With Halloween just around the corner, now is the perfect time of year to seek out all of NYC’s ghosts, scary tales and hidden secrets. Choose from either the Downtown Ghost Tour or the Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour.  With the Downtown Ghost Tour by Wall Street Walks, you will discover the scary side of one of New York City’s most famous locations. Finance may rule this area of NYC during the day, but during October, you will learn more about the things that go bump in the night on Wall Street once the sun goes down. The Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour takes you on a macabre evening stroll with an expert tour guide from Boroughs of the Dead. Hear about the scariest, strangest and verified ghost stories with roots in the East Village and Greenwich Village.

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Check our updated October NYC Sample Sale Calendar, which includes White + Warren Cashmere, C. Wonder, Hermes, James Perse, Jet Set Candy Launch Trunk Show and The Afri-Pop Boutique Sale. Stay tuned because prior October Sample Sales included: Scotch & Soda, Pratesi, Piazza Sempione, Rena Lange, YSL – Yves Saint Laurent, Laura Mercier Beauty, Zadig and Voltaire and more.

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Don’t miss your limited chance to see these amazing stars on the Great White Way. A Delicate Balance plays from October 20, 2014 – February 22, 2015 only. Agnes and Tobias, a long-married couple, must cope over the course of a weekend, as they welcome home their 36-year old daughter after the collapse of her fourth marriage, and give shelter to their best friends, while tolerating Agnes’ alcoholic live-in sister.

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In partnership with the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Free Speech NOW! campaign, is hosting a major free public debate on the question ‘Should even hate speech be free speech?’. It is a unique opportunity to hear leading free-speech advocates address the rise and rise of hate-speech legislation and codes, and debate whether some words and ideas are just too hateful for public life and if a genuine commitment to freedom of speech means defending the right to speak hatefully.

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The New York International School, new on the Upper East Side, is delighted to welcome all families interested in learning more about our school on November 1, 2014. Please joing us and have an opportunity to meet members of our Board of Governors and Heads of our sisters schools who will be flying in from various parts of the world to attend the event.

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Artist Ellen Bradshaw, in her newest series of oil paintings “From the High Line” at Pleiades Gallery, captures a magical journey of 22 blocks of wildly beautiful nature against the gritty cityscape of New York 30 feet above the city streets. The show runs from October 28 through November 22, 2014 and receptions are open to all on Thursday, October 30 from 5 – 8 PM and Saturday November 1st from 3 – 6 PM.

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