Name: NYC Atheists In-Person Meeting
Start: 2025-12-05T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-05T21:00:00-05:00
Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture

This is the recurring event series for the 1st Friday only. There is a separate, recurring event series for the 4th Friday. Also, check out our Zoom Meetings on Wednesdays: 8:30PM-10:00PM. We will also meet for Lunch every 5th Sunday of the month at Phebe's Tavern & Grill: 1PM-3PM.

**NYC Atheists In-Person Meeting**
1st & 4th Fridays: 7:00PM-09:00PM
NYSEC Meeting House: Ceremonial Hall

**All are welcome!**

BYOB (no hard liquors)/Potluck
Donations Appreciated but Not Required

Donate Here via Ethical NYC to Support this Event
[https://ethicalnyc.app.neoncrm.com/forms/54](https://ethicalnyc.app.neoncrm.com/forms/54)

Click on our [calendar](https://nycatheists.org/calendar/) or [Meetup page](https://www.meetup.com/nycatheists) to get connected.

Default Location:
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W 64th St
New York NY 10023-7179
+1 (212) 874-5210
[info@nysec.org](mailto:info@nysec.org)
[https://ethical.nyc/](https://ethical.nyc/)
[https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/](https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/)

* Location is subject to change for special events. Check website calendars and Meetup pages for various groups for updates and changes.
* Default room is Ceremonial Hall on the 4th Floor. Room is subject to change depending on capacity or activity. Check for any posted signs.
* Use the wheelchair ramp entrance at the Meeting House NOT the Fieldston School. Press both doorbells if the door is locked. The elevator and stairs are right there to take to the 4th floor.

Closest Transit:
1: 66 St-Lincoln Center
A, B, C, D, 1: 59 St-Columbus Circle
M10: Central Park W/W 64 St
M10, M20: Central Park W/W 63 St
M66: W 65 St/Central Park W
M5, M7, M104: Broadway/W 63 St

Our friends at various groups are cross-posting this event. Some groups have after-parties.

Humanist Happy Hour
**Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture**
[https://bsec.org/events/](https://bsec.org/events/)
[https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn-society-for-ethical-culture/](https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn-society-for-ethical-culture/)

Drinking Inquisitively
**Center for Inquiry – NYC Branch**
[https://cfi-nyc.org/](https://cfi-nyc.org/)
[https://www.meetup.com/cfinyc/](https://www.meetup.com/cfinyc/)

Humanist Happy Hour
**The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism**
[https://citycongregation.org/events-calendar/](https://citycongregation.org/events-calendar/)

FTI: Thinkers Multi-group BYOB potluck
**Free Thinker Institute**
[https://www.freethinkerinstitute.org/events/](https://www.freethinkerinstitute.org/events/)
[https://www.meetup.com/freethinkerinstitute/](https://www.meetup.com/freethinkerinstitute/)

Live DWA
**Gotham Atheists**
[https://gothamatheists.org/](https://gothamatheists.org/)
[https://www.meetup.com/GothamAtheists/](https://www.meetup.com/GothamAtheists/)

Humanist Happy Hour
**New York Society for Ethical Culture**
[https://ethical.nyc/events](https://ethical.nyc/events)
[https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/](https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/)

**NYC Atheists In-Person Meeting**
[https://nycatheists.org/calendar/](https://nycatheists.org/calendar/)
[https://www.meetup.com/nycatheists/](https://www.meetup.com/nycatheists/)

Cross-group Happy Hour at Ethical Culture
**Secular Humanists Society of New York**
[https://www.shsny.org/events-calendar](https://www.shsny.org/events-calendar)
[https://www.meetup.com/shsny-org/](https://www.meetup.com/shsny-org/)

**RULES for In-Person Meeting:**

1. GROUP PROMOTION: Each group may bring flyers or posters advertising membership, donations, and meetings.
2. DRINKING: Bring your own booze should be limited to beer and wine, no hard liquors. Everyone should drink responsibly and don't get sloshed. Save the hard drinking for the after parties in outside bars.
3. RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES: While there is overlap among the groups, not every group is the same and thinks the same. Respect each other's differences and different ideologies. Look for common ground not for things to hate. We're all friends here, treat each other as such.
4. ARGUMENTS: Listen to each other’s opinion completely in good faith. Ask questions about other's points instead of immediately dismissing. Approach taboo subjects--such as sex, religion, and politics--with strangers cautiously; back out if getting heated. Agree to disagree and walk away if necessary.
5. RESPECT FOR THE MEETING HOUSE: Use appropriate trash/recycling cans and clean up after yourselves. Leave the Meeting House better than you found it. Respect the neighborhood, don't act foolishly on the streets when entering and leaving or loitering.
6. **NO ELECTIONEERING**: Due to tax restrictions for many groups being §501(c)(3) tax-exempt, do not discuss, promote, denigrate, or leave/display/hand out materials for any candidate, campaign, party, or proposition on any upcoming election. No electioneering during the event. Other activities prohibited by tax-restrictions are also not allowed.
7. SELF-RECOGNITION: Try to speak from your own experiences and own your intentions and impacts. Recognize your own privileges and different backgrounds.
8. CONFIDENTIALITY: Meetings are private despite being open to the public. Recordings are prohibited. You may share what you learned, but not direct quotes and identities.
9. MEETING MODERATION: The organizers, hosts, co-hosts, moderators, and discussion leaders will use various methods available to ensure compliance with the rules and maintain decorum.

Attending any meeting or event implies agreement with the above rules.

**NYC Atheists Inc. is a not-for-profit, §501(c)(3) educational and advocacy organization based in New York City. Our primary mission is defending the separation of church and state and advocating for issues of interest to the atheist community. We hold regular events focusing on bringing people together, educating, promoting social action, and having fun.**

**We seek to promote the following goals:**

* **Maintaining the separation of church and state.**
* **Promoting science, reason, and fact-based decision-making.**
* **Ensuring that public policy decisions are informed by facts rather than myths and fears.**
* **Keeping religious teaching out of our public schools and all science classes.**
* **Embodying ethical behaviors forged by evolution and our innate intelligence and compassion.**
* **Sharing our deep sense of awe and wonder of our amazing cosmos as revealed by science.**
* **Embracing the arts, fiction, fantasy, creativity, humor, and fun.**
* **Showing respect for all persons but not for all beliefs.**

**NYC Atheists Inc.**
**PO Box 566**
**New York NY 10150-0566**
**info@nycatheists.org**

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Every 1st Friday of the month until December 30, 2027

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