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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 11, 2014?

39 free events take place on Friday, April 11 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 11 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 11, 2014

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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


City Hall Park, Broadway, New York, NY, United States (map) DescriptionFree Tours by Foot is partnering with Visit New York Tours in offering a tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. Reservations Required RESERVE NOW
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Conference | Hacker Manifesto 10 Years On: A Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists


2014 is the tenth anniversary of the publication of McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto. In the intervening time it has been translated into nine languages, not to mention being pirated all over the world. While its theses might have had some modest critical purchase on the state of affairs at the turn of the century, perhaps it is time to take a more critical look at it core propositions, in order to revise, refute or reformulate them for the time ahead. In this two day workshop, writers and scholars from a range of fields will be reconsider one section each of the book, subject it to ruthless criticism, and offer exploratory pointers toward new theses that have more bite on the times. The presenters will discuss the topics of Abstraction, Class, Education, Hacking, History, Infomration, Nature, Production, Property, Representation, Revolt, State, Subject, Surplus, Vector, World.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Northern Park Welcome Tour


See the Park’s northernmost highlights on this walk from Conservatory Garden along the Harlem Meer and past the North Woods. Route easy to negotiate, a few stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986): Odd Couple on the Road


With Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels and Ray Liotta. A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. 113 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Stephen Hough, Piano


Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Stephen Hough is a rare contemporary renaissance man. Over the course of a long and distinguished career as one of the world’s leading concert pianists, he has also excelled as a writer and composer. Hough combines an exceptional facility and tonal palette with a uniquely inquisitive musical personality. His musical achievements have resulted in many awards and accolades and a discography of more than fifty recordings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


4pm Angelina Savoia, Harp 4pm John Upton, Oboe 6pm Christine Wu, Piano 6pm Reuben Allen, Jazz Piano 8pm Jonathan Heim, Trumpet 8pm Remy Taghavi, Bassoon
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation


Panel discussion with Dr. Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda; Hyun-Jeong Kim, Deputy Director of the BOK Economic Research Institute Prof. Andy Blake, Senior Adviser, CCBS, Bank of England; Dr. Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Center for Global Development; Gill Hammond Director, CCBS, Bank of England; and Guillermo Calvo; Director of PEPM.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Land of Pure Vision: The Sacred Geography of Tibet and the Himalaya


David Zurick's illustrated talk explores the intersection of faith and geography in the Himalayan region. It draws upon Zurick’s many decades of work as a geographer and photographer in the mountains, and centers on his recently completed ten-year series of photographs of sacred landscapes and pilgrims.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Reading: Juan Felipe Herrera / Grace Schulman / Alan Soldofsky


Featuring Juan Felipe Herrera (“Senegal Taxi,” University of Arizona, 2013), Grace Schulman (“Without a Claim,” Mariner Books, 2013), and Alan Soldofsky (“In the Buddha Factory,” Truman State University Press, 2013).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibit: Milton Gendel: A Surreal Life


A selection of photographs by American photographer Milton Gendel (b. 1918), drawn from the recent retrospective organized with the City of Rome and held jointly at the Museo Carlo Bilotti – Aranciera di Villa Borghese and at the American Academy in Rome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | The High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards


There seems to be no end to the mathemagical entertainment to be had with a simple deck of cards. Led by mathematician Colm Mulcahy, Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards will present a sampling of mathematical card tricks, both recent and classical, that draws from ideas in algebra, discrete mathematics and probability. Participants ages 12 and up will partake in this intriguing activity and leave with mathemagical material sure to impress mathematics classes and friends alike. Over the past decade, Dr. Mulcahy has been at the forefront of publishing new mathemagical principles and effects for cards. His puzzles and card tricks have been featured in the New York Times, he has blogged for Huffington Post and Scientific American, and he pens the long-running bi-monthly Card Colm for the MAA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Photographer Talk: Jungjin Lee


Whatever the subject, Jungjin Lee’s pictures resonate. They are at once calming and disquieting. Untitled is a series that Lee did from 1997-1999. They are beautiful scrolls of nature: a tree trunk lying on its side on a beach, the water and the dock above it, the island in the middle of the water. Jungjin Lee was born in Korea in 1961 and currently lives and works in New York City. Lee’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Korea. Lee has published many books including Wind (2009), Jungjin Lee (2006), Thing (2005), Desert (2002), On Road/Ocean (2001), Jungjin Lee: Beyond Photography (2000), Wasteland (1997), and Lonely Cabin in a Far Away Island (1988).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Jazz | College Drum Recital


Uri Zelig will be performing his senior recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Hsin-Chih Chang, Piano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Elijah Shiffer, Saxophone 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sophomore Opera Scenes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Spring Salon


See the diverse range of photography, video and moving image work being produced by students in the graduate department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The Old Forever New Things by Dan Kitrosser


When a traffic-cop accidentally spills a cup of coffee on a grad-student’s laptop, their disparate New York lives are twisted together in this comedy of manners, magic and missed connections.
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


Featuring comedians Carole Montgomery (Nick at Nite's "Funniest Mom in America"), Miguel Dalmau (Hoboken Comedy Festival) and Grant Cooper (Morrison Motel). "No Name" house band The Summer Replacements” including Carl (BabyFreak) Fortunato and Fernando (Dr. Sandman) Morales Gonzalez will perform a full set old school R&B and rock beginning at 8:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Bonnie Hampton, Cello


Cellist Bonnie Hampton leads an active music life as a chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. A founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Francesco Trio, she has also performed as part of the Hampton-Schwartz Duo with her late husband, pianist Nathan Schwartz. Her solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was followed by appearances with orchestras nationally performing the entire standard repertoire and many of the 20th century cello concertos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Franz Schubert's Song Cycle Winterreise: A Multimedia Concert Performances


The New York Concert Opera performances, titled "Die Winterreise" and presented in the order of the original poems by Wilhelm Mueller, are sung by German-American baritone Ulrich Hartung. He will be accompanied by a chamber ensemble consisting of piano, viola, cello, woodwind and brass players in an arrangement by Stefan Kozinski, a New York composer/conductor currently at Bremen Opera. The dramatized performances are semi-staged with multimedia and presented in three parts lasting in total about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Interpreting Paganini Today


Program: Niccolò Paganini Grande Sonata in A major Alessandro Solbiati Le sei corde di Niccolò Niccolò Paganini Ghiribizzi (selection) Matteo D'Amico Paganini 33 (ghiribizzo clandestino) Luigi Legnani 6 Capricci op. 20 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Capriccio diabolico op. 85a In the project on Niccolò Paganini and contemporary music, guitarist Luigi Attademo contacted a group of contemporary Italian composers from different generations, asking them to develop a personal re-interpretation of Paganini's invention. These new works are presented here for the first time, alternating with those of the great composer from Genoa, with the intention of creating a bridge between tradition and innovation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Cataclysmic Events in Binary Stars - Plus Stargazing


Speaker: Emir Karamehmetoglu, undergraduate student. Unlike our solitary sun, most of the stars in our galaxy exist in binary or multiple star systems. These binary systems feature such exotic phenomena as vampirism along with some of the most powerful explosions known in the universe. Join me in the search for understanding the exciting world of these cataclysmically variable systems and the ways which we observe them. This is a FREE lecture followed by guided star-gazing with telescopes (weather permitting).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | NYU Symphony performs works by Dvorak and Hermann


Program: Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo Suite Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor Jens Georg Bachmann, Conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Concert | Orchestral Works by Debussy, Brahms and Beethoven


Program: Claude Debussy: La mer Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op. 77) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 The Columbia University Orchestra performs. Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor and Music Director. Taylor Brook, Assistant Conductor. With Kevin Chen, Winner - Concerto Competition 2013-2014.
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Concert | The Algonquin Regional High School Concert


The Algonquin Regional High School Concert Choir, Symphonic Winds, Jazz Band and String Orchestra of Northborough, MA invite you to attend their free concert in New York City. Repertoire includes pieces by Guzman, Mulholland, Brymer, Hoffman, Daugherty and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Saxophone Recital


Stephen J Gladney, saxophone, will be performing his senior recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Victor V. Gurbo and Co., Roots Revival Outfit


Victor V. Gurbo and his four-piece backing band create original folk ballads infused with an Americana spirit. Recently voted the 2013 Brooklyn Borough Champion at WNYC & WQXR's Battle of the Boroughs, Gurbo & Co. pay homage to the canon of American song and poetry with a raw, bluesy, foot-stomping sound that’s both classic and contemporary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The House Itself Does Not Burn by Molly Haas-Hooven


In the desolate landscape of a North Dakota boomtown, where oil flows and space is limited, residents and roughnecks struggle to live, love and break even.
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9:30 pm
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

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Play | A Play About a Famous Artist

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