{"title": "Forgotten Law Enforcement: Behind the Gates with Correctional Staff at Rikers Island Jail", "start": "2026-11-12T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-forgotten-law-enforcement-tickets-2002729201955?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/prisons"], "description": "A book talk on 'Forgotten Law Enforcement: Behind the Gates with Correctional Staff at Rikers Island Jail', held in the Moot Court at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It is hosted by John Jay College's Future of Public Safety Initiative as part of a fall series of events on public safety. Dr. Simone Martin-Howard, an Associate Professor at John Jay, discusses her book, based on in-depth interviews with correctional staff at Rikers Island, focusing on the experiences of Black and Caribbean men and women working inside the jail system. Correction officers Karl Chin and Jeri Henderson serve as discussants, with moderator Erica Bond, Vice President of Justice Initiatives at John Jay.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-the-gates-with-correctional-53323/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-gates-correctional-staff-rikers-island-jail", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Future of Corrections in New York City", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-corrections-in-new-york-city-tickets-2003711711668?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/prisons"], "description": "A conversation in the Leaders of Justice Series at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 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Historian Stuart Schrader, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, narrates how officers organized from the 1960s onward to gain control over working conditions, impunity, and budgets. He is joined by discussant Dr. David Brotherton, a professor of sociology at John Jay College. The event is part of John Jay College's Future of Public Safety Initiative and is sponsored by the Office for the Advancement of Research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blue-power-how-police-organized-to-protect-serve-themselves-53322/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/blue-power-how-police-organized-protect-serve-themselves", "image": ""}, {"title": "Calvin John Smiley and Jan Haldipur — Prison Hashtags: Incarceration,  Reentry, and Digital Identity", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=a83d8ccb-479c-4151-991f-1b55970ba5dd&envId=p-rzKFBb2xVk253Ulcjd_x1w&zone=usa", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/crime"], "description": "This is the New York launch of the book \"Prison Hashtags: Incarceration, Reentry, and Digital Identity,\" presented by Roosevelt House at Hunter College. 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Based on more than six years of digital ethnography, it examines how people in prison and returning to society use platforms like Instagram for community, networking, entrepreneurship, and activism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/calvin-john-smiley-and-jan-haldipur-prison-hashtags-incarcer-79228/", "official_url": "https://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/smiley-haldipur-prison-hashtags/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d0d665a76f0fa8ee7c474af1de8618ced71696fc9ade8815e13d46a1e2c0522-600.webp"}, {"title": "Book Talk with Journalist and Author Trymaine Lee", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "CUNY Graduate School of Journalism", "address": "West 40th Street 219, 10018 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchl9AL4Acth3epA5EFCLEmWRCSjTLQ5Bq7KKN6vImzSFRgfg/viewform", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/racism", "literature"], "description": "A book talk for “A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life In America” by Trymaine Lee. NABJ hosts the conversation about his journalism work, its impact on people of color, and how those experiences can become a book. NABJ also organizes pre-orders of the book, picked up at the event, supporting the small black book business “Tuma’s Books.”", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee-52247/", "official_url": "https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mitchell-Linden Book Club: Lon...", "start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Queens Public Library", "address": "14th Road 151-10, 11357 Whitestone", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/mitchelllinden-book-club-mrs-planskys-revenge-by-spencer-quinn/005085-0926", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-club", "history"], "description": "A book club meeting for adults at the Mitchell-Linden library, where participants discuss a book together in person. 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The CLUE event is co-sponsored by the CSI Student Pre-Law Club, the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. 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The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The War on Cars - Live", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=dd8a9cfd-b4c0-4a82-92e9-711a163b143f&envId=p-rzKFBb2xVk253Ulcjd_x1w&zone=usa", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A live event in which podcasters Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon of The War on Cars give news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to undo a century's worth of damage wrought by the automobile, approaching the topic from all angles, from politics to pop culture. It features Janette Sadik-Khan of Bloomberg Associates, former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner, and special musical guest Pondless, the urbanist synth-pop sensation. 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The museum hosts this conversation for professionals in the early and middle stages of their careers who are job hunting or considering a change. HR executives Diana Lee and Paolo Palma join James Cheng, vice chairman of Asian American Dream, for an inside look at the hiring process, moderated by Alice Tang, founder of Empathy & Art. The panel covers preparing for interviews, avoiding common mistakes, career decisions, and how AI is reshaping hiring and the workplace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-talks-inside-the-hiring-process-insights-for-your-next-54047/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-inside-the-hiring-process/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ce686bbd02888159a9b8a55bb550251d6901aaf988cdac968168396d1d97312-1200.webp"}, {"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-reid-pharr-tickets-2003828790855?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the bookstore Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn. 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