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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 19, 2026?
30 free events take place on Thursday, February 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 February 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 February . 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 19, 2026?
30 free events take place on Thursday, February 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 February 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 February . 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.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
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.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 19, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Workshop | Central Park Running Session (All Levels Welcome)
If you prefer not to run alone or are looking to improve your running performance, you can run with a club! Open to runners of all levels. Weekly changed routes through the park. Coaches, training, running company and inspiration!
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
Free
Free
Film | Claudine (1974): Romantic Comedy-Drama with James Earl Jones
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood. Director: John Berry Cast: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones James Earl Jones was an actor. A pioneer for black actors in the entertainment industry, he is known for his extensive and acclaimed roles on stage and screen. Jones is one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985, and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Master Class | Prize-Winning Violinist Teaches the Ins & Outs of Great Violin Performance
Violinist Leonidas Kavakos--winner of several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions--imparts skills and techniques for violin mastery.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
Free
Free
Author Reading | Bestselling Author Libba Bray Shares Her New Book, Under the Same Stars
A New York Times bestselling author, Libba Bray, discusses her latest novel, Under the Same Stars, her writing, and career with librarian Jennifer Hubert Swan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Afternoon Bach
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Contemporary Ice Skating Showcase in Midtown
Enjoy a lunchtime performances that bring contemporary choreography to an outdoor ice setting. Featuring solo and duet works by acclaimed skaters and choreographers, the programs transform the ice into a stage for expressive, site-responsive movement.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:35 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Baroque Clavichord Works (In Person AND Online!)
Alissa Duryeem, clavichord, performs her An Das Klavier program, which takes its title from the eponymous song by Friederike Pallas, after a poem by Englehard, featured in archival musical notebooks of the Pennsylvania Moravians. This program combines works by European masters with those of Bethlehem Moravians’ notebooks, in an effort to reconstruct that experience at the clavichord.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Live Concert in the Galleries
Enjoy live performances by talented young jazz musicians, bringing rhythm and improvisation to the museum’s musical instrument galleries. This series showcases the energy of jazz while connecting music to the artistry of the instruments on display.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Exploring Photographs with Museum Experts
Join curators and museum specialists for an in-depth look at select photographs on view. Hear fresh insights, untold stories, and engage directly with experts while exploring the artistry, context, and history behind these compelling works.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Thursday Evenings at a Living Memorial Museum
Explore a museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, Jewish life, and education. View expansive galleries, survivor testimonies, and tens of thousands of artifacts. The museum also offers a theater, a genealogy center, an outdoor memorial, and a café.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Thursday Evening Exploring the Photography Museum
This museum is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. It was founded in 1974 to champion “concerned photography”—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through its exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, the museum offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
$5, tickets required
$5, tickets required
Film | 'Til We Meet Again (1940): Classic Romance Film
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another. Directors: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Art Writer Celebrates a New Edition Cookbook by Her Grandmother, Renowned Hostess Dolly Chow, Chow!
Enjoy a conversation with Carolyn Hsu-Balcer to celebrate the newest edition of Chow!, a timeless and tasteful exploration into traditional Chinese recipes and eating customs. She will be in conversation with Lin Tan, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Multi-Artist Exhibition Exploring Connections & Intimicacies
In recognition of Valentine’s Day, this exhibition explores relationships with family, friends, and four-legged friends. Celebrate these connections that shape our lives: from the bonds forged in childhood, to the enduring
ties of life experience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Multi-Artist Exhibition Exploring Fine Art in All Mediums (Part I)
This exhibition showcases the finest works of art in all media - oil, watercolor, pastel, graphics, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. The art club's illustrious membership includes both nationally-recognized award winners as well as emerging talent. This is the first part of a two-part exhibition, allowing the opportunity to showcase a wider breadth of what the club's membership is made of.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Reimagining a Monumental Landscape Through Art
New paintings by artist Cynthia Daignault revisit landscapes through the lens of Denali, North America's highest peak. Deconstructed across multiple canvases, the works explore the mountain as both a symbol of natural grandeur and a site shaped by mythology, national identity, and climate change.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Scholar Discusses the Figure of the Imposter in Weimar Art & Literature
This lecture by Professor Nicola Gess explores literature as a laboratory of the social imaginary, taking the impostor as its central case study. Across novels, self-help manuals, daily newspapers, psychology, sociology, and criminology, the figure of the impostor emerges as a pervasive presence in the Weimar Republic, ranging from the charming rogue to the cynical power-player. Tracing the conditions that enabled this proliferation, the lecture examines the role literature played in shaping and disseminating the impostor figure and explores its broader significance for the interwar period - an emblematic figure through which a crises-ridden society came to recognize itself.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Seeing the Brooklyn Bridge Through a Photographer’s Lens
Explore the Brooklyn Bridge as a source of artistic inspiration on this guided photographic walk. Discover how photographers have captured its architecture, history, and cultural significance, and experience the landmark from an engaging perspective.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Sonic Journey through Jazz Standards, Timeless R&B Ballads, & More (In Person AND Online!)
Composer and singer Du’Bois A’Keen takes the stage for a sonic journey through jazz standards, timeless R&B ballads, and his own original works. The program will highlight selections from Sacred Songs Suite; originally composed for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s world premiere at New York City Center, alongside brand-new, unreleased compositions performed live for the first time. Joining A’Keen is his dynamic trio: Nicholas Hetko on piano, Blake Johnston on guitar, and Griffin Fink on bass, bringing rich, vibrant textures to an evening designed to move, inspire, and resonate.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Evening Ice Skating Show
Enjoy evening performances of contemporary ice dance set within a winter landscape. Innovative choreography and live ice performance come together to create a fusion of athleticism, artistry, and atmosphere.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
Free
Free
Screening | Pressure (1976): British Drama Film about Cultural Assimilation & Racism (+ Discussion)
Pressure is a film about Tony, a second-generation British-born Black teenager of Trinidadian descent, who struggles to find his place in 1970s London. Caught between his parents' desire for assimilation and his brother's Black Power activism, his growing frustration with institutional racism and unemployment leads him towards radicalization, exploring the identity crisis of a generation caught between two cultures. Pressure was the first British feature to be written and directed by a Black filmmaker and the first to focus on the perspective of Black characters. Director: Horace Ove Cast: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, David Kinoshi Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Gil Z. Hochberg Shares Her New Memoir, My Father, The Messiah
Enjoy a reading and discussion with Gil Z. Hochberg (Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies) on her newest book, My Father, The Messiah. Mikhal Dekel (Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and the City College of New York) will join in conversation. In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic episodes. Hochberg reconstructs her relationship with her father through an archive of letters between the two, as well as her father’s personal writings, painting a tender portrait of the non-normative family life within which Hochberg’s queer identity unfolds and a heart-rending account of her father’s mental decline. Hochberg crafts a powerful story of intimacy and loss that dovetails with sea changes in Israel’s religious and political environment since the 1990s.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | History Expert Discusses His New Book, The Bowery (+ Live Ragtime Music)
History expert David Mulkins gives his illustrated talk on the history of The Bowery. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, the Bowery was an Indigenous trail, Dutch farm road, free Black homesteads, and Washington's march route during the British evacuation, and became the main street of immigrants & the working class. NYC's first entertainment district, it has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Harry Houdini, and modern tattooing. It later became an iconic skid row, but reemerged and helped foster Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, Free Jazz, and punk rock. Ragtime pianist Ramona Baker will be performing The Bowery Song, accompanied by vocalist Christina Britton. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Celebrating Diaspora Music with DJ MD
DJ MD (Marcy DePina) curates vibes and sounds that reflect her passion for music, art, and the cultures of the world. Celebrating music as the universal language, DJ MD spins tracks from Africa and its expansive and innovative Diaspora, with the purpose of raising frequencies and promoting unity through sound. For over a decade, DJ MD has been a radio host, producer, deejay, and host of the FORSA! Show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Fiction Writers Share Their Prose (+ Signing)
A reading by NYU Creative Writing Program Fiction MFA alums Stephen Fishbach, Bsrat Mezghebe, and Lior Torenberg, hosted by Creative Writing Professor Darin Strauss. The event will conclude with a reception/signing with books for sale. Stephen Fishbach is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and former television executive. Bsrat Mezghebe is a writer from Washington, D.C. Her debut novel is I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For. Lior Torenberg’s work has been published by One Story, MAYDAY, the Poetry Society of New York, and others. Just Watch Me is her first novel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Period Instrument String Ensemble Performs Vivaldi Work (+ Pre-Concert Talk)
Antonio Vivaldi's L'estro armonico violin concerti are performed by Abendmusik, New York's period instrument string ensemble In a program dubbed "Girls on Fire!" the group presents the composer's first collection of printed concerti for one, two, and four violins. Dr. Alison Smith, historian of early modern Italy and professor emeritus at Wagner College, will give a short pre-concert talk on Anna Maria and the cultural life of women in Italian convents during the eighteenth century.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Black History-Inspired Performance
This February performance of Voices of a People's History takes its inspiration from the new book Black History Is for Everyone, written by New York Public Library educator Brian Jones. Black History challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Understanding it challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures. Artists to be announced soon; narrated by Brian Jones. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Tuesday before the event at noon.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Carnegie Hall-Featured Musician Teaches the Ins & Outs of Great Piano Performance
Distinguished pianist Marilyn Nonken (celebrated by the New York Times as "a determined protector of important music" and by the American Record Guide as "one of the greatest interpreters of new music"), who has performed in major venues like Carnegie Hall, provides wisdom on her craft.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Dance Performance | Various Dance Works (In Person AND Online!)
Enjoy a series of dance works choreographed and performed by students at NYU Tisch.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Comedy Club | Standup Show
Catch some of the best comedians at this free weekly stand-up show, featuring a lineup of rising stars and seasoned favorites. Past performers include Sheng Wang, Mark Normand, Dan Soder, Annie Lederman, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
Free
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