Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 21, 2014?
27 free events take place on Monday, April 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 April 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 April . 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.
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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 21, 2014
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!
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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional"
Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
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.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
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. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale looks forward and backward, continually exploring how the past both nurtures and shadows the present. In its famous sheep-shearing festival scene, the play confronts aesthetic, cultural, and political shadows of its own past by conjuring the specter of Queen Elizabeth’s pastoral entertainments. In its festival act, its invokes the dead Queen in order to both celebrate the enduring symbolic identity created by the Elizabethan entertainments, and lament the loss of her physical presence, and with it a unique means of dramatic creation.
Speaker Claire Falck is an Assistant Professor of English at Rowan University.
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.
A lecture by Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, co-founders of Daily Tous Les Jours, a design studio with a focus on participation – empowering people to have a place in the stories that are told around them.
Plantation landscapes have been understood by historical archaeologists to be fundamentally part of the expansion of global capitalism. This talk explores this taken-for-granted assumption through the study of Islamic plantations on nineteenth-century Zanzibar. Through a combination of archaeological and historical data I explore how landscapes were understood by Omani settler colonists on the island during the 1800s, in the process questioning the manner in which capitalism and European culture are generally assumed to be synonymous.
Speaker: Sarah K. Croucher, PhD, Wesleyan University.
This panel explores local initiatives to empower students with hands-on opportunities to make a difference.
Panelists include:
- Elisa DiCaprio, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Sciences, McGhee
- Sophie Larissa Lasoff, Student
- Owen Moore, Assistant Vice President, Campus Services
Ozgem Ornektekin, Sustainability Task Force
- Moderator: Mechthild Schmidt Feist, Clinical Associate Professor Digital Communications and Media, McGhee
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.
This illustrated lecture questions why it is that, compared to all other industrialized countries, Americans spend more and receive less from our healthcare system. The authors argue that the reason is that we spend a significant amount less on social services like food, housing, and education, which have a large impact on health. When spending on social services and health is taken together, they say, the U.S. does not outspend other countries.
Despite quotas set in the 1920s meant to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country, immigrants continued to come. Historian Libby Garland tells the untold stories of the Jewish migrants and smugglers involved in that underworld. Garland also helps us understand how Jews were linked to, and then unlinked from, the specter of illegal immigration. Tenement actors will dramatize some of the cases highlighted in the book.
The bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back presents his latest work. Set during the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy.
By the time the Cold War came to its end, the region had experienced ruthless dictatorships and had survived an additional decade of economic upheaval. These stories will take the audience on a journey from south to north,
through great and small victories and defeats, and through decisive conflicts that have affected the lives of millions.
With the participation of Álvaro Enrigue (writer), Francisco Goldman (writer), Enric González (journalist), and Diego Fonseca (journalist). In English and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. This is a staged reading of this epic play.
Program:
Dave Hall: Escape Velocity
Minoru Miki: Marimba Spiritual
Steve Reich: Six MarimbasBr>
Alejandro Vinao: Estudios de Frontera
James Wood: Village Burial with Fire
and more...
A new type of variety show with comedy, dance, music, video, and original mashups by Chambaland and DJ Lobsterdust.
Featuring:
Hari Kondabolu (Totally Biased, Conan, Letterman)
Ilana Glazer (Broad City)
Pop Roulette
Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad
BacKspace Performance Ensemble
DNA Comedy
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join artists-in-residence and international guests each season in performing.