Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 19, 2015?
40 free events take place on Sunday, April 19 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 19 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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The quality and quantity of free events, free things to do that happen in New York City every day of the year is truly amazing.
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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, April 19, 2015
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
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.
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.
Reconsidering the "spiritual" in the work of three German Expressionists: Kandinsky, Nolde and Barlach, and their fate under the Nazis. Presented by Dennis Raverty, Ph.D., Art Historian.
Earth Day New York will be returning this year! The events will include live performances, a green-vehicle exhibition, and exhibits and displays by local and national environmental organizations, local businesses, and corporate partners.
5-6 mile walk at a moderate pace along Hudson River waterfront, taking in the scenic views from Exchange Place to Port Imperial Ferry Terminal, Weehawken. Rain cancels. Duration: 4-5 hours. Bring lunch and water. May have to change starting location. Please call leader to confirm that walk is on.
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.
Speakers will share stories and photos from their recent trip to Southeast Asia with an organization that promotes education, jobs, and sustainable development.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
With: Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey, Eric Mack
Guests are invited to visit the working studios of the 2014–15 artists in residence. All three artists will be present to answer questions about their work.
Concealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection examines artistic interpretations of disguise, masking and embodiment. Works by Elizabeth Catlett, Cyrus Kabiru and Willie Cole present masks themselves as subject matter, while Romare Bearden's Conjur Woman (1964), Robert Pruitt's Pretty for a Black Girl (2005) and others reference existing African masquerade practices and its influence on African-American identity.
Highlights: Marble Collegiate Church, The Gilsey House, Metropolitan Life Insurance Bldg., Grave of Gen. William J. Worth, Flatiron Building, Statue of Admiral Farragut
A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
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.
Program:
Aram Khachaturian Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Bela Bartok Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
With: Tibi Cziger, clarinet; Carmit Zori, violin; Assaff Weisman, piano
Reception follows.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
Art Desks, with an essay by art critic and curator Andy Grundberg, documents American fine art photographer E. Brady Robinson's photographic journey that over three years would take her along the East Coast of the United States to photograph the workspaces of some of the most influential artists, curators, art dealers, critics, collectors, and museum directors working in the field today. The book presents 57 art desks culled from over 3,000 images.
An urban couple’s marriage is in crisis, so they go on a trip to eastern Taiwan, hoping to revive their relationship. An impoverished aboriginal couple, toils to transport peaches from a remote tribe in Taidong to Taipei every day. A man and a homeless boy collect all sorts of amulets to earn blessings. Then there's a fatal car accident and the lives of the three groups of characters converge.
119 mins.
The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
Program:
J. S. Bach Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Felix Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden
3:45 PM Pre Vespers Talk
4:30 PM Guitar Prelude - Bach Vespers is please to serve as the official CD release concert for Joao Kouyoumdjian's new all-Bach classical guitar album.
Join the Cathedral community with a free series of recitals played on the Great Organ, one of the largest and most spectacular instruments of its kind. Great Organ: Harold Stover.
Berger belongs to a generation of young artists who reflect on digitalization through mixed-media works and question its influence on our society. In the exhibition, Berger’s photographs and installations enter a close dialog and thus create a space for empathy and sensuality.
Anna-Sophie Berger (born in 1989) studied fashion design and trans-disciplinary art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her approach to the visual arts is characterized by a particular analytical depth and remarkable freedom from genre constraints. In a subtle manner, her textile works, photographs, installations, and performances question the sensuality of the material and disclose invisible processes of commercial production. Since 2012, Berger’s work has been presented in international galleries and institutions.
When a college student spends time at her father’s adoption agency she meets a Guatemalan woman claiming her child has been stolen, and she must choose her alliances and try to uncover the truth.
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. Join a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.