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Thursday Oct. 23, 2025

Nature’s Engineers, June 2024, windmills, web, photo credit Winston Williams-Brooklyn Children’s Museum-029

2 – 5 pm

Bright Habits Powered by National Grid

Ages: 12 and under
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Brooklyn Children’s MuseumBrooklyn

MostPreciousBloodInt2

3 – 4 pm

The Art of Immigration: Italian Art in an American Chruch

Italian American MuseumLittle Italy

Ryan Byrnes

5 – 6 pm

Italian-American Heritage Month: History and Author Talk with Ryan Byrnes at Whitestone Library

Queens Libray at WhitestoneWhitestone

eurolitnight

6 – 10 pm

European Literature Night 2025

Ukrainian Institute of AmericaUpper east side

Lesbian Lives Graphic

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Lesbian Lives Opening Program

The New School, The Auditorium, Room A10 Alvin Johnson/A. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12 Street, New York CityNew York City

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7 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

MadameMorbid2

9 pm

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours

madame morbidBrooklyn

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