{"title": "Revolutionary Ink Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "213 Water Street", "address": "213 Water Street", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-history", "literature"], "description": "Revolutionary Ink Book Launch is a reception marking the final weeks of the exhibition The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation, featuring the New York launch of Mark J. Noonan's book Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693–1804. The book talk brings the stories of New York's printers to life, showing how they spread Enlightenment ideals, championed freedom of the press, and shaped political debates of the 18th century, with the exhibition open before and after the presentation. A reception with light refreshments follows. It is organized by the South Street Seaport Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/revolutionary-ink-book-launch-56003/", "official_url": "https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/revolutionary-ink/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "213 Water Street", "address": "213 Water Street", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country", "start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "\"Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country\" is an exhibition at the New York Society Library marking the United States' 250th anniversary. It explores how the library, founded twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence, bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending books to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress. On view are a first edition of Thomas Paine's \"Common Sense\", a 1776 New York newspaper chronicling the path to Independence, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington and other founding fathers. The exhibition is open daily in the Assunta, Ignazio, Ada and Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collective-witness-a-library-for-a-young-country-56807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db34d8ac8d84ad03a789dbd97df2e586cd0d52cc882f707a6611ff1aed9b3b34-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spies Among Us: From the American Revolution to 1830s New York", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A program at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden looking back at spies and spying in New York City from the American Revolution to the 1820s and 1830s. The museum's brand new program explores the spying and spying techniques of ordinary citizens, from George Washington's Culper Spies in the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 and early 19th-century reform movements like temperance and abolition, which set the stage for spies of the Civil War. It is followed by a tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel, where from 1826 to 1833 guests might have gossiped about spies of their day—or been spies themselves—while pursuing leisure activities in the then-tranquil countryside of Manhattan. The museum marks 250 years of American Independence and 200 years of the Mount Vernon Hotel with this look at a hidden facet of New York City history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-yor-54013/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york/", "image": ""}, {"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. 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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": "Common Sense", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Museum", "address": "Eastern Parkway 200, 11238 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-history"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational revolutionary writings, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–83), with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Maynard Monrow, and Donald Moffett. The works address community, music, and democracy, reframe American histories, and deliver a message that power lies with us. It runs from May 1 to November 8, 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/common-sense-107896/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e313f291750b6cf9118b298b3a250dc9164fbf0012c047b2e9f32da72333799d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Occupied City", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00-04:00", "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": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "\"The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution\" is a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. It was developed in partnership with the Gotham Center for New York City History and turns the museum's entire third floor into a 7,000-square-foot immersive journey through Revolutionary-era New York. Visitors trace the city's role from the first sparks of rebellion in 1763 to its emergence as the new nation's first capital in 1790, through historical objects, multimedia installations, a recreated 18th-century tavern, a walk-through \"Canvas Town,\" and scenes drawn from the video game Assassin's Creed III. The exhibition tells the stories of revolutionaries and loyalists, enslaved and free Black New Yorkers, women, and Native peoples, and shows how New Yorkers endured seven years of British occupation, fires, and battles before becoming residents of the nation's new capital.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-occupied-city-118890/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d16a862fa0698ebaf3666ba6846329361593ada11fee9b63952a2412aca9d6c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bronx Documentary Center", "address": "Courtlandt Avenue 614", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/activism"], "description": "The Bronx Documentary Center hosts a photobook talk in which documentary photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his book This Short Life. The book combines photographs with oral histories to profile 12 Americans working toward a more just and equitable society during a period of political and social upheaval, exploring activism, community and imagined futures. Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Talks of the Town: From the Stacks: Loring McMillen’s Map of the American Revolution", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A talk exploring Loring McMillen's 'Map of Staten Island During the Revolution, 1775-1783,' which he created in 1933. In this 250th anniversary year, Staten Islander Janet Medoro shares what her research in the McMillen archive at Historic Richmond Town revealed about the sources he consulted, the people he highlighted, and how this portrait of Revolutionary Era Staten Island came to be. Medoro is a 6th generation Staten Island resident, a former critical care nurse of over forty years, and author of the book 'Our Staten Island.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/talks-of-the-town-from-the-stacks-loring-mcmillens-map-of-th-66596/", "official_url": "https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/events/2026/11/14/talks-of-the-town-from-the-stacks-loring-mcmillens-map-of-the-american-revolutionnbsp", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93b659c35bdc1188a9cf9256c869bfb72d16df068192815ef06a016f62f4d454-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Constitution Conversations with The NY County Lawyers Association: Freedom of Speech", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law"], "description": "Constitution Conversations with The NY County Lawyers Association: Freedom of Speech is a public workshop and discussion held in the Whitridge Room of the New York Society Library, free of charge with registration required. It was developed by the New York County Lawyers Association, founded in 1908, and is presented by the Library in cooperation with that association as part of its Collective Witness season marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Two experienced lawyers will introduce recent events and offer nonpartisan background on the constitutional points and lawsuits involved, then facilitate conversation among participants. This session addresses freedom of speech and the right to assemble under the First Amendment, including the constitutionality of the Secretary of State's revocations of green cards and visas and threatened deportations of lawfully resident non-citizens who expressed disfavored views or joined demonstrations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/constitution-conversations-with-the-ny-county-lawyers-associ-79670/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/constitution-conversations-freedom-speech", "image": ""}, {"title": "Melanie Gall launches Fire Witch, in conversation with Arthur Scinta", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lofty Pigeon Books", "address": "Church Avenue 743, 11218 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/new-york", "literature/biography"], "description": "A book launch at a Brooklyn bookshop for Melanie Gall's \"Fire Witch: Kate Claxton and the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Inferno,\" a biography of the famed Gilded Age actor whose name became tied to the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire. Gall will read from the book, then talk with Arthur Scinta, historian and author of the forthcoming \"Brooklyn Ashes.\" The evening continues with an audience Q&A, a book signing, and a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/melanie-gall-launches-fire-witch-in-conversation-with-arthur-53626/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1171aaf96c37579fb90b8aa6172ec1f11b0cd1675c713bdf54b4dc3f9020f527-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}]}