{"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. 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The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.webp"}, {"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. 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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": "“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": null, "price_to": null, "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": "https://noky.io/images/79b58458a3c2b243f4a92582c2b5ca88764a2ccad208820cd70af1d88f84fcec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "“The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?” Exhibition", "start": "2026-05-05T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "King Manor Museum", "address": "Jamaica Avenue 150-05, 11432 Jamaica", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "King Manor Museum presents the exhibition “The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?”. It explores how Americans interpreted the nation’s founding during the 1976 bicentennial through the material culture of the era. Objects on display include printed fabrics, commemorative plates, beer cans, magazines, school yearbooks, underground prints, and protest posters. The show examines the vision of America expressed in both consumer goods and handmade items, highlighting the colorful and eclectic aesthetics of the 1970s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-bicentennial-revisited-the-spirit-of-76-exhibition-53025/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9c8ee2e8c5f55e45f5de8a1eff01421b24c0e6e88f8f500398c8c0612d9fc11-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. 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In the program, students explore urban planning, architecture, and design while reimagining their neighborhood with a focus on equity, justice, and community empowerment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/why-design-51773/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11e4aa0de90d6cd529e783be5f09ac1a58c5c42cbd8cd3da4821f337c7d8161d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"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://mvhm.org/events/", "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": "Village Ghost Tours", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "$12 per person", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/group-reservations", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Village Ghost Tours is a one-hour walking ghost tour through the historic village, visiting historic structures after dark by lantern light. It is led by historical interpreters in costume who explore folklore and mysteries from the past, discussing the lives and deaths of Staten Islanders, including accused people who stood trial at the 3rd County Courthouse. The guides also share reflections on their own unexplained encounters in town, in a storytelling program rather than paranormal ghost hunting. It is recommended for ages 8 and up, with children accompanied by an adult, and runs rain or shine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/village-ghost-tours-66594/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d004f5ce40433048306794e539d74bca275836a74020604c2633522f04e7edaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "125th Anniversary Library Exhibit: Deans and Law School Leaders", "start": "2026-11-04T12:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Brooklyn Law School", "address": "Joralemon Street 250, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": [], "description": "A special exhibit celebrating Brooklyn Law School's 125th anniversary. It is a curated display focusing on the impact made by the deans and leaders who have shaped the school. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend. It is held at the Brooklyn Law School Library, on the first floor near the circulation desk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/125th-anniversary-library-exhibit-deans-and-law-school-leade-51663/", "official_url": "https://www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-events/events/2026/2026_11_04/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hank Willis Thomas", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Live Arts", "address": "West 19th Street 219, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://newyorklivearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVt00000ZXEfyMAH", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "Hank Willis Thomas at Ford Foundation Live Gallery is a gallery exhibition of new works by artist Hank Willis Thomas, on view from September 16, 2026 into January 2027. Thomas, trained as a photographer, reinterprets archival images with new or rarely used technical processes, and viewers often must shift position or use a tool such as a camera flash to experience the whole work. The three works shown use 1940s photographs from U.S. government agencies of schoolchildren, many of Japanese descent, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and their titles reference the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo. The works examine what it means to be American and how we reconcile the contradictions of history and national identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hank-willis-thomas-54321/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6b782475ce0af6b70903f5ec4df136f24627893c7c5f66fca61bd5920797c81-2000.webp"}, {"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://mvhm.org/events/", "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"}, {"title": "Civil War Living History at Fort Totten", "start": "2026-11-01T09:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Castle", "address": "Dwight Street 177, Brooklyn", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "Civil War Living History at Fort Totten is a day-long living history event on the grounds of The Castle. The Bayside Historical Society welcomes back the Civil War re-enactors of the 67th New York Infantry, First Long Island Volunteers. Visitors can experience the life of Union soldiers and explore all facets of life in the 1860s, learning how the soldiers portrayed by the 67th NY thought, ate, dressed, fought, and endured. Attendance is free, there is no rain date, and an RSVP is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/civil-war-living-history-at-fort-totten-75657/", "official_url": "https://www.baysidehistorical.org/events-1/civil-war-living-history-at-fort-totten-4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a7462b12dca5ec89cef91a36265f5f26e154b183a6fced3137788e821c73440-2000.webp"}]}