{"title": "Japan Fes New York", "start": "2026-11-01T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Culture Lab LIC", "address": "5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["food-drink/japanese", "occasion"], "description": "JAPAN Fes New York is a Japanese street food festival at Long Island City. It is run by Jforward Group and brings together many vendors offering Japanese dishes such as sushi tacos, ramen, takoyaki, yakitori, karaage, udon, gyoza, mochi and sweets. 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Japanese chef Daisuke Yamada, with over 25 years of experience in Japanese cuisine, has created an exclusive menu for the night, with Japanese food and drinks including Dassai BLUE, shochu, craft beer, and matcha. Koki Kimura, a professional nōkanshi (Japanese encoffinment ritual specialist), performs a special funeral ritual, and guests can also try the Coffin Experience. Speakers, performers, artists, and exhibitors from Memento Mori in NYC join the evening to reconnect, exchange ideas, and reflect on the past two days.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party-a-night-to-celebrate-life-55329/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f91184246d9b41757a8a87a0e079e4d4266bc1fae630abc5615b9b908ee58f4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. 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Guests can explore interactive, product-inspired rooms, test their multitasking skills, score custom OLLY Mochi x Chillhouse Chill Tips, and bounce around for a keepsake photo. 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Every color comes from food — carrot, aonori, bonito furikake, nori, cheese, cucumber and fish sausage — with no dyes. The rolls are built in parts and assembled, so no sushi experience is needed. Chef Hiroyo Belmonte, a certified Level 1 instructor in decorative sushi from the Japan Sushi Instructors Association, guides every step.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kazari-maki-zushi-decorative-sushi-roll-jack-o-lantern-frank-55320/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/kazari-maki-zushi-halloween-october-31/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3efbd7bcb04960beda15ec04cdaf339f694befac631b748c88a419a9a3260b54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lower East Side Food Tour", "start": "2026-11-04T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan", "address": "Amsterdam Avenue 334, 10023 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ops1.operations.daxko.com/Online/5384/ProgramsV2/Events.mvc/offering?guid=f7648d43-8b6b-11f1-99e9-005056921697", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/jewish-history", "food-drink"], "description": "Lower East Side Food Tour is a guided walk through a New York neighborhood once a center of Jewish culture. The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan puts it on. Participants learn the history of the tenement buildings occupied by the poor and view historic synagogues. Along the way they nosh on delicacies from the best kosher-style delis and bakeries in the city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lower-east-side-food-tour-53815/", "official_url": "https://www.mmjccm.org/events/lower-east-side-food-tour-fall2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d3a65e6a27a036804e137127919d681939df19f27ce42d30f1346aeef647f6c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Grand Ofrenda at Times Square", "start": "2026-10-30T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-02T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Times Sq - 42 St, New York, NY, USA", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/day-of-the-dead", "history"], "description": "The Grand Ofrenda is a free, four-day celebration of Día de Muertos in Times Square, centered on a traditional ofrenda that visitors can explore. It brings Mexican culture, music, catrinas, and remembrance of loved ones to the heart of the city, open to families and friends. It is made possible with partners from the Mexican states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Michoacán, and Mexico City, together with cultural partner Miztli, and Dr. Simi USA, Delta Airlines and Aeromexico.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-grand-ofrenda-at-times-square-67308/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3c5c418a48250435965706af35caaaed4e9467d9084f75636f05fe2a6d40403-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Industry City Gourmet Food and Drinks Tour", "start": "2026-10-31T16:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T19:30:00-04:00", "place": "Industry City", "address": "67 34th Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "food-drink", "tags": ["food-drink"], "description": "Industry City Gourmet Food and Drinks Tour is a premium food and cocktail tour through the revitalized industrial halls of Industry City, set against Sunset Park's historic waterfront. The curated journey begins with artistic bonbons at Lilac Chocolates, explores gourmet imports at Sahadi's, and includes a refined whiskey tasting at Fort Hamilton Distillery followed by a sophisticated sake flight. It is offered as a distinctive date night and is fully customizable for private groups, corporate retreats, team-building, and client entertainment. A sophisticated mini-vacation for locals and a profound discovery for visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/industry-city-gourmet-food-and-drinks-tour-66645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0bbae824be062c276e123cfd7e7b6bafbedbdfa1715797c8a63794fb3cd3701c-1200.webp"}]}