{"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, October (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history on a docent-led tour of the Library's landmark 1917 building, exploring the gallery and its architectural wonders. The New York Society Library offers these tours, which on some days focus especially on the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery and its current exhibition, 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary and exploring how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours run on the half hour, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is open to the public and visitors can simply drop in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-october-2-4-pm-on-the-half-h-79672/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-october-2-4-pm-half-hour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "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, "tickets_url": "", "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. 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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. 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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": "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://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd-tickets-2003830449817", "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. 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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": "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": "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", "tickets_url": "https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/historicrichmondtown/items/492436/calendar/?flow=943168&full-items=yes", "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": "Tour Público Museum Tour in Spanish", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=29ff61fa-a369-4e0d-98de-cf461eacef33", "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. 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Each week, a selection of engaging picture books with wonderful stories and artwork is shared, giving young readers the chance to listen, look, and let their imaginations grow. It is a fun way to introduce children to the world of picture books while experiencing the Society of Illustrators. It is recommended for young children and their caregivers, no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wednesday-story-time-55952/", "official_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/event/wednesday-story-time-11-04-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e71d13c4523b832133f76279b75499ab6246fcf2e545a0ec7628117201a6a18-600.webp"}, {"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. The show examines the different levels and branches of government and the ways citizens engage it, and also explores civic assets, public spaces, and forums for civic engagement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/founding-principals-exhibition-53026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557991e175b73c332d322a046f4a0c41cff93bc80412909ad82c33ebcc7f760e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nursery School Tours", "start": "2026-08-24T09:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-02T11:00:00-05:00", "place": "Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan", "address": "Amsterdam Avenue 334, 10023 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": [], "description": "Nursery School Tours are guided visits for prospective families to the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan Nursery School. The JCC Manhattan runs them to give a firsthand look into its early childhood community, its child-centered philosophy, thoughtfully designed learning environments, and nurturing, play-based approach that supports every child's growth. Registration is open now and is on a first-come, first-served basis, with spaces filling quickly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nursery-school-tours-53801/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/28e3f0c05bb9fadc2147de6380851bbf4bd542a2f6e86914ffdd4d9866c8aa32-2000.webp"}]}