{"title": "Mapping Queens: Stewards of Historic Houses & Heritage Sites", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "FREE", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/heritage-preservation"], "description": "Mapping Queens: Stewards of Historic Houses & Heritage Sites is a panel conversation held at the Lewis Latimer House, a historic house museum in Flushing. It is part of Mapping Queens, a conversation series within Flushing Town Hall's Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative, moderated by Natalie Bedon, the initiative's project manager. Panelists Carl Ballenas, Debby Silverfine, Kelsey Brow and Ran Yan, leaders of Queens historic sites, discuss preserving the borough's diverse histories while keeping these places vibrant for arts, education and community. The evening ends with an audience Q&A and community mixer, with drinks and light refreshments available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mapping-queens-stewards-of-historic-houses-heritage-sites-113174/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/mapping-queens-stewards-of-historic-houses-heritage-sites", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1a409d44a1f94a01a69edeeba6b3cbd708c864cf0bb691572afbd4e8498e591-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Unearthing New York: Marking 60 Years of Archaeological Discovery", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "South Street Seaport Museum", "address": "Fulton Street 12, 10038", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/archaeology"], "description": "A panel talk celebrating 60 years of historic preservation and the archaeological discoveries it has made possible in New York City, held amid artifacts in the Seaport Museum's Maritime City exhibition. 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It also considers what is at stake today with current and proposed changes to preservation legislation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/unearthing-new-york-marking-60-years-of-archaeological-disco-56002/", "official_url": "https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/unearthing-ny/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9cbcc220152d5d7f4a1c9eadddb4f1bbcd813c2d0e2b19bbea84270d42d1e04c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Bowne Around Towne\" Flushing Walking Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "John Bowne House", "address": "Bowne Street 37-01, 11354", "price": "$20 General; $15 Member of BHHS", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A guided walking tour of Flushing sites connected to the Bowne family, who were among the first European settlers of the area in the 1650s and lived in the same home for nine generations. 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Visitors should bring comfortable walking shoes and a bottle of water, and the walk ends at Bowne House, now the only Queens site on the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bowne-around-towne-flushing-walking-tour-53310/", "official_url": "https://www.bownehouse.org/events/save-the-date-bowne-around-towne-flushing-walking-tour-hzyeg-l8sc4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/628c45065e4c327db9d704080266d03c59ce2ba82f6b76f0dd57d40b104331e2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Office Hours", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "Office Hours are open sessions where anyone with questions about Flushing Town Hall's Arts Grants for Queens and GO Queens Grant can speak directly with a member of the Arts Services team. 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They are meant for quick or specific application questions rather than in-depth personal feedback, and attendees are encouraged to first watch an Information Session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/office-hours-52641/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Halumii Ktapihna", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-18T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/indigenous-peoples"], "description": "Halumii Ktapihna: Lenape Legacies and Futures is an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York about the enduring presence and living cultures of the Lenape/Lunáapeew, the original people of the land now known as New York City and its surrounding region. It was developed in partnership with the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing (Land of the Lenape) Collective and Lenape/Lunáapeew community advisors. The show brings together works by more than 30 artists alongside objects, archival materials, videos, and interactive listening stations, moving through three sections—The Lunáapeew Today, Homelands, and Creating the Future. 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Visitors can meet curators, administrators, producers, and technicians from NYC arts institutions, review portfolios, and build connections. It runs as part of a series of sessions throughout the season, presented by Various Artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/queerart-x-psny-office-hours-54718/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Open [Block] House", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9, Nolan Park", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Open Hours", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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": "Tour the Building with a Docent, November (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "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", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york", "literature/libraries"], "description": "Join a docent-led tour that steps out of the city's hustle and into history, exploring the gallery and the architectural wonders of the Library's landmark 1917 building. The New York Society Library hosts these tours in connection with its exhibition 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' which celebrates the United States' 250th anniversary and explores how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours begin at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 PM, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is free of charge and open to the public on a drop-in basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-november-2-4-pm-on-the-half-105144/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-november-2-4-pm-half-hour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flavors of Home: A Multi-Cultu...", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Queens Village", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "food-drink", "tags": ["community", "food-drink"], "description": "A monthly gathering where New (and old) Americans share and exchange favorite recipes in a welcoming space. It is run by Queens Village, part of the Queens Public Library, for adults. Attendees can swap the flavors of home with others in the community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/flavors-of-home-a-multi-cultu-71730/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}