitters starting at midnight to make your booty bounce! Hip Hop, Mainstream Dance Hits, Classic Soul, Old Skool, & Disco.
• Recurring most Saturday nights.
• Event Website

Sunday October 29, 2017

The Amazing Maize Maze | Active

• Queens Farm, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM ($10)
• Find your way out of this three-acre corn labyrinth! The adventure begins with a “Stalk Talk” to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles, and making your way out of the maze.
• Recurs weekends through October.
• Event Website

Chelsea Flea Market | Fair/Festival

• West 25th Street, between 6th Ave & Broadway, 6:30 AM – 6:00 PM ($1 admission)
• Features up to 135 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, ephemera, decorative arts, vintage clothing, jewelry, and other types of antiques (items more than 100 years old), vintage items (including Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern items), and other desirable items from the past.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market | Fair/Festival

• West 39th Street, between 9th & 10th Ave, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Free to enter, goods for purchase)
• A place where collectors and top-notch hagglers including fashion hunters, designers, celebs, tourists, and residents shop for antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing, home decorations, furniture, ephemera, jewelry, and more.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Grand Bazaar | Fair/Festival

• 77th St. & Columbus Ave., 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Free!)
• The largest curated weekly market on the Upper West Side: indoors & outdoors, local artist, designers, and antique/vintage dealers sell one-of-a-kind and limited edition art, antique watches, vintage collectibles and fashion, handmade jewelry and furniture.
• Recurring every Sunday.
• Event Website

Waterfront Walks | Tour

• Pier 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 11:00 AM (Free!)
• Learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, BBP’s sustainable design, and how the Park came to life!
• Event Website

Dog Halloween Costume Party | Fair/Festival

• Washington Square Park, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Free!)
• Join dozens of pups and their owners for a day of Halloween fun. Get your dog dressed in their best costume and head on over to the Large Dog Run. Prizes and treats will be awarded to the best costumes for dogs and owners.
• Event Website

Big City Fishing | Active Class

• Pier 25 (Tribeca), Pier 84 (Chelsea), 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Free!)
• Learn how to fish while engaging with trained environmental educators about river science topics. Rods, reels, and instruction provided.
• Event Website

Long Island City Flea & Food | Fair/Festival Food

• 5-25 46th Avenue, LIC, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Free to enter, goods for purchase)
• The market has over 80 carefully curated vendors that sell items such as internationally inspired food & drink, antiques, art, furniture, fashion, jewelry, arts & crafts and much more.
• Recurring weekly.
• Event Website

Board Game Meet Up | Fun & Games

• Q.E.D. (Astoria), 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Free!)
• Break out the board games and bring your friends to play anything you like. We’ve got lots of games and snacks in stock and beer & wine all day.
• Event Website

Community Rowing | Active

• Pier 40 Village Community Boathouse (Manhattan), 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• Community Rowing in traditional Whitehall gigs, captained by experienced New York Harbor coxswains. Community rowing is free and open to all; no experience or reservations necessary, and lifejackets will be provided.
• Event Website

Brooklyn Brewery Tours | Tour Food

• Brooklyn Brewery, 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM (Free!)
• Tour the brewery and learn how beer is made.
• Recurs every Saturday & Sunday.
• Event Website

St. Francis Men’s Soccer Game | Active

• Pier 5 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1:00 PM (Free!)
• The St. Francis College Men’s Soccer Team will call BBP home for the fifth year in a row. Last year, the Terriers were NEC regular season champions and NEC Tournament champions.
• Event Website

Garden Highlights Walk | Tour 

• Wave Hill, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Free!)
• Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for an hour-long tour of seasonal garden highlights.
• Event Website

Central Park Tour: Southern Welcome | Tour

• 5th Ave and 72nd Street, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Free!)
• Highlights include Grand Army Plaza, the pond, Gapstow Bridge, Wollman Rink, Chess & Checkers House, and the Dairy.
• Event Website

Inti-Illimani | Music

• Kupferberg Center for the Arts (Queens), 3:00 PM ($25)
• Inti-Illimani has transcended our idea of the musical ensemble and has become a cultural location, a liturgy expressing the essence of the Latin-American ethno-musical experience. For 50 years Inti-Illimani has performed world-wide to hundreds of thousands of fans, collaborated with folk legends, earned awards and honors for their activism and masterful musicianship, and produced one of the richest discographies in Latin-American recording history. Inti-Illimani’s premier album, Nueva Canción, or “new song,” spoke to their role in dreaming a new vision for Chile during the volatile socio-political landscape of South America during the 1960’s and 70’s.
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Annual King Major Behind the Scenes Tour | Tour

• King Manor, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ($25)
• Your one chance a year to see every inch of King Manor, from basement to attic. Executive Director of the King Manor Museum Nadezhda Allen leads this 90 minute, exclusive tour where you get to explore how the house, a designated New York City Individual and Interior Landmark, tells its history of three major phases of construction (c1750, c1790 and 1810) and still holds a few mysteries.
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Halloween Pumpkin Flotilla | Fun & Games

• Central park, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Free!)
• Enjoy pumpkin carving, Halloween crafts, spooky stories, a costume parade, and most of all the Conservancy’s signature Pumpkin Flotilla, which sets sail across the Harlem Meer at twilight!
• Event Website

Trivia Night | Fun & Games

• Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor Soha (by Columbia), 7:00 PM (Free!)
• Each week features an “On This Day In History” round, a rapid-fire “Name Threes” round, the best-curated audio round in the city, and tons of prizes, including books, theater tickets, & other prizes (many of them drinkable).
• Recurs every Sunday.
• TriviaNYC Website
• Venue Website

Schtick or Treat! | Comedy

• The Bell House (Brooklyn), 8:00 PM ($15)
• Performers Include: hosts Mark Normand and Matt Ruby, Jay Oakerson, Dan Soder, Chelsea Davidson, Kyle Ayers, DC Benny, Aaron Berg, Mike Drucker, Abbi Crutchfield, Jim Tews, Rob Haze, Robert Dean, Tyler Fischer, and a bunch more.
• Event Website

Jokes for Haiti | Comedy

• Union Hall (Brooklyn), 8:00 PM ($10)
• Comedians perform to raise money for hurricane relief in Haiti. All proceeds from the show go to Nova Hope For Haiti.
• Event Website

H.P. Lovecraft Festival | Theater

• 81 Christopher St. (Manhattan), 8:00 PM ($24)
• Lit by flickering candlelight, bathed in ghostly mist, the players hope to chill the marrow in your bones as they celebrate Halloween with the 9th annual festival teeming with very special denizens of its own, so rich in bloodcurdling variety that the heart thuds loudly, sweat breaks and the cringing mind searches shudderingly for the next ghastly manifestation in this terrifying feast of fiendish delights! All live, onstage complete with our fabulous cast, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects.
• Recurs through November 5.
• Event Website