June 1, 2006

October 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Thursday, October 1
Opening night on Broadway for “Superior Donuts”
Boston Symphony Orchestra play the Opening Night of Carnegie Hall’s 119th Season at 7 p.m., with with Daniele Gatti filling in for James Levine
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program performers play a free concert at 6 p.m. at the Bryant Park Fall Festival
Congo/Women: Portraits of War photography exhibition opens at the United Nations headquarters (through Nov. 12)
Performance 5: Mark Leckey opens “Mark Leckey in the Long Tail” at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct. 3)
MoMA Presents: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where Is Where? opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct. 7)
Carl Fredrik Hill: Swedish Visionary and Modernist; Drawings from the Malmö Art Museum exhibition opens at the Scandinavia House (through Jan. 9)
They Won’t Budge: Africans in Europe opens at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (through Jan. 19)
Brown-bag lunch event: Robert Morris, America’s Original Bailout Czar at the Museum of American Finance at 12:30 p.m.
The Comics Press: a panel discussion at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
Hills & Valleys of Lower Manhattan walking tour at 6 p.m. organized by the Museum of the City of New York
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy sneak preview tour and cocktail party at 6 p.m.
Public tour from noon to 1 p.m. of the Grolier Club’s exhibition In Pursuit of Knowledge: Six Hundred Years of Leipzig University, 1409-2009
Book talk at the Skyscraper Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Anthony Flint on his Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Alzheimer’s program at the American Folk Art Museum at 2 p.m.
South Street Seaport Museum’s sunset sail and wine tasting onboard the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m.
Indiánské léto (Indian Summer) screens on the roof of the Bohemian National Hall
“Citizen Kane” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
Workshop: Collecting Basics: Part II, Furniture, at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 7 p.m.
Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III and Jeff Skiles pilot US Airways Flight 1427 at 12:59 p.m. from LaGuardia to Charlotte, NC

Friday, October 2
Previews begin on Broadway for “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (Oct. 25 opening night; open-ended run)
Coney Island Film Festival (through Oct. 4)
Mets home game vs Houston Astros at 7:10 p.m.
“The Man Who Planted Trees” begins performances at the New Victory Theater, theater for kids and families (through Oct. 11)
“My House” begins performances at the New Victory Theater, for for kids 18 months to 3 years old (through Oct. 18)
“The Piven Monologues” at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Paco Peña and his Flamenco Dance Company at Town Hall at 8p.m.
Carnegie Hall night, featuring Ensemble ACJW at 6 p.m. at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival
Foreigner at Nokia Theatre at 8 p.m. in Times Square (and Oct. 3)
Church tower tour at 3 p.m. to see the 250-year-old metal bell at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island Gala and sound-art installation at the the New York Container Terminal
92Y Food Outing: A Taste of Old New York: Tour & Lunch at 10:30 a.m.
Allan Kaprow’s YARD, as reinvented by Sharon Hayes at the New York Marble Cemetery (through Oct. 4)
Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees at Brooklyn Bowl
First Fridays events at the Bronx Museum
Haunted Historical Tour of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
Free First Friday events at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum with live music
Manchester Chamber Orchestra plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
(New opening date for) “Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 17)
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn opens at the Guggenheim (through Jan.6)
Art After Dark at the Guggenheim with Däm-Funk and DJ Ge-ology from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
DBR & THE MISSION at The Greene Space at 8 p.m.
The Playboy of the Western World begins at City Center (through Nov. 22)
Davey Jones at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 3
Rain-or-shine Chile Pepper Fiesta at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from noon to 6:30 p.m.
Tibetan Festival from noon to 5 p.m. at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Czech Street Festival from noon to 7 p.m. on 83rd Street between Madison and Park avenues
Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant annual Oyster Frenzy
NY Art Book Fair at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City (through Oct. 4)
Mets home game vs Houston Astros
Red Hook Film Festival (and Oct. 4)
Itzhak Perlman plays Chamber Music with Members of the Perlman Music Program at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Ron White at Radio City Music Hall
Michelle Chen Kuo on piano at Carnegie Hall at 8:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Kayhan Kalhor at Symphony Space at 8 p.m.
Teacher Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Oct. 4)
The Drop exhibition under the High Line
The 7th Annual New York Burlesque Festival at BB Kings at 7:30 p.m.
Justin Ferate Tours of City tour: City of Art: Lower Manhattan and St. George, Staten Island
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Back to the Bronx: Morrisania from 1 to 3 p.m.
Choo Choo Soul in Concert at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Tosca at the Met Opera
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Sign and Intervene at 10 a.m.
Beginner Adult Photoghy Worskshop at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island (and Oct 4, 10, 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31)
Cheese School at 4 p.m. at Staten Island’s Third County Court House
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
This is 50 Fest: 50 Cent Kid Cudi / Wale / Mike Posner at The Beach at Governors Island at 6 p.m.
Family program onMannahatta at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Senators
South Street Seaport Museum’s Lower Manhattan Walking Tour at 1 p.m.
Free Grand Army Plaza: Music on Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tour: The Green Cathedral: Spotlight on the Environment
Korean Festival and Parade
Forgotten NY walking tour of Ridegewood West at 12:30 p.m.
Free BPMM East Bronx Bike Tour at 10 a.m.
The Seagull’s Laughter/Mávahlátur and Slavek the Shit screen at the Scandinavia House at 3 p.m.
Brooklyn Farmacy Open House from 4 to 10 p.m.
Manhattan Bridge Centennial event: Walking Tour led by Adrienne Onofri over the Manhattan Bridge to Vinegar Hill and DUMBO at 2 p.m.
Free Opera Unbound events at the Brooklyn Museum for First Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m.
Sunday, October 4
Manhattan Bridge Centennial events: Bike Tour led by Michael Miscione at 7:15 a.m.; Reception with Refreshments at Confucius Plaza at noon; Dedication of Manhattan Bridge Centennial Time Capsule at 2 p.m. and Gristedes Presents fireworks by the Gruccis of New York at 7 p.m. north of Manhattan Bridge
Mets home game vs Houston Astros at 1:10 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Wishful Drinking”
Fort Tryon Medieval Festival
Atlantic Antic from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m
Free preview tours of Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 from noon to 3:30 p.m.
Tour of the oldest private dwelling in NYC, the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead at 3 p.m. (reservations required)
Sundays Under the Whale: They Might Be Giants at the American Museum of Natural History at 11 a.m. at 2 p.m.
A (RED) Nights Event – A Concert Series That Saves Lives at Carnegie Hall with U2, Laurie Anderson, Antony, Elizabeth Ashley, Joel Grey, Bill Frisell, Scarlett Johansson, Courtney Love, Shane MacGowan, Rufus Wainwright and others
Great Children’s Read from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Columbia University, Broadway and 116th Street
Gavin Creel with Robbie Roth and Friends at Ars Nova at 9:30 p.m.
92Y Excursion: Brooklyn Bridge and Beyond at 11 a.m.
Staten Island OutLoud tribute: Robert Gould Shaw and the First African-American Regiment, at the New Dorp Moravian Church at 4 p.m.
blink-182 at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery: Atlantic Avenue Tour
Apple Festival at Queens County Farm Museum
Hudson River Historic Concerts at Wave Hill: Jeffrey Swann plays Anton Rubinstein, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schubert, Chopin and Massene
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Actors Fund Presents: Karen Mason at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
rescheduled date for Badfish, a Tribute to Sublime with special guests The Cannabis Cup Reggae Band performing the music of Bob Marley, Maui Waui, and DJ I, Storm at The Beach at Governors Island at 5 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery’s Hispanic Heritage Tour at 2 p.m.
Bronx Museum Open House and Street Fair from noon to 5 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Art at South Ferry: The Brendan Gill Prize at 11 a.m.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tour: Signs and Symbols: Spotlight on Symbolism
Discussion and book signing: Judy Blume’s “The Pain and the Great One” series at Symphony Space at 1 p.m.
The Ninth Annual New York City International Pickle Day from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on on Broome, between Essex and Ludlow
Bronx Historical Society Walking tour: “Follow in the Footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe” at 9:30 a.m.
Fireworks scheduled at 7:15 p.m. at South Street Seaport Pier 15
Michael Arenella and the Dreamland Orchestra present the Jazz Age Dance Party at Governors Island from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
NY Art Book Fair at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City
Red Hook Film Festival
Teacher Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
Monday, October 5
Queens Restaurant Week (through Oct. 15)
Joyce Theater night at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival at 6 p.m.
MoMA Presents: Hilla Medalia’s After the Storm (through Oct. 11 )
Pink at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
An Evening with Julie Andrews at the Paley Center at 6:30 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Live at The Greene Space at noon
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City with Michelle and James Nevius
Manhattan Bridge Centennial event: Lecture - “Miss Manhattan, Miss Brooklyn and their creator, Daniel Chester French at 6:30 p.m. at NYU-Poly, 5 MetroTech Center
Queensboro Bridge Centennial event: slide lecture at 7 p.m. at the Greater Astoria Historical Society
Designing The Hamsun Centre: A Lecture with the Architect Steven Holl at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture: Lincoln And The Jews at the Jewish Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Celebrating Virtuosity: Elliot Carter & Charles Wuorinen at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim
Explorers Club lecture: The Search for Chickalusion Pass: Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, presented by Don Oberlatz
The Musical Theater Initiative Presents: Sneak previews of “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me”, “February House”, and new work by Pasek and Paul at Joe’s
Pub at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, October 6
Opening night on Broadway for “Hamlet” starring Jude Law
Ailey II dancers perform at 6 p.m. at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival
Free Remembering the Remarkable Frank McCourt: An Evening of Reminiscence, Music, Poetry, and Laughter at Symphony Space at 5 p.m.
Jane Krakowski plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (extended through Oct. 17)
Steve Martin performing with The Steep Canyon Rangers at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
A Night Without Monty Python at Town Hall with Jeff B. Davis, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock (through Oct. 10)
“Tosca” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
In Conversation: Salman Rushdie and The Enchantress of Florence at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum
Manhattan Bridge Centennial event: “The Manhattan Bridge - History, Construction & Safety” at 6:30 p.m. at NYU-Poly, 5 MetroTech Center
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection opens at The Frick Collection (through Jan. 10)
Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799) opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10)
Pablo Bronstein at the Met opens at the Met Museum (through Feb. 21)
Approaching Abstraction opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 6)
Up Close: Henry Darger and the Coloring Book opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 13)
Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts opens at the Center for Architecture (through January 23)
Rebel, Rebel: Anti-Style, Keanan Duffty at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.
DJ Spooky at Brooklyn Bowl
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, October 7
Yankees home game vs. Minnesota Twins for the AL Division Series playoffs at 6:07 p.m.
Bargemusic performers play a free concert at 6 p.m. at the Bryant Park Fall Festival
The Red Book of C.G. Jung opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through January 25)
Slash: Paper Under the Knife opens at the at the Museum of Arts & Design (through April 4)
Harpist Jeanne Koehler plays the Starlight Music Series atop 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre performs three premieres by Benjamin Millepied, Aszure Barton and Alexei Ratmansky at Avery Fisher Hall (through Oct. 10)
Rock in Reykjavík/Rokk í Reykjavík screens at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Panel discussion: Shaping the Shoreline of Manhattan at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Sallie Krawcheck at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Michael Greenberg and Edmund White
Free lecture: Albert Speer Jr.: “Planning Sustainable Cities for Tomorrow” at the Great Hall of The Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.
Alice Sebold Presents The Best American Short Stories 2009 at Symphony Space at 7 p.m.
(New date:) Free Bronx Culture Trolley from 5:30 p.m.
Manhattan Bridge Centennial event: “Bright Nights”—Digital Projections at the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Adams Street at Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn from 7 to 10 p.m.
Manhattan Bridge Centennial event: Lecture - “Bridges of New York” at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 8
Opening night on Broadway for “The Royal Family” (extended through Nov. 29)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Finian’s Rainbow”
New York City Wine and Food Festival (through Oct. 11)
NY Comic Con (through Oct. 10)
Film exhibition: Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct. 18)
Brooklyn Philharmonic performs at 6 p.m. at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival
Loser’s Lounge tribute to David Bowie at Joe’s Pub (through Oct. 10)
Keith Urban at 7:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden
Fireworks scheduled at 7:15 p.m. near Liberty Island
“Metropolis” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
NY United Film Festival (through Oct. 14)
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New Yorks Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Moods of Norway, Peder Børresen and Simen Staalnacke at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.
Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano, plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Lecture at the Met Museum: Dear Gustibus: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Stanford White, and Charles Follen McKim at 11 a.m. with Samuel G. White, architect, author, and great-grandson of Stanford White
“The Invisible Man” at The Greene Space at 8 p.m.
Naked Ambition exhibition opens at the Museum of Sex (through Nov. 1)

Friday, October 9
Yankees home game vs. Minnesota Twins for the AL Division Series playoffs at 6:07 p.m.
(New delayed date) Lincoln and New York exhibition opens at the New-York Historical Society (through March 25)
“The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring” at Radio City Music Hall
Jazz at Lincoln Center night at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival from 6 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Madison Square Mark’t seasonal market opens in Madison Square Park (through Nov. 1)
Thich Nhat Hanh at the Beacon Theatre
Haunted Historical Tourof the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York opens at the Museum of the City of NY (through March 7)
An Evening with Robert Frank at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Monk at 92 piano marathon from 5 to 9 p.m. at the World Financial Center
Museum of American Finance walking tour: History of Trading
Joan Braderman’s The Heretics at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct. 15)
92Y Food Outing: Gourmet Walking Tour of Tribeca at 11 a.m.
Bronx Talks: The Rat that Got Away, with Allen Jones, introduced by Mark NaisonBronx Museum at 6 p.m.
Intervals: Kitty Kraus opens at the Guggenheim (through Jan.6)
Happy Mondays & The Psychedelic Furs play Roseland
Old World Sounds from Greece & Turkey at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
One Step Beyond dance party at the American Museum of Natural History from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Icelandic electronic music: Biogen at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 10
OpenHouse NY Weekend (and Oct. 11)
The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens for ice skating for the season
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Avenue, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens to the public for OHNY from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (and Oct. 11)
The New York City Marble Cemetery 52-74 E. 2nd Street, the second non-sectarian burial ground in the City opened to the public, open days as part of Open House NY (and Oct. 11)
Free Woodlawn Cemetery OHNY walking tour at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. of 12 private mausoleums of some of the city’s most notable architects and artists
Casa Frela Gallery’s Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour for OHNY
Thich Nhat Hanh at the Beacon Theatre
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City Music Hall as Howard Shore’s complete score will be performed live to film
St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx open for Open House NY
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Barefoot Contessa: Ina Garten with Alex Witchel at the Times Talks series at noon
Some Like It Hot: Bobby Flay with Kim Severson at the Times Talks series at 2 p.m.
Italian Modern: Giada De Laurentiis with Pete Wells at the Times Talks series at 4 p.m.
On the Road: Anthony Bourdain with Frank Bruni at the Times Talks series at 6 p.m.
Tosca at the Met Opera
Divas of Daytime TV at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island with Kassie DePaiva, Kathy Brier, and Bobbie Eakes
Self-guided scavenger hunt at Weeksville’s Historic Hunterfly Road Houses for OpenHouseNewYork
Sheree R. Thomas lecture part of Weeksville’s The Big Read program at 1 p.m.
Cellar-to-attic tours of NYC’s oldest house, the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, for Open House NY, at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tours: I Love New York: Spotlight on the City (at 1 p.m.) and Unfinished Symphony: Spotlight on Architecture (at 2 p.m.)
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museumoffers free tours at quarter past the hour, 12:15–3:15, for Open House NY
Free reservation-required behind-the-scenes relic tour of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum for Open House NY
Free admission at the Bronx Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for Open House NY
Free theatrical performance: Reunion at the White House at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 4:30 p.m.
“Pull My Daisy”and “Conversations in Vermont” screen at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m. as part of the Robert Frank Film Series
Met Museum lecture: Art Words at 6 p.m. with Robert Storr, Dean, Yale University School of Art
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m.
Boo at the Zoo events at the Bronx Zoo (multiple through Nov. 1)
New-York Historical Society’s Civil War Draft Riots Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Reservation-required World’s Fair Trolley Tours on the hour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free High Bridge Water Tower Tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Adventure in Travel Expo at the Javits (and Oct. 11)
Bubble Do Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour at 2 p.m. at Symphony Space
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art will be open for free from 1 to 5 p.m. for Open House NY
Rock in Reykjavík/Rokk í Reykjavík screens at the Scandinavia House at 3 p.m.
KISS at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: LOMEX Remembered at 11 a.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Arts Open Studios from noon to 6 p.m.
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island (and Oct. 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31)
Midtown Modern walking tour (in addition to the OHNY tour) at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 11
Last day of the season at Governors Island for 2009
Free Urban Glass Open House with All Hallow’s Eve
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for David Mamet’s “Oleanna” with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery: Central Avenue
Free admission at the Bronx Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for Open House NY
Free Woodlawn Cemetery OHNY walking tour at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. of 12 private mausoleums of some of the city’s most notable architects and artists
Casa Frela Gallery’s Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour for OHNY
Cellar-to-attic tours of NYC’s oldest house, the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, for Open House NY, at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
Barrier Island Birding, Robert Moses State Park with NYC Audubon
Valerie Lemon plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museumoffers free tours at quarter past the hour, 12:15–3:15, for Open House NY
Behind-the-scenes glimpse of the collections of the Museum of the City of New York for OpenHouseNY on a free, reservations-required 2 p.m. tour
Free Little Red Lighthouse tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
NY Giants home game vs. Oakland
NY Rangers home game vs. Ducks
Free guided tours of The Arsenal in Central Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre: The Art of Adaptation discussion and performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art will be open for free from 1 to 5 p.m. for Open House NY
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Grand Concourse at 100 at 1 p.m.
Monday, October 12
Spa Week begins (through Oct. 18)
Columbus Day Parade up Fifth Avenue from 47th to 79th Streets from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Celebrity Autobiography performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Triad Theater with Scott Adsit, Craig Bierko, Rachel Dratch, Kristen Johnston, Carol Kane, Richard Kind, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Claudia Shear and Sherri Shepherd
The Laramie Project - Ten Years Later at Alice Tully Hall at 8 p.m.
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
(New delayed date:) American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 24)
Normally closed Mondays, the Met Museum will be open for a Holiday Monday schedule, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
American Ballet Theatre: The Art of Adaptation discussion and performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim
Free as Air and Water Symposium II: Art in Relation to Human Rights and the Freedom of Expression at the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium of The Cooper Union at 7 p.m.
Miranda Sings! (Haters, Back Off!) at Birdland at 7 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. the Maple Leafs at 7 p.m.
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy walking tour: Crossing Delancey Tour, at 11:15 a.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.
Wild Things Week in NYC (through Oct. 16)
Tuesday, October 13
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Met Opera at 7:30 p.m.
The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Ian Anderson at the Beacon Theatre
Eric Bogosian at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Iggy Pop and author Robert Matheu at Barnes & Noble Tribecca at 7 p.m.
“Enemies” theme at NY Moth StorySLAM at 7:30 p.m. at The Nuyorican Poets Café
Tour of Pell’s Point Battlefield at 10 a.m., organized by St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Free Cross-Park Promenade walking tour of Central Park at noon
Global Kitchen: The Magic of Pickling workshop at the American Museum of Natural History at 6:30 p.m.
Textiles and the Future of Fashion, Hans Schreiber discussion at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Philadelphia at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 14
Chita Rivera at Birdland (through Oct. 17)
Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Paper Ball an art, fashion, design, and dining gala benefit cebrating the one-year anniversary of the Museum of Arts and Design
3rd Annual Firehouse Tasting and Cookoff at the NYC Fire Museum at 6 p.m.
New-York Historical Society event: Lincoln’s New York: The City in the 1860s at 6:30 p.m. with Harold Holzer and Barry Lewis
“Tosca” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
JD Lawrence Presents The Clean Up Woman at the Beacon Theater (through Oct. 18)
NY Rangers home game vs. Kings at 7 p.m.
Regina Spektor plays Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
The Lower East Side: An Endangered Place discussion and screening at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m
75th Anniversary of DC Comics celebrated at Bloomingdale’s from 6 to 8 p.m.
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Travel U: One Day Seminar on the Jews of India at the Jewish Museum
Cornel West book events at Borders Columbus Circle and Hue-Man Bookstore & Café
Trampled By Turtles with Special Guest Jennifer O’Connor at 92YTribeca at 9:30 p.m.
Discussion with Robert Burt, Jonathan Holloway, and Henry Feingold: Racial Laws: Nuremberg and Jim Crow at the Museum of Jewish Heritage at 7 p.m.
Eamon Grennan and Robert Minhinnick read their poetry at 7 p.m. at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Panel discussion: The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ at the Schomburg Center at 7 p.m.

Thursday, October 15
Opening night on Broadway for “Bye Bye Birdie” with John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell at the new Henry Miller’s Theatre, 124 West 43rd St.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and The Monteverdi Choir at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Workshop: Collecting Basics: Part III, Silver, at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 10:30 a.m.
Met Museum $300 Private Gallery Tours, Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping
David Krohn, baritone plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Mike Farrell at Strand Books
“Nightingale” with Lynn Redgrave begins previews at New York City Center (opening night: Nov. 3; through Dec. 13)
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History with Rich Cohen
Great Evenings in The Great Hall: Science and Technology at The Cooper Union with Adam Gopnik and others at 6:30 p.m.
The Art of Norwegian Animation screens at the Scandinavia House at 6 p.m.
Free Night of Theater begins
Friday, October 16
Yankees home game vs. the As at 7:57 p.m.
New Yorker Festival (through Oct. 18)
NY Knicks vs NJ Nets at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Met Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Punch Brothers at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces of the 21st Century opens at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Jan. 24)
Candlelight Tour & Historic Music Program at 7 p.m. of St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation opens at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 4)
92Y Food Outing: Noshes and Nibbles on St. Mark’s Place at 10 a.m.
Haunted Historical Tour of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
MMArtists in Concert at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Free Friday events at the South Street Seaport Museum: Maritime Mysteries
5th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival: A tribute to David Merrick at Town Hall at 8 p.m. with Marc Kudisch, Robert Cuccioli, Stephen Bogardus, Lee Roy Reams, Stephanie J. Block, Julia Murney and Jim Caruso
World Maritime Day events at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers
The Tiger Lillies at St. Ann’s Warehouse at 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 17
Yankees Vs. Angels at 7:57 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio reopens with a day of free admission, walkig tours and art workshops
Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Nov. 15)
5th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival: Linda Eder “All of Me” at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
The Tiger Lillies at St. Ann’s Warehouse at 8 p.m.
Patti Smith: A Salute to Robert Frank, Artist and Friend at the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
” Me and My Brother” screens at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m. as part of the Robert Frank Film Series
Bill Cosby stand-up comedy at Avery Fisher Hall at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Howie Mandel at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Met Opera: “Aida” at 1 p.m.; “Tosca” at 8 p.m.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and The Monteverdi Choir at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Al Green at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s self-guided 31st Annual House Tour
New-York Historical Society’s African-American Freedom Trail Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Battle of Pell’s Point Encampment re-enactment at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Panel discussion: “Beyond the Netherlands” at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m.
Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread): Film Screening at the Museum of the City of New York at 3 p.m.
American Kennel Club’s and Cat Fanciers’ Association’s Meet the Breeds at the Javits Convention Center (and Oct. 18)
Lipizzaner Stallions at Madison Square Garden
Catapult Family Workshop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Catapults! at the NY Hall of Science at 1 p.m.
Storytelling - Bill Gordh: Stories from Sweden at the Scandinavia House at 11 a.m.
South Street Seaport Museum family program: Halloween at the Seaport
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
Kids’ Halloween festivals at the NYC Police Museuem, Socrates Sculpture Park and elsewhere
Raja Rajaswari and Padmala Dance Troupe at the Staten Island Zoo at 2 p.m.
Ederle Swim from Battery Park to Sandy Hook, NJ
Long Island’s 26th Annual Oyster Festival (and Oct. 18)
Tickets go on sale for “A Little Night Music” on Broadway with Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Sunday, October 18
Maccabi Electra Tel-Aviv vs. New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden
National Design Week, with free admission at Cooper-Hewitt (through Oct. 24)
NYC Parks’ free History Club: Gravesend Cemetery Tour at 11 a.m.
92Y Excursion: Staten Island Waterfront at 11:15 a.m.
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery: Old Section
NY Jets home game vs. Buffalo
Old Home Day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Historic Richmond Town with blacksmiths, tinsmiths, “colonial” cooks, expert quilters, beekeepers, spinners and more
Tovah Fedshuh stars in Golda’s Balcony at 2 p.m. at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center
Tour De Bronx 2009 bike ride
NYC Audubon’s Raptor Day in the Bronx
Catapults! at the NY Hall of Science at 1 p.m.
Haloween Harvest in Old Brooklyn at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Animal Lovers Tour of Woodlawn Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Artist Talk: Linda Stein at the Brooklyn Museum
New York in the 1930s: the Photography of Max Drucker at 2 p.m. at the Greater Astoria Historical Society
CINEMAROSA presents Gente de Ambiente: Queer Hispanics at the Queens Museum
5th Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival: Browadway Originals, at Town Hall at 3 p.m.
Funkey Monkeys concert at the Jewish Museum at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Hilary Kole Performs Benefit For The Walden School at Birdland
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
Uptown Treasures Celebration 2009 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. rain or shine
Apples on Orchard from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., rain or shine
Hidden Harbor tour at 3:30 p.m.
Monday, October 19
Opening night on Broadway for the new musical “Memphis” (open-ended run)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Fela!” (opening night: Nov. 23; open-ended run)
Project Shaw reading of “Back to Methuselah” Part 2, at 7 p.m. on Gramercy Park South
“Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” - Broadway Salutes The King of Pop at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Yankee Stadium opens at 3:30 p.m. for fans to view the televised Game 3 of the American League Championship Series (from Angels Stadium in Anaheim, Calif.)
Courage in Concert , a one-night benefit featuring Kevin Kline, Jenifer Lewis, Austin Pendleton, Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Linda Emond, and Mike Nichols … with a viewing party (for $35) at Joe’s Pub at 8 p.m.
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Met Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Lecture at the Explorers Club: Dark Reefs and Ancient Gardens: Life on the Gulfstream Floor
Julian Marley at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Raissa Katona Bennett plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Morgan Karr at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m. with Jonathan Groff, Alice Lee, and Kacie Sheik
The 24-Hour Plays at 7 p.m. by the Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum workshop: Collecting Basics: Part IV, visit to Doyle New York
NY Rangers home game vs. Sharks at 7 p.m.
Gaumont Presents: Trichromie! screening at the Museum of Modern Art
Free Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Norwegian Crime Fiction Panel at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, October 20
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival (through Oct. 24)
President Obama to visit Manhattan
Opera Octoberfest: Talk and Tasting at 7:30 p.m.
Gotham Screen film festival (through Oct. 25)
Gore Vidal at 8 p.m. at 92Y
Dame Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg perform Music at Twilight: Songs and Solos from Early 17th Century Europe at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Sneak preview of a coal mining documentary Coal Country at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Sixteenth Annual Family Party at the American Museum of Natural History at 5 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Jonathan Lethem at Book Court in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. for “Chronic City”
Victoria Clark with Ted Sperling at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Oct. 24)
Sound of Broadway: Broadway Comes Home at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m. with June LeBell
MillionTreesNYC discussion at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
A New York Sampler, Vestie Davis and Malcah Zeldis exhibitions open at Lincoln Center branch of the American Folk Art Museum (through Oct. 18, 2010)
A Night to Benefit Women in the Congo with Eve Ensler, Whoopi Goldberg at W New York at 7 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: The New York Times Book of New York: Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present
Art Nouveau & Art Deco Fashion Postcards, Edith Weber at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.
Leonard Cohen at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Free comedy show at Housing Works on Crosby at 8:30 p.m. featuring Janeane Garofalo

Wednesday, October 21
Free day at the Guggenheim for its 50th anniversary
Memory: Anish Kapoor exhibition opens at the Guggenheim (through March 28)
Arts of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor from the Late Heian through the Edo Period (ca. 1156–1868) opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10 )
The Original Art 2009 opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 28)
Met Museum lecture: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg: Partners in Art at 2:30 p.m. with Marlene Barasch Strauss, art historian
New-York Historical Society’s Remembering David Herbert Donald: Tributes to a Great Historian at 6:30 p.m.
Andrew Noren: What the Light Was Like at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct 25)
China’s Quanzhou Marionette Theater at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Screening of Sweatshop Cinderella at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Leon Russell at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
The Future of Women’s Fashion panel at 92Y with Robin Givhan, Isaac Mizrahi, Ashley Olsen, Cindi Leive at 8 p.m.
London Symphony Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall
Reading and launch party from 6 to 8 p.m. for the exhibition My River Chronicles: rediscovering America on the Hudson at the Atlantic Gallery
Thursday, October 22
Opening night on Broadway for “After Miss Julie” with Sienna Miller (through Dec. 6)
Previews begin on Broadway for “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)”
Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Met Opera at 7:30 p.m.
2009 Original Art: The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 25)
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes discussion at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
NY Rangers home game vs. Devils at 7 p.m.
Radio Festival 2009 at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery (through Oct 24)
Alison Trainer, soprano plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Book talk: Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape at the Museum of the City of NY at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society lecture: Empire of Liberty at 6:30 p.m. with Gordon S. Wood
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: On the Irish Waterfont: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
NYC Audubon lecture: The Environment of New York Harbor: A 400-YEAR Arc of History at 6 p.m. at The Arsenal Gallery
The Rite Stuff: Design And Modern Observance Panel Discussion at the Jewish Museum at 6:30 p.m.
An Evening with Petra Hůlová, celebrating the launch of her first work in English translation, “All This Belongs to Me” at the Czech Center at 7 p.m.
Big Apple Circus opens at Lincoln Center (through Jan. 18)
Dancemopolitan: 15th Anniversary Season of the DanceNOW [NYC] Festival at Joe’s Pub (thorugh Oct. 24)
MOTH Story Slam at Housing Works at 7 p.m.
Tracy Morgan at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Bob Weir & Ratdog at the Beacon Theatre (through Oct. 24)
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Friday, October 23
“Ragtime” begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Nov. 15; open-ended run)
Taste of China concert at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.
London Symphony Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
Leonard Cohen at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
David Foster and friends at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Bobby Brown at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Haunted Historical Tourof the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
Candlelight Ghost Tours of “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” at the Merchant’s House Museum from 6 to 10 p.m.
James Tissot: “The Life of Christ” opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 17)
“Yojimbo” screens at 6 p.m. as part of the Classic Samurai Cinema: Three by Kurosawa series at the Met Museum
R. Crumb in Conversation with Francoise Mouly at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Saturday, October 24
Rained out: Yankees home game vs. Angels at 7:57 p.m.
Dumpling Festival from noon to 5 p.m.
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Kata the Caterpillar Screening & Art Activities at the Scandinavia House at 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Got Talent, Night of Pop, Rock, Disco & Blues at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Weeksville’s Fall Festival 2009 including Pony Rides with the Black Cowboys
Third Annual Halloween Costume Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Staten Island Historical Society’s “Scary Stories” true or almost true reading at Historic Richmond Town
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Third Annual Harvest Festival at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“Cocksucker Blues ” screens at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m. as part of the Robert Frank Film Series
Pacifica Quartet plays the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
Vernon Reid presents the world premiere of “Artificial Afrika” at the World Financial Center
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Great Crash Anniversary Walking Tour at 1 p.m.
Candlelight Ghost Tours of “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” at the Merchant’s House Museum from 6 to 10 p.m.
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, “Divine Spark: Young Schubert” at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m.
Symposium and exhibit opening at the Greater Astoria Historical Society: Ethnic-Social Clubs of Astoria
The Guggenheim presents Shen Wei Dance Arts at 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes at BB Kings
Catapults! at the NY Hall of Science at 1 p.m.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
2009 Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival
Vernon Reid’s Artificial Afrika free at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden at 8 p.m.
Canceled: 5th Annual Harvest Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Red Hook Community Farm
Sunday, October 25
Rain date: Yankees vs. Angels at Yankee Stadium at 8:20 p.m.
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Avenue, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens to the public for the day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Catapults! at the NY Hall of Science at 1 p.m.
Masques concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Autumn Leaves Tour of Woodlawn Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum
Children’s Fall Festival at Queens County Farm Museum
Opening night on Broadway for Brighton Beach Memoirs
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Video Games Live at the Beacon Theatre
92Y Excursion: Lower East Side Synagogues: Beautifully Restored Sites of the Lower East Side at 1 p.m.
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery: Atlantic Avenue
New Amsterdam Market monthly Public Market on South Street
Hudson River Historic Concerts at Wave Hill: Curtis Macomber and pianist Marija Stroke recreate Fritz Kreisler and Ernst Dohnányi’s duo recital presented in 1900 in Troy, NY
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Irene Atman plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Merchant’s House Museum’s From Parlor to Grave: 1865 Funeral Reenactment ending at the New York City Marble Cemetery
Curator Talk: “Tissot and the Testaments” at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m.
NY Giants home game vs. Arizona
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tour: Unfinished Symphony: Spotlight on Architecture
Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox walking tour from the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
London Symphony Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall
Monday, October 26
A Benefit Performance by Vanessa Redgrave in “The Year of Magical Thinking” at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 8 p.m.
“The Starry Messenger” with Matthew Broderick begins performances Off-Broadway (through Dec. 12)
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
True Colors Cabaret plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Coyotes at 7 p.m.
Free screening of the copyright documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto at the Paley Center for the Media at 6:30 p.m.
Chuck Klosterman at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Cooking Jewish: 352 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family with Judy Bart Kancigor
Explorers Club lecture: Walking Thunder: In the Footsteps of the African Elephant
Free book event: Gordon S. Wood: Empire of Liberty at the Great Hall of The Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.
Jeremy Schonfeld at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 27
“Idiot Savant” with Willem Dafoe begins performances Off-Broadway at the Public Theater (through Dec. 13)
The NEXT New York Conversation presents Room with a View: Fall of the Berlin Wall at 7 p.m. at The Greene Space
Sound of Broadway: Broadway Comes Home at the Met Museum with Thomas Z. Shepard
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream with Patrick Radden Keefe
Guy Clark at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Opera Octoberfest: Talk and Tasting at 7:30 p.m.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Lucie Arnaz with Rex Reed at 8:15 p.m. at 92Y
Wednesday, October 28
Yankees vs Philadelphia Phillies for Game 1 of the 105th World Series at 7:57 p.m.
World Series events include a 12:30 p.m. pep rally in Times Square and cupcake giveaways
A Conversation with Novelist John Irving at the Times Talks series at 7 p.m.
“The Daily Show” & Friends at Comix at 8 p.m. with JR Havlan, John Oliver and others
The Rejection Show with Wyatt Cenac at 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Battery Dance Company performs at the World Financial Center at 1 and 8 p.m.
Projects 91: Artur Zmijewski opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 1)
Fresh! From Finland: Culinary Adventure, at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Broadway’s “Next to Normal” debuts a Twitter song as part of a panel discussion at 92YTribeca
Thursday, October 29
Yankees vs Philadelphia Phillies for Game 2 of the 105th World Series at 7:57 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Finian’s Rainbow” (open-ended run)
25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Benefit Concerts at Madison Square Garden
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum: Benjamin Franklin & the Constitutional Convention
Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge National Historic Site at Here Arts Center (through Nov. 22)
Azusa Ueno plays piano at Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
“Rules of the Game” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
New-York Historical Society panel discussion on Lincoln’s Constitution: From the Civil War Amendments to the Warren Court at 6:30 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: The Financial District – 80th Anniversary of the Great Crash at 1 p.m.
Is America Really Post-Radical?: Rap Sessions at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Flashlight-requried “History and Mystery Tours” of Woodlawn Cemetery at 6 p.m.
Candlelight Ghost Tours of “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” at the Merchant’s House Museum from 6 to 10 p.m.
Ruben Toledo’s Art: From Fashion to Literature, Ruben Toledo at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.
Legends of the Marathon roundtable at Times Talks with Lance Armstrong, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Grete Waitz and Deena Kastor at 6:30 p.m.
LES Stories: Chinatown at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.
“Aida” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
The Hooters play BB Kings at 8 p.m.
John Irving at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Fish and Seafood 101 with chef Mike Colameco at 92Y at 7 p.m.
Vogue’s Grace Coddington signs The Catwalk Cats at Clic Bookstore & Gallery at 7 p.m.
Shepard Fairey installs his latest artwork outside the Levi’s store in Times Square from 7 to midnight
Friday, October 30
12th Annual Chocolate Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion on 18th Street (through Nov. 1)
25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Benefit Concerts at Madison Square Garden
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 31)
Trinity Wall Street hosts a graveyard toast to one of its permanent residents, Alexander Hamilton, followed by a free screening in the cathedral of “Phantom of the Opera” with live organ accompaniment
Flashlight-requried “History and Mystery Tours” of Woodlawn Cemetery at 6 p.m.
Candlelight Ghost Tours of “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” at the Merchant’s House Museum from 6 to 10 p.m.
Haunted Historical Tour of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
Halloween Extravaganza at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Halloween in Richmond Town
Disney’s A Christmas Carol - Train Tour at Grand Central (through Nov. 1)
Till Fellner plays Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas at the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
NYC Spelling Bee at Housing Works at 8 p.m.
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Saturday, October 31
36th Annual Village Halloween Parade from 7 p.m.
Houdini Straightjacket Stunt at 1:26 p.m. at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum
Central Park’s Boo at the Zoo (and Nov. 1)
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Park Avenue Palaces lecture at the Met Museum at 6 p.m. with Christopher Gray, architectural historian and writer of the NY Times’ “Streetscapes” column
“Candy Mountain” screens at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m. as part of the Robert Frank Film Series
at the World Financial Center Haunted House from 1 to 3 p.m.
New York at 400: The Broadway View, A Musical Theater Cabaret at the Museum of the City of New York at 3 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Halloween in Green-Wood Cemetery at 1 p.m.
Flashlight-requried “History and Mystery Tours” of Woodlawn Cemetery at 6 p.m.
Family Friendly Ghost Tours at the Merchant’s House Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
Ghost Stories of the Merchant’s House Museum with the official Merchant’s House ghost-storyteller Anthony Bellov at 7 and 9 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Behind the Lens, in the Spotlight: Women’s Image in Rock” at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m. with music journalist Vivien Goldman, photographers Kate Simon and Jill Furmanovsky, musician Tamar-kali, and editor and musician Ingrid Dahl
Film and Discussion: Anything Boys Can Do at the Brooklyn Museum at 4 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Pumpkin Picking at the Decker Farm from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Staten Island
Catapult Pumpkin Chucking at the NY Hall of Science at 1 p.m.
The Misfits play BB Kings
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Madame Tussauds After Dark from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Theater for the New City’s Village Halloween Costume Ball
Last day of the season for Water Taxi Beach South Street Seaport
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Bronck’s River & Oostdorp at 1 p.m.
Spooky tours include The Greater Astoria Historical Society’s 3 p.m. Halloween Walking Tour along the Long Island City waterfront
Halloween Haunted Walk & Carnival from noon to 3 p.m. at Prospect Park
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for Bon Jovi’s New Meadowlands Stadium concerts on May 26 and 27

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