{"title": "Author Talk: A Right to Housing? by Samuel Stein", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/housing"], "description": "A book talk and conversation on the urgent question of housing as a right, held at Van Alen Institute in Gowanus. Author Samuel Stein introduces his new book 'A Right to Housing?' and its untraditional structure with a short reading. He is then joined by Andrew Brown, policy expert at Van Alen Institute, for a discussion ranging from the politics of housing policy to what a genuine right to housing could look like in practice. 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Speaker Darryl Austin will present.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/anhd-goldstein-hall-training-series-back-end-of-the-deal-yr-66142/", "official_url": "https://www.goldsteinhall.com/gsh_events/anhd-goldstein-hall-training-series-back-end-of-the-deal-yr-15-credits-and-refinancing-3/", "image": ""}, {"title": "New Social Environment: SR Lejeune & Joshua Chee Sanford", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An online conversation in The Brooklyn Rail's talk series, held via Zoom. Artist SR Lejeune speaks with Rail contributor Joshua Chee Sanford, a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. The talk accompanies Lejeune's exhibition \"Hold me up,\" on view at HESSE FLATOW through December 5, 2026. Registration is through a link.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-social-environment-sr-lejeune-joshua-chee-sanford-53013/", "official_url": "https://brooklynrail.org/event/2026/11/03/sr-lejeune/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/188e10ad2057bbac172ca6598c69ac118cd98a2863c8508bd7e07e1829d0ff06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sunday Storytime: Allison Matulli reading We Are Free, presented with Brown Babies N’ Books", "start": "2026-11-01T12:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Lofty Pigeon Books", "address": "Church Avenue 743, 11218 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-storytime-allison-matulli-reading-we-are-free-tickets-2003378396714?aff=oddtdtcreator#organizer-card", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books", "society/civil-rights"], "description": "A Sunday storytime at which Dr. Allison Matulli reads her book We Are Free: Our First Amendment Rights, followed by a meet-and-greet, signing, and light refreshments. The event is presented with Brown Babies N' Books, a Brooklyn-based literacy nonprofit that celebrates Black and Brown voices in children's literature, and is hosted by Lofty Pigeon Books. The book introduces the freedoms the First Amendment gives Americans, from practicing any religion to speaking up and standing up for one's beliefs. It is meant to start conversations about civic engagement with young people just in time for Election Day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sunday-storytime-allison-matulli-reading-we-are-free-present-53624/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/46ce5bbfe7c29acf992340f4102900f767b3b6b84ab8da7f0e4c84c11c1dce3b-2000.webp"}]}