June 01, 2006

November 2007 New York City calendar of events

Nov. 1, Thursday
"Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! -- The Musical" begins its holiday run on Broadway (opening night: Nov. 9; through Jan. 6)
"Cymbeline" begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (opening night: Dec. 2; through Jan. 6)
Opening night for Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata on Broadway (through Dec. 23)
Cirque Du Soleil’s “Wintuk” begins performances at the Theater at Madison Square Garden (through Jan 6)
Hamlet performed by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre on the antique Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo (through Nov. 25)
New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($16)
"Crime and Punishment" begins Off-Broadway previews (through Dec. 2)
Duran Duran at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre (through Nov. 12)
ING New York City Marathon Health and Fitness Expo at the Javits Convention Center (through Nov. 3)
New Literature From Europe Festival at 192 Books
Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow book signing at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center
Booktalk: Harlow Unger: “America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation” at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
Jonathan Lethem at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
New York Times Taste of T food event
Panel Discussion on “Day of the Dead: A Closer Look at the Traditions” at el Museo del Barrio
Christie’s Hospices de Beaune Pre-sale Tasting Masterclass at the St. Regis ($75)
Nov. 2, Friday
Sopranos cast members at Borders Books Time-Warner Center sign “Sopranos: The Complete Book”
First Fridays dj party at the Guggenheim Museum with Alex Barck of Jazzanova and Toby Cornish of Jujoto
First Friday events at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Normally off-limits to visitors tour: Waldorf-Astoria Tour and High Tea
Free Central Park bird walk at 9 a.m. Meet at 72nd street and Central Park West
Arcangel plays the United Palace
Folk rocker David Bromberg at Town Hall
Fall Cask Festival at The Brazen Head bar, Brooklyn (through Nov. 4)
Nov. 3, Saturday
2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials—Men’s Marathon on Fifth Avenue
Water: H2O = Life opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 26)
Gay Life Expo at the Javits Convention Center (and Nov. 4)
Disney's "The Little Mermaid" begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 6; open-ended run)
"Macbeth" at the MetOpera
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
Annie Lennox plays the United Palace
Whirling Dervishes of Turkey at Town Hall
First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum, with free art and entertainment from 5 to 11 p.m.
Festival of Puerto Rican Music at the Museum of the City of New York
WWOW Radio performance of "War of the Worlds" at Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers at 6 and 8 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Gramercy Park: Retaining Identity Amid Constant Change
Gotham Girls Roller Derby
Adults-only open-hearth cooking at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island (reservations required)
New York Water Taxi (departing from Yonkers) weekends-only Fall Foliage Cruise
Nov. 4, Sunday
ING New York City Marathon
Opening night on Broadway for Tom Stoppard’s new play "Rock 'N' Roll"
Chocolate Week in NYC (through Nov. 11)
The Far Side of Green-Wood walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Harvest Day at the Bronx Zoo
Martin Puryear exhibition opens at MoMA (through Jan. 14)
Knicks home opener vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves
Nintendo World’s monthly Battle at the Plaza contest (at Rockefeller Center)
(The Schomburg Center 's “Meet Me at the Theresa,” has been postponed)
Nov. 5, Monday
Mike Daisy at Joe’s Pub (and every Monday night in November)
Stephen Colbert book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center at 8 p.m.
A Conversation with George Soros & Frank Rich, hosted by Pete Hamill
Discussion: GONZO The Life of Hunter S. Thompson: An Oral Biography, at The Half King
Book launch and reception for Preserving New York at the Museum of the City of New York
Nov. 6, Tuesday
New York Comedy Festival (through Nov. 11)
"Queens Boulevard (The Musical)" begins previews at the Off-Broadway Signature Theater, where tickets are $20 (through Dec. 30)
A Tribute to Grace Paley at the PEN American Center
Finesse Mitchell at Comix
Book party at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum for “Biography of A Tenement”
Municipal Art Society-sponsored discussion: When the Big Get Bigger: New York's Universities and Their Neighborhoods
John Doe at Joe’s Pub
Chicks & Giggles, the best female comics in NYC, at Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with Jeni Aron (Urban Cowgirl;) Amanda Baramki (Broadway Comedy Club;) Selena Coppock (Laugh Lounge;) Hadiyah Epstein (BET’s Comic View;) Summer Kriegshauser (School Night at UCB;) Margot Leitman (Stripped Stories;) and Joanne Morton and her doll Tom 4 Prez (no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase)
Nov. 7, Wednesday
Panel discussion: Inside the 2008 Presidential Campaign at the new TimesCenter, with NY Times staffers Rick Berke, Patrick Healy and Adam Nagourney
AmEx presale starts for "39 Steps" on Broadway
“Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037” begins screening at the Film Forum (through Nov. 20)
Discussion with portrait artist Ray Kinstler at the Society of Illustrators
Opening reception for Picturing Black Power in Ghana and the U.S. 1957-2007 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Tom Brokaw book signing at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Padma Lakshmi book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center
Dr. Ruth and the Return of the Bintel Brief at the Museum of the City of New York
NYC underground comedy show Max, Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with John Knefel, Laura Mannino, Livia Scott, Craig Baldo, Sara Benincasa and Mindy Raf (no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase)
Nov. 8, Thursday
Opening night for "Young Frankenstein" on Broadway
New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($16)
Denis Leary and Friends at the Beacon Theatre
Louis CK at Town Hall
An Evening with the Writers of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" ComixDeborah Harry at Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
CinemaEast Film Festival (through Nov. 15)
Other Israel film festival (through Nov. 15)
Normally off-limits to visitors tour: Put the "Grand" Back into the Grand Concourse
Slow Food event: "The Hundred Mile Diet" with Author James MacKinnon at the The Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 E. 11th Street
Book signing for Ed Hamilton “Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca”
The International Verdi Baritone Competition (with pre-competition VIP reception with judges: Placido Domingo, Mignon Dunn, Ken Benson) at 3 West Club
Lou Dobbs book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center
Belt-buckle craftsman Clint Orms, master silversmith and engraver, will make an in-store appearance at the J. W. Cooper store in Time Warner Center from 6 to 9 p.m. (and Nov. 9 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
Nov. 9, Friday
Radio City Christmas Spectacular begins performances (through Dec. 30)
Opening night on Broadway for "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! -- The Musical" (through Jan. 6)
Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product opens at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 6)
Chocolate Show
at the Metropolitan Pavilion (through Nov. 11)
The Cult plays Hammerstein Ballroom
Damon Wayans at the Beacon Theatre
Artie Lange at Town Hall
24-hour The Longest Sketch Show Ever at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre from 10 p.m. (through Nov. 10)
Fats Domino book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center at 7 p.m.
2007 International Architectural Competition at the Museum of the City of New York
African American Women in Cinema 10th Annual Film Festival (through Nov. 11)
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum, reservations required (and Nov. 10 and 16)
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History (through Nov. 11)
Circle Line Downtown’s Karaoke Cruise on board the Zephyr, from the South Street Seaport’s Pier 16 at 8 p.m. (returns dockside at 11:30 p.m.)
Nov. 10, Saturday
Walking tour: Manhattan Bridge to the Williamsburg Bridge led by urban historian John Tauranac
Called by the Bell: A Rare Opportunity to View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum
Bay Ridge North walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
NY Audubon’s: Raptor Trust and Great Swamp tour
Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights at the Queens Library at Jackson Heights from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Blueprint of a Lady: The Once & Future Life of Billie Holiday, featuring Evidence/A Dance Company with Nnenna Freelon at the Apollo Theater
DL Hughley Unapologetic at Town Hall
2nd Annual Latin American Cultural Week (through Nov. 21)
Bill Maher at the Beacon Theatre
New York Water Taxi (departing from Yonkers) weekends-only Fall Foliage Cruise
The Pride of New York Harvest Fest in Albany, NY (and Nov. 11)
Nov. 11, Sunday
Rapper's Row Queens Bridge & Hollis Hip Hop Tour
In Commemoration of the Battle of Fort Washington, members of the Brigade of the American Revolution will set up camp near Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard
Called by the Bell: A Rare Opportunity to View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum
Fall Foliage Cruise departs South Street Seaport at 11 a.m. and heads up to the Hudson River Valley onboard Circle Line Downtown’s Zephyr. (with complimentary wine tasting from Long Island winery, Palmer Vineyards)

Nov. 12, Monday (Veterans Day)
Walk It Out Harlem Hip Hop Walking Tour
Book talk at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum on How The "other" Other Half Lived: Edith Wharton's New York
Nov. 13, Tuesday
Walking tour: Manhattan Bridge to the Williamsburg Bridge led by urban historian John Tauranac at 2 p.m.
Screening of the documentary-in-progress:The Bungalows of Rockaway at the Museum of the City of New York
Gimmie Shelter 3rd annual charity rock concert to benefit local animal rescue groups
Van Halen at Madison Square Garden
Vivica A. Fox stars in “Whatever She Wants” at the Beacon Theatre (through Nov. 18)
Chicks & Giggles, the best female comics in NYC, at Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with Margaret Dodge (Manson Family Singers;) Negin Farsad (Laughing Liberally at Town Hall;) Lang Fisher (The Onion;) Poppi Kramer (Winner of The BIGGEST Loser;) Jacqueline Novak (Invite Them Up;) and Sara Schaefer (Video Gaga at UCB) -- no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase
Nov. 14, Wednesday
Opening night on Broadway for “The Farnsworth Invention”
Charles Darwin-themed play “Trumpery” begins previews at the Atlantic Theatre (through Dec. 30)
"Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection" opens at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through Jan. 6)
New Czech Films series at BAM (through Nov. 18)
"New York Calling" panel discussion at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Science Fiction Illustration panel at the Society of Illustrators
Five Dutch Days (through Nov. 18)
Free walking tour of Dutch New Amsterdam (reservations required)
Five Dutch Days celebrated at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island (through Nov. 18)
Symposium: How the Jews Changed Broadway and Invented Hollywood at the Museum of the City of New York
The Rejection Show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Fall Out Boy at Madison Square Garden
NYC underground comedy show Max, Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with Jess Wood, Michelle Buteau, Margot Leitman, Charlie Gaeta and Rob Cantrell (no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase)
Nov. 15, Thursday
Illustrations and prints of John Sloan's New York opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 24)
The Ventures play BB King Blues Club
Lecture: City of Gods: Religious Pluralism in Flushing, Queens at the Museum of the City of New York
Nordic Shorts: New Short Films from Finland & Sweden screens at the Scandinavia House
Extreme Sparring! an evening of boxing performances at el Museo del Barrio
Livia Scott’s solo show "Goodnight, O.J." at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
30th Annual White Castle Empire State
Golden Arm Tournament of Champions starts at 12:30 p.m. at the Port Authority Bus Terminal’s North Wing/Main Concourse at 625 8th Ave.
Last day of the season to visit Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY
Nov. 16, Friday
Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights (through Jan. 6)
Yo La Tenga plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Don McLean at Town Hall
The 26th Peter Stuyvesant Ball
Nov. 17, Saturday
Gotham Girls Roller Derby championships: Queens vs. Bronx
One-man show: Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart at the Museum of the City of New York at 3 p.m.
Cellar-to-Attic House Tour of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
Hidden Tribeca walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Tickets for Broadway’s "Sunday in the Park with George" go on sale to the general public
Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Dutch Tavern Life in the 17th Century
Bringing 17th Century New Amsterdam to Life lecture on “how new lines of evidence and technologies are beginning to help reconstruct 1650 Dutch Manhattan’s buried landscape as accessible 3D realities.”
Free lecture: The Dutch Bronx
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Battery Park City: A New Neighborhood Rises
Ani DiFranco at Town Hall (and Nov. 18)
Stevie Wonder at Madison Square Garden
Donald Trump, George Foreman and Tony Robbins at the Learning Annex (and Nov. 18)
Nov. 18, Sunday
Transit Museum tour of the abandoned Old City Hall subway station
Written in Stone: Bushwick: Up from Flames walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
NY Audubon’s Snow Geese and Tundra Swans of Brigantine
Dane Cook at Madison Square Garden
New Amsterdames: Family Performance at the Museum of the City of New York
Disappearing Dutch Brooklyn – Where Have All the Houses Gone? at the Lefferts Historic House
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery Walking Tour
Greenwich Village Orchestra plays “Spiritual” at Washington Irving Auditorium

Nov. 19, Monday
Grand Central Holiday Gift Fair opens for the season (through Dec. 28)
The Swell Season plays the Beacon Theater
Bright Eyes at Radio City Music Hall
4th ANNUAL BROADWAY UNPLUGGED at Town Hall
Nov. 20, Tuesday
The World in a City: Panel Discussion and Book Signing at the Museum of the City of New York with Joseph Berger, Gay Talese, Madhulika Khandelwal, and Dr. Ramona Hernandez
Lecture: Arthur Piccolo: “The History of Bowling Green” at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 1:30 p.m.
Normally off-limits to visitors tour of Gracie Mansion Tea Tour
Tribute to Ingmar Bergman film series at BAM (And Nov. 21)
Nov. 21, Wednesday
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now opens at MoMA (through July 28)
Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Beacon Theatre
ASL in the Raw at Comix – “breaking ground for the Deaf community”
“YIDDISH THEATER: A Love Story” begins screening at the Pioneer Theater (through Nov. 28)
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions opens at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
Nov. 22, Thursday (Thanksgiving)
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thanksgiving Day restaurant menus for NYC
A Muppet Thanksgiving film series screening at BAM (through Nov. 25)
Ice Skating Opens for the Season at Brooklyn’s Wollman Rink, Prospect Park
Revolutionary Era Walking Tour from Patriot Tours, Inc.
Nov. 23, Friday
Haunted Tours at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Big Onion’s Annual Post-Thanksgiving Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 13)
Tickets go on sale to the general public for "39 Steps" on Broadway
Thanksgiving Weekend at Van Cortlandt Manor, WASHINGTON IRVING'S SUNNYSIDE (through Nov. 25)
Nov. 24, Saturday
Breakfat with Santa at Rockefeller Center (reservations required)
A Hip Hop Look At New York Harlem & The Boogie Down Bronx
Alice Austen House Holiday Fair, in a Victorian cottage overlooking New York Harbor on Staten Island
Live radio Broadcast of "A Prarie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor at Town Hall (and Nov. 30)
Nov. 25, Sunday
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, opens to the public (one day a month only) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – last time for the season
Free tour of the King Manor Museum at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: LOMEX Remembered
BRIAN CULBERTSON A SOULFUL CHRISTMAS at Town Hall
Breakfat with Santa at Rockefeller Center (reservations required)
Holiday Mercato at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Last free tour of the season of New York City`s First Control Tower at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn

Nov. 26, Monday
Lincoln Square Winter’s Eve holiday festival featuring free entertainment, family fun, food tastings. Tree lighting at 6 p.m.
Nov. 27, Tuesday
Truth and the Iraq War: Frank Rich Converses with Television Journalists at the Paley Center
Discussion: Jim Bouton and Marvin Miller: Players, Salaries, and the Baseball Business at the Museum of the City of New York
Municipal Art Society-sponsored discussion: The Oversuccessful City, Part 1: Developers' Realities
Nov. 28, Wednesday
Tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center from 7 to 9 p.m.
Modernism and the Public Realm: Planning and building in New York at the Museum of the City of New York with Hilary Ballon, Nathan Glazer, Kent Barwick, and Fred Siegel
Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren) at with Max von Sydow screens at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Projects 86: Gert & Uwe Tobias opens at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
Nov. 29, Thursday
New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($16) - Gil Shaham plays Dvorák
Long Black Block: Theater Performance at the Museum of the City of New York, described as “a dramatic reading that captures the challenges of an elderly black brownstone owner who rents out rooms in her run-down Harlem building to make ends meet.”
Livia Scott’s solo show "Goodnight, O.J." at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Silent auction and wine tasting at King Manor Museum
Nov. 30, Friday
Andrew Bird at the Beacon Theatre
NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, Clark Terry, Tooties Heath, Earl May, Benny Powell, and vocalist Denise Thime at Flushing Town Hall
Nov. 7, Wednesday
Panel discussion: Inside the 2008 Presidential Campaign at the new TimesCenter, with NY Times staffers Rick Berke, Patrick Healy and Adam Nagourney
AmEx presale starts for "39 Steps" on Broadway
“Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037” begins screening at the Film Forum (through Nov. 20)
Discussion with portrait artist Ray Kinstler at the Society of Illustrators
Free Grizzly Bear concert at 7 p.m. the Union Square Virgin Megastore
Opening reception for Picturing Black Power in Ghana and the U.S. 1957-2007 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Tom Brokaw book signing at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Padma Lakshmi book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center
Dr. Ruth and the Return of the Bintel Brief at the Museum of the City of New York
NYC underground comedy show Max, Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with John Knefel, Laura Mannino, Livia Scott, Craig Baldo, Sara Benincasa and Mindy Raf (no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase)
Nov. 8, Thursday
Opening night for "Young Frankenstein" on Broadway
New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($16)
Denis Leary and Friends at the Beacon Theatre
Louis CK at Town Hall
An Evening with the Writers of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" Comix
Contemporary Art goes on display at Phillips de Pury & Co. in advance of the Nov. 15 and 16 auction.
Deborah Harry at Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Queens International Film Festival (through Nov. 11)
CinemaEast Film Festival (through Nov. 15)
Other Israel film festival (through Nov. 15)
Canstruction opens at the New York Design Center (through Nov. 21)
Normally off-limits to visitors tour: Put the "Grand" Back into the Grand Concourse
Slow Food event: "The Hundred Mile Diet" with Author James MacKinnon at The Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 E. 11th Street
Book signing for Ed Hamilton “Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca”
Lou Dobbs book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center
Belt-buckle craftsman Clint Orms, master silversmith and engraver, will make an in-store appearance at the J. W. Cooper store in Time Warner Center from 6 to 9 p.m. (and Nov. 9 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
Nov. 9, Friday
Radio City Christmas Spectacular begins performances (through Dec. 30)
Opening night on Broadway for "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! -- The Musical" (through Jan. 6)
Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product opens at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 6)
Chocolate Show
at the Metropolitan Pavilion (through Nov. 11)
Free lecture: The Trials and Tribulations of "Typhoid Mary" at 7 p.m. at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, (3 Clarkson Street)
Williamsburg art galleries stay open late – until 9 p.m. for Every Second Fridays
Rare & Important Travel Posters go on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the Nov. 12 auction
The Cult plays Hammerstein Ballroom
Damon Wayans at the Beacon Theatre
Artie Lange at Town Hall
24-hour The Longest Sketch Show Ever at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre from 10 p.m. (through Nov. 10)
Fats Domino book signing at Borders Books Time-Warner Center at 7 p.m.
2007 International Architectural Competition at the Museum of the City of New York
African American Women in Cinema 10th Annual Film Festival (through Nov. 11)
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum, reservations required (and Nov. 10 and 16)
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History (through Nov. 11)
Circle Line Downtown’s Karaoke Cruise on board the Zephyr, from the South Street Seaport’s Pier 16 at 8 p.m. (returns dockside at 11:30 p.m.)
Nov. 10, Saturday
Strike on Broadway expected to close all shows except eight. The exempt shows are Cymbeline, Mary Poppins, The Ritz, Young Frankenstein, Xanadu, Pygmalion, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Mauritius
2nd Annual Latin American Cultural Week (through Nov. 21)
Chocolate Show
at the Metropolitan Pavilion (through Nov. 11)
24-hour The Longest Sketch Show Ever at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre from 10 p.m. (through 10 p.m. tonight)
Walking tour: Manhattan Bridge to the Williamsburg Bridge led by urban historian John Tauranac
Called by the Bell: A Rare Opportunity to View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum
Bay Ridge North walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
NY Audubon’s: Raptor Trust and Great Swamp tour
Amateur Astronomers Association hosts its annual Urban Starfest! in Central Park at 6:30 p.m.
Free Staten Island hike: Park to Park: High Rock to Heyerdahl Hill
Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights at the Queens Library at Jackson Heights from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Blueprint of a Lady: The Once & Future Life of Billie Holiday, featuring Evidence/A Dance Company with Nnenna Freelon at the Apollo Theater
DL Hughley Unapologetic at Town Hall
Bill Maher at the Beacon Theatre
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum, reservations required
Walkin’ NY’s Discover Central Park walking tour at 1 p.m.
New York Water Taxi (departing from Yonkers) weekends-only Fall Foliage Cruise
The Pride of New York Harvest Fest in Albany, NY (and Nov. 11)
Nov. 11, Sunday
Rapper's Row Queens Bridge & Hollis Hip Hop Tour
In Commemoration of the Battle of Fort Washington, members of the Brigade of the American Revolution will set up camp near Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard
Called by the Bell: A Rare Opportunity to View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum
Chocolate Show
at the Metropolitan Pavilion
Fall Foliage Cruise departs South Street Seaport at 11 a.m. and heads up to the Hudson River Valley onboard Circle Line Downtown’s Zephyr. (with complimentary wine tasting from Long Island winery, Palmer Vineyards)
Nov. 12, Monday (Veterans Day)
Walk It Out Harlem Hip Hop Walking Tour
Book talk at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum on How The "other" Other Half Lived: Edith Wharton's New York
Book signing and reading at 7 p.m. for Ed Hamilton “Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca” at the Half King
The Winemakers Dinner Series at the ”21” Club
Book talk: “Nicole Marwell - Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City” at Book Culture on 110th (formerly Labryinth)
Nov. 13, Tuesday
Chita Rivera at Feinstein’s at Loew’s Regency (through Nov. 24)
Walking tour: Manhattan Bridge to the Williamsburg Bridge led by urban historian John Tauranac at 2 p.m.
Screening of the documentary-in-progress:The Bungalows of Rockaway at the Museum of the City of New York
Gimmie Shelter 3rd annual charity rock concert to benefit local animal rescue groups
Van Halen at Madison Square Garden
Vivica Fox stars in “Whatever She Wants” at the Beacon Theatre (through Nov. 18)
Contemporary Chinese art auction at Doyle New York
Chicks & Giggles, the best female comics in NYC, at Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with Margaret Dodge (Manson Family Singers;) Negin Farsad (Laughing Liberally at Town Hall;) Lang Fisher (The Onion;) Poppi Kramer (Winner of The Biggest Loser;) Jacqueline Novak (Invite Them Up;) and Sara Schaefer (Video Gaga at UCB) -- no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase
Nov. 14, Wednesday
Five Dutch Days (through Nov. 18)
Charles Darwin-themed play “Trumpery” begins previews at the Atlantic Theatre (through Dec. 30)
"Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection" opens at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through Jan. 6)
"Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007" exhibition opens at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through March 9)
New Czech Films series at BAM (through Nov. 18)
Free Brooklyn Heights History Program
"New York Calling" panel discussion at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Science Fiction Illustration panel at the Society of Illustrators
Free walking tour of Dutch New Amsterdam (reservations required)
Five Dutch Days celebrated at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island (through Nov. 18)
Symposium: How the Jews Changed Broadway and Invented Hollywood at the Museum of the City of New York
The Rejection Show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Fall Out Boy at Madison Square Garden
NYC underground comedy show Max, Ochi’s Lounge at Comix with Jess Wood, Michelle Buteau, Margot Leitman, Charlie Gaeta and Rob Cantrell (no cover charge, but a one item minimum purchase)
Nov. 15, Thursday
Illustrations and prints of John Sloan's New York opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 24)
The Ventures play BB King Blues Club
Lecture: City of Gods: Religious Pluralism in Flushing, Queens at the Museum of the City of New York
Free lecture: Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China by Melissa Chiu at Doyle New York
Trip Out screening in Dumbo
Nordic Shorts: New Short Films from Finland & Sweden screens at the Scandinavia House
Extreme Sparring! an evening of boxing performances at el Museo del Barrio
Livia Scott’s solo show "Goodnight, O.J." at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
30th Annual White Castle Empire State Golden Arm Tournament of Champions at the Port Authority Bus Terminal’s North Wing/Main Concourse
Last day of the season to visit Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY
Nov. 16, Friday
Gridlock alert day for holiday traffic in NYC
Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights (through Jan. 6)
Wired Store opens for the holiday season in SoHo (through Dec. 30)
Tickets go on sale for ”The Graving Dock” book party on Nov. 27 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Yo La Tenga plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Don McLean at Town Hall
Gloria Gaynor Autograph Signing at J&R at 12:30 p.m.; and Rob Halford Autograph Signing at the same place at 5:30 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum, reservations required
The 26th Peter Stuyvesant Ball
Nov. 17, Saturday
Dining in the District mini-restaurnt week in the Theater District, with 15 percent off lunch and dinner at participating restaurants (through Nov. 25, excluding Thanksgiving)
Writers’ strike edition of "Saturday Night Live" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Lizz Winstead creator of "The Daily Show" at Comix
Gotham Girls Roller Derby championships: Queens vs. Bronx
One-man show: Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart at the Museum of the City of New York at 3 p.m.
Cellar-to-Attic House Tour of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
Hidden Tribeca walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Billion Dollar Babes designer shopping event at the Altman Building (through Nov. 18)
Tickets for Broadway’s "Sunday in the Park with George" go on sale to the general public
Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Dutch Tavern Life in the 17th Century
Bringing 17th Century New Amsterdam to Life lecture on “how new lines of evidence and technologies are beginning to help reconstruct 1650 Dutch Manhattan’s buried landscape as accessible 3D realities.”
Free lecture: The Dutch Bronx
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Battery Park City: A New Neighborhood Rises
Every-Saturday “vertical tour” of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Living History Days att the New-York Historical Society with revolutionary heroes and re-enactment troops
The Artful Home Show at the Puck Building (through Nov. 18)
Ani DiFranco at Town Hall (and Nov. 18)
Stevie Wonder at Madison Square Garden
Donald Trump, George Foreman and Tony Robbins at the Learning Annex (and Nov. 18)
Nov. 18, Sunday
Transit Museum tour of the abandoned Old City Hall subway station
Special tour of the Cathedral of St, John the Divine, Diversity United: Spotlight on the Chapels of Tongues
Written in Stone: Bushwick: Up from Flames walking tour with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Manhattanville: A Neighborhood in Flux
NY Audubon’s Snow Geese and Tundra Swans of Brigantine
Dane Cook at Madison Square Garden
New Amsterdames: Family Performance at the Museum of the City of New York
Disappearing Dutch Brooklyn – Where Have All the Houses Gone? at the Lefferts Historic House
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery Walking Tour
Book talk and walk on Unexpected New York at 1 p.m. at Green-Wood Cemetery
Crane Street Open Studios in Long Island City
Greenwich Village Orchestra plays “Spiritual” at Washington Irving Auditorium
Big Apple Comic Book, Art, Toy & Sci-Fi Expo
Nov. 19, Monday
Free 7 a.m. concert at Rockefeller Center by Faith Hill for the “Today” show
Writers’ strike edition of "30 Rock" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Grand Central Holiday Gift Fair opens for the season (through Dec. 28)
The Swell Season plays the Beacon Theater
Bright Eyes at Radio City Music Hall
4th Annual Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall
"Yellow Face" begins performances at the Public Theater (through Dec. 23)
Grand Central Holiday Train Show at the Transit Museum’s annex in the Grand Central Terminal (through Jan. 13)
Shoot the Messenger political comedy show, with striking WGA writers Tim Carvell and Jason Ross from the Daily Show at Acme
Charmin’s free Times Square restrooms open for the holidays (through Dec. 31)
Nov. 20, Tuesday
Free 7 a.m. concert at Rockefeller Center by James Taylor for the “Today” show
Sly and the Family Stone at BB King’s Blues Club
The World in a City: Panel Discussion and Book Signing at the Museum of the City of New York with Joseph Berger, Gay Talese, Madhulika Khandelwal, and Dr. Ramona Hernandez
Lecture: Arthur Piccolo: “The History of Bowling Green” at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 1:30 p.m.
Normally off-limits to visitors tour of Gracie Mansion Tea Tour
Tribute to Ingmar Bergman film series at BAM (And Nov. 21)
Nov. 21, Wednesday
Gridlock alert day for holiday traffic in NYC
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now opens at MoMA (through July 28)
"New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions" opens at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
Free 7 a.m. concert at Rockefeller Center by Natasha Bedingfield for the “Today” show
Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Beacon Theatre
The Macy's Day Before Thanksgiving Day Parade at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
ASL in the Raw at Comix – “breaking ground for the Deaf community”
“Yiddish Theater: A Love Story” begins screening at the Pioneer Theater (through Nov. 28)
Tribute to Ingmar Bergman film series at BAM
Nov. 22, Thursday (Thanksgiving)
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Places open on Thanksgiving in NYC
Thanksgiving Day restaurant menus for NYC
A Muppet Thanksgiving film series screening at BAM (through Nov. 25)
Ice Skating Opens for the Season at Brooklyn’s Wollman Rink, Prospect Park
Revolutionary Era Walking Tour from Patriot Tours, Inc.
Nov. 23, Friday
New York City Ballet begins George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (through Dec. 30)
Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 13)
Haunted tours at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Living History Days att the New-York Historical Society with revolutionary heroes and re-enactment troops (and Nov. 24)
American Museum of Natural History opens extra hours for Thanksgiving weekend (through Nov. 24)
Big Onion’s Annual Post-Thanksgiving Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
African Diaspora Film Festival (through Dec. 9)
Temporary Moscot Museum opens an exhibition of “never-before-released black-and-white photographs of the Lower East Side from the 1930s to the 1970s” Located at 118 Orchard Street. (through Dec. 31)
Family parks event: Winter on a Flatbush Farm at Lefferts Historic House at 1 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public for "39 Steps" on Broadway
Thanksgiving Weekend at Van Cortlandt Manor, Washington Irving's Sunnyside (through Nov. 25)
Nov. 24, Saturday
Breakfast with Santa at Rockefeller Center (reservations required)
Alice Austen House Holiday Fair, in a Victorian cottage overlooking New York Harbor on Staten Island
Living History Days att the New-York Historical Society with revolutionary heroes and re-enactment troops
Live radio Broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor at Town Hall (and Nov. 30)
Midnight screening of Hitchcock’s "Saboteur" at Film Forum
A Hip Hop Look At New York Harlem & The Boogie Down Bronx
American Museum of Natural History opens extra hours for Thanksgiving weekend
Nov. 25, Sunday
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, opens to the public (one day a month only) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – last time for the season
Free tour of the King Manor Museum at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: LOMEX Remembered
Free performance of the Broadway-bound "The Homecoming" to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Steve Earle guest stars in Culture Project’s Rebel Voices
Brian Culbertson, A Soulful Christmas at Town Hall
Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra at Birdland
Nancy Anderson with Ross Patterson & His Little Big Band at Birdland
Breakfast with Santa at Rockefeller Center (reservations required)
Holiday Mercato at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Last free tour of the season of New York City`s First Control Tower at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn
Monument Walk in Prospect Park at 1 p.m.
Nov. 26, Monday
Lincoln Square Winter’s Eve holiday festival featuring free entertainment, family fun, food tastings. Tree lighting at 6 p.m.
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Edward Albee
Nov. 27, Tuesday
”The Graving Dock” book party in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Truth and the Iraq War: Frank Rich Converses with Television Journalists at the Paley Center
Beard on Books literary series: Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Food
Debate on The Politics of Immigration at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (RSVP requested)
Discussion: Jim Bouton and Marvin Miller: Players, Salaries, and the Baseball Business at the Museum of the City of New York
Municipal Art Society-sponsored discussion: The Oversuccessful City, Part 1: Developers' Realities
Stacey Kent at Birdland (through Dec. 2)
Sally Kellerman at the Metropolitan Room (and Nov. 28)
Trip NYC audiovisual experiment
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn
Hispanic New York Film Festival (through Dec. 1)
“Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides” screening at the Horticultural Society of New York at 148 West 37th St., 13th floor ($5 suggested donation)
Book launch party for “NAKED AMBITION: An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry” at Rizzoli bookstore
Nov. 28, Wednesday
Gridlock alert day for holiday traffic in NYC
Tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center from 7 to 9 p.m.
Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925 opens at the New-York Historical Society (through Feb. 10)
Projects 86: Gert & Uwe Tobias opens at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Victory Lap around midtown
Modernism and the Public Realm: Planning and building in New York at the Museum of the City of New York with Hilary Ballon, Nathan Glazer, Kent Barwick, and Fred Siegel
Slam Poetry Extravaganza at McNally Robinson bookstore
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays the Third Street Music School Settlement
Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren) with Max von Sydow screens at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
James Beard’s Long Island Wine Country Dinner
Nov. 29, Thursday
New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. ($16) - Gil Shaham plays Dvorák
Voice 4 Vision Puppetry Festival (through Dec. 9)
Antiques & Art at the Armory (through Dec. 3)
Panel discussion on Spanish Camp at the Staten Island Museum
The Bobs play the Metropolitan Room
Long Black Block: Theater Performance at the Museum of the City of New York, described as “a dramatic reading that captures the challenges of an elderly black brownstone owner who rents out rooms in her run-down Harlem building to make ends meet.”
Nutcracker: Rated R at Theater for the New City (through Dec. 23)
Livia Scott’s solo show "Goodnight, O.J." at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Shut Up I Hate You with Horatio Sanz, Brett Gelman, Jason Mantzoukas at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Blip Festival (through Dec. 2)
Silent auction and wine tasting at King Manor Museum
Nov. 30, Friday
Grand Central Kaleidoscope Light Show (through Jan. 1)
Live radio broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor at Town Hall
Flavorpill dance party at the American Museum of Natural History
Andrew Bird at the Beacon Theatre
NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, Clark Terry, Tooties Heath, Earl May, Benny Powell, and vocalist Denise Thime at Flushing Town Hall
Girls Rock & Girls Rule 6th Anniversary at Ace Of Clubs with the Willie Mae Rock Camp After School Band

Ongoing Events in NYC

Performances
Wooster Group’s “Hamlet” presented by the Public Theatre (extended to Dec. 2)
"Crime and Punishment" plays Off-Broadway (through Dec. 2)
Stacey Kent at Birdland (through Dec. 2)
Terrence McNally's "The Ritz" with Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin on Broadway (extended to Dec. 9)
"HooDoo Love" plays Off-Broadway (through Dec. 9)
Voice 4 Vision Puppetry Festival (through Dec. 9)
Woody Allen plays the Monday evening gig with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band at The Carlyle (through December 11)
"Pygmalion" on Broadway with Claire Danes (through Dec. 16)
BAM’s Next Wave Festival (through Dec. 16)
Jim Caruso's "Cast Party" at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through Dec. 17)
“Oh the Humanity – and Other Exclamations” starring Marissa Tomei and Brian Hutchison at the Off-Broadway Flea Theatre (through Dec. 22)
"Yellow Face" at the Public Theater (through Dec. 23)
Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata on Broadway (through Dec. 23)
Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall (through Dec. 30)
New York City Ballet’s George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (through Dec. 30)
Edward Albee’s "Peter and Jerry" plays Off-Broadway (extended through Dec. 30)
"Walmartopia" plays Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theatre (through Dec. 30)
"Queens Boulevard (The Musical)" at the Off-Broadway Signature Theater, where all tickets are $20 (through Dec. 30)
Charles Darwin-themed play “Trumpery” in previews at the Atlantic Theatre (opening night: Dec. 5; through Dec. 30)
Steve Tyrell plays The Carlyle (through Dec. 31)
"Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! -- The Musical" on Broadway (through Jan. 6)
"Cymbeline" in previews on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (opening night: Dec. 2; through Jan. 6)
Cirque Du Soleil’s “Wintuk” at the Theater at Madison Square Garden (through Jan. 6)
Off-Off-Broadway, The Civilians perform “Gone Missing” at the Barrow Street Theatre (through Jan. 6)
Moscow Cats Theater at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (through Jan. 6)
The Big Apple Circus 30th Season Production at Lincoln Center (through Jan. 13)
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway (through Jan. 20)
"Three Mo' Tenors" at The Little Shubert Theatre (through Jan. 27)
"A Bronx Tale" with Chazz Palminteri on Broadway (through Feb. 10)
Tom Stoppard’s new play, "Rock 'N' Roll" on Broadway (through March 2)
August: Osage County in previews on Broadway (opening night: postponed; extended through March 9)
MetOpera’s production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” (through March 13)
Conor McPherson's new play, "The Seafarer," in previews on Broadway (opening night postponed; through April 30)
Les Paul plays Iridium Jazz Club (every Monday at 8 and 10 p.m.)
Amateur Night at the Apollo every Wednesday night (ongoing)
Sunday gospel brunch with the Harlem Gospel Choir at B.B. King's Blues Club (every Sunday)
"Avenue Q" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Blue Man Group" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Chicago" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"A Chorus Line" revival on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Color Purple" on Broadway with "American Idol"’s Fantasia through Jan. 6 (open-ended run)
"Curtains" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Drowsy Chaperone" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Fantasticks" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Farnsworth Invention" in previews on Broadway (opening night: postponed; open-ended run)
"Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
Off-Broadway’s Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre (open-ended run)
Grease on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Hairspray" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Jersey Boys" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Legally Blonde" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Les Misérables" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Lion King" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney's "The Little Mermaid" in previews on Broadway (opening night: postponed; open-ended run)
"Mamma Mia!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Mary Poppins" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Rent" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spamalot!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spring Awakening" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Stomp" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Wicked" on Broadway (open-ended run) -- plus there are Behind the Emerald Curtain "Wicked" behind-the-scenes tours every Saturday at 10 a.m.
"Xanadu" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Young Frankenstein" on Broadway (open-ended run)

Exhibits:
"It Happened in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through November)
Photographs by Balzas Turay on display at the Hungarian Cultural Center (through Dec. 1)
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries exhibition at the Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea (through Dec. 1)
"Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf" at the Met Museum (through Dec. 2)
Antiques & Art at the Armory (through Dec. 3)
"Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum" at the China Institute Gallery (through Dec. 8)
"Sacred Hearts: A Journey of Italian Catholics in the Borough of Churches" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Dec. 30)
"Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860" at the Met Museum (through Dec. 30)
"Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan" at the Met Museum (through Dec. 30)
"If These Walls Could Talk: 54 Pearl Street" at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (extended through Dec. 31)
"Black Art: Treasures from the Schomburg" at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (through Dec. 31)
"The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957" opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Dec. 31)
“Here is New York: Remembering 9/11/01” at the New-York Historical Society (through Dec. 31)
Temporary Moscot Museum exhibition of “never-before-released black-and-white photographs of the Lower East Side from the 1930s to the 1970s” Located at 118 Orchard Street. (through Dec. 31)
""Showboat-Comin’ Round the Bend!" exhibition at the Waterfront Museum (through December)
"Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids" at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 6)
Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters at the Morhan Museum and Library (through Jan. 6)
"The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" at the Met Museum (through Jan. 6)
"El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files / The Selected Files" at El Museo del Barrio (through Jan. 6)
"Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), Dean of American Landscape" at the National Academy Museum (through Jan. 6)
Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Émile Bernard at the Morgan Museum (through Jan. 6)
"This Is War! Robert Capa at Work" at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 6)
Gerda Taro exhibition at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 6)
"Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture During the Spanish Civil War" at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 6)
"Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep: A Project by Francesc Torres" at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 6)
"Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters" at the Morgan (through Jan. 6)
The Art of Kashmir at Asia Society (through Jan. 6)
"Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection" at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through Jan. 6)
Georges Seurat: The Drawings at MoMA (through Jan. 7)
Tunga at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 7)
"Solomon's Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim: 1937-1949" at the Guggenheim Museum (extended through Jan. 9)
"Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society (2007-08)" at the New-York Historical Society (through January 13)
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945 at the Guggenheim (through Jan. 13)
Robotic, life-size Dinosaur Encounter at the Staten Island Zoo (through Jan. 13)
Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 13)
"Bon: The Magic Word" opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Jan. 14)
Irrational Profusion at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 14)
Martin Puryear exhibition at MoMA (through Jan. 14)
"Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses" at the Brooklyn Museum (extended through Jan. 20)
Paula Scher’s map-themed paintings at the Maya Stendhal Gallery (through Jan. 26)
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) at the Frick Collection (through Jan. 27)
"Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 27)
Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside at the Bronx Museum (through Jan. 27)
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 3)
Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 3)
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love at the Whitney (through Feb. 3)
"Global Feminisms Remix" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Feb. 3)
Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925 at the New-York Historical Society (through Feb. 10)
"Psalms of Nature: The Illuminated Art of Barbara Wolff" at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Feb. 17)
"The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son" at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Feb. 17)
Illustrations and prints of John Sloan's New York at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 24)
Object of Desire: Yael Kanarek's World of Awe at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 24)
Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
"New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions" at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
Projects 86: Gert & Uwe Tobias at MoMA (through Feb. 25)
"Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007" exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through March 9)
From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Art at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel at the American Folk Art Museum (through March 23)
Thread to the Past: Ukrainian Folk Art from the 1933 World's Fair at the Ukranian Museum (through March 23)
50 Years of Helvetica at MoMA (through March 31)
"New York Modern" at the Skyscraper Museum (through March)
Dia’s Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the Hispanic Society of America (through April 6)
"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through April)
"Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through April 6)
Live Butterfly Conservancy at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 26)
Water: H2O = Life at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 26)
"Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" at the Neue Galerie (through June 30)
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now at MoMA (through July 28)
French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to Washington’s America at the New-York Historical Society (through Aug. 10)

Film:
Hispanic New York Film Festival (through Dec. 1)
African Diaspora Film Festival (through Dec. 9)
Produced with MTV2, Sonic Vision at the American Museum of Natural History (every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.)

More:
Blip Festival (through Dec. 2)
Grand Central Holiday Gift Fair (through Dec. 28)
Wired Store open for the holiday season in SoHo (through Dec. 30)
Charmin’s free Times Square restrooms open for the holidays (through Dec. 31)
Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights (through Jan. 6)
Grand Central Holiday Train Show at the Transit Museum’s annex in the Grand Central Terminal (through Jan. 13)
Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center and The Pond at Bryant Park are open for ice skating for the season

Deals:
$99 helicopter shuttle to JFK or Newark from U.S. Helicopter (extended to at least Dec. 3)
$6 off offer code for Madame Tussauds NY: Code: 102 (through December)
Children's Museum of Manhattan - $1 discount each for up to four people by showing a MetroCard (through Dec. 31)
Print an online coupon to get $10 off the Toys ‘R’ Us Marquee Moment in Times Square (normally $29.99)

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