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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 24, 2014?

30 free events take place on Friday, January 24 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 January 24 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 January . 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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30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, January 24, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour
free events nyc FOCUS! 2014: Alfred Schnittke's World
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Concert | Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar: Open Rehearsal CANCELLED!!


Masur, one of the world's best known conductors, was music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1991 to 2002.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   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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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: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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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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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
12:20 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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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Talk | Gilded Manners: How to Lay a High Society Table


The opulence of the Gilded Age was expressed through lavish dinner parties where elite New York hostesses put their social pedigrees on display. Join culinary historian Cathy Kaufman for a talk that explores the dining culture and etiquette of New York’s high society and a demonstration of how to lay a proper table, from finger bowls to fish forks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Pay-what-you-can admission policy

Film | Mabrouck El Merchri's The Cold Light of Day (2012): A Kidnapped Family


Starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver. A young American (Cavill) uncovers a conspiracy during his attempt to save his family, who were kidnapped while on vacation in Spain. 93 Minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Jean-Marc Vallée's Oscar Winner The Young Victoria (2009): Royal Biopic


With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. 105 Minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Gilded Manners: How to Lay a High Society Table


The opulence of the Gilded Age was expressed through lavish dinner parties where elite New York hostesses put their social pedigrees on display. Join culinary historian Cathy Kaufman for a talk that explores the dining culture and etiquette of New York’s high society and a demonstration of how to lay a proper table, from finger bowls to fish forks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Emil Nolde: Expressions in Watercolor


A well-known German Expressionist, Emil Nolde’s watercolors capture the transient moments of nature and human life with an unsurpassed vibrancy. Rich, luminous colors paired with the spontaneity of the medium create stunning impressions of the artist’s mind’s eye and experience. Often working with dampened paper and wet paint, this technique encouraged the interplay of color and organic form.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Talk | Engaging the OpenStreetMap Community: A NYC Government Perspective


In this presentation, Colin Reilly will focus on the collaborative work NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has done with the OpenStreetMap community to import NYC buildings and addresses to the OSM database. A brief overview of addressing within NYC will be given along with the challenges faced maintaining the data. This background sets the stage for the OSM collaboration and the notification NYC DoITT receives on data updates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 Jon Ladeau - Blues- and country-informed rock and roll 6:05 Pete Lanctot - Multi-instrumental folk, blues, and avant-garde 6:40 Holler - Northern country
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Group Fitness Classes


Women's Fitmaxx Bootcamp 5:30pm (All Levels) Kru Rob's Muay Thai PADWORK at 6:30pm (Advanced) Muay Thai Techniques 7:30pm (All Levels) >> All that you need to participate is workout cloths, ID and some sort of slip-on shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Ferran Adria/ Deborah Grant


Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the visualization and drawing practices of master chef Ferran Adrià. Notes on Creativity will emphasize the role of drawing in Adrià’s quest to understand creativity. His complex body of work positions the medium as both a philosophical tool—used to organize and convey knowledge, meaning, and signification-—as well as a physical object—used to synthesize over twenty years of innovation in the kitchen. Deborah Grant: Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!! will be in the Drawing Room. Grant's installation will combine painting, drawing, and collage to recount the fictional meeting between African-American folk artist Mary A. Bell and renowned modernist painter Henri Matisse. For Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!!, which takes its title from the Lennon/McCartney song “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” Grant spent over two years researching primary documents including Mary Bell’s drawing and letters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Book Launch for Far from the Centers of Ambition


Please join editors Dr. Rand Brandes, Lee Ann Brown, and Leslie Rindoks for an evening celebrating a new two-volume collection, which honors the legacy of the famous Black Mountain College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Photography Show: Distant Images, Local Positions


What controls geography? Photographs, ultimately, and they do so without neutrality. Our understanding of geography from afar is constructed in a fragmented and subjective way, via photographic imagery. This gives the impression of closeness, but the illusion alienates both the place being seen and the viewer. As a result, we become complacent in the universe of appearances, comforted by the knowledge that what is depicted is now known. But the camera can only show us an apparition, not an actual place. Using technological imagery as their point of departure, the artists here propose unstable positions that question and subvert the photographic construction of visual power. Artists: Haseeb Ahmed and Daniel Baird, Hasan Elahi, AnnieLaurie Erickson, Regina Mamou, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Scott Patrick Wiener.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Ola Vasiljeva's Jargot, a New Sculptural Installation


A new commission by Latvian artist Ola Vasiljeva, this exhibition reflects a continued partnership with kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia. Jargot is a new sculptural installation by that continues her investigation into the relationship between thought, language, and the production of objects. Vasiljeva builds a stage of sculptural stand-ins for personal objects and subjects, confusing definitions and categorizations, while creating a mysterious web of references, riddles, and inside jokes. Populated by reoccurring characters, which move seamlessly between sculpture, prop, and performance, Jargot operates as a metaphor for syntax.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Thrush Holmes' All Lit Up on Wine


Splaying wood panels with exuberant spray paint and slapdash neon tubing, Holmes' unapologetic methods elevate the still life, the reclining nude figure, and even poetry from their traditional banality to culty, fetishistic status. With the gestural fluidity of Twombly and the poetic dexterity of Basquiat, Holmes' intuitive, swaggering practice reveals eccentric florals, brazen silhouettes, glowing prose, and monumental "TH" initials - an arresting display of drunken ego and flexing machismo, rife also with subtle romanticism and raw honesty. Thrush Holmes lives and works in Toronto and has been widely exhibited throughout Canada. His work can be found in permanent collections such as the Elton John Aids Foundation, Sony Dreamworks, and Defjam Records among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Japanese Film: Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (1979)


After about a decade making documentaries, Imamura returned to fiction with this film inspired by the true story of a gruesome 78-day killing spree and manhunt. In this career-defining film, Ken Ogata delivers an unforgettable performance as Iwao Enokizu, a con artist, thief, lady charmer, and murderer. The film begins with Iwao entering jail. A series of flashbacks take us back in time to revisit the murderer’s past and his horrendous crimes. Such a reverse chronological structure makes the film more of a character study than a suspenseful crime thriller. This intense portrait of a menacing mind is at once poignant and chilling. 128 min. With English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Composers Concordance Founding Directors Concert


This event will feature the music of composers Patrick Hardish and Joseph Pehrson, who, advised by Otto Luening, founded Composers Concordance in 1984. In addition, tributary compositions by current co-directors Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and Milica Paranosic will be heard. Performers will include flutist Margaret Lancaster, accordionist William Schimmel, pianists Judith Olson and Cesar Vuksic, percussionist Peter Jarvis, and dancer Linda Pehrson. The concert will be followed by a brief reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Nathaniel LaNasa, Piano


Nathaniel W. LaNasa (b. La Mesa, CA.) is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Teachers include Kenneth Moses, Marc Silverman, Andre-Michel Schub, Deirdre O'Donohue, Paul Schenly, Olivier Gardon, Julian Martin, John O'Conor. Performances at Weill Recital Hall, PianoFest in the Hamptons, Aspen Music Festival, and Mannes College's Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance, as well as on Vermont Public Radio and King-FM Seattle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name... & A Bag O' Chips Comedy/Variety Show


With comedian Luke Thayer (MTV.com), sketch comedy collective KOKOMO and a few surprises.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Clarinet Recital


Eric Umble, Classical Clarinet
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Kyriacos Souroullas, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | FOCUS! 2014: Alfred Schnittke's World


Program: ARVO PÄRT (Estonia) Pro et Contra (1966) GIYA KANCHELI (Georgia/Belgium) "Daytime Prayers ("Tagesgebete") from Life Without Christmas (1991) ALFRED SCHNITTKE (Russia/Germany) Symphony No. 4 (1984) Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Soviet-Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) and his circle of composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free
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