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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 27, 2026?
28 free events take place on Monday, April 27 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 27 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 27, 2026?
28 free events take place on Monday, April 27 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 27 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.
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!
28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 27, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Birdwatching | Discover Urban Birds with Naturalists
Participate with BPCA naturalists as they explore the park, and see what makes this spot a hangout for urban birds and marvelous migrators! Binoculars and field guides provided, or bring your own.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Start the Day with Morning Meditation
Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Dance Workout for Cathartic Release (Beginners Welcome)
Experience bodyroll, a dance practice pulsing with pure joy. Classes ignite embodied empowerment and energize a cathartic release. The experience is designed to alchemize a playful perspective for rolling, releasing, and reinventing yourself. Together, the group will tap into the spiral rave through body rolling, movement energetix, embodiment practices, and aerobic dancing. No dance experience needed!
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Museums | Exploring Art, History, and Global Cultures in a Landmark Museum
Spend time exploring a world-renowned collection spanning centuries of art, design, and cultural history. From ancient artifacts to iconic masterpieces, these galleries invite slow looking, discovery, and reflection across works that connect global traditions, artistic innovation, and human stories. Note: Some galleries are closed for installation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
pay-what-you-wish for NY...
pay-what-you-wish for NY...
Tour | Explore a NYC Park
Discover how Bryant Park Corporation successfully transformed "Needle Park" of the 1970s into Manhattan's Town Square of today. The guides are loaded with expertise on the park's rich history, award-winning design, distinct amenities, and ongoing maintenance efforts. Tours will continue as scheduled in light rain, but will be cancelled in heavy rain or inclement weather. Bring an umbrella if needed!
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Learn to Juggle, All Skill Levels Welcome
This juggling class is ideal for a quick lesson, an extended practice session, or just enjoy watching jugglers put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons.
All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Party | Fiber/Textile Arts Meetup
Are you a knitter? Do you like to crochet? Maybe you like a different type of fiber art? Whichever it is, bring your supplies and lose yourself in the meditative world of creating art with fiber. Invite your friends, or make new connections there. This is a meet-up, not a class.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Nine-Piece Contemporary Ensemble Suite
One of the most sought-after jazz pianists, Silvano Monasterios, and his talented musicians perform his acclaimed 2025 work The River, a sweeping suite for a nine-piece ensemble inspired by tragic events in Venezuela in 2017, when peaceful demonstrators were attacked by the country’s authoritarian regime.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Weapons (2025): Mystery Horror Film
When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Director: Zach Cregger Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Party | Community Plant Trade-Off
Meet other plant enthusiasts for a free plant swap. Share tips, advice, and plants in this community event Tips for success: Please bring only pest-free plants. If your plants are in containers, please be sure they are in containers that you are ready to give away or exchange. Rooted cuttings may be brought in a sealed plastic bag wrapped in a moist paper towel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Learn How To Make Image Selections in Photography
In this workshop, the focus shifts to culling your body of work. From organizational tips to narrowing down your body of work and finding the right shot for the project, you will learn how to make tough decisions in image selection and create a workflow that works for you.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Step Inside a Historic Mansion and Explore Centuries of Design Evolution
The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, influence, and importance of design in everyday life. Housed in a historic mansion, the museum features a diverse collection of design objects, including decorative arts, architecture, graphic design, textiles, and industrial design.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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pay-what-you-wish from 5pm...
Film | Heaven Can Wait (1943): Supernatural Comedy Starring Gene Tierney
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Director: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn Gene Tierney was an American stage and film actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, Tierney was a prominent leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. For her role in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), she earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, said Tierney was "unquestionably, the most beautiful woman in movie history."
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Explore Memorial Museum and Reconnect with History
Reconnect with the feeling of community and cohesion that blanketed our city and nation in the wake of 9/11. This is a monument to human dignity, courage, and sacrifice. This museum honors the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, recognizes the courage of those who survived, and salutes those who risked their lives to help others.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | NYT Bestselling Author Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Shares Her New Novel, Lake Effect
WNYC’s Alison Stewart and New York Times bestselling author Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney have a live conversation about her newest book, Lake Effect. The novel is a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Screening | W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause -- American History Documentary (+ Discussion)
The New York City film screening of the forthcoming documentary, W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause. The film traces Du Bois’ extraordinary journey from his birth, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, to his death on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington. Drawing from a host of scholars, Du Bois’ books, prophetic essays, private letters, speeches, and rare archival recordings, the film brings his electrifying words to life through powerful dramatic readings by Common, Courtney B. Vance, and Jeffrey Wright, with commanding narration by Viola Davis. Their voices channel the intellect, fire, and poetry of a thinker who dared America to confront its unfinished promise. Director: Rita Coburn The screening will also include an engaging panel discussion immediately following the conclusion of the film - featuring the director, Rita Coburn, famed television and film actor Jeffrey Wright, and other notable producers and participants from the film.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Art Hsitorian Shares Her New Book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
Enjoy a conversation with art historian and critic RoseLee Goldberg to celebrate her book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, chronicling the current state of performance in an age where digital and web technologies are becoming increasingly dominant. She will be in conversation with Whitney Mallett, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Experts Explore Performance Culture in 17th Century Europe
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together specialists in drama, theater, and opera to explore the dynamic exchanges that shaped performance culture in seventeenth-century Italy and France. Rather than treating the two traditions in isolation, experts ask what was gained, lost, or transformed in transit — as performers, repertoires, staging practices, and musical forms moved across political and linguistic borders. The conversation will range from questions of theatrical machinery and scenic design to the training and itineraries of singers and actors, from the circulation of librettos and scores to the institutions that welcomed or resisted foreign influence. A dedicated listening component will invite participants to engage directly with the music under discussion, grounding the historical and critical conversation in sound. Speakers: Jessica Goethals, University of Alabama Kate Driscoll, Duke University Katharina Piechocki, University of British Columbia Barbara Nestola, Centre de Musique Baroque Sylvaine Guyot, NYU Emily Wilbourne, CUNY
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Jam Session: Play with the House Band
Calling all musicians and vocalists! Bring your instrument, sign up to play, and jam with fellow peers. The legendary Kim Clarke will lead the house band. This event offers a unique opportunity to perform alongside experienced musicians in a supportive environment.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Learn & Practice Chess with an Expert
Learn to play chess or develop your strategies with chess expert Tamar Chanadiri from the Marshall Chess Club. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions, as each one builds on the previous. Bring a friend or join on your own--all levels and ages are welcome! Chess sets are provided but you're welcome to bring your own. From 6-7 PM Tamar will provide instruction for beginner-level players. From 7-8 PM there will be open play for all levels.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Symposium | Learn about Harlem Renaissance Literary Figure Jessie Redmon Fauset
This event is a symposium on the life and legacy of Harlem Renaissance writer, Jessie Redmon Fauset, with panelists Dr. Victoria Chevalier, Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Dr. Zoe L. Henry, and Debra A. James. This symposium celebrates the work of the too often overlooked editor, critic, poet, essayist, novelist, educator, and linguist.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Staged Reading | Learn the Basics of Playwriting with Off-Broadway Playwright
The Hunter College MFA Playwriting program partners with Breaking the Binary Theater, a new play development organization that serves transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatre artists, to offer a community playwriting workshop. This workshop is led by Will Davis, whose work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Visual & Performance Artist Selma Selman Shares her "Dear Omer" Writings (+ Q&A)
Artist Selma Selman performs a lecture addressed to Omer–a fictional character she has been writing to for years. The performance centers on Selman reading her CV aloud: her education, residencies, and exhibitions, all offered as proof of a worth that Omer will never quite see. It is the kind of recounting you do for someone who makes you feel like nothing is ever enough. Alongside this, Selman will guide the audience through a selection of her works–pieces with strong narratives that sit close to the Dear Omer writings. Together, they offer a window into the textual practice that has run through her work for over a decade, where language becomes both the wound and the way through it. The evening closes with a Q&A, inviting the audience to go deeper into Selman's practice–to ask not just about the work, but about the choices, the obsessions, and what it means to keep addressing someone who never writes back.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Screening | Inked: Our Stories Remarked (2025) -- Short Documentary on Jewish Tattoo Culture (+ Filmmaker Discussion)
Inked: Our Stories Remarked is an exploration into a captivating yet complex, new phenomenon--where third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors choose to remember their ancestors through commemorative Holocaust tattoos. Through interviews with Holocaust survivors and their descendants, combined with cinematic visuals and archival footage, this short documentary explores the decision to etch history onto the body--an act that invites us to confront essential questions about memory, Jewish identity, and self-expression. Director: Dara Bratt The screening will be followed by a lively discussion with filmmaker Dara Bratt, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn Rabbi Rachel Timoner, 3G Katherine Fishman, and founding partner at Plan A Advisors Adam R. Gaynor, Ph.D.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Bestselling Writer Julia Alvarez Discusses Her Craft & Career
A talk with poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez, moderated by author Rigoberto Gonzalez. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist, the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998).
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress
A 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, & More for Strings and Piano
Borromeo Quartet (Nicholas Kitchen and Kristopher Tong, violins, Melissa Reardon, viola, Yeesun Kim, cello) and Anne-Marie Mcdermott, piano. Program: J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, Op. 87 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Three Pieces Caroline Shaw (1982-) Entr'acte Vijay Iyer (1971-) Dig the Say Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Quintet, op. 44
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
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