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34th Annual Queens County Fair

Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Queens, NY, United States

Don't miss this traditional county fair with blue ribbon competitions in livestock, produce, home crafts, arts & crafts, and more. The fair features pie eating- and corn husking- contests, hayrides, pig races, carnival rides, midway games, and kids' entertainment by jugglers, magicians, and acrobats! Dance the day away at the Bavarian Garden with an Irish band (Saturday) and German band (Sunday).

Free – $10

Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Garden

The chrysanthemum, kiku in Japanese, is the most celebrated of all Japanese fall-flowering plants. Enjoy a stunning exhibition of these carefully trained flowers in the Haupt Conservatory.

Free – $25

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Open House

Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY, United States

Tour a lab, participate in hands-on earth science demonstrations, and learn from world-renowned researchers about their latest discoveries.

Free

Harlem Harvest Festival

A. Philip Randolph Square St. Nicholas Avenue btwn 116th Street and 117th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join the community at Harlem Park to Park for day-long Harlem Harvest Festival! The event is an urban interpretation of a traditional “state fair” with fresh produce, breweries, prepared foods and harvest specialties.

Free

NYC Outdoors! An Environmental Education Expo

The NYC Outdoors! Expo is public event showcasing environmental education resources in New York City. Participants will meet more than 40 environmental education organizations and find out about programs, teacher resources, internship and job opportunities, and much more. We will have light refreshments and door prizes!

Central Park Youth Basketball Clinics

North Meadow Recreation Center

Take your kids outside to enjoy the Park and to learn and enhance their athletic skills through small group instruction and competitive games in these…

Free

Holiday Train Show

For the 25th anniversary of NYC's favorite winter tradition, enchanting model trains zip through a display of 150 landmarks, each re-created with bark, leaves, and other natural materials under the twinkling glow of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

Free – $25

Friends of Brower Park: 3rd Annual Leaf Crunch

Brower Park St. Mark's Ave., Park Pl. bet. Brooklyn Ave. and Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join Repair the World and Friends of Brower Park as they partner with the NYC Composting Project this November! Volunteers will help rake up Brower Park's fall leaves. The leaves will be used to fill their Leaf-Mold bins to replenish last years leaf-mold crop that is used to add a blanket of nutrients to Brower Parks plant and tree beds.

Free

Floral Design Workshop: Holiday Centerpiece

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Try your hand at creating your own holiday centerpiece! Participants will be introduced to tips and techniques used by pros, and take home their own centerpiece. Fee includes Garden admission.

$27.24

Winter Jam, NYC’s Ultimate Snow Day

Presented by NYC Parks, Lake Placid, I Love NY, and I Ski NY, Winter Jam NYC is the ultimate snow day: a free winter sports festival for New Yorkers of all ages! Our partners at Gore Mountain will blow lots of fresh snow in the heart of Manhattan, so there will be plenty for all to enjoy!

Free

Lowline Science and Sustainability Fair

Lowline Lab 140 Essex Street, New York, NY, United States

Join us at the Lowline Lab for our first ever Science and Sustainability Fair! This all ages, interactive fair will include workshops on topics from biomimicry to entomology to sustainability.

Free