11 am – 3 pm Help Connect Families to Free Family Literacy Program in Western Queens- via Riis Settlement Ravenswood Cornerstone Ages: AllFree Ravenswood Community Learning CenterAstoria
2:30 – 6:30 pm SSE Presents: Real Good Basketball Skills & Drills Ages: 5 and upFree Sports Real Good PlaygroundFlushing
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
11 am – 2 pm Watch a 19th Century Base Ball Game Ages: AllAttractions Free Fort Totten Soccer FieldsFort Totten
3 – 5 pm Hispanic Heritage Month: Day of the Dead Celebration Ages: AllCommunity Free Queens Public Library – BriarwoodBriarwood
9:45 – 11 am Children’s Event with the Peace Torch Ages: AllFree History & Culture Flushing Meadows Corona ParkFlushing
10 am – noon Adventure Course Free Public Sunday Program Ages: AllFree Outdoors Alley Pond Adventure CourseOakland Gardens
1 – 3 pm Adventure Course Free Public Sunday Program Ages: AllFree Outdoors Alley Pond Adventure CourseOakland Gardens
7 – 8:30 pm Creatures of the Night: Bats Ages: AllEnvironment Free Forest Park Visitor CenterWoodhaven
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
4 – 5 pm Culture Bridge: Celebration of Diwali Hungama Ages: AllDance Free Queens Library – Flushing BranchFlushing
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
5 – 8 pm 2025 Flushing YMCA Annual Chuseok Celebration Ages: 3 and upArt Community Flushing YMCAQUEENS
10:30 am – 1:30 pm “Find Your Gremlin” Youth Workshop with Artist Umico Niwa at SculptureCenter, Long Island City Ages: 9 – 12Art Classes SculptureCenterLong Island City
1 – 2 pm Hispanic Heritage Month: Wepa! Latin Dance Ages: 5 – 12Dance Free Peninsula, Queens Public LibraryRockaway Beach
11 am – 5:30 pm The College Point Street Fair Ages: AllCommunity Festivals College Point Boulevard Street FairCollege Point
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
Noon – 5 pm Halloween Harvest Festival Ages: AllFree Halloween Socrates Sculpture ParkLong Island City
3 – 5 pm Pickleball Open Class Ages: AllClasses Free Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City
Oct. 12, noon Peacocks to Poodles: Marble Collegiate Church’s Annual Blessing of the Animals Marble Collegiate Church
Brooklyn Paper Shootings, rape rose across Brooklyn in September, stats show, though overall crime dipped