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Enjoy Autumn color in the first half of November in NYC Parks. Pictured above the lake in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx. Check out Fort Tryon Park, Prospect Park, Alley Pond in Queens, and the lingering fall foliage in Central Park. | |
This Month Features an Amazing Array of Events that Celebrate NYC's Diversity and History
Check out my curated list of New York City cultural and historical events this month, many of them free and under-the-radar.
Halloween, voting, and daylight saving time in New York City: What to Expect and Avoid this Weekend of Halloween and the NYC Marathon
Informative link here courtesy of Gothamist
This is the monthly newsletter of Hank Orenstein, real estate broker at the Corcoran Group, professional NYC tour guide, and organizer of the successful Meetup.com group with 11,000 members, "Exploring NYC History and Neighborhoods." I am also president of Owning New York LLC, which offers real estate and lifestyle tours of NYC neighborhoods for people seeking to make a move.
Contact me for a consultation for all your real estate needs and a personalized analysis of the market. The housing market is different in every NYC neighborhood and borough. I love to help people understand the nuances of our sub-markets!
The skinny: The sales market historically becomes sluggish as we head toward the holiday season. It can be an opportunistic market for home buyers, however limited quality inventory keeps prices on the high side. The rental market is very tight with continuing rising rents for non-regulated apartments.
Scroll to the end for the latest NYC Real Estate News and Reports
Check out my schedule of public walking tours here: Coming soon: Midtown Architecture; The Gilded Age Revisited (Upper East Side); plus a series of urban hikes celebrating fall foliage: Van Cortlandt Park, Prospect Park & Greenwood Cemetery and an epic all day Central Park Tour.
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Celebrate Halloween at the Museum of the City of New York with Music and Dancing
Saturday, October 31 at 6pm
1220 5th Ave. at 103rd Street
Don’t miss the most spectacular Halloween event of the season—MOCNY's annual Halloween Bash is back! Come dressed as the ghost of a famous New Yorker and dance with us all night. Enjoy live tribute and drag performances, costume contests with exciting prizes, themed cocktails at our Park View Bar, and live sets by DJ Misbehaviour on our South Terrace.
Photo by Filip Wolak
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Tuesday, November 3
MILES 100: The Trumpet After Miles
7:00 pm
National Jazz Museum in Harlem
58 W. 129th Street
Free
Few musicians transformed the sound and possibilities of the trumpet as profoundly as Miles Davis. As part of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Miles 100 series, curator Nabaté Isles brings together five distinctive trumpeters from different generations—Eddie Henderson, Jimmy Owens, Ralph Alessi, David Adewumi, and one final special guest—for a conversation exploring Miles’s influence, the evolution of the instrument, and what it means to develop an individual voice in jazz.
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Day of the Dead Family Celebration
at Greenwood Cemetery
November 2nd
4:00pm – 7:00pm
Free!
Discover the rich history and traditions associated with the holiday Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) through family-friendly crafts, performances, music, and hands-on activities.
Celebrated throughout Latin America from October 31st to November 2nd, this holiday is a time for family and friends to commemorate departed loved ones through altars, music, food, and dance.
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Lincoln Center Presents:
David Rubenstein Atrium
Sunday, November 1
6:00 pm
1887 Broadway @ 63rd St/
Join Lincoln Center for a Mexican cultural tradition representing a time to honor deceased family members and ancestors, featuring Guachinangos and a Community Ofrenda.
Photo by Camila Vinasko
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Thursday, November 5, 2026
Jazz Night: Bulatkin, Herak & Guests — Offbeat Bohemia
7:00–11:00pm
Czech Center New York
321 East 73rd Street
Daniel Bulatkin and Miro Herak bring bold jazz and folk roots to the stage with New York guests Ben Tiberio and Ofri Nehemya. Join pianist Daniel Bulatkin and vibraphonist Miro Herak for an evening of lyrical melodies, driving rhythms, and adventurous improvisation, with New York-based guests Ben Tiberio on double bass and Ofri Nehemya on drums.
Their shared project, Elysium, blends contemporary jazz with Central European folk traditions and Balkan rhythms. This quartet performance is part of Czech Center New York’s Offbeat Bohemia concert series.
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"Shanties, Saloons, and Stone Walls: Photographing a Vanishing Upper West Side in 1905"
Wednesday, November 4th,
6 pm - 7 pm
Explore Broadway as you have never before! Professor Yablon will share treasures from amateur photographer Charles Gilbert Hine's benchmark 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway. Learn about the documentation that spanned from the foot of Broadway at Bowling Green on up to Inwood, with a special look at scenes from "The Boulevard" on the Upper West Side.
Yablon will share the stories behind the life and times of this storied thoroughfare.
This program is live, in person, at Macaulay Honors College, 35 West 67th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.
Doors open at 5:30.
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New York Baltic Film Festival
November 5–8
Scandinavia House,
The Ninth Annual New York Baltic Film Festival, presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, returns this November 5–8.
The festival features new feature films, documentaries, and animation shorts from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Visit the festival website for schedules and tickets.
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Brahms & Puts: A Journey to Belief
Friday, November 6th at 7:30pm
Free with reserved ticket
520 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
NYCP’s November program traces a journey from clarity to conviction. Lars-Erik Larsson’s Concertino for Double Bass opens with neoclassical warmth, followed by Kevin Puts’s quietly searching Credo. The evening concludes with Brahms’s Double Concerto, his final orchestral work and one of his most personal statements, performed by violinist Kyung Sun Lee and cellist Clive Greensmith.
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Brooklyn Folk Festival
November 6–8 · St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn
Website:
The Brooklyn Folk Festival has announced its full lineup for this year. Presented by The Jalopy Theatre & School of Music, the festival enters its 17th year celebrating folk music, cultural diversity, and memory.
This year features more than 40 bands, including local New York artists and international performers. Headlining the festival is folk artist Bonnie “Prince” Billy, alongside Louis Cato, The Deslondes, Lonnie Holley, Michael Daves, and many more.
Beyond music, the festival includes workshops, film screenings, content, and jam sessions.
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Gallo/Flórez
Music from Colombia
Thursday, November 5th
7:00pm
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
The Colombian musicians present music that bridges traditional folk music and contemporary jazz. The Gallo/Flórez Duo, pianist Ricardo Gallo and guitarist Alejandro Flórez, combines allusions to Colombian Andean folk music with layers of improvised harmonic and rhythmic richness, rendering the music expansive and visceral.
Relying on the lushness of bandola and tiple, two traditional Colombian guitars, the duo’s sound—lyrical and colorful, angular and virtuosic, at times dystopian and ironic—moves effortlessly through jazz, contemporary music, and South American music.
Gallo/Florez. (Image: Camila Vinasco)
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Big Apple Film Festival — Fall Edition
November 6–12 ·
SVA Theatre and Cinema Village, Manhattan
The Big Apple Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing and promoting the highest-quality films from New York City’s independent film community, alongside specially selected films from across the country and around the world.
Each season, the festival presents awards in a variety of filmmaking and screenwriting categories and honors New York City-based filmmakers, writers, actors, and artists who have influenced the growth of independent filmmaking.
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China Institute Gallery at 60, 1966 - 2026:
Selections from Three Millennia of Chinese Art
Through January 3, 2027
40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor
Founded in 1966, the China Institute Gallery has showcased the history of Chinese art from antiquity to the present through thought-provoking exhibitions. The masterworks featured in “China Institute Gallery at 60, 1966-2026: Selections from Three Millennia of Chinese Art” exemplify what has made the Institute’s exhibitions groundbreaking.
Dating from as early as 3000 BCE, the objects include fine jades, rare bronze vessels, paintings, calligraphy, Buddhist sculpture, ceramics, auspicious symbols, and scholars’ objects. The current exhibition celebrates how its presentations have illuminated pathways to a deeper understanding of the arts of China. Curated by Annette Juliano, Alfreda Murck, and David Ake Sensabaugh—scholars of Chinese art—it features around 90 works on loan from more than thirty institutions and private collectors.
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Diwali Lights at Asia Society
Family Day
Saturday, November 7th
1:00–4:00 pm
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
Diwali, often known as the Festival of Lights, is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists. It symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.
Diwali returns to Asia Society with a colorful, fun-filled, multisensory afternoon presented in collaboration with The Culture Tree.
Celebrate good fortune, family, and friendships through music and dance performances, storytelling, and hands-on arts and crafts inspired by the holiday. Be sure to check out the special Diwali menu at Asia Society’s Leo Cafe.
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Saturday, November 7, 2026 Native Sounds Downtown: Agalisiga “The Chuj” Mackey
Performances at 11am, 1pm and 3pm
National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green
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Welcome Cherokee country and blues musician Agalisiga “The Chuj” Mackey to the Native Sounds Downtown stage at the New York museum.
Mackey is a musician and educator from the Cherokee Nation in northeastern Oklahoma. He spent his early years in the traditional Cherokee community of Kenwood and later moved to Tahlequah to become fluent in the Cherokee language at the Cherokee Immersion School. Mackey grew up participating in traditional Cherokee ceremonies and singing ceremonial songs. He also draws inspiration from country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers and hill country blues musician R.L. Burnside. He writes and sings original compositions in the Cherokee language, blending classic country and blues with his deep baritone voice.
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N.I.C.E. Italian Film Festival — First Screening Date
November 7th and 16th
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue (68-69th Sts.)
New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) returns to New York City for its 36th edition, celebrating contemporary Italian cinema with a new selection of films, fresh perspectives, and compelling stories.
The festival is free and open to the public, with reservations required.
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Free performances at Lincoln Center's Rubenstein Atrium
1887 Broadway (62-63 Sts.)
A Sample of Upcoming Free Programs
The Precipice
Thursday, November 12th
7:30pm
With the New York premiere of her bold new musical, The Precipice, composer, lyricist, and performer Miranda Ferriss Jones returns to Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium. Miranda brings together a majority-women collective spanning generations and disciplines, including Jones herself alongside Tony Award winner Laura Benanti. This mythic coming-of-age tale affirms the greatest threat to an oppressive society is a sisterhood bound together by unbridled freedom and radical love.
Friday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Latin Grammy-winning artist Luisito Gómez leads Calle 107 at this exciting ¡VAYA! event. Gather for a night of salsa romántica with a classic NYC twist.
Saturday, November 21, 7:30 pm
The renowned Taiwan-based Ju Percussion Group fuses Eastern and Western musical tradition to create theatrically energized live performances.
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Masterpieces: A Virtual Experience of the Museo del Prado
Through December 20
The Powerhouse Arts, Gowanus
322 Third Avenue
An immersive virtual reality exhibition developed by ACCIONA Cultura in exclusive collaboration with Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, Masterpieces invites visitors into a multi-sensory reimagining of one of the world’s greatest museums, including fantastical, in-depth explorations of its most celebrated, and rarely traveled, masterpieces.
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Journey through Medieval & Baroque Spain
Saturday, November 7
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Instituto Cervantes - Nueva York
211-215 East 49th Street
Free with tickets
Journey through Medieval & Baroque Spain with The Wealth of Spanish Guitar, then meet the era's unique instruments! As part of the ongoing Amster Yard Sounds: Classical series—curated by soprano Elizaveta Kozlovath is a Family Concert, designed especially for audiences of all ages.
The Wealth of Spanish Guitar offers a musical representation of the lyrical world spanning from the Medieval to Baroque traditions of the Hispanic Diaspora, ranging from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula to the oral traditions of the Middle East. The repertoire features music selected from manuscripts and field research dating back to 15th- and 16th-century Iberia, 17th-century Spain, Peru, Mexico, and Chile, as well as works by anonymous composers from Sephardic communities around the world.
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Interested in Literary Events Where you can Meet the Authors?
Check out the calendar of events at Brooklyn's The Center for Fiction, The Strand Bookstore, and the Upper East Side's 92nd Street Y.
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Free Concert at Carnegie Hall! The Local 802 Senior Concert Orchestra
Sunday, November 8
1:00pm
The program features conductor Constantine Kitsoupolos and this year's violin soloist Anatol Toth. For more info (including repertoire and how to reserve advance tickets): The program includes Verdi’s “Overture to Nabucco,” Dvorak’s violin concerto and Beethoven’s 5th symphony.
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Music of America: Melvis Santa
Monday, November 9th
7:00 pm
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South,
Celebrate the sixth season of the Fine & Mellow Jazz Series with an evening of Afro-Cuban jazz.
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and the National Arts Club present Melvis Santa for an evening of live music exploring the vibrant connections between Cuban musical traditions and jazz.
Born in Havana and based in New York, Santa is a vocalist, pianist, percussionist, and composer who blends expressive storytelling, rhythmic energy, improvisation, and her rich cultural heritage. She is currently touring with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett and leads several projects, including Ashedí, the all-female ensemble Gata Jazz, and Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas.
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New York: A Documentary Film — Episode 9: Shadows of the Past
Monday, November 9,
6pm - 9pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd St. Chelsea
Join Open House NY for the first full public viewing of two new chapters from the critically acclaimed PBS documentary series by Ric Burns and James Sanders, New York: A Documentary Film.
The newest installments explore the challenges New York City has faced over the past 50 years, beginning with the city's near-bankruptcy in 1975 and continuing through the crime and disorder of the 1980s and 1990s, the September 11 attacks, global financial crises, superstorms, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring interviews with civic leaders, academics, and journalists, including David Dinkins, Ian Frazier, Wesley Morris, Janette Sadik-Khan, Christina Greer, and many others, Episode 9, Shadows of the Past, chronicles a half-century of New York history. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ric Burns and co-writer and co-producer James Sanders, with Cassim Shepard.
Tickets: $10 for OHNY members; $15 general admission.
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Art Exhibit: Yoshimoto Nara
David Zwirner Galleries
November 5 - December 12
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959) featuring new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by the artist. Spanning the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street and 533 West 19th Street locations in New York, this exhibition will be the artist’s first solo presentation with David Zwirner and his first major solo exhibition in New York in nearly a decade.
Since the mid-1980s, Nara’s multidisciplinary approach has produced a distinctive and varied body of work. His artistic sensibilities were uniquely formed and shaped by his solitary childhood in rural northern Japan. Nara’s formative encounters with nature, folklore, and children’s fables, and his revelatory discovery of popular music through his self-built radio, are the source of his creativity. Through introspection, Nara freely reimagines his past experiences, and they have determined his visual language and steered his stylistic development for four decades.
Join the gallery for the opening reception Thursday, November 5, 6–8 pm
Photo courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery: Yoshitomo Nara in his studio, 2026. Photograph: Keita Saiki, Artwork: Yoshitomo Nara
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Diwali Celebration at South Street Seaport Museum
Tuesday, November 10
4pm-6pm
Free
South Street Seaport Museum
213 Water Street
Join festive activities to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights with the Seaport Museum, The Culture Tree Collective Inc., and The Rubin Museum.
From 4pm to 6pm, celebrate Diwali with hands-on activities on the Museum’s Water Street cobblestones! Decorate a battery-operated diya-inspired candle and float it in a special pool to symbolize prosperity for the new year.
Diwali, named for the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that light up homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness, also marks the start of the Hindu New Year.
Rubin Teaching Artists will guide families in creating a large-scale rangoli design with flower petals, and attendees can make their own colorful rangoli designs using sand. From 4pm to 5pm, visit a henna artist for a beautiful decorative keepsake.
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NYC Art Week
November 11–14
Across New York City
A first-of-its-kind NYC Art Week is coming this November: a four-day celebration bringing together more than 80 galleries, major museums, artists, and cultural institutions across four core districts.
From Chelsea to the Lower East Side, the inaugural Art Week will spotlight New York’s contemporary art scene through exhibitions, gallery openings, conversations, performances, and special programming.
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Hub New Music
Tuesday, November 10 at 6pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Free admission
Doors open at 5:30pm, music at 6:00pm
Onstage seating is first-come, first-served.
Hailed by The Washington Post as “a prime mover of piping hot 21st-century repertoire,” Hub New Music has earned a reputation as one of today's leading champions of living composers. Making its Miller Theatre debut, the ensemble performs a program of bold, recent works by Christopher Cerrone, Elijah Daniel Smith, and Dai Wei.
Sit onstage and enjoy a free drink during these hour-long weeknight Pop-Up Concerts, and mingle with the musicians and fellow concertgoers after the show.
Photo by Clay Larsen
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Eric Sanderson’s Guide to NYC’s Indigenous Landscape
Wednesday, November 11
6:30–8:00 pm
Contact the Gotham Center at
(212) 817-8460 for in person and online options.
In Before New York, famed ecologist Eric W. Sanderson provides the long-awaited sequel to his celebrated Mannahatta—a historical atlas of the natural region that became New York City.
The culmination of more than 25 years of research, the book features 75 original maps, 200 color illustrations, and nearly 4,000 detailed descriptions of streams, wetlands, rocks, plants, animals, and Indigenous settlements, from before Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609 to the present.
Sanderson reconstructs the natural geography of the city as it was in September 1609, offering a glimpse of the landscape long before the arrival of concrete and steel.
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DOC NYC: America's Largest Documentary Film Festival
November 11–29 · In-person screenings November 11–19; Online through November 29
Program and tickets: https://www.docnyc.net/program
America’s largest documentary festival returns with more than 200 films, including shorts. Featured titles include Union Town and Frida: The Girl Just Doesn't Go Away.
For 10 of the past 11 years, DOC NYC has screened the documentary feature that went on to win the Academy Award, as well as 49 of the last 55 Oscar-nominated documentary features.
DOC NYC is also an Academy-qualifying festival for short films. Its winning short can qualify for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Academy Awards, subject to the Academy’s rules.
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Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF)
November 13–16
Cinema Village, Manhattan
Now in its 16th year, the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival showcases innovative, bold, and exciting works of film and video art from around the world. The festival embraces a boundary-pushing spectrum of work, including animation, music videos, fashion films, visual narratives, and experimental filmmaking. The 2026 program includes Beauty, Sex & Shame, Between Fashion & Music, and Something is Wrong. Very Wrong.
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The Library After Hours: Friday the 13th Edition
Friday, November 13, 2026
7:30–10:00 pm ·
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, NYPublic Library,
5th Avenue @ 42nd Street
Join the specatcular main librray at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building for a night of horror, superstition, and mystery. Admission: Ages 21 and older; ID required.
Featured activities include:
- Live music and storytelling in the Rose Main Reading Room, including Glass Harmonica with Friedrich Heinrich Kern and scary stories with Clay McLeod Chapman, Nneoma Ike-Njoku, and Angela Liu.
- A one-night-only display of rare collection materials exploring the evolving identity of witches.
- Create a horror story inspired by the Picture Collection.
- Classic films from the Library's collections.
- A horror book tasting with the NYPL librarians behind the Library's Best New Horror of 2026 list.
- Coloring, puzzles, and games.
- Music by DJ René Hidalgo.
- Library card sign-up.
- Access to Declaring America: 1776 and Beyond and the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures.
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Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film
Current Exhibition
Bard Graduate Center
18 West 86th Street
Through January 3rd, 2027
When films were silent, fashion spoke volumes. Goddesses in the Machine reveals the untold story of costume and style in early Hollywood, from actors wearing their own clothes to the birth of the movie costume designer. The first major exhibition to explore fashion in American silent film, Goddesses in the Machine shows how silent films transformed fashion from personal expression into powerful storytelling, creating the blueprint for modern movie glamour.
Bringing together a selection of rare surviving objects from the advent of cinema, the exhibition highlights the behind-the-scenes work of famous designers such as Travis Banton, Henri Bendel, Clare West, and Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon, as well as lesser-known names including Madame Frances, I. Miller, Natacha Rambova, and Lilian St. Cyr. A vibrant display of ensembles and accessories at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery will be enriched by accompanying film clips and works on paper including photographs, posters, film stills, and costume design sketches.
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The Bowery: Devil’s Mile
New Museum
Through January 31, 2027.
Highly Recommended! The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is the first exhibition to trace the rich history and culture of New York’s oldest thoroughfare. The exhibition brings together artworks and artifacts that explore the Bowery as a street, a neighborhood, and a state of mind.
Once known as the world’s most notorious skid row, the Bowery has, over five centuries, had many incarnations: a Lenape footpath; a home to farms and cattle drives; the site of racetracks and pleasure gardens; and a center of popular entertainment with theaters, concert halls, tattoo parlors, and dime museums. More recently, it has been the spine of a thriving artists community which ushered in yet another new era for the street.
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Monday, November 16, 2026
New York: A Documentary Film — Episode 10: The Future of Cities
6:00–9:00 pm
SVA Theatre, 333 W. 23rd St., Chelsea
Hosted by Open House NY
The second of two new chapters from Ric Burns and James Sanders’s acclaimed PBS documentary series, New York: A Documentary Film, examines New York City’s capacity for reinvention in the face of crises and change.
Featuring interviews with civic leaders, academics, and journalists, Episode 10, The Future of Cities, explores how the city’s ability to welcome newcomers and adapt has contributed to its recovery and continued vitality.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ric Burns and co-writer and co-producer James Sanders, with Saundra Thomas.
Tickets: $10 for OHNY members; $15 general admission.
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Manhattan Vintage — Upper East Side Show
November 14–15
Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th Street
The Upper East Side Show is presented by the team behind Manhattan Vintage, New York’s largest and most iconic vintage event. For two days, the Ukrainian Institute transforms into an old-world marketplace of beauty and discovery. Wander from room to room, surrounded by extraordinary vintage finds in a setting that showcases turn-of-the-century art and architecture.
The event features a specially curated selection of dealers for the discerning eye.
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México Now Festival: Celebrating Contemporary Mexican Art and Culture
November 17–20
New York City - Various Venues
Founded in 2004 by award-winning curator and producer Claudia Norman of CN Management, México Now Festival (MXNOW) is New York City’s first and only independent festival dedicated to celebrating contemporary Mexican culture.
The 23rd season features documentary film screenings, panel conversations, book presentations, and musical performances, reimagining boundaries from water infrastructure to musical genre to the elements themselves.
The festival champions international cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States by presenting Mexican and Mexican-American artists alongside U.S.-based creators inspired by Mexican traditions and perspectives.
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Memories of Storm & Light: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Pasquini
Church of the Holy Apostles
Friday, November 20th 7:30pm - 9pm
296 9th Ave. at West 28th St.
Free with Ticket
Join Westside Chamber Players for the opening concert of our 2026–27 season, featuring music by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann alongside a new work by NYC-based composer Luca Pasquini, WCP’s 2026–27 Call for Scores winner.
The program brings together three works that explore contrasting worlds of light, turbulence, lyricism, and transformation. Artistic Director and Conductor Julius Akira Mauldin is joined by NYC-based violinist Ana Isabella España as soloist in Mendelssohn's virtuosic Violin Concerto in E minor.
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Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
Brooklyn Museum
Through January 3, 2027
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses celebrates one of the most forward-thinking fashion designers of her generation. A pioneer in the use of new technologies, Van Herpen transcends conventional clothing norms while embracing traditional couture artisanship and innovative techniques. More than 140 haute couture creations are displayed alongside contemporary artworks, designs, scientific artifacts, and natural history specimens.
The exhibition explores the body’s place in space, its relationship to clothing and the environment, and its future in a rapidly changing world. Van Herpen’s designs draw on biomimicry, fractal geometry, mathematics, and neuroscience, transforming cutting-edge discoveries into sculptural gowns and ethereal fabrics.
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Comfy Classical at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Wednesday, November 18
6:00–8:00 pm
At Comfy Classical, a multisensory music salon, everyone is invited to relax and enjoy performances by top-tier classical musicians in a comfortable setting.
The series is founded on the idea that relaxation, comfort, and creative socialization are essential for a fulfilling and creative life. It offers a sanctuary where guests can unwind and recharge.
Featured performers
Sasha Ono is an award-winning cellist and concert curator based in New York City. Known for her versatility, she has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician with artists including Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Itzhak Perlman, Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bell, and Michael Bublé. Her recorded work includes Grammy Award-winning projects, and she regularly works on Broadway productions and musical theater projects.
Emily Garrison is a versatile violinist who performs at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. She performs with orchestras throughout the Tri-State area and participates in chamber music projects across the Northeast.
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NYC's Newest Historic Rooftop!
Centre 360 — Panoramic Views of New York City
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Yume Kitasei have officially opened reservations for Centre 360, a free panoramic experience atop the historic David N. Dinkins Municipal Building.
For the first time since 1914, the public is invited to ascend more than 500 feet above street level into the building’s iconic cupola. Following a $6 million restoration project, the space offers a rare perspective on New York City’s skyline and civic landscape.
Each visit accommodates eight guests, with capacity for up to 200 visitors per week.
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Native American Heritage Day
Friday, November 27
11:00am –4:00pm,
National Museum of the American Indian,
Free admission
Members of Native Pride Productions, featured North American dancers in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, join the museum’s celebration of Native American Heritage Day.
Native Pride Dancers bring together dancers and styles from many Native communities, weaving them into a rich tapestry of motion. The dancers will demonstrate different styles of powwow dance and share the unique stories and traditions surrounding the dances with visitors.
Performances begin at 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and 3:00 PM.
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