49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, August 15, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These morning classes provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center are led by teachers and students who train ...
more >> at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Master Hyland Harris. All ages and levels are welcome. Classes are rain or shine.
7:30 am
free, no reservation required
Start your Tuesdays off right. Rise above the city streets and begin your day focused, centered, and ...
more >> connected with nature. Join the Integral Yoga Institute, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, and other guests for guided meditations. Open to people of all ages and experience levels. Every Tuesday, June through September.
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.
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to discover a new discipline and find balance and relaxation in a ...
more >> beautiful park. Guides from the Taoist Tai Chi Society will host an introductory practice of the different moves included in the basic Tai Chi set. Tai Chi is learned by doing: the instructor will demonstrate, then perform the moves with the class, and finally watch the students as they repeat them. Movements are believed to help calm the emotions, focus the mind, and strengthen the immune system. Every Tuesday, June through September.
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.
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.
Have you always wanted to try drawing outdoors but felt intimidated? This workshop gets you ready to ...
more >> work outdoors to draw the park. It will start from basic understanding of drawing materials, techniques and composition. Then students are off to work on their own subject matter. By drawing within a limited time frame, students’ decision-making becomes faster and they use essential elements, composition, simplifying light and shadow shapes to complete the drawing. Instructor Yuka Imata earned her B.F.A. at Massachusetts College of Art and Design followed by Art Students League of New York winning the Xavier Gonzales and Ethel Edwards Grant to study in Spain. She has received awards from the Salmagundi and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Clubs and was featured in American Artist and Plein Air Magazines.
Don't have enough time to take all of the tours? Prefer to experience Manhattan with a smaller group, ...
more >> but a private booking is out of reach? Then consider our All-in-One New York Tour. This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea Market and the Highline Park.
Perfect your downward dog under the trees at this 14th season of outdoor yoga classes presented by Manduka ...
more >> with instructors curated by Yoga Journal. A colorful selection of mats is provided by Manduka, no need to bring your own.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
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 every Tuesday at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm until Dec. 12, 2017.
Strategy board game for two players; checkmate opponent's general (king) to win; Learning, interacting ...
more >> and having fun with Chinese chess.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
This course will cover the basic features of the iPad. Learn the basics of navigating between apps, changing ...
more >> settings, how to customize your tablet, and much more.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Poet and author Joshua Bennett will use the park as his stage. The poet’s work will come to life as ...
more >> he performs it amongst Josiah McElheny’s prismatic glass and painted wood structures. He will openly engage the public in interview-style performances, bringing his personal narrative as an artist into the light of the public sphere.
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
Stars: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman. After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood ...
more >> journey to find the body of a missing boy. 89 min.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
For Dancing Our Ancestors, Maria Bauman will lead participants in a creative practice through which they ...
more >> will generate contributions to the dying and dying and dying gallery exhibition. Beginning with free writing and movement exercises, this workshop will also bring participants on a walking tour to the nearby Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Cemetery and African Burial Ground. Upon returning return from the two sites, Bauman will lead participants in dancing their impressions of the journey. The workshop will close with a memorial-building activity wherein participants can choose from provided materials to create a collective memorial to both experiences and to people who are no longer. This is a joyous and cathartic activity, rather than a maudlin or somber one.
Deanna Witkowski has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless ...
more >> imagination” (All Music Guide). Her five albums include Raindrop: Improvisations with Chopin, a solo piano session that seamlessly combines jazz, classical, and Brazilian music; and the liturgical jazz release, From This Place. Her brand new recording, Makes the Heart to Sing, features fourteen of her jazz hymn arrangements as performed by her trio.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and ...
more >> guided The Beatles -from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom.
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.
On this tour you not only learn about some of the most significant acts of heroism and the people who ...
more >> sacrificed their lives to save others, but we also discover the history of the World Trade Center, starting with the strategies in the 1950s that were put in place to build it, how it was designed, constructed, how it came down, and the new buildings that are redefining the center today.
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Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery. When two young members of feuding families meet, ...
more >> forbidden love ensues. 138 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a three hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. Begin in Greenwich Village, ...
more >> one of the cultural centers of America. From there, make your way through the Gansevoort Market and the Meatpacking Historic Districts and then onto the extraordinary High Line. Then relive the bygone days of a thriving cruise ship and industrial waterfront along the Hudson; we'll see where trains ran along "death avenue", where the New York harbor along the Hudson was perhaps the most significant waterfront in the world at one time.
Join Claire Miller, an experienced knitting instructor and enthusiast, for a fun hour of knitting instruction. ...
more >> All levels are welcome. Materials are provided.
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.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 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.
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Make friends or dance with a new partner while enjoying tango music, stories, classes and open dance. ...
more >> Strictly Tango NYC Dance School brings you the “authentic Buenos Aires Tango feeling.” Everyone will learn to dance and have fun.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Rediscover some of your favorite childhood games and learn fun twists on the classics. Play favorites ...
more >> like Jenga, Connect 4, Looping Louie, Gin Rummy, Scrabble, Rock em Sock em Robots, and more.
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
A fun al fresco fitness series consisting of three 45-minute classes starting at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm. Classes ...
more >> will consist of a variety of modalities including yoga, bootcamp, dance cardio, boxing, pilates and more. Tuesdays, June 6-August 29, 2017.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Grab a team and join this weekly al fresco battle of the wits! Fun prizes go to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. ...
more >> Teams must be 4 people or fewer.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Getting fit in New York City has never been better! This exercise series will take place every Tuesday ...
more >> and Wednesday all summer long. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June 6-Spetember 26.
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Weekly guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable ...
more >> volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Takes place Tuesdays May 2 -October 31 2017.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Join Melissa Ricci of Base Fitness for a multi-level class that tones and balances your muscles, aligns ...
more >> your body, and strengthens your core. Bring your own mat. Tuesdays from June through August.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Veteran Donald Calliste leads a series of exercises with varied tempos that send your body into fat-burning ...
more >> overdrive and continue fat burning after you’ve completed your workout. This event repeats every Tuesday until September 26, 2017. Terrace at 108th Street in Riverside Park Manhattan Directions to this location Cost Free Event Organizer Summer on the Hudson Contact Number 311 Contact Email Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park West 89th Street and Riverside Drive Manhattan Directions to this location Cost Free Event Organizer Summer on the Hudson Contact Number 311
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Things heat up when the sun goes down with Sunset Salsa, featuring Talia. Get in some Salsa dancing with ...
more >> some of NYC’s best DJs!. Beginner Salsa dance lessons from 6:30-7:15pm, DJs start the party at 7:15pm. Tuesdays, July 11 -August 15, 2017.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, ...
more >> T. S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, make over one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, the literary ground is shifting with the emergence of modernism. Goldstein captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
New York’s favorite traveling jazz venue, Jazzmobile, returns with The Eric Person Band, Jazz Master ...
more >> Houston Person, and special guests Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated ...
more >> The Fifth Season.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An irreverent homage to the “original black-punk-novelist” James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Song ...
more >> is a spirited “rock and roll song-cycle” from the creators of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange, Stew and his longtime collaborator Heidi Rodewald. Fronting his genre-bending band, The Negro Problem, Stew narrates a highly personal and provocative account of Baldwin’s lasting influence with wild humor and an irresistible mix of psychedelic soul, art-damaged-pop and twisted jazz. Stew and The Negro Problem are Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Dana Lyn, Art Terry and Marty Beller.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Established by Battery Dance in 1982 as the Downtown Dance Festival, today the Battery Dance Festival ...
more >> is New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival. Audiences are traditionally drawn from the large downtown working population and residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area. Each year, the Festival draws a combined audience of over 12,000 people. The Battery Dance Festival provides a unique opportunity for outstanding dancers and choreographers to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum. BDF revels in the panoply of dance that our city offers, with strong emphasis on the inclusion of diverse dance styles and an international roster of performers. American choreographers such as Michelle Dorrance, Paul Taylor, Mary Anthony, Elizabeth Streb and Darrell Moultrie have all presented their works alongside pre-eminent companies from Asia, Europe, South America, Africa and the Caribbean.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
These Pilates Mat Classes with the Fitness Guru will teach you to properly activate the muscles of your ...
more >> abdomen and back to create an incredible amount of stability in your torso.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
At The Open Mic Downstairs the focus is the stage! Sign-ups get 7 minutes to try anything from a performance ...
more >> art piece, comedy, music, storytelling to dance!