The Blankman List: Things to Do in NYC, February 2024

The Blankman List is a monthly curated list of things to do in New York City. It showcases the full range of what there is to do, for residents and tourists alike.

I especially seek out artistic and cultural events like concerts, plays, and art exhibits, along with anything that is high-quality, notable, and/or free. There is at least one event for every day of February 2024, and no borough or event type is off limits.

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Disclaimer: before going anywhere, please confirm the date, time, location, cost, and description using the listed website. Any event is at risk of being rescheduled, relocated, sold out, at capacity, or canceled. Costs are rounded to the nearest dollar and may change. I try to vet quality and describe accurately, but I may misjudge.

Thursday, February 1

• Food Photographers Opening Reception

  • 6–8 pm; opening reception for food photography art exhibition

  • Free

  • Pearl River Mart SoHo

  • 452 Broadway (SoHo, Manhattan)

• Opera Prima – Tormento Seicento: Love and Torment in the Music of Monteverdi, Rossi, and Others

  • 17th-century Italian vocal music; 7:30 pm (7 pm pre-concert talk)

  • $50

  • The Morgan Library & Museum

  • 225 Madison Ave (Midtown East, Manhattan)

• Scrabble Club 56 Weekly Live Play

  • Four rounds of competitive Scrabble play; 7 pm; every Thursday (details on pinned Facebook post)

  • $18

  • “Park 55” Building

  • 110 E 55th St, 6th floor (Midtown East, Manhattan)

Friday, February 2

• Community Stewards: Volunteering in the Garden

  • Volunteer work composting, harvesting, and maintaining a garden; 12–5 pm; every Friday and most Saturdays

  • Free

  • Wyckoff House Museum

  • 5816 Clarendon Rd (Canarsie, Brooklyn)

• Brooklyn Seltzer Museum and Factory Tour

  • Tour on the 1,500 year history of seltzer water; 1 pm; every Friday

  • $25

  • Brooklyn Seltzer Museum

  • 474 Hemlock St (East New York, Brooklyn)

• Opening Reception for Holding: Curatorial AIRspace Resident Exhibition

  • Opening reception for art exhibition on theme of sanctuary; 6–8 pm; exhibition Feb 2–25

  • Free

  • Abrons Arts Center

  • 466 Grand St (Lower East Side, Manhattan)

Saturday, February 3

• “Friends of the Pod” Group Art Exhibition

  • Contemporary art exhibition with artists involved with the podcast Nota Bene; 10 am–6 pm; through Feb 3

  • Free

  • Broadway Gallery

  • 375 Broadway (Chinatown, Manhattan)

• Prospect Park Tours with Turnstile Tours

  • Guided walking tour on the nature, history, and architecture of Prospect Park; 10:30 am–12:30 pm; select Saturdays and Sundays

  • $25 adult / $19 military / $23 student/senior

  • Tour starts at Brooklyn Public Central Library

  • 10 Grand Army Plaza (Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)

• BCCO Gala: SWING!

  • Night of swing dancing with the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra; 7:30–10 pm

  • $65

  • St. Saviour High School Gymnasium

  • 588 6th St (Park Slope, Brooklyn)

Sunday, February 4

• The Art of Not Falling: Arnold Schönberg at 150

  • 8–9:30 pm; performance and discussion on the life and music of Arnold Schönberg

  • Free

  • Black Box Theatre, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

  • 82 Washington Square E (NoHo, Manhattan)

Monday, February 5

• Conal Fowkes Trio

  • Jazz piano trio (Conal Fowkes website); 7:30 & 9 pm

  • $35

  • Mezzrow

  • 163 W 10th St (West Village, Manhattan)

• The Klezmer Guild as an Expression of the New Yiddish Culture

  • Talk on the music and dance of Jewish culture in modern times; 7–9 pm

  • $15 suggested donation

  • Bohemian National Hall

  • 321 E 73rd St (Upper East Side, Manhattan)

Tuesday, February 6

• Literary Black Book Club: The Travelers by Regina Porter

  • Monthly book club devoted to Black contemporary fiction writers—this month the book is The Travelers by Regina Porter; 7 pm

  • $5 (includes $5 store voucher)

  • McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn

  • 445 Gold St (City Point BKLYN, Floor 1, Downtown Brooklyn)

• The Legacy of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre

  • Public conversation on Greenwood, the early twentieth-century home of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma; 6:30–7:30 pm

  • $35

  • The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society

  • 170 Central Park W (Upper West Side, Manhattan)

Wednesday, February 7

• Accelerating Discovery in Climate Physics with Machine Learning

  • Lecture on the potential of machine learning to advance climate science; 6–7 pm (5:30 pm doors)

  • Free

  • Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium

  • 160 5th Ave

• Stéphanie St. Clair, Queen of Harlem

  • French and Creole play with English surtitles

  • $30 general / $25 students

  • FIAF [French Institute Alliance Française] Florence Gould Hall

  • 55 E 59th Street (Midtown East, Manhattan)