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Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Oct 5

Bryant Park Chess

at Fountain Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan

11:00 a.m.7:00 p.m.
Game boards, including chess, backgammon, checkers, and Scrabble, are available for a small fee. Provided by the Marshall Chess Club.
Category: Games

Oct 5

Le Carrousel at Bryant Park

at Le Carrousel (in Bryant Park), Manhattan

11:00 a.m.8:00 p.m.
A celebration of French culture at Bryant Park
Category: Kids

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Oct 5

Experience Farm Life in Manhattan: Interactive Farmhouse Tours

at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (in Dyckman House Museum), Manhattan

11:00 a.m.5:00 p.m.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum will be open for free all weekend! Take a self-guided tour, view the Collecting the Kitchen exhibit and take a quiz to see if you can identify the historic kitchen…
Category: Education
Free!

Oct 5

Mad. Sq. Eats

11:00 a.m.
Attention neighborhood foodists: it's your favorite time of year! Mad. Sq. Eats is returning to Worth Square Friday, September 21! This month-long outdoor market will bring you 26 vendors from…
Category: Food
Free!

Oct 5

Haunted Houses By Corinne May Botz

at Alice Austen House Museum (in Alice Austen Park), Staten Island This is an Accessible location

11:00 a.m.5:00 p.m.
Visit our current exhibit: Corinne May Botz's photography of haunted houses and recordings of ghost stories from around the United States!
Category: Education

Oct 5

Piano in Bryant Park

at Upper Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan This is an Accessible location

12:30 p.m.2:30 p.m.
It's Summertime and no better time to be a part of The In Crowd. Performances by internationally-acclaimed ragtime, jazz, boogie-woogie, and stride pianists playing the likes of Ella, Ramsey…
Category: Concerts
Free!

Oct 5

West Side Stories

at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (in Central Park), Manhattan

12:30 p.m.1:30 p.m.
A Walking Tour of Central Park's Western Edge
Category: Nature
Free!

Oct 5

Conference House Tours

at Conference House Museum (in Conference House Park), Staten Island This is an Accessible location

1:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Free tours of the Conference House on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1p.m. to 4 p.m. There is a charge for group tours which are booked separately. Please visit…
Category: Education
Free!

Oct 5

Plant Identification Workshop

at Greenbelt Nature Center (in Blood Root Valley), Staten Island This is an Accessible location

1:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Join the Greenbelt Natural Resources Team in exploring our native and non-native plant species. A great opportunity to learn plant ID skills and explore our parks. We will be inside for an overview…
Category: Nature
Free!

Oct 5

Have Your (Batter) Cake & Eat It, Too: 19th-Century Food Tasting

at Merchant's House Museum, Manhattan

2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Marja Samsom (the Dumpling Diva and chef of famed, now historic, downtown restaurant The Kitchen Club) will serve up 'batter cakes and lemon cream', based on the mid-19th century recipe. …
Category: Education
Free!

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