{"title": "An Unlikely Barn: The Mount Vernon Hotel & Villa Building on the East River", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-unlikely-barn-the-mount-vernon-hotel-villa-building-on-the-east-river-tickets-1992596328257", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "A lecture on the history and architecture of the 1799 building that now houses the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum. Art historian J. Keith Doherty explores how the structure, ostensibly built as a barn on the former estate of Revolutionary War colonel William Stephens Smith, served as a showpiece displaying its owner's wealth and taste to those sailing past on the East River. He also discusses the history of villa building along the river, from Peter Stuyvesant's Bowery farmhouse to the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Gracie Mansion, and compares surviving buildings such as Philipse Manor Hall, the Van Cortlandt House Museum and the Valentine-Varian House. The talk marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Mount Vernon Hotel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-unlikely-barn-the-mount-vernon-hotel-villa-building-on-th-54016/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/an-unlikely-barn-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-early-villa-building/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/457fa469fc5be0f503a35cf2c706c1dc308a1d82d3f4a226c749ac852f6b09ca-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Open House at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden-Tues, Nov 3rd", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd-tickets-2003830449817", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A free, all-day open house at a historic house museum celebrating a new exhibition and the 200th anniversary of the Mount Vernon Hotel opening on this site. The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden invites the public to drop in between 11am and 4:30pm for complimentary tours, Insider Talks on the exhibition The Empire City Begins: New York in the 1820s and 1830s, and refreshments in the historic Tavern. Visitors can also play a traditional 19th-century game, stroll the historic garden, browse the gift shop, and learn about the hidden history of day hotels in 1820s New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-54012/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61d4ce3d251a6651aebc9429ab891f677ac2db4c30af0ce60ec8e5c482bb7aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Empire City: Discover New York City's Hidden History + Tea Tasting", "start": "2026-11-09T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-tea-tasting-tickets-2002079606999", "category": "tours", "tags": ["food-drink/tea", "history/new-york"], "description": "A museum tour with a historically-inspired tea tasting at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, marking the 200th anniversary of the hotel's opening. The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden presents this event about the rise of New York City driven largely by the Erie Canal, opened in October 1825, which made day hotels like the Mount Vernon Hotel flourish. The tour highlights the new exhibition The Empire City Begins and explains the canal's impact on travel and trade. Afterwards, guests step into the Tavern for a tea talk with four to five teas inspired by what would have been served at the Mount Vernon Hotel, plus light refreshments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-tea-t-54015/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-tea-tasting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f647f5502dc216d91fab38ab371b14afe169138cb56efc39f9c91055beb93a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Empire City: Discover New York City's Hidden History + Wine Tasting", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-tasting-tickets-2002076314150", "category": "tours", "tags": ["food-drink/wine", "history/new-york"], "description": "A museum tour at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum paired with a historically-inspired wine tasting, marking the 200th anniversary of the hotel's opening. The tour covers New York City's rise after the Erie Canal opened in October 1825, highlighting the new exhibition The Empire City Begins. It ends in the Tavern with a tasting of four to five contemporary New York wines led by a WSET-certified docent, with light refreshments served. Attendees must be 21.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-54014/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-tasting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f647f5502dc216d91fab38ab371b14afe169138cb56efc39f9c91055beb93a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spies Among Us: From the American Revolution to 1830s New York", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york-tickets-2001890882519", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A program at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden looking back at spies and spying in New York City from the American Revolution to the 1820s and 1830s. The museum's brand new program explores the spying and spying techniques of ordinary citizens, from George Washington's Culper Spies in the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 and early 19th-century reform movements like temperance and abolition, which set the stage for spies of the Civil War. It is followed by a tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel, where from 1826 to 1833 guests might have gossiped about spies of their day—or been spies themselves—while pursuing leisure activities in the then-tranquil countryside of Manhattan. The museum marks 250 years of American Independence and 200 years of the Mount Vernon Hotel with this look at a hidden facet of New York City history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-yor-54013/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york/", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Battle Pass in Prospect Park” Exhibit", "start": "2026-07-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T23:59:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts Historic House", "address": "Flatbush Avenue 452, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "This exhibit at Lefferts Historic House is a replica of the famous Battle Pass, a military installation with two historic replica cannons where visitors can learn about a formative battle. It was created by the Prospect Park Alliance to mark the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brooklyn, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. In August 1776, American troops stationed two cannons on this site, in the hills separating Flatbush from the rest of Brooklyn, to defend against the British, but on August 27 British troops evaded these defenses, forcing the Americans to withdraw across the Gowanus Creek. Nearly a century later, Prospect Park landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux named the area Battle Hill to commemorate the soldiers who fought there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/battle-pass-in-prospect-park-exhibit-53027/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7fb33b0844b17c77c9928d1e0ea6fee046ce93819b9a7f871655b3fe085652b9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "OPEN HOURS", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Waterfront Museum", "address": "Conover Street 290, 11231", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/maritime", "nature"], "description": "The Waterfront Museum holds open hours with free tours for families and individuals while its wooden covered barge is docked in Red Hook. The museum, aboard the Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79, was founded by David Sharps, a former juggler who bought the barge in 1985 and restored it as a performance space. The barge, built in 1914 for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, is the only surviving example of its kind and offers some of the best sunsets and waterfront views in the city. The museum also offers educational programs, circus acts, and a sunset music series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-hours-56991/", "official_url": "https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/open-hours-3-2/2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c86968e87474e6366dedafed6608bbd4010a9655b3e71e395ab76e13d220502-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Open Hours", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T16:00:00-04:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution", "art"], "description": "Open Hours are the public visiting times of the Old Stone House, a historic house in Brooklyn where visitors can drop in without a reservation. The organizer is Old Stone House & Washington Park, which keeps the house open and welcomes all, with a suggested three-dollar donation at the door and no one turned away for lack of funds. Upstairs, the contemporary exhibition 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land', curated by Jeremy Dennis, brings together new work by Indigenous artists Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon and Dennis himself to examine the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence's promises and the dispossession of Native lands. On the ground floor, the permanent exhibit 'The Old Stone House: Witness to War' leads visitors through ten themed areas covering the journey from the Lenape village of Marechkawick through Dutch colonization and the Revolutionary War era in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-hours-76987/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6500f42884a5b5d67183669b37bf6c23a15f15238db7e199bdb63def46ddfab7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Public Tours", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "place": "Wyckoff House Museum", "address": "Clarendon Road 5816", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "Public Tours offers guided visits of the Wyckoff House, said to be New York's oldest house, on Saturday tour hours. The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum runs the tours, with the park grounds and garden open and guided house tours starting each hour from 11:30 AM. Visitors are guided through three furnished rooms reflecting periods from the 17th-century Dutch Colonial Era to the early 19th century. A 11:30 AM 'Family Style' Tour is well-suited for young historians, and afterwards guests can rest in the garden or on the covered patio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-tours-57573/", "official_url": "https://wyckoffmuseum.org/event/public-tours-12/2026-10-31/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e48e93e21f6521387fe52e2172ea287994f9109dc9869f8080d27127e4e3d5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Guided Tours", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/historicrichmondtown/items/492436/calendar/?flow=943168&full-items=yes", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Guided Tours are walking tours through Historic Richmond Town, a historic site of restored buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries on Staten Island. Led by expert Historical Interpreters, the tours include the 1820s Village Life Tour, exploring taverns, trades like basket making and broom making, and an 1820s kitchen, and the Two Centuries Tour, a survey of Staten Island from a 1640s Native Encampment through the Revolutionary era to slavery and emancipation in the 1820s. Each tour lasts 75 minutes and also includes admission to the Historical Museum, open 11am to 4pm on the day of the visit. The tour covers uneven ground and is not recommended for visitors with mobility issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guided-tours-66593/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a097030439265b7461a69161ca8d3c2c78becaa2edc6256c3cf503ce98760a28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, October (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history on a docent-led tour of the Library's landmark 1917 building, exploring the gallery and its architectural wonders. The New York Society Library offers these tours, which on some days focus especially on the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery and its current exhibition, 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary and exploring how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours run on the half hour, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is open to the public and visitors can simply drop in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-october-2-4-pm-on-the-half-h-79672/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-october-2-4-pm-half-hour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sandy Hook History House", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Ryan Visitor Center", "address": "New York Avenue 210, 10305 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "Sandy Hook History House is a building from 1898 that once served as a lieutenant's quarters on Officers Row and is now furnished to the WWII era, the busiest time in the fort's history. It is presented by Gateway National Recreation Area. Visitors can explore it at their own pace on a self-guided tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sandy-hook-history-house-55484/", "official_url": "https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=8A573A65-9EAF-6243-056326DD54E84E80", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f9d90bd430b84c470547cc7945da504be4d81333be3d0a4b9dc16361a2bdc27-2000.webp"}, {"title": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” Exhibit", "start": "2026-07-01T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts Historic House", "address": "Flatbush Avenue 452, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” is a pop-up exhibit in the yard of Lefferts Historic House. Presented by Prospect Park Alliance, it explores the important and varied roles Black people played in the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. It shows how they served as soldiers and spies on both sides, built American forts, maintained British ships, and seized the conflict to better their lives. The exhibit also tells how the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family and their neighbors navigated the war, including fighting at Battle Pass in what is now Prospect Park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/black-people-and-the-battle-of-brooklyn-exhibit-53028/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Living History After Dark", "start": "2026-10-30T17:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T19:00:00-04:00", "place": "Fraunces Tavern Museum", "address": "Pearl Street 54, 10004 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/frauncestavernmuseum/items/666176/?full-items=yes", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "Living History After Dark is a candlelit evening event that turns Fraunces Tavern Museum into an after-dark adventure, with costumed interpreters, rare artifacts unveiled just for the night, and tales from the Revolutionary era, ending with a themed goody bag. It is held by Fraunces Tavern Museum, which is owned and operated by Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc. The museum invites everyone to experience history in a whole new light, and says the event is fun for all ages, with costumes encouraged but not required. Doors open at 5:30pm and close at 6:30pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/living-history-after-dark-52700/", "official_url": "https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/events-calendar/2025/10/30/living-history-after-dark-5bbx5", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b2787858c9782938874073f1bbae1d13cca0f20e6dcdd2806ca07df7ed5b8fe2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Second Sunday Castle Tours", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Castle", "address": "Dwight Street 177, Brooklyn", "price": "$0.00", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/american-history"], "description": "Second Sunday Castle Tours are guided tours of The Castle in Fort Totten and its exhibitions, held on the second Sunday of each month. They are conducted by the Bayside Historical Society's staff and volunteers, with two tours of about 45 minutes each, starting at 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Completed in 1887, The Castle is one of New York City's finest surviving examples of Gothic Revival castellated-style architecture and originally served as the Officers' Mess Hall and Club for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers School of Application.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/second-sunday-castle-tours-75659/", "official_url": "https://www.baysidehistorical.org/events-1/second-sunday-castle-tours-27", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61497f725092c85cf29a2ce2698a6332a77e3ec7f3db566b3830eb69cef91dbe-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open [Block] House", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Open [Block] House is a day of workshops, talks, studio visits and more at Nolan Park - Building 9. It is hosted by The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA), which welcomes a new cohort of fellows to Governors Island this Fall. Visitors can join Open Studio visits to see in-progress prototyping and research, public reading hours in the IPA library, and meet the Fall Fellows working in sustainable design, architecture, art and landscape architecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-block-house-52855/", "official_url": "https://instituteforpublicarchitecture.org/2026-Fall-Open-Block-House-Series", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171e598a95a23791545d2114dfa03956e2d05f696ccfe7dfc213b001d47f763a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "“Founding Principals” Exhibition", "start": "2026-06-27T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A two-gallery exhibition at Historic Richmond Town titled “Founding Principles: The Declaration of Independence, Civics, and Staten Island.” It is presented by Historic Richmond Town and draws on objects from its collection, such as campaign buttons and items from 1776, alongside local historical examples. The show examines the different levels and branches of government and the ways citizens engage it, and also explores civic assets, public spaces, and forums for civic engagement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/founding-principals-exhibition-53026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557991e175b73c332d322a046f4a0c41cff93bc80412909ad82c33ebcc7f760e-2000.webp"}]}