The Best Local Community Events in NYC

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Saturday Oct. 11, 2025

Girl Scout Programs

All day

Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum – Girl Scout Programs!

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes

Walt Whitman BirthplaceHuntington Station

Morning at the Museum 2

9 am – noon

Morning at the Museum

Ages: 3 and up
Community
Free

Suffolk County Vanderbilt MuseumCenterport

Jeffrey Martinez WMBD

9 am – 4 pm

Find Your Wild at Wertheim NWR

Ages: All
Animals
Boating

Wertheim NWR Visitor CenterShirley

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10 am – 4:30 pm

Heritage Farm & Garden 2025 Fall Festival

Heritage Farm & GardenMuttontown

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10 am – 5:30 pm

Indigenous Peoples’ Weekend

Ages: All
Art
Classes

BIDFlowerDay 226WEB

10 am – noon

Street Tree Care with Church-Flatbush Community Alliance

Ages: All
Community
Free

738 Flatbush AveBrooklyn

Noon

30th Annual Panamanian Parade

Ages: All
Community
Festivals

Panamanian ParadeBrooklyn

12:30 – 3:30 pm

Art in the Garden

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Classes

Patchen Community SquareBrooklyn

12:30 – 10:30 pm

Dakota’s Pumpkin Patch

Ages: All
Art
Community

Dakota’sBronx

Movie and Snacks Corpse Bride

2:30 – 4:30 pm

Movie & Snacks: Corpse Bride

Ages: 9 and up
Community
Film

The Merrick LibraryMerrick

3 – 5 pm

Hispanic Heritage Month: Day of the Dead Celebration

Ages: All
Community
Free

Queens Public Library – BriarwoodBriarwood

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4 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

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7 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

MadameMorbid2

9 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

Sunday Oct. 12

Girl Scout Programs

All day

Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum – Girl Scout Programs!

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes

Walt Whitman BirthplaceHuntington Station

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9 am – 2 pm

Riverdale Y Sunday Market

Riverdale TempleBronx

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10 am – 4:30 pm

Heritage Farm & Garden 2025 Fall Festival

Heritage Farm & GardenMuttontown

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10 am – 5:30 pm

Indigenous Peoples’ Weekend

Ages: All
Art
Classes

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10 am – 5 pm

🎊 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Ages: 12 and under
Art
Attractions

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumBrooklyn

Ad for volenteer day

11 am – 1 pm

Volunteer Garden Day @ 50 Cent Garden

Ages: All
Classes
Community

Queens

Rev. Dr. Michael Bos blesses a poodle

Noon – 1 pm

Peacocks to Poodles: Marble Collegiate Church’s Annual Blessing of the Animals

Ages: All
Animals
Community

Marble Collegiate ChurchNOMAD

oyster fest

Noon – 6 pm

Oyster Fest at GHBC

Ages: 9 – 12
Community
Festivals

Greenport Harbor Brewing Company’s Greenport Tasting RoomGreenport

12:30 – 10:30 pm

Dakota’s Pumpkin Patch

Ages: All
Art
Community

Dakota’sBronx

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2:30 – 3:30 pm

Tiny Brushes: A Diwali Experience | Story & Paint

The Figure StudioSouth Ozone Park

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4 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

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4 – 5 pm

Tiny Brushes: A Diwali Experience | Story & Paint

The Figure StudioSouth Ozone Park

MadameMorbid2

7 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

MadameMorbid2

9 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

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