diff --git a/scrapers/ny/events.py b/scrapers/ny/events.py
index 7f80912184..0d5fb0490b 100644
--- a/scrapers/ny/events.py
+++ b/scrapers/ny/events.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def scrape_lower(self):
                 yield event
 
     def scrape_lower_event(self, url):
-        page = self.get(url).content
+        page = self.get(url, verify=False).content
         page = lxml.html.fromstring(page)
         page.make_links_absolute(url)