Paul Tramontozzi returns this winter for two more sessions of his informative financial and retirement planning classes. Life After Work: How to Prepare a Good Life in Retirement (12951) covers what to consider as you transition from work life to retired life. Learn why you need a retirement income plan, six questions to ask before you retire, how to determine how much income you will need in retirement, four primary sources of retirement income, four popular withdrawal strategies and the pros and cons of each, how retirement income is taxed, five tax planning strategies in retirement, and a retirement income action plan. Class meets Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7pm.

He returns a month later on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 to lead How Tax Planning Changes Through Four Stages of Retirement (12950). Learn the critical tax questions to answer before retirement, surprises that often make retirement more expensive, four stages of retirement and important tax actions in each stage, and mistakes to avoid when it comes to investments, health care, and estate planning.

Register for both classes now to receive investment and tax saving tips for life after work.

Week of January 26, 2025

Art Appreciation

• Georgia O’Keeffe from New York to New Mexico (12944)
• Masterpieces of French Art from the Medieval Era to the Modern Age: Louis XIV Court Life (13036)

Arts & Crafts

• Advanced Beginner Knitting (12910)* NEW START DATE

Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth

• Vision Board Workshop (13047)

Literature and Film

• Older Women in Contemporary Literature: Voices of Wit, Wisdom, Strength, and Sass (12932)
• Fifty Years of Steven Spielberg's Magic: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (13073)
• Museum Preview: Belle da Costa Greene at the Morgan Library & Museum (12986)

Performing Arts

• Group Piano Lessons for Beginner & Intermediate Students (Mondays at 1pm: 13013; Mondays at 2pm: 13014)
• Ring Your Bell for Beginners (13020)
• Ring Your Bell I (12855)
• Ring Your Bell II (12856)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 to Now at Met (13057)
• Walking Tour: American Wing at the Met (12995)

Week of January 19, 2025

Special Events

• Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in Concert, Concert of Love (13021)
• Author Visit: Beena Kamlani, The English Problem (2025) (13049)

Art Appreciation

• Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, the New York of Dreams and Reality (12945)
• Masterpieces of French Art from the Medieval Era to the Modern Age: Louis XV Court Life (13037)

Arts & Crafts

• Drawing Landscape and Nature in Color with Graphite Pencils, Colored Pencils, and Watercolor Paint (13033)
• Weave a Heart Basket (13011)
• Origami Gift Boxes (Thursday morning: 13050; Thursday evening: 13051)

Financial and Retirement Planning

• Life After Work: How to Prepare a Good Life in Retirement (12951)

Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth

• Taste and Talk: Sex Matters, Brain, and Body (13088)

Languages

• Conversational French (13066)

Literature and Film

• Fifty Years of Steven Spielberg's Magic: Schindler's List (1993) (13074)
• Book Discussion: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878), the Ultimate Novel of Men and Women (12952)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim (13085)
• Walking Tour: Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum (13061)
• Walking Tour: Farley Post Office and Penn Station's New Moynihan Train Hall (12984)

All upcoming classes are listed in the Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Fall/Winter 2024-25 Catalog. New classes are added in real time.

Class times are for the Eastern Time Zone. Please check regularly for additional options to keep you engaged and learning, whether from the comforts of home or through our expansive number of in-person options.