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Second Annual Amsterdam Eco-Arts Festival
October 22nd
Sign up to participate as chorus member in Plant/Silvery Blue, an experiential performance celebrating kinship with nature.

Participants will vocalize as prompted in the performance and carry hand- painted poetry flags in a processional. Chorus members will be provided with a score/instructions prior to the event.

No formal singing experience required.
Join the Chorus!
OPEN STREETS
HOURS
Amsterdam: Weekends from 10AM - 9PM
Columbus: Sundays from 9AM - 5PM

TEXTILE RECYCLING
Saturdays 10am-2pm
Amsterdam 109-110th


Green Tree Textiles will collect unwanted clothes, shoes, bags, towels and household linens for reuse and recycling. No rugs or blankets please.
COMMUNITY EVENTS & RESOURCES

Eco Arts Festival

Saturday, October 22
Lenape Story telling and crafts

Open House New York 20th Annual Weekend


October 21 - 23
Explore your city for FREE
Three days of exploration, access, and discovery Rooftop gardens. Design studios. Historic houses. Infrastructure tours. And more!
More Info

Fall Pottery Street Sale!

Saturday, October 22 | 12:00pm - 5:00pm
993 Amsterdam Ave


Upper West Skates


Sunday, October 23 | 12pm - 6pm
Andy Kessler Skatepark
108th in Riverside Park

Free Skate Lessons | Raffles Giveaways
Best trick contest prize everything is FREE & everyone is welcome!


The Final JAPAN Fes in 2022


Sunday, October 23 | 10am - 6pm
Upper West Side @ Broadway 100-102 st

JAPAN Fes is the largest Japanese food festival in the U.S. that promotes the taste and enjoyment of Japanese cuisines. One of our vendors will offer wagyu cuisines, like wagyu beef bowls, wagyu skewers, wagyu rice balls, and wagyu prime burgers.

The streets will be filled with the sound and smell of sizzling Wagyu beef.

And more, our regular JAPAN Fes vendors will come and serve their excellent foods, so attendees can also enjoy other famous Japanese dishes like Ramen, Karaage, and Japanese curry.
More Info

Annual Halloween Party

Saturday, October 29 | All Day!
Games and Candy!

Learn to Ride—Kids

[Must Register]

(Columbus/Amsterdam BID Open Street)
Saturday, October 29 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm

This free group class is for children who are ready to ditch the training wheels and ride a two-wheeler for the first time. With our safe, easy, effective method taught by experienced instructors, kids will learn how to balance, pedal, start, stop, and steer a bicycle. 

You must bring your child's bike and helmet to this class.

Please note:  Registration for this class should be under the student's name, not that of parent or guardian.
Learn to Ride Registration Link

Bloomingdale Library

One-on-One Computer Help with Digital Grandparents

[Adults 50+]
Saturday, October 22 & 29th | 2 - 4 PM
150 W 100th St


Get in person help with computers, the internet, expand your knowledge, or get help with a specific task or question. We're here to help!
First come, first serve!
Event Info

Join us for an in-person film screening of Little Women (2019).

[Adults]
Monday, October 24 | 12 - 2:15 PM
150 W 100th St

Four sisters learn about love, life, and loss as they grow through their young womanhood against the backdrop of post-Civil War America. At the heart of the family is the headstrong Jo who aspires, above all else, to forge her own path. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Event Info

College & Career Pathways: Beginning the College Search

Monday, October 24 | 4 - 5 PM
150 W 100th St


This event is online.
Not sure where to start your college search? Join us as we explore the different types of colleges and discuss the various degrees you can earn after High School.
This program will take place virtually, via Google Meet. Please register using your email address and the link will be sent to you the day of the program. You will need an internet connection and a device with audio and/or video to connect.

For Teens in Grades 7 - 12. Registration is Required.
Audience: Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years), Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years)
Event Info

GRIMANDI GALLERY PRESENTS:

October 11 - November 29
988 Columbus Avenue

When fine art photography, digital art, and technology meet genius, you get Howard Harris’ Techspressionism! With his unique patented technique, Harris creates multidimensional imagery that expands your experience with visual mechanics. Enjoy a series of works that will shift with every glimpse, and let your eyes capture the magic!


ANIBAL AVILES PORTRAIT INSTALLATION

On View NOW - End of Year
111 W 108th St. 

At the end of August, a portrait of Anibal Aviles, a former neighborhood resident and Purple Heart recipient, was installed at the Anibal Aviles Playground. Stop by through the end of the year to check it out!

FRESH FOOD FOR SENIORS

Thursdays this Summer - Fall 
1-3PM I 593 Columbus Ave


Fresh Food for Seniors offers a bag of locally-grown fresh produce for $10 (a $15+ value) throughout the growing season. It’s a pay-as-you go service, not a subscription. Produce is ordered by GrowNYC at wholesale prices from farmers in New York and New Jersey.
To sign up, pay $10 cash in advance on the “pickup Thursday” the week before you want a bag of produce at Goddard Riverside Older Adult Center, between 1-3PM. Then, get your produce the following pickup day. A full list of pickup days for this summer into the fall is included in the flier above.
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

Sandy +10: Resilience, Equity, Climate Justice

Friday, October 28 | 10:00am - 11:00 AM
The Forum at Columbia University, Room 315, 601 W. 125th St
Tickets FREE


How has climate advocacy in the public realm evolved post-Sandy and how can policy makers, advocates, and developers can best prioritize the public realm and its many users moving forward?

This conference will create a space for reflection, collective learning and calls to action for a community of storm survivors, activists, practitioners, public servants, and academics whose life and work changed to meet the challenges of Hurricane Sandy recovery.

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MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Analog City NYC B.C (Before Computers)

Through December 31, 2022 | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.
Adult $20 | Children & Teens FREE | Senior $14 | Students $14

Examine how New York thrived as a center of finance, news, research, and real estate in an era before personal computers and the internet.
Register
Analog City Exhibit Details
FOOD in NEW YORK I BIGGER THAN THE PLATE
Through September 30, 2023 | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.
Adult $20 | Children & Teens FREE | Senior $14 | Students $14

Examine how food creates a powerful social network that binds New Yorkers to each other and with countless others across the globe. 
Register
Food in NY Exhibit Details
The New Yorkers with Sam Roberts
[For Adults]

Tuesday October 25th, 6:30pm | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.

General Admission $15 | Member, Students, Seniors $10

This program is part of Capturing the Changing City, a series of talks with artists, writers, historians, and other notable New Yorkers about how they seek to represent the New York scene on the page, film, canvas, and beyond.
Ticket Info
Exhibit Details
Cocktails & Culture: Twilight Zone Halloween Bash
[For Adults]

Friday, October 28, 6:00pm | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.

Adults $20 | Students, Seniors $14 | Members FREE

Travel through another dimension of sound, sight and mind this Halloweekend at MCNY as we celebrate a very special edition of Cocktails & Culture: the Twilight Zone Halloween Bash!  Kick off your Halloween festivities with a night of spooky, surreal fun. Dance the night away with Vinyl Nights hosted by Rebecca Lynn and featuring DJ Misbehaviour and DJ Shakey.   
Ticket Info
Event Details
Movies for Minis | Ghostbusters (1984)
[For Families]

Friday, October 28, 6:00pm | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.

General Admission $5

Show off your best costumes and join us for a screening of this classic 1984 film, Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver. Along with the movie we will also be creating glow in the dark mason jar skulls and ghosts for children to take home and continue to celebrate the season. 
Ticket Info
Movie Details
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
15 Gramercy Park S
Galleries are open seven days a week from 10-5 PM.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION:
SELECTIONS FROM AUSTRALIA'S WESTERN DESERT

FROM THE COLLECTION OF STEVE MARTIN & ANNE STRINGFIELD
On View September 12 - October 27

The National Arts Club is honored to host this dynamic exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian painting from the remote regions of Central and Western Australia. The six large works that make up this exhibition all spring from thousands of years of tradition, disconnected and uninfluenced from the outside world. Distinct from outsider art and not defined by chance affinities with western contemporary abstract art, these paintings stand as stories and narratives infused with an intense connection to the local landscape. On view will be significant works by Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Timo Hogan, Carlene West, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, and Doreen Reid Nakamarra. 

BLOOMINGDALE HISTORY GROUP
GREENMARKETS

GROWNYC 97th ST. GREENMARKET
Fridays | 8AM-2PM
W 97th St. between Amsterdam and Columbus

GROWNYC COLUMBIA GREENMARKET
Thursdays and Sundays | 8AM-3PM 
Broadway between 114-116th St. 

MORNINGSIDE PARK FARMER'S MARKET
Saturdays | 10AM-3PM 
W 110th St. at Manhattan Ave.
**NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS**
FOOD BENEFITS PROGRAM WELCOME!
Go to the Manager's Tent to use your SNAP EBT card and get tokens to spend with our vendors. Health Bucks available ($2 for every $2 in SNAP, up to $10). Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks can be used at the farm stands June-November.
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Music for a Gothic Space

Tuesday, October 25
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine | 7:30pm

Gregorian chant and contemporaneous polyphony fill the world’s largest gothic cathedral alongside works by living composers Janet Wheeler, Amy Summers, Olivia Sparkhall, and Sarah McDonald.

Ticket Info
Halloween Extravaganza: 2022 Edition

Friday, October 28th
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
General Admission $40


The Cathedral's beloved annual Halloween celebration returns for 2022! Following the screening of silent classic Nosferatu (1922) with live organ accompaniment, ghouls and goblins from the Mettawee River Theater Company emerge to scare and delight audiences. Mark your calendar for an evening of classic thrills, spooky chills, and autumnal spells!
Ticket Info
CCC CLOTHING CLOSET
Sundays | 10AM-2PM | Town Building
The Clothing Closet distributes emergency clothing through the Nutrition, Health, and Clothing Center, and also provides workplace-appropriate clothing for individuals returning to the workforce. Persons seeking professional clothing must have a referral from an agency familiar with their employment search. Clothing distribution is free of charge and  based on availability, and clients can obtain clothing once per month. Identification is required.

The Clothing Closet accepts donations of gently-used, freshly-laundered clothing. Donations can be dropped off at the Cathedral from Monday-Friday, 9AM-4PM
 

CCC SUNDAY SOUP KITCHEN
Sundays | 10AM-2PM | Town Building
With no eligibility restrictions, meal services are offered to all without regard to age, gender, race, income, or denominational affiliation. Sunday Soup Kitchen meals consist of a healthy, diverse menu that includes fresh produce, a wide variety of meat/proteins, and low-salt, heart-healthy food options.

FIND RESTAURANTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH OUR BLOOMINGDALERESTAURANTS.NYC TAKEOUT AND DELIVERY GUIDE 
Restaurants in the Neighborhood
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