tuesday
tues: vote! polls are open 6am-9pm. find your poll site here.
tues 11am-5pm (+ 11/6-8, 11/14): 42nd westbeth flea market: shop art, clothing, jewelry, books, housewares, and more at westbeth artists housing (west village). $10 bag sale 11/14. note: cash + checks only. >>
tues 12:30pm: ice theatre of new york: 2026-27 city skate performances: ice theatre of new york’s annual ice dance series returns for another season of pop-up performances at public outdoor skating rinks. today’s kick-off: bryant park (midtown). free admission. >>
tues thru 11/15: the 15th annual gotham storytelling festival: hear stories about people being where they are not from: as a traveler, an immigrant, an emigrant, an expat, a displaced person, or simply moving to the big city (or a small town) at this year’s ‘stranger in a strange land’ edition of frigid new york’s gotham storytelling festival. under st. marks theater (east village), $7-25. >>
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wednesday
weds + thurs: new york documentary film festival: cinema village hosts a two-day showcase of independent documentaries, featuring four blocks of shorts and two feature-lengths. $15. >>
weds 6:30pm: jenna lyons: on fashion, creativity, and building a distinctive brand: fashion icon and parsons alum jenna lyons joins journalist and cultural critic david colman for a conversation about her creative journey, her approach to building a distinctive brand, and her perspective on the evolving fashion industry. the new school’s tishman auditorium (greenwich village/union square), free admission. >>
weds 7pm: doctors without boundaries: real-life er doctor aaron bola hosts a comedy show where standups with a tendency towards t.m.i. tell stories about their weirdest diagnoses, and the docs give a detailed breakdown of the history of each condition and what people diagnosed with it should know. audience members can even ask their own embarrassing medical questions via a ‘no co-pay’ question box. featuring brittany carney, nadia pinder, jack cloonan, and shafi hossain. caveat (les), $13.61 with promo code ‘resident’ (reg. $24-25). >>
weds 7pm (wednesdays): baby shoes comedy: clare donaher and alex murdoch’s baby shoes comedy show delivers grown-up laughs with a fresh lineup of comedians each week. tonight’s show features amanda gordon, seynique smythe, jenny gorelick, and lucas stone. black cat les, free admission. >>
weds 7:30pm: awkward teenage years: laugh and reminisce as storytellers relive their growing-up joys and traumas for your entertainment. hosted by will clegg and featuring stories by james park, tracy rowland, andrew mcgill, adrianne frost, and carma anderson. under st. marks theater (east village), pay-what-you-can admission ($7 min). >>
weds 7:30pm (monthly): cold plunge with kurt braunohler: comedian and actor kurt braunohler (bananas podcast, bob’s burgers) hosts the cold plunge stand-up show at park slope’s union hall. tonight’s performers: adam pally (sonic), ahamed weinberg (late bloomer), nonye brown-west (npr), and isabel hagen (on a string). $12 adv, $15 door. >>
thursday
thurs thru 12/12: yoshitomo nara exhibition: timed to coincide with yoshitomo nara: sentinels of stillness at the hirshhorn sculpture garden in washington, dc, david zwirner’s 19th and 20th street galleries in chelsea present the first major new york exhibition of artist yoshitomo nara in nearly a decade, featuring new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by the artist. opening reception 11/5 6-8pm. free admission. >>
thurs thru sat: new york classical players: the new york classical players continues its 17th concert season with a program featuring lars-erik larsson’s concertino for double bass, kevin puts’s credo, and brahms’s double concerto at flushing town hall (thurs), the church of st. luke + st. matthew in clinton hill (fri), and w3 auditorium (sat). free admission. >>
thurs 6-8pm (monthly): dumbo first thursday gallery walk: explore dumbo’s waterfront arts scene at the first thursday gallery walk, a self-guided tour of galleries open late for receptions, artist talks, and special events. rsvp for an optional hour-long insider’s tour highlighting a specific gallery or exhibition. free admission. >>
thurs 7pm: the new york times opinion writers unpack the 2026 midterm elections: brooklyn public library hosts a live taping of the opinions podcast, featuring michelle cottle, david french, and jamelle bouie in a broad conversation about what the results could mean for the next two years and the road to the 2028 presidential election. bpl – central library (prospect park), free admission. >>
thurs 7pm (monthly): the rally reading series: the rally reading series (‘the heart of a march in the body of a reading series’) continues its 10th season with an evening of readings and discussion with kevin nguyen, e.y. zhao, and aurora huiza. hosted by ryan d. matthews. pete’s candy store (williamsburg), free admission. >>
thurs 7:30pm: top shelf stories: julia whitehouse serves up an evening of carefully crafted storytelling at ucb (east village). tonight’s lineup: susan kent, courtney antonioli, sharon spell, and danny artese, plus one open mic slot reserved for an audience member. hosted by julia whitehouse. $10. >>
thurs 7:30pm: voices of a people’s history: inspired by dave zirin’s new biography, the people’s historian: the outsized life of howard zinn, actors wallace shawn, jessica hecht, and arian moayed, comedian hari kondabolu, musician ali dineen, poet staceyann chin, and other guests will perform readings and musical selections inspired by the life and work of historian howard zinn. lincoln center’s david rubenstein atrium (uws), free admission. >>
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