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New York — week of Thursday, October 29, 2026

The Marathon comes up First Avenue on Sunday, Nov 1, and watching costs nothing. Clocks fall back that morning, and the Botanical Garden's Día de los Muertos parade follows at 2.

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Friday, Oct 30

  • Union Square Greenmarket, Union Square her thing ✓ Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat, 8 AM–6 PM · Free entry The city's largest farmers market, open four days a week year-round on the north and west sides of the square.via GrowNYC
  • Bank of America Winter Village, Bryant Park her thing ✓ Daily; rink 8 AM–10 PM, shops weekdays 11–8, weekends 10–8 · Free skating; rentals extra The free-admission rink and about 180 market vendors, open for the season since Oct 28. The rink runs through Feb 28.via Time Out
  • Hereafter Hours, Green-Wood Cemetery her thing ✓ Fri Oct 30, 8 PM and 8:30 PM tours · $45; $36 members A night walking tour that ends inside the Catacombs. Costumes and masks are not permitted; bring a flashlight.via Green-Wood via Eventbrite
  • Rory's Rooftop Halloween Party, Meatpacking her thing ✓ Fri Oct 30 and Sat Oct 31, 9 PM–2 AM · Ticketed; sales final A two-night Halloween party on the roof at 446 West 14th Street. 21 and over.via Resident Advisor
  • The Haunted Speakeasy, Newsroom, Long Island City her thing ✓ Fri Oct 30, 10 PM–4 AM · $10 A speakeasy-themed Halloween party at 11-01 43rd Avenue, with a vodka open bar from 10 to 11 PM.via Resident Advisor

Saturday, Oct 31

  • Halloween Bird Tweets walk, Green-Wood Cemetery her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31, 8 AM–noon · Free A morning birding walk through the cemetery, meeting at the main entrance, 25th Street and Fifth Avenue. No registration.via Brooklyn Bird Club
  • 82nd Street Greenmarket, Upper East Side her thing ✓ Saturdays, 9 AM–2:30 PM · Free entry The Saturday farmers market on East 82nd Street, run by GrowNYC.via GrowNYC
  • Smorgasburg Williamsburg, Marsha P. Johnson State Park her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31, 11 AM–6 PM · Free entry; vendors price their own food The Saturday outdoor food market at 90 Kent Avenue, in a season that runs through October.via Smorgasburg
  • Brooklyn Flea, Dumbo Archway her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31 and Sun Nov 1; weekends · Free to browse Vintage, antiques and makers' stalls under the Manhattan Bridge at 80 Pearl Street.via Brooklyn Flea
  • Wicked sing-along screening, Symphony Space her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31, 2 PM · $15–18 A Halloween sing-along screening of Wicked in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway.via Symphony Space
  • Queens Night Market Halloween finale, Flushing Meadows Corona Park her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31, 4 PM–midnight · Free entry The fall season's last night of the open-air food market behind the New York Hall of Science, with costume competitions.via QNS
  • 53rd Village Halloween Parade, Sixth Avenue her thing ✓ Sat Oct 31, 7 PM · Free to watch and to march in costume This year's theme is Body & Soul, up Sixth Avenue from Canal Street to about 15th. Costumed marchers line up at Sixth and Canal from 6:30. Rain or shine.via Village Halloween Parade
  • Día de los Muertos, New York Botanical Garden her thing ✓ Through Sun Nov 1; parade Sun Nov 1, 2 PM · Included with All-Garden admission The garden's first Día de los Muertos: a community ofrenda, floral displays and large calaveras, ending with a puppet parade.via New York Botanical Garden
  • Free tours, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue her thing ✓ Mon–Sat, 11 AM and 2 PM · Free One-hour guided tours of the main library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The building is closed Sundays.via New York Public Library

Sunday, Nov 1

  • TCS New York City Marathon, five boroughs her thing ✓ Sun Nov 1, morning into afternoon · Free to watch The race runs from Staten Island to Central Park. No spectators on the bridges; First Avenue can be crossed only at marked points.via NYRR

Wednesday, Nov 4

Friday, Nov 6

  • New York Comedy Festival, five boroughs her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6–Sun Nov 15 · Ticketed More than 200 comedians across 100-plus shows, at Town Hall, the Beacon, Kings Theatre, the Bell House and others.via ABC7
  • Ziwe, The Town Hall her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6, 7 PM · Ticketed A New York Comedy Festival show at 123 West 43rd Street.via I LOVE NY
  • Ms. Pat, The Venue on Music Row, Hard Rock Hotel her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6 and Sat Nov 7, 7 PM and 9:45 PM · Ticketed New York Comedy Festival shows at 159 West 48th Street, Times Square.via I LOVE NY

Saturday, Nov 7

  • Tim Dillon, Beacon Theatre her thing ✓ Sat Nov 7, 7 PM · Ticketed A New York Comedy Festival headliner at 2124 Broadway, Upper West Side.via I LOVE NY
  • Joanne McNally: Pinotphile, The Town Hall her thing ✓ Sat Nov 7, 7 PM · Ticketed The Irish comedian's tour show, a New York Comedy Festival date at 123 West 43rd Street.via I LOVE NY

Sunday, Nov 8

Planned dates

Fri Oct 30: the Whitney's free Friday night, then Rory's Rooftop Halloween party

Free galleries until you're ready, then a costume party on a roof five minutes up the block

Cost: $0 at the Whitney; party tickets sold through Resident Advisor

her kind of night ✓ Manhattan

  1. Friday Oct 30, 7:00 PM Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street — Free 5 to 10 PM on Fridays; reserve a timed ticket on the museum's site. Give it an hour and a half, then walk north.
  2. 9:00 PM Rory's Rooftop Halloween Party, 446 West 14th Street — About 5 minutes on foot from Gansevoort to 14th between Ninth and Tenth. 9 PM to 2 AM, 21 and over, costumes encouraged, sales final. It runs Saturday too.

Weather backup: The Village Halloween Parade is the next night, 7 PM on Sixth Avenue, free (in the listings).

Sat Nov 7: a free tour of the main library on Fifth Avenue, then Joanne McNally at Town Hall

An hour inside the Schwarzman Building, then a 7 PM comedy festival show a few blocks west

Cost: $0 for the tour; show tickets sold through nycomedyfestival.com

her kind of night ✓ Manhattan

  1. Saturday Nov 7, 2:00 PM Free tour, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street — Free one-hour tours at 11 AM and 2 PM, Monday through Saturday. The building is closed Sundays, so Saturday is the last chance this week.
  2. 7:00 PM Joanne McNally: Pinotphile, The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street — About 7 minutes on foot from Fifth Avenue, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway. A New York Comedy Festival show; tickets through nycomedyfestival.com. Sunset is about 4:40.

Weather backup: Tim Dillon plays the Beacon Theatre the same night at 7, also part of the festival (in the listings).

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