{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-21T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-21T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-22T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-22T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-23T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-23T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-28T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-28T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-29T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-29T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "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": "Public Walking Tour- Chinatown: A Walk through History", "start": "2026-11-07T11:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "$25/adult, $20/adult 55 & up, $20/student (with valid ID), free for children under 5; $15/MyMOCA mem", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york"], "description": "A guided walking tour through Chinatown, one of New York City's oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods. It is offered by the Museum of Chinese in America and shows how everyday buildings and places of historical significance reflect and shape a community, tracing the area from the Native American Lenape village of Werpoes Hill to today's Chinatown. Stops include Chinatown's oldest streets, a bustling neighborhood park and a Catholic church with layered histories, its oldest general store, and a Chinese eatery that served the turn-of-the-century \"bachelor society.\" The tour lasts about ninety minutes, covers one to one and a half miles, leaves from the museum's lobby, is capped at 15 participants, and tickets include museum admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-walking-tour-chinatown-a-walk-through-history-54049/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/public-walking-tour-chinatown-a-walk-through-history-14-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/648089b32f776d31f65cfdbb00aed4075522ceaae7a3c3b43094d7cb22ff10b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Public Tours", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Wyckoff House Museum", "address": "Clarendon Road 5816", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "Public Tours offers guided visits of the Wyckoff House, said to be New York's oldest house, on Saturday tour hours. The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum runs the tours, with the park grounds and garden open and guided house tours starting each hour from 11:30 AM. Visitors are guided through three furnished rooms reflecting periods from the 17th-century Dutch Colonial Era to the early 19th century. A 11:30 AM 'Family Style' Tour is well-suited for young historians, and afterwards guests can rest in the garden or on the covered patio.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-tours-57573/", "official_url": "https://wyckoffmuseum.org/event/public-tours-12/2026-10-31/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e48e93e21f6521387fe52e2172ea287994f9109dc9869f8080d27127e4e3d5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Tour: Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning", "start": "2026-11-05T12:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/art-collection", "history/jewish-history"], "description": "A 45-minute guided gallery tour through the newly reimagined Third Floor Galleries, meeting in the elevator lobby of Floor 3. The tour is led by the Jewish Museum's docents and explores 'Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning.' The exhibition features more than 200 works in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of the Museum's holdings. The tour is included with Museum Admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-tour-identity-culture-and-community-stories-from-the-75689/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110226-novdec-open-tours-identity-culture-and-community/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eb346b1520d8a508db17b02bf88ae17cb64701622cdf930a99a852b930bebf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Free Access to “25th Anniversary Exhibition” opening week", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Neue Galerie New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1048, 10028 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/modern-art"], "description": "On select Friday evenings, Neue Galerie New York stays open late from 5 to 8 p.m. and admits visitors to its galleries free of charge. This First Friday marks the first chance to see the \"25th Anniversary Exhibition\" with free admission. Entry is first-come, first-served, and visitors should expect to wait in line outside the museum. The program is made possible by the generous support of Bank of America Private Bank.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/free-access-to-25th-anniversary-exhibition-opening-week-54143/", "official_url": "https://www.neuegalerie.org/programs/first-fridays-nov-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sailor's Snug Harbor Historical Tour", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T14:30:00-05:00", "place": "Snug Harbor", "address": "", "price": "$10 & Under", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "Sailor's Snug Harbor Historical Tour is a guided walking tour of the Snug Harbor campus in New York City, meeting at the Visitor Info Booth at Chapel Road and Gazebo Road and lasting 1:00-2:30 PM. It is run by Snug Harbor, whose tour explores the rich history of its 19th-century campus and the architecture that made it an irreplaceable architectural collection, featuring six of the first 40 New York City landmarks. Snug Harbor is described as one of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America, and the tour covers its landmarked structures. General admission is $10.00, with a 10% discount for Snug Harbor members.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sailors-snug-harbor-historical-tour-77028/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/sailors-snug-harbor-historical-tour-3/?slot_id=20029", "image": ""}, {"title": "Guided Tours", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Guided Tours are walking tours through Historic Richmond Town, a historic site of restored buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries on Staten Island. Led by expert Historical Interpreters, the tours include the 1820s Village Life Tour, exploring taverns, trades like basket making and broom making, and an 1820s kitchen, and the Two Centuries Tour, a survey of Staten Island from a 1640s Native Encampment through the Revolutionary era to slavery and emancipation in the 1820s. Each tour lasts 75 minutes and also includes admission to the Historical Museum, open 11am to 4pm on the day of the visit. The tour covers uneven ground and is not recommended for visitors with mobility issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guided-tours-66593/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a097030439265b7461a69161ca8d3c2c78becaa2edc6256c3cf503ce98760a28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Underground NYC Tour: Subway 101", "start": "2026-11-12T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T12:30:00-05:00", "place": "New York Transit Museum", "address": "Schermerhorn Street 99, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "$30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art", "history/new-york"], "description": "Underground NYC Tour: Subway 101 is a guided walking tour through the New York City subway system, visiting 3-4 publicly accessible stations and ending at the New York Transit Museum with its 1936 decommissioned subway station and vintage train cars. It is run by expert guides from the New York Transit Museum, a source for stories about New York's transportation. Along the way the tour explores the secrets of the subway, looks at art and architecture, and shows exclusive archival images from the Museum's collection. The roughly 90-minute tour departs from Astor Place and includes museum admission; apart from the ticket, two MetroCard swipes or OMNY taps are required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/underground-nyc-tour-subway-101-81387/", "official_url": "https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/underground-11-12/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/082e37a83c2188d92ec27be41d66db59a2ffe74f6c62f2673423e9b2862054b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Empire City: Discover New York City's Hidden History + Wine Tasting", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["food-drink/wine", "history/new-york"], "description": "A museum tour at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum paired with a historically-inspired wine tasting, marking the 200th anniversary of the hotel's opening. The tour covers New York City's rise after the Erie Canal opened in October 1825, highlighting the new exhibition The Empire City Begins. It ends in the Tavern with a tasting of four to five contemporary New York wines led by a WSET-certified docent, with light refreshments served. Attendees must be 21.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-54014/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-wine-tasting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f647f5502dc216d91fab38ab371b14afe169138cb56efc39f9c91055beb93a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Tour: Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum", "start": "2026-11-09T12:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Included with Museum Admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A 45-minute gallery tour of the newly reimagined Third Floor Galleries at the Jewish Museum. Led by the Museum's docents, it explores Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, an exhibition of more than 200 works presented thematically and chronologically from the Museum's holdings. Tours meet in the elevator lobby of Floor 3. The tour is included with Museum Admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-tour-identity-culture-and-community-stories-from-the-75695/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110926-novdec-open-tours-identity-culture-and-community/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eb346b1520d8a508db17b02bf88ae17cb64701622cdf930a99a852b930bebf-1200.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": "Second Sunday Castle Tours", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bayside Historical Society", "address": "208 Totten Ave, Bayside, NY 11359", "price": "$0.00", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/american-history"], "description": "Second Sunday Castle Tours are guided tours of The Castle in Fort Totten and its exhibitions, held on the second Sunday of each month. They are conducted by the Bayside Historical Society's staff and volunteers, with two tours of about 45 minutes each, starting at 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Completed in 1887, The Castle is one of New York City's finest surviving examples of Gothic Revival castellated-style architecture and originally served as the Officers' Mess Hall and Club for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers School of Application.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/second-sunday-castle-tours-75659/", "official_url": "https://www.baysidehistorical.org/events-1/second-sunday-castle-tours-27", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61497f725092c85cf29a2ce2698a6332a77e3ec7f3db566b3830eb69cef91dbe-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, "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": "Saturday Guided Tours in English Language", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "John Bowne House", "address": "Bowne Street 37-01, 11354", "price": "$10 General; $8 Student; $5 Child; Free for Members of BHHS", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "Guided tours of Bowne House lasting about 45 minutes, offered between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Visitors learn about the Bowne family and what life was like in Queens, NY from the 17th century through the early 20th century. No pre-registration is required and tickets are purchased upon entry via cash or credit card.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saturday-guided-tours-in-english-language-53309/", "official_url": "https://www.bownehouse.org/events/saturdaytoursnovember7", "image": ""}, {"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tour Público Museum Tour in Spanish", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Tour Público is a public museum tour given in Spanish. It takes place monthly on select Fridays and Sundays at The Noguchi Museum. The conversational tour explores selected works from the Museum's collection while introducing the vision of the artist Isamu Noguchi. In keeping with Noguchi's interest in each visitor's personal experience, participants are encouraged to share their observations and interpretations throughout the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish-56812/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-06-1300-tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f074dcefa5ccab30e602e0587b12bf5ec46442f751d3eb9591220e9b7e026a36-1200.webp"}]}