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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 4, 2015?

41 free events take place on Monday, May 4 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 May 4 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 May . 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 4, 2015

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Birdwatching | Spring Birding Tour


Discover the birds that call the park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 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 | SoHo, Little Italy and 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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Workshop | Falun Dafa Exercise Class


Also known as Falun Gong, Falun Dafa is the practice of meditation and slow moving exercise. Learn how to eliminate streee, and enjoy peace of mind, and begin the process of toward a strong and comfortable body that is ar ease, and develop a calm and serene mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lesson | Beginner Japanese Language Class


Learn a new language in this standalone beginner classes. Classes are not cumulative, so you may attend any class throughout the season without needing to play catch up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Dude Perfect's Perfect Court


Join YouTube stars Dude Perfect for trick shot challenges, prizes, and more. The free community event will kick off renovations of the park basketball courts which will reopen to the public in time for school summer holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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
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2:00 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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Workshop | Computer Safety and Maintenance Workshop


Learn how to protect your computer from viruses and perform regular maintenance functions to keep it running smoothly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Le Gema by Paola Lázaro-Muñoz


You're in Puerto Rico. Old San Juan. You're a tourist, you walk down the stairs of this beautiful old fort built by the Spaniards. When you reach the bottom, you realize you're in the hole, a slum. Welcome to La Gema, the barrio and the underbelly that lies under the tourism and behind the fort walls. You spend three days there, you don't want to leave. Oh no, you're addicted to the beauty, the women and the drugs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Mystery Lovers Monthly Book Discussion Group


The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Staged Reading | PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2015


As part of the 2015 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the event will showcase play readings by nine of the world’s most respected dramatists Afghanistan, Argentina, Cuba, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, and Uganda. The International Play Festival generates a conversation on art, politics, dreams, war, and philosophy, meant to give American audiences a rich awareness of the greater global dialogue. Selected readings will be followed by a discussion with the playwright. Today: Infinite Incompleteness Written by Hadi Marifat & Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn (Afghanistan). This reading will be followed by a conversation with Hadi Marifat and Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Concert | Piano Department Marathon: Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Vincent Persichetti


Piano department students and faculty – Geoffrey Burleson, director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Tour | 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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Theater | In Scena!: Italian Theater Festival


An opening night double bill: 6:00pm: Homage to Pasolini A staged reading directed by Marco Calvani. A journey into Pasolini’s writing on the 40th anniversary of his death. In ENGLISH. 7:30pm: Viola di Mare By and with Isabella Carloni, based on the novel Minchia di re by Giacomo Pilati / Rovine Circolari Company. The Viola di Mare is a saltwater fish that is born female but then turns into a male after laying its eggs. This is the true story of a 19th century girl who dresses like a man to escape her father's fury and the bigotry of her island village. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH supertitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Jen Lancaster discusses her book I Regret Nothing


New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all — sometimes with disastrous results.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Otto Preminger's Oscar-Nominated The Man with the Golden Arm (1955): Junkie's Downward Spiral


Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker. A strung-out junkie deals with a daily demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down. 119 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Reflections on the Cultural History of Surveillance


MIT professor Jim Paradis will offer a broad exploration of cultural origins of modern surveillance practice as revealed in nineteenth-century urban fiction, journalism, media technologies, and monitorial agencies and institutions. An effort will be made to gain a general understanding of the cultural agency behind the surveillance economy in diverse practices of the time, practices embodied in changing relationships between real people in real contexts. He will conclude with some observations on the uses of cultural history in design practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Reading | A Night of Readings from 12th Street


Politics and letters come together for an evening of readings by Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rene Steinke, Tiphanie Yanique, and student contributors to 12th Street, the undergraduate journal of The Riggio Program: Writing and Democracy at The New School.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Dismantling Invisibility: Artists’ Response to the AIDS Crisis


Panel discussion moderated by Amy Sadao. Daniel Dietrich II, Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, will focus on AIDS activism, including the exhibition Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis, which opened at Art in General in late 1991. With speakers Zhang Hongtu, artist; Esther McGowan, associate director, Visual AIDS; and Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions, Museum of Chinese in America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Photographer Jordan Matter discusses his book Dancers Among Us


Fate, fortune, kismet or serendipity – whatever you call it, bestselling author and photographer Jordan Matter has made a career out of relying on the unknown to provide inspiration. He has never storyboarded a single shot in his career, even when working on campaigns or magazine spreads. This process may seem like blind faith, but there is a method to his madness. Using photos and video spanning his career, and delivering his talk with high-energy and humor, he will take the viewers of this illustrated lecture through his exciting process of learning to be lucky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | 3-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie performs from her CD Make Your Own Kind of Music: Live at 54 Below


Critically acclaimed performer and three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie performs songs from and sign copies of her new CD.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Melissa Rivers signs copies of her book The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation


Calling all mothers and daughters for a tribute to Joan Rivers written by daughter Melissa Rivers. The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation is not to be missed by fans of the late comedienne.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Music of Herbie Hancock Ensemble


The Music of Herbie Hancock Ensemble is devoted to exploring the compositions of Herbie Hancock from the early sixties through the seventies. The ensemble discusses and applies many key elements of Hancock’s writing and playing style, focusing on material from his Blue Note albums as well as on his later Headhunters compositions. Hancock’s concepts are applied to every instrument in the band.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Chopin, Haydn, Villa-Lobos


Program: Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI/52 in E flat major Chopin Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 Excerpts from Heitor Villa-Lobos' The Baby's Family Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 no. 2 with violinist Amos Fayette Pianist Moriah Feiner Trenk is a undergraduate student at NYU's Steinhardt School studying with Artist Faculty member Seymour Bernstein. She is completing her senior year. In the Fall she will begin studying in the MM program at the New England Conservatory of Music as a merit scholar. Trenk has performed as a soloist and with ensembles at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Wagner College of Music in Staten Island, Loewe Theater, and Queensborough Community College, among other venues. She has also given performances for the Scarsdale Friends of Music and the Arts Programs and has performed concertos with the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scarsdale High Chamber Orchestra. Food and drink included.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Le Gema by Paola Lázaro-Muñoz


You're in Puerto Rico. Old San Juan. You're a tourist, you walk down the stairs of this beautiful old fort built by the Spaniards. When you reach the bottom, you realize you're in the hole, a slum. Welcome to La Gema, the barrio and the underbelly that lies under the tourism and behind the fort walls. You spend three days there, you don't want to leave. Oh no, you're addicted to the beauty, the women and the drugs.
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour


New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2015


As part of the 2015 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the event will showcase play readings by nine of the world’s most respected dramatists Afghanistan, Argentina, Cuba, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, and Uganda. The International Play Festival generates a conversation on art, politics, dreams, war, and philosophy, meant to give American audiences a rich awareness of the greater global dialogue. Selected readings will be followed by a discussion with the playwright. Today: The Animal of Time Written by Valère Novarina (France) and translated by Amin Erfani
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights. Movement Research at the Judson Church supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. With: Yve Laris Cohen, Vanessa Justice, Mina Nishimura, Vicky Shick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway tickets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Nat Towsen’s Downtown Variety Hour


With: - Christian Finnegan (Best Week Ever, Chappelle's Show) - Gary Richardson (The Annoyance) - An interview with Hank Smith (Sesame Street) - A special Star Wars Day video from Mpire Comedy - Downtown History - NYC Trivia
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Music of John Coltrane Ensemble


The Music of John Coltrane Ensemble is a special repertory ensemble exploring the compositions and performances of John Coltrane. Ensemble director Reggie Workman performed with Coltrane as a member of his band, and develops the ensemble in the spirit of the great Coltrane groups.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
Free

Concert | Singers Space


Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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