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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 26, 2026?
24 free events take place on Thursday, February 26 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 26 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 26, 2026?
24 free events take place on Thursday, February 26 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 26 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!
24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 26, 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 | Lady Sings the Blues (1972): Classic Biographical Musical Drama about Billie Holiday with Diana Ross & Richard Pryor
Pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday's traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life. Director: Sidney J. Furie Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor Diana Ross is an American singer and actress who was the lead singer of The Supremes. They became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Ross has also achieved mainstream success and recognition as an actress. Her first role was her Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972), becoming the first African-American actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for a debut film performance; she also recorded its soundtrack, which became her only solo album to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Richard Pryor was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998 and the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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
Film | Back Street (1961): Classic Romantic Drama with Susan Hayward
The story follows two lovers who have limited opportunities to get together because one of them is married. Director: David Miller Cast: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles Susan Hayward was a film actress who became a popular star during the 1940s and '50s known for playing courageous women fighting to overcome adversity. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress five times, winning it once.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Baroque Italian Works Exploring Love (In Person AND Online!)
Lazzuli Baroque (Rocky Duval, mezzo-soprano, Luce Burrell, lute, Keiran Campbell, violoncello) performs their program, Viaggio d’Amore, which features music from early 17th-century Italy. The program explores the tenuous nature of love and takes the audience through the stages of love: longing, infatuation, stability, fights, breakups, and even a happy ending.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Explore the Ins & Outsof Great Orchestral Performance
Flutist Herman van Kogelenberg--Principal Flute of the Munich Philharmonic--imparts techniques and skills for orchstral performance mastery.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Learn the Ins & Outs of Great Violin Performance
Teng Li--principal violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra--imparts skills and techniques for violin mastery.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Club | Talk about What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Discuss What We Can Know by Ian McEwan with likeminded bookworms! The novel is set almost a century in the future, in 2119, in a UK partially submerged by rising seas, and is centred on Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the fictional University of the South Downs,[3] who is investigating a lost poem, read aloud at a party in 2014.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 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
Opening Reception | Evening Star: Multi-Artist, Immersive Exhibition Exploring Spiritual Ecology & Feminine Folk Wisdom
Experience an art exhibition with an immersive, socially-engaged wellness component rooted in matrifocal spiritual ecology and feminine folk wisdom. Invoking shared cultural memory, stirring the colloquial imaginary around the themes of folk and neo-folk practices and aesthetics, archetypal memory, stars, magic, and wisdom of ancestors, Evening Star centers female energy as limitless, open-ended creative potential. This exhibition explores folk traditions evidenced in contemporary hybrid format—among the terrain we find matrifocal storytelling, folklore, herbalism, music and dance cultures, yoga, and ayurveda.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Future Schools: Multi-Artist Exhibition Questioning Museums & Arts Education
Future Schools is an ambitious exhibition that seeks to question and redefine the role of contemporary museums and art academies. The exhibition aims to challenge and transform our understanding of arts education, exhibition practices, and the frameworks that facilitate them through the exploration of five key principles integral to the future of both schools and museums: Pedagogy, Representation, Collaboration, Dialogue, and Community. The exhibition brings together the work of many artists whose practices embody public-facing and community-engaged, long-term projects that model new forms of museological, organizational, and curatorial practices. The selection of artworks and projects will spotlight practitioners whose work transcends conventional boundaries and modes of pedagogical engagement, prompting renewed examination of their contributions to and influence on the artistic cultural landscape.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | The Divine Lady (1928): Classic Historical Drama on French Revolutionary Wars
Complicated turns of fortune and romance carry a girl of a lower social rank to high society and then exile. A silent film released on the cusp of "talkies," this movie has no recorded dialogue, but some recorded sound and music. Director: Frank Lloyd Cast: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | CNN Anchor Shares Her New Book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power
CNN anchor and author Abby Phillip will discuss her new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power, which explores Jesse Jackson’s 1980s presidential campaigns and their lasting impact on Black political power.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Diverse String Works (In Person AND Online!)
Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a unique sonority — featuring Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova, performing on the fadolín — a new instrument that encompasses the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello, finding its footing in an acoustic chamber music setting for the first time. Their repertoire includes works by Ukrainian composers Vasyl Barvinsky, Mykola Kolessa, and Miroslav Skoryk, Spanish-American composer Andrea Casarrubios, Estonian-American composer Lembit Beecher, folk music from Armenia, Denmark, Romania, Sweden and Uzbekistan, in addition to original works by our fadolínist, Ljova.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Leading German Author Disccusses Her Book, Sanderling, & DIscusses It with Its Translator (+ Signing)
Enjoy a reading by Anne Weber from her book Sanderling (translated by Neil Blackadder), followed by a conversation between her and the book's translator Neil Blackadder, which will be moderated by the author and literary translator Tess Lewis. The conversation will focus on Anne Weber’s deeply personal reckoning with what it means to be German, how the past continues to manifest in the present, how this “Zeitreisetagebuch” (Diary of Time Travel) came to be, and finally, how the translation from German to English was facilitated by the author and translator. How do you live with a history you can’t escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today? These are the questions at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work of literary inquiry by Anne Weber, one of Germany’s leading contemporary authors. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and there will be a book signing following the program.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Trailblazing Designer Shares His New Book, Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider (+ Signing)
Meet the designer who built a $100 million sportswear empire in under five years and turned his creative vision into a multi-decade, multi-category business. This fireside chat with internationally recognized fashion designer and entrepreneur Jeffrey Banks followed by a book signing celebrating his book, Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider. Moderated by Bridget Foley, former Executive Editor of WWD. Banks pioneered the concept of "spectator sportswear" and scaled it to $100 million in less than five years. Banks understood early what many designers resist: that commercial success doesn't compromise creativity, it amplifies impact. What followed was a masterclass in brand architecture: licensing deals in Japan, private label development for Bloomingdale's, the first brand extension for Johnnie Walker, and product categories spanning menswear, womenswear, and home decor for HSN. Banks is a pioneering designer who helped redefine American fashion at a time when few in the industry looked like him. Rising to prominence in the 1970s, he was among the first and few Black designers to enter fashion's upper echelons, challenging barriers with creativity and conviction. His work opened doors for generations of designers who followed, showing that what can be imagined can be made real. In this session, Banks will share candid insights on scaling creative businesses, navigating licensing and brand extensions, and the strategic decisions that turned design talent into commercial success. His career offers a blueprint for building sustainable fashion enterprises across categories and decades.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Writer Ocean Vuong & Artist Laurie Anderson Discuss Buddhism & Creativity
Hear multimedia artist Laurie Anderson and writer Ocean Vuong in conversation on Buddhist practices for the creative process. Moderated by Dominique Townsend, Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion. Introduced by Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker. Books and albums are available for purchase at the event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Italian Jewish Baroque Works & More
This concert presents selections from Salamone Rossi's compositions--vocal music in Italian and Hebrew as well as instrumental works from the 1620s--together with world-premiere performances of three songs by Israeli composer Oded Zehavi set to poetry by Leone Modena. This event features The Raritan Players (Ian Pomerantz, Bass-Baritone, Dongmyung Ahn, violin, Gersh Chervinsky, violin, Charles Weaver, theorbo, Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord).
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Prize-Winning Author Shares Her New Novel, Bad Asians
Lillian Li discusses her new novel, Bad Asians, in conversation with actor and producer Katharine Chin. From the acclaimed author of Number One Chinese Restaurant comes an affecting novel about an unforgettable group of friends trying to make their way in the world without losing themselves, or one another. Lillian Li is the author of Number One Chinese Restaurant, which was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Granta, and Travel + Leisure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
7:30 pm
Regular: $40
Member: $0
Regular: $40
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Concert | Afrofuturist Sounds with Groundbreaking Voices: Nona Hendryx, Black Sound Salon, & More
Experience Convergence: A Transformative Evening of Sound, Story, and Sistahood, an unprecedented gathering featuring the iconic Afrofuturist musician and technological innovator Nona Hendryx, along with Moor Mother, Black Sound Salon, and other artists to be announced. These groundbreaking voices will untangle the creative intersections of mechanization and memory, ancestral knowledge and as-yet-uncharted futurity, inviting audiences into an intimate yet expansive conversation about artistic lineages, the politics of sound, and the ways experimental practice can hold space for transformation and healing. Convergence, presented in collaboration with the Black Sound Salon, is more than just a confluence of great minds. It's a ritual where past and future collapse into a fresh present--a can't-miss event that transcends traditional boundaries between panel discussion and performance.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Comedy Club | Black History Month Comedy Show
In celebration of Black History Month, attend an evening of stand-up comedy with NY Laughs. This unique non-profit seeks to enrich lives, build community, and inspire audiences through the power of laughter.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
Poetry Reading | Evening of Local Poetry
Enjoy an evening of poetry with local poet and playwright Galinsky, with "Five Minute Features" from a dozen poets of all styles.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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
Free
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