37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 10, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with a guided ...
more >> tour. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> 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.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled ...
more >> 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.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> 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.
On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory ...
more >> Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday ...
more >> is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
John Crant discusses how to discover your inspiration. What can still excite you professionally, if you ...
more >> just had the opportunity? Taking an inventory of all your skills and experiences, both professional and personal, is the first step in truly knowing what you may have to offer. Overlay the right, targeted organizations that you've selected, and we're ready to start the engines. In the process that will lead to pure reinvention, you'll learn a new way of talking about yourself and your accomplishments, how to overcome those objections. But your transformation won't be possible without it happening in the digital world too digital marketing/ social media marketing also.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Take a 30-minute lunch break for your soul with Colin MacKnight, Assistant Organist at Church of the ...
more >> Resurrection and Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
PROGRAM: Ryan Beppel Sterbetourismus (2013) (US PREMIERE) Tristan Murail Les ruines circulaires (2006) ...
more >> with Carol McGonnell, clarinet, and Doori Na, violin Georg Friedrich Haas Hochzeitmartsch (2015) (WORLD PREMIERE) Richard Wagner Seigfried Idyll (1870) Tristan Murail C'est un jardin secret, ma soeur, ma fiancée, une source scellée, une fontaine close... (1976) Georg Friedrich Haas das Ende der Sehnsuch (2015) (NY PREMIERE)
12:30 pm
$15 suggested donation...
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> 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.
Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays at 1 pm with an entertaining ...
more >> and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bringing to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompting questions about how ...
more >> we express, control, manipulate, or simulate feelings in our own society, A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD is a path-breaking exhibition.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> 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.
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ...
more >> 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. This tour takes place daily.
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Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh. Crippled by guilt and paranoia after committing a murder, ...
more >> Roderick Raskolnikov is torn between the detective investigating the murder and the woman who now wants to save his soul. 88 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Robert Donowick, Viola 4 p.m. Dmmitri Mokrenko, Bass Trombone 4 p.m. Jennifer Yunyoung Choi, Cello ...
more >> 6 p.m. Dean Tsur, Tenor Saxophone 6 p.m. Wun Ching Agnes Tse, Violin 8 p.m. Winds, Harps, and Guitars 8 p.m.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Ruth Widder String Quartet Competition 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Evening of Saxophones ...
more >> 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Student Composers' Concert
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
What might reimagining citizenship and state spaces look like if we examine emigration, immigration and ...
more >> re-migration under the same analytical lens? This presentation develops the concept of ‘contemporaneous migration’ as an analytical framework to draw together the different manifestations of migration directionality that converge in a polity and their interconnections across global space. Speaker Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Associate Professor of Geography at National University of Singapore.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ...
more >> 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. The tour is every Monday.
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the ...
more >> cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else. 91 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Since World War II, Italy has struggled to recast both its colonial past and its alliance with Nazi Germany. ...
more >> For many years, pervading much intellectual and public discourse was the contention that, prior to the great influx of racialized migrants in the mid-1980s, and with the exception of the Fascist period, there simply was no race (racialized others, racist intolerance, etc.) in Italy. Vital Subjects examines cultural production—literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film—from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rather than a marginal afterthought or a Fascist aberration. Drawing from theorizations of biopolitics—a term coined by political theorists from Michel Foucault to Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and numerous others to address how the life and productivity of the population emerges as a distinctively modern political question—the book repositions discourses of race and colonialism with regard to post-Unification national culture. Vital Subjects reads cultural texts in a biopolitical key, arguing that the tenor of racial discourse was overwhelmingly positive, focusing on making Italians as vital subjects--robust, vigorous, well-nourished, and (re)productive.
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In 1849, the actor Edwin Forrest inspired a riot at Astor place over national pride in Shakespeare interpretation. ...
more >> In 1864, at the Winter Garden Theater, Edwin Booth redefined American Shakespeare with his "Hundred Night Hamlet." Throughout our city’s modern history, the 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare has found a home in New York City. The Shakespeare Society partners with the Library on an evening of Shakespeare recitation, expert commentary, and archival exploration, celebrating historic men who shared Shakespeare with our city.
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This guest lecture will delve into strategies for improving the management of natural resources in New ...
more >> York City. Speaker: Emily Maxwell, New York City Program Director, The Nature Conservancy
6:10 pm
free, no reservation required
Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women ...
more >> in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Hads and Taff find their journey home is their greatest battle. Pink Mist was inspired by 30 interviews with returned servicemen and first staged at Bristol Old Vic in 2015. Described as “fearlessly lyrical in its imagery” (The Times) and “the most important play of the year" (What’s On Stage).
6:15 pm
free, no reservation required
This illustrated lecture is a groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the ...
more >> true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reform.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Come and test your knowledge in a challenging though entertaining 30 question trivia quiz. There are ...
more >> questions and categories for all comers, spanning subjects from Music and Movies to New York History, Sports, Literature and others in between. Individuals and teams welcome. Bring your friends and be prepared to have a good time. Trivia Master Chris Vaccari is a New York-based trivia host with the answers to (almost) all of your questions. He has hosted fun-filled trivia events in the Tri-State area since 2007.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A performance of Charles Tournemire's (pictured) 1935 work. Dedicated to Ernest Mitchell, organist of ...
more >> the church, 1922-1960.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An evening with lens-based artists Louis Chan, Jesse Chun, and Motohiro Takeda. Moderated by Libby Pratt, ...
more >> the evening will feature a conversation with the artists and short presentations of their work.
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation
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Second Monday Social is a monthly event where they strive to build a community of artists wgo can explore ...
more >> new work and get to know each other. Writers will share new works in progress cast with actors that have come to SECOND MONDAY SOCIAL. Everyone is welcome for, what will be a fun and exciting place to see old friends, get to know new artists, share exciting new work, explore the craft and....meet new plays!
Baritone David Robinson will perform music by Silvestre Revueltas, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel M. Pónce, ...
more >> Federico Moreno-Torroba, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Manuel De Falla, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi. Performers: Maestra Elaine Rinaldi, founder of Orchestra Miami David Robinson, baritone Elaine Rinaldi, pianist Elisabet Torras Aguilera, choreographer/dancer Please bring ID to enter college.
7:30 pm
$20 suggested donation
For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran ...
more >> New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom. Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater.
Music by Revueltas, Guastavino, Ponce, Ravel, and many more. Performers: David Robinson, baritone (pictured) ...
more >> Mark Cogley, pianist
7:30 pm
$20 suggested donation
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Program: Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, op. 127 Janáček String Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate ...
more >> Letters”) Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) Piano Quintet (New York premiere) Jupiter Quartet: Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violins Liz Freivogel, viola Daniel McDonough, cello with Aaron Wunsch, piano
Actress and Emmy Award-winning commentator Nancy Giles (CBS' Sunday Morning) curates / hosts "The Mosquito," ...
more >> her fast and furious monthly variety show with stand-ups, sit-downs and music. Nancy Giles, who starred on ABC-TV's China Beach and Delta series, will be joined by a rotating cast of regulars who have in the past included: Pat Candaras, Cynthia Kaplan, Peri Gaffney, Kathryn Rossetter, Sheila Head, Susan Burns, Sue Giles, Nancy Shayne and more.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights. Movement Research supports experiments in performance ...
more >> rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. Tonight: Elena Demyanenko/Eva Karczag, NIC Kay, Jordan Martin, Movement of the People Dance Company, Julia Santoli and Kaia Gilje
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required