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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 21, 2015?

38 free events take place on Monday, September 21 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 September 21 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 September . 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, September 21, 2015

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Birdwatching | Fall 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 | A Walking Tour of the Noho Historic District


On September 21, 1965, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held its inaugural meeting following the passing of the Landmarks Law in April. At that meeting, the 1832 Merchant’s House was designated the first landmark in the borough of Manhattan. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the meeting, the Merchant’s House and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will give walking tours of 19th century landmark treasures of the NoHo Historic District.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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


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
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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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Film | Documentary: Jessica Edwards' Mavis! (2015)


Mavis! is the first feature-length documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, the Staple Singers. From the delta-inflected gospel sound she helped pioneer in the 1950s, to the “message songs” of the civil rights era marching beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to massive hits such as “I’ll Take You There” in the soul-filled Stax era, and her recent Grammy-winning work with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples is one of the most influential and enduring vocalists of our time and a true American icon. 80 min. A Q&A with Jessica Edwards follows.
   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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Tour | Explore Castle Williams Tour


Castle Williams, the centerpiece of the system of fortifications designed to guard New York City just prior to the War of 1812, has long been off-limits to the public. After an extensive rehabilitation project in 2011, the National Park Service opened the Castle's to the general public for the first time in the fort's 200-year history. Tours of the Castle take visitors through all three levels and the roof. Tours are approximately 30 minutes in length. Visitors are advised that tours require climbing three flights of stairs. The Castle's upper floors are not handicap-accessible. Start times: 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 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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Jazz | Yuka Aikawa, Jazz Pianist 'with Worlds of Talent'


"Yuka is a dedicated pianist/composer with worlds of talent." - Jimmy Heath Pianist and composer Yuka Aikawa began playing piano at the age of five in her native country, Japan. She received the prestigious Michael Feinstein Award for “Outstanding Talent.” You can hear Yuka at various jazz clubs in and around the New York area - including the Blue Note, Kitano Hotel, and Birdland Jazz Club, as an accompanist for the jazz choir - the Lance Hayward Singers, or on Carline Ray's beautiful album Vocal Sides.
   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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   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
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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 | Morningside Lights Lantern-Building Workshop


A week of free community arts workshops - running from Sept. 19 to Sept. 25 - culminates in a procession of handmade lanterns on Sept. 26 inspired by New York City after dark. At Morningside Lights workshops, lantern building is a collaborative process — and the collaboration is part of the fun. You may start a lantern for someone else to finish, or pick up where someone else left off to create a work of art that reflects the collective vision of our community. Each day's workshop activities are a step in the process as our lanterns take shape from idea to final product. And remember, no experience is necessary!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Brazilian Music Master Class with Rogerio Boccato


Brazilian percussionist and educator Rogério Boccato plays in projects led by some of today’s leading jazz players, among them Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Edward Simon, David Binney, Ben Allison, Paul Bollenback, Jon Gordon, and Mike Holober. He has also collaborated with top-ranking Brazilian artists, such as Toninho Horta, Dori Caymmi, Moacir Santos, and Vinicius Cantuária.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz for Peace Concert, Featuring the Tokyo Jazz Orchestra


In celebration of the NYC-Tokyo sister city 55th anniversary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Tour | Chelsea and 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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Film | Documentary: Arun Wolf's Between Memory and Museum (2015)


Between Memory and Museum, a book and a film, is a reflection on the museum as an institution that preserves, creates and disseminates knowledge by 38 folk and tribal artists from across India. The project was initiated by Tara Books, an independent publisher of illustrated books for children and adults based in Chennai, India, which has a 20-year history of working with indigenous artists to invite them to the form of the book as authors and illustrators rather than as anthropological subjects. These artists come from long traditions of floor painting, mural making, and tattoo art that have then migrated to paper and canvas. Filmmaker Arun Wolf will introduce the film and the project.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Joseph Luzzi reads from his book In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love


In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante’s Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning—a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.
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Book Signing | NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar signs copies of his book Mycroft Holmes


NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores big with a new novel on the untold adventures of Sherlock’s older brother, Mycroft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Popular Fiction: A People's History of the American Public Library


A lecture by Wayne A. Wiegand, F. Williams Summers Professor Emeritus, Florida State University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | An Examination of Voting Rights in the 2016 US Election


Panel discussion examining voting rights in U.S. elections and the continuing fight to equal access to the ballot. A conversation with The Nation's Ari Berman, author of the forthcoming Give us the Ballot; The New York Times' national correspondent Maggie Haberman; Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer; Barbara Arwine of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. The panel will be moderated by professor Jeff Smith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Cabaret Warsaw: Jewish-Gentile Co-Productions, 1919-1939


Please join the East Central European Center for a talk by Beth Holmgren, Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and SES Department Chair at Duke University. Holmgren, an expert on Polish cabaret, is the author of Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (Indiana University Press, 2011), among many other publications on Polish culture and the performing arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Gernot Wagner discusses his book Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet


This illustrated lecture explores the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. It demonstrates that climate change can and should be dealt with - and what could happen if we do not.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opera | Live Screening of the Metropolitan Opera's Opening Night Performance of Verdi's Otello


This opening night performance will feature a new production of Otello conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, directed by Bartlett Sher, and starring Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva and Zeljko Lucic.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Net Lit Unlimited: A Discussion on the Limits and Un-limits of Sharing Literature on the Net


How has the way we present literature on the net changed over the past decade? Has it become more or less inclusive, more or less global? Are we getting a more diverse picture or is literature being reduced to listicles? If a website can reach anyone, anywhere, at any time, who are our audiences? What are literary websites in the States and Germany doing to draw in and involve those readers? And will it change the world? Words without Borders is in its thirteenth year of bringing readers literature in translation from all over the globe, while The Offing is a brand new venture hosting original writing in English alongside a selection of translations. In Germany, meanwhile, most literary magazines have yet to embrace the internet to the fullest, to put it mildly. Is that skepticism wise or are German readers and writers missing out as a result? What has the expansion of writing and criticism to the net brought readers other than seemingly never-ending choice? Has it helped writers otherwise marginalized in the literary conversation to reach audiences? And what does the net offer fans of international fiction for the future? Join Eric M. B. Becker from Words without Borders, Geoff Mak from The Offing, and translator and love german books blogger Katy Derbyshire, fresh off the boat from Berlin, for a discussion on the limits and un-limits of sharing literature on the net.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poet Eileen Myles reads from her work


A novel about what happens when you are totally unknown to yourself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Shaking Women and Knotted Subjects: The Future of Psychoanalysis and Its Narratives


A conversation between the writer Siri Hustvedt and the literary scholar Elisabeth Bronfen, who will discuss the potentials, challenges, and limitations of psychoanalysis as well as their historical narratives such as hysteria at the beginning of the 21st century. The conversation will be moderated by Rosemarie Brucher.
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Concert | Concert: Bob Katz / Laura Cantrell


Called “The Folk Punk Woody Allen”, Bob Katz introduced a startling new voice with his award-winning debut album, “When Good Mangos Go Bad”, produced by folk rock legend Pete Kennedy. Known for his genre-bending raucous singer-songwriter shows, Bob expanded into musical theater (“Quasimango, the Lunchbox of Notre Dame,” work-in-progress, Dixon Place Lounge, St. John’s Lutheran Church Theater, 2014), radio (The Real Radio Show, regular), and television (The Real Radio Show for TV; Finnish National Television MTV3). Bob Katz is Artistic Director/Host of Christopher Street Coffee House, a monthly, mash-up of song, spoken word, etc. Laura Cantrell is a country music artist based in New York City. Born in Nashville, TN, she has released five acclaimed albums, including her latest, "No Way There From Here,” which made the AllMusic Best of 2014 Favorite Americana Albums list, and received glowing reviews from the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, NY Times, Robert Christgau, etc. The Great Mango. Enough said.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Monday Night Jazz Jam


Catch some jazz standards performed by elder legends or up-and-comers. Or, get up on stage if you have what it takes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | NYC Votes Special Event


Kicking off National Voter Registration Day with performances and a conversation about voting rights and the impact of the immigrant vote in the 2016 federal elections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Patty Farmer reads from her book Playboy Swings: How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music


Author Patty Farmer takes the reader from the inception of the Playboy empire through the 1959 jazz festival, to the opening of club after club.
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Author Reading | Pierre Lemaitre discusses his novel The Great Swindle


French novelist Pierre Lemaitre and American novelist Philip Klay will discuss Lemaitre’s masterful exploration of post-WWI French society in a novel that earned Lemaitre the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award. Conversation in English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally reads from his book Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays


Legendary, four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally brings us a compilation of eight of the plays he considers his most important, prefaced by essays and anecdotes. This event will be wristbanded.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Wayne Koestenbaum reads from his book The Pink Trance Notebooks


A sequence of 34 intimate epigrammatic assemblages, The Pink Trance Notebooks is the product of the year Koestenbaum stopped keeping the traditional journal he had maintained for three decades and embarked instead on a series of “trance notebooks” as a way to transform his diary into a higher pitch of reckless ceremony, an occasion for intensified, unmoored consciousness. To mark the book’s publication, and to manifest the spirit of linguistic improvisation, Koestenbaum will perform piano miniatures (Scriabin, Chopin, Fauré, Milhaud, Poulenc) while incanting spontaneous Sprechstimme-style soliloquies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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: Taja Lindley, Sari Nordman, Jen Rosenblit, David Thomson This series takes place on Mondays, September 14-28, 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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