51 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with ...
more >> Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility. Everybody is welcome, no previous knowledge of Yoga is necessary. Please bring a Yoga mat and possibly a blanket and a shawl.
9:30 am
free, no reservation required
The former slum district of NYC’s Lower East Side is one of the most iconic and historically significant ...
more >> neighborhoods in the world. Even though times have changed, this one time immigrant haven still boasts the character and charm of yore — if you know where to look. This unique walking tour compares images and stories of yesterday with today and offers unparalleled insight into the evolution of a neighborhood now popular for its trendy boutiques, hotels and restaurants.
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend ...
more >> in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” Tours take place at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm.
Sylvia Maier, Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Global Affairs, will discuss the role of ...
more >> women in extremist groups and attacks. Women’s participation in hate and extremist movements—on the right as well as the left—is, in itself, not new. More than one and a half million women were members of terrorist organizations such as the WKKK, PKK, or the FARC. What is new, are the growing leadership and operational roles women assume in extremist movements around the globe.
The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier ...
more >> on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright. The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became ...
more >> a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair. 115 min.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Home of the celebrated Bach Vespers series, the 113-year-old church offers a historically appropriate ...
more >> venue for the performance of early music in this hour-long lunchtime concert.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The publication of The White Chalk of Days commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian ...
more >> Literature Series. The anthology presents translations of literary works by guests that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Speaker Jonathan Haslam is a leading scholar on the history of thought in international relations and ...
more >> the history of the Soviet Union whose work builds a bridge between historical studies and the understanding of contemporary phenomena through critical examinations of the role of ideology. His studies of Soviet foreign policy are expansive in their quality and range, demonstrating his keen originality of thought, supported by insightful and comprehensive archival research.
12:15 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Public speaking is an essential skill in today's workplace and a valuable ability to have to further ...
more >> your endeavors in whatever you're doing. This program is led by experienced public speakers in a supportive environment. All materials for this workshop are provided.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn how to find financial statements for any public company and about the ratios most frequently used ...
more >> to interpret them.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Here’s your chance to experience the ballerina in each of us. Learn basic ballet steps and experience ...
more >> the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. You’ll have fun as you dance and see for yourself the benefits of ballet for good balance, agility and grace. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have fun. Come for the whole month or just drop in. No experience necessary. About the instructor: Jennifer Grambs, trained in both ballet and exercise for older adults, will show you how ballet helps us feel fit, not only in class, but everyday as we travel the sidewalks of New York City.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
Fabian Almazan (born April 16, 1984) is a jazz pianist, composer, and film score composer born in Havana, ...
more >> Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. In addition to being a solo artist, Almazan has held the piano chair in Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's band since 2007.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century ...
more >> Mexico.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Lisa E. Davis received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and taught Hispanic Languages and Literatures ...
more >> at SUNY Stony Brook and at York College CUNY. She has contributed articles to numerous publications in Spain and Latin America, and lesbian-themed fiction and nonfiction to American and Canadian anthologies. Her novel Under the Mink (2001, 2015) recreates the 1940s world of Mafia-owned Village nightclubs that featured drag shows and strip acts. Other highlights of her career include meeting Fidel Castro and almost drowning in the Colorado River.
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Cozy up and unwind with your favorite films under the palm trees. Free popcorn and comfy seats provided ...
more >> - arrive early. 5:15PM: DJ Set 7:00PM: Screening Battle of the Sexes - The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough.
5:15 pm
free, no reservation required
This exhibition will explore the decades-long artistic and personal dialogue between Herbert Ferber (1906–1991) ...
more >> and Mark Rothko (1903–1970), focusing particularly on the Surrealist-inspired, biomorphic forms that they both employed in their work in the 1940s.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas. A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret ...
more >> leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years. 204 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Speaker Hanming Fang is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing ...
more >> on public economics. His research integrates rigorous modeling with careful data analysis and has focused on the economic analysis of discrimination; insurance markets, particularly life insurance and health insurance; and health care, including Medicare.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience ...
more >> of inner silence, calm, and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In the first comprehensive history of American cookbooks, Megan J. Elias chronicles cookbook publishing ...
more >> from the early 1800s to the present day. Following food writing through trends such as the Southern nostalgia that emerged in the late nineteenth century, the Francophilia of the 1940s, countercultural cooking in the 1970s, and today's cult of locally sourced ingredients, she reveals that what we read about food influences us just as much as what we taste.
Oscar Straus III, Esq. provides an introduction to life-planning documents, including wills, healthcare ...
more >> proxies, living wills and powers of attorney. Learn why these documents are important and how they can help you plan for the future.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A documentary short film that follows Earl, Joshua, and Carlos as they navigate life after prison. Weaving ...
more >> intimate portraits of their work, family, and neighborhoods in New York City, the film walks us through Earl’s first day out of prison; captures Carlos’s relationship with his wife and three sons, after nearly 13 years away; and follows Joshua as he returns to work and school, and moves forward from his past. After Now captures the joys and challenges of moving from prison to community, and the ways that incarceration touches us all, while following participants for a one-year cycle.
Contemporary award-winning poets present their most recent work for the pleasure of listening to outstanding ...
more >> literary accomplishment. Featuring: Jason Koo Joe Pan JP Howard Vanessa Jimenez Gabb
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Created in 1969, "Malcolm X Speaks" was created only a few years after civil rights leader Malcolm X’s ...
more >> assassination. Narrated by Gil Noble, it reviews the life of the man and his legacy, following his early years In Boston and New York, his life-changing time in prison, and his relationship with the Nation of Islam. The film features interviews with Malcolm’s widow, Betty Shabazz, and his children.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Grandangolo, the acclaimed debut novel by Simone Somekh, is a coming-of-age story about an ultra-orthodox ...
more >> teenager who discovers the world through the lens of his camera.
The transition to a green economy depends on cities. In The Sustainable City, Steven Cohen, executive ...
more >> director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the 21st century, surveying policies and projects already under way in cities around the world and pointing to ways that the urban infrastructure of the future--renewable energy, energy efficiency, mass and personal transit, and advanced waste management--can be improved.
In China and the Muslim world, rising numbers of women in the workforce are revolutionizing their cultures ...
more >> and their economies. Two new books explore what futures these transformations promise. Roseann Lake is a journalist and the author of Leftover in China: the Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower. Saadia Zahidi, Head of Education, Gender and Work at the World Economic Forum, is author of Fifty Million Rising: the New Generation of Working Women Revolutionizing the Muslim World.
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Program: Charles Lefebvre (1843-1917) Suite for wind quintet, Op. 57 Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) Woodland ...
more >> Sketches, Op. 51 (arr. by R. Taylor) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Petite Suite (arr. by G. Davies) Poldowski (1879-1932) Suite Miniature (trans.by G. Barrère) Katherine K. Davis (1892-1980) Musette (trans.by G. Barrère) William Grant Still (1895-1978) Miniatures (arr.by A. Resnick) May Aufderheide (1888-1972) Richmond Rag (arr.by D. Frost) Charlotte Blake (1885-1979) Poker Rag (arr.by W. Meredith) The Sylvan Winds announce the opening concert of the 2018 Spring Season celebrating music, art, and history. Performing in important cultural and historic New York City buildings, the ensemble creates imaginative and informative programs that reflect the environs of each space. The Sylvan Winds: Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Kathy Halvorson, oboe; Nuno Antunes, clarinet; Gina Cuffari, bassoon; Zohar Schondorf, horn
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This strikingly graphic and honest documentary is about the human toll of the ongoing Russian aggression ...
more >> against Ukraine that started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and was immediately followed by the Russian occupation of parts of southeastern Ukraine. It travels through the war zone, documenting such dramatic events as the Ilovaisk encirclement, among others, in an attempt to understand the essence of the war and how it affects people. 94 min.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all ...
more >> stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. Featuring: Stuart Meyers Emmie Hatfield Jiyon Song
7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation
One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexceptional ...
more >> Politics develops a political vocabulary drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book reviews and renews modes of thinking about micropolitics that counter notions of the “state of exception” embedded in theories of the “political” from Thomas Hobbes to Carl Schmitt.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Born in Kagoshima, Japan, Eriko Daimo began her musical studies at age five on the piano. She started ...
more >> studying the marimba when she entered high school in 1997 and went on to study at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music and the Boston Conservatory. Her recent performances include concerto performances with some of the world’s leading orchestras, such as the RTE Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic in Finland, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and Orchestra Nipponika, as well as recital tours in more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
German poet Uljana Wolf has forged a unique form of poetry out of the distorting and transforming process ...
more >> of translation. On the occasion of the publication of Subsisters: Selected Poems, she will be joined by American poets and translators (including Cathy Park Hong, Mina Pam Dick, LaTasha N. Diggs, Sawako Nakayasu, Celina Su, Farnoosh Fathi, Anna Moschovakis, and Matvei Yankelevich) for a dynamic reading of her experimental poems in both the original language(s) and in the radical translations of Sophie Seita.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This is an introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars). ...
more >> Each session is intended to stand alone, attendence at previous sessions is not required. Room is set up with both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
The Mapmaker's Daughter, a historical novel set in the 16th century, is the confession of Nurbanu, born ...
more >> Cecilia Baffo Veniero—the mesmerizing, illegitimate Venetian who became the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
America's working class is found less and less on the factory floor, despite the image conjured by rightwing ...
more >> demagogues. So what does this new organizing landscape look like? What are the challenges faced when organizing the 21st-century shop floor—the restaurants, retail floors, and graduate student lounges? How should the labor move forward in an economy increasingly dependent on the precariousness of waged workers? These topics and more will be discussed by labor organizers Bianca Cunningham (Communication Workers of America, NYC-DSA Labor Branch, and the DSA AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus), Tania Bhattacharyya (Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2110), and labor lawyer Benjamin Dictor (Eisner & Dictor, P.C.). Moderated by journalist Sarah Leonard (The Nation, Dissent).
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of ...
more >> lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals--and cold-blooded murder. One is playing a long game. But which one? Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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It is often claimed that Superman is Jewish, but the arguments in favor of this claim do not always stand ...
more >> up to critical scrutiny. This talk will discuss some of the most common ways in which Superman has been figured as Jewish and deconstruct some of the most common parallels drawn, in order to then re-construct the Man of Steel in a different way. By the end of the talk, Superman will stand as a figure rooted not in European Jewish culture and folklore, nor in the Torah, but in the Jewish American context in which he was born. Speaker Martin Lund is an assistant professor of religious studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Two leading figures in the field of spatial sound create immersive, large-scale works. Sound is used ...
more >> to heighten listeners' spatial awareness and encourage a focused listening practice from within an encompassing field. Both artists take a different approach to surround sound studio composition than the more typical one that attempts to represent "virtual" space and aims for transferability into a variety of settings, including the concert hall. Instead, Neumann's and Schumacher's pieces represent, not sound in space, but rather space in sound.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Two leading figures in the field of spatial sound create immersive, large-scale works. Sound is used ...
more >> to heighten listeners' spatial awareness and encourage a focused listening practice from within an encompassing field. Both artists take a different approach to surround sound studio composition than the more typical one that attempts to represent "virtual" space and aims for transferability into a variety of settings, including the concert hall. Instead, Neumann's and Schumacher's pieces represent, not sound in space, but rather space in sound.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required