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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 2, 2012?

33 free events take place on Sunday, December 2 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 December 2 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 December . 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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33 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, December 2, 2012

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Critical Information Conference


An interdisciplinary graduate student conference exploring the junctures of media, theory, criticism, and the visual arts. Panels include Revolution 101/2012; Still, Mediated and Moving: The Image Today and Its Effects on Time and Space; Animism Anew: New Media and the Speaking Object; Handmade in the Information Age; The Writing on the Wall: Street Art, Hacktivism, and Subversive Inspiration; and Algorithmic Thought and Memory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Hike | Staten Island Town & Woods Hike


4-5 MILES Take the Yellow Trail from Richmond Road & Spring Street to top of Todt Hill; wander through residential areas, interesting homes, holiday decorations. If time and weather permit, reenter the woods and continue to High Rock Park. Bring lunch and water, hiking boots recommended. 2 Metrocard fares. Heavy rain/snow cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
$3 plus Metrocard...

City Walk | Flatiron District Walking Tour


Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Getting to Know Your iPhone 5


Come and see why iPhone 5 is the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone. All new design - brilliant 4-inch Retina display, powerful A6 chip, ultrafast wireless - that is remarkably thin and light. Discover iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, with amazing features and built-in apps that help you get the most out of iPhone 5.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Hike | Staten Island Greenbelt Hike


4-5 MILES Take the Yellow Trail from Richmond Road & Spring Street to top of Todt Hill; wander through residential areas, interesting homes, holiday decorations. If time and weather permit, we will reenter the woods and continue to High Rock Park. Bring lunch and water, hiking boots recommended. 2 Metrocard fares. Heavy rain/snow cancels
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
$3

Talk | Mark Russ Federman discusses his memoir Russ & Daughters: The House That Herring Built


National Yiddish Theater presents Coffee & Conversation with Mark Russ Federman, the former proprietor of Russ & Daughters, a landmark appetizing store in NYC’s Lower East Side, owned and operated by four generations of the Russ family since 1914. Russ Federman will chat with about his memoir, in which he relates the tale of the humble beginnings of his immigrant family’s business, its survival through the Great Depression, WWII, and its continued success a century later.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

City Walk | Lower East Side Food Tour


Where can you find a historic Synagogue next to a storefront Buddhist Temple, trendy boutiques that sit comfortably beside decades-old "Mom and Pop" shops, or tenament apartments interspersed between luxury high rise condos? Look no further than the Lower East Side to discover America's great Melting Pot. Once an insular slum with the one of the world's highest population densities and lowest life expectancies, its streets tell the tales of immigrant struggles and rags to riches stories. Known for a time as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), this neighboorhood was also the Jewish ward, home today to a mix of foreign-born Latinos and Asians as well as students and hipsters. The result is one of New York City's most dynamic and interesting neighborhoods and a food lover's paradise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of Fore: Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967


Enjoy an interactive and informative tour with a knowledgeable museum educator. Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 honors the legacy and the work of late iconic artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks, who would have turned 100 on November 30, 2012. The tour will have something for everyone: adults, families and kids of all ages are welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Opera | New York Opera Forum performs Die Zauberflote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


A concert version.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Concert | Everything Chamber Music


Part of the WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Sculptor Amy Modell discusses her exhibition True Luxury


The exhibition is inspired by Modell's passion for high fashion and her belief that its true core elements are derived from nature. This new collection of glass sculptures was created during the process of an exploration to discover the square root of haute couture in a stark and unsentimental way. After collapsing an entire landscape or garden to its base form and colors, Modell built the collection from the ground up using her strong contemporary architectural sensibilities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | William Keighley's The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942): House Pest


With Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley. When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman's home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Strange Weather by Renee Flemings


Actress/award-winning playwright Renee Flemings presents her acclaimed play. Described as “a Southern gothic tale with a comic edge about a fundamentalist Baptist family with many secrets,” the reading is produced by Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre and The Gurfein-Merine Family Foundation/Ntozake Shange Play Reading Series. Directed by Clinton Turner Davis, Renee will be joined at the reading by actors Caroline Clay, Sheila Kay Davis, Shamika Cotton, Devin Haqq, Robert Kya-Hill, Alvin Keith, Keith Randolph-Smith and Jonathan Peck.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Performance | Unlocking Nine Locks: Not Grimms'-Tales from Elsewhere


Storyteller: Laura Simms.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Jeff Kaufman's The Savoy King


A feature documentary on Harlem's historic Savoy Ballroom, swing-era drummer/band leader Chick Webb and the many celebrities and residents that made the Savoy world-famous. The film also highlights the social and cultural history of the swing-era. New York City residents and those who were music followers will be returned to a time sometimes long forgotten.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | The Argento Performers Series: Lunar Movements


PROGRAM: John Zorn - untitled Claude Debussy - Sonata in D minor Charles Wuorinen - An Orbicle of Jasp Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire Argento Chamber Ensemble, the musical arm of Argento New Music Project, announces the Performers Series: Lunar Movements, a six-part concert series celebrating the centennial of the world premiere of Pierrot Lunaire featuring performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s masterpiece juxtaposed with recent and premiere compositions. The audience is invited to an informal discussion with the featured composers and musicians at the concert. With: Jay Campbell, cello; Conor Hanick, piano; Paula Robison, voice; Michael Galante, conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Other | Holiday Lighting in the Park


Celebrate the season at this 16th annual Holiday Lighting. Take your photo with Santa (bring your own camera), watch Okamoto Studio carve an ice sculpture, sing with the Original Dickens Carolers, and warm up with hot cocoa and cookies. Event culminates with the lighting of a flotilla of trees.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
Free

Concert | Vocal Chamber Music


Part of the WINTER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Video | Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 Video Re/trato Projected on the Side of a Building


Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 video Re/trato will be projected on a building to the east visible from the park’s Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk. One of Colombia’s most influential artists, Oscar Muñoz has created an impressive body of work that investigates memory and history, and the ways both intertwine with our contemporary society. Here, Muñoz presents a video in which you see the artist painting a self-portrait on a concrete sidewalk by using a brush and water. The hand continuously paints as the portrait evaporates, creating an endless drawing. Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of identity, the work highlights the liminal space between remembering and forgetting, between an image and its obliteration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Works by Handel and Bach


Program: Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537 Handel Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 With: Benjamin Sheen, organist
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Wanda Johnson and the Kingdom of Hair by Janet Burnham



   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Trumpet Recital


Alejandro Berti, trumpet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | How do we look? Photographs by Engineering Students


What happens when talented engineers are challenged to draw from their scientific mindsets and express themselves artistically? How do we look? Photographs by Engineering Students illustrates the confluence of science and art and provides a unique perspective that ties the technical and aesthetic into one image. This exhibit features 40 photographs that explore the distortion of time, space and color, illustrating both their creativity and technical training and, ultimately, how they view themselves and the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Student Driver: Indie Road


Watch out! Come revel in the fun, supportive vibe as we celebrate the indie improv community of NYC and beyond! Each week, two kick-ass indie teams dominate the stage, followed by the fast-paced, down-and-dirty moves of hosts Student Driver.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Concert | Experimental Sounds


1. Stairway to Nowhere, with Ras Moshe (reeds) Ken Kobayashi (drums) and Jochem van Dijk bass guitar 2. Eli Asher - trumpet Andrew Smiley - guitar Greg Chudzik - bass and Carlo Costa - drums 3. An Open Session
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Orchestral Works by Bartok and Brahms


Program: Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Bela Bartok Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19 The University Orchestra performs with Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor and Music Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Comedy: Vicious Cycle


A new Sunday open mic. Names are written, put in the bucket, then picked at random. Comics get 4 minutes. And the next week it happens again. It’s kinda like… a Vicious Cycle. Hosted by Molly Austin and Mike Brown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
$1
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