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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 28, 2022?

21 free events take place on Monday, February 28 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 February 28 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 February . 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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21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, February 28, 2022

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Lecture | Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (online)


It is conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. But the sharpest phase of that competition will be a decade-long sprint, and the moment of maximum danger could be just a few years away. America will still need a long-term strategy for competing with China. But first, it needs a near-term strategy for navigating the danger zone ahead. Speaker: Michael Beckley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Book Discussion | The Symphonies by Andrei Bely (online)


A discussion with Jonathan Stone, translator of The Symphonies, joined by translator Sarah Vitali and moderator Mark Lipovetsky. Stone’s translation, published in 2021, is the twenty-fifth book in the Russian Library series at Columbia University Press.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Talk | New York City’s Lost Canals (online)


While New York City sat at the nexus of many important canals built in the 19th century — the Erie, Morris, and Delaware & Raritan among them — the city had its own internal network of lesser-known canals, some filled in, some never built, and some still with us today. Examine the ambitious schemes from the 17th century onward to connect the city’s bays and streams, from the Heere Graft of New Amsterdam to the Wallabout Canal of Brooklyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5

Lecture | Moscow of the Plan/Moscow of the Shadows: Skyscrapers and Displacement During Late Stalinism (online)


In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. This talk delves into the ideological tensions and social cleavages exposed by Stalinist skyscraper construction. Contrasting the ideal city of the plan with the shadow city that emerged to support it, the talk focuses on the challenges posed by the displacement of residents away from plots chosen for monumental redevelopment. Lecturer Katherine Zubovich is Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. In 2021-22, she is a James H. Billington Fellow at the Kennan Institute in Washington D.C.. Her first book, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, was published by Princeton University Press in Dec 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Book Club | Short Story Discussion: "Suicide, Watch" by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (online)


Group discusses an assigned short story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Author Reading | Black Cake: Estranged Siblings Reconcile (online)


Author Charmaine Wilkerson discusses her moving debut novel in which two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. Charmaine Wilkerson will be in conversation with Jenna Bush Hager of Today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | On Being Stuck: Drawing Latino Depression (online)


Focusing on Wilfred Santiago’s 2007 graphic novel In My Darkest Hour, William Orchard (Queens College) considers how Latinx comic art steers this narrative in new directions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Worth the Trip? Effects of School Transportation in Boston and New York, with Nobel Laureate Joshua Angrist (online)


Joshua D. Angrist is an Israeli-American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist, together with Guido Imbens, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Dance Performance | her body as words: New York Dance Premiere (online; streaming through Mar. 14)


Peggy Baker’s new work is a sound and film installation that fragments and explodes notions of female identity as expressed by nine Canadian dance artists. Inspired by the 2009 translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Baker entered a deeply collaborative process involving personal conversations with the performers. Dancing the complexities of their lived identities, these artists offer gestural renderings touching on themes of race, gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual appetite, pregnancy, miscarriage, motherhood, disability, physical labor, and aging. her body as words was filmed by Jeremy Mimnagh and features sound design by Debashis Sinha.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (online)


A discussion of the new book by Tomiko Brown-Nagin. With this monumental and timely new history, Brown-Nagin delivers the first major biography of Constance Baker Motley, one of our country’s most influential and groundbreaking judges—whose story sheds new light on the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th century. The author will be in conversation with Hunter College Professor of History D’Weston Haywood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Fear of the Decaying State: On Clowns and Compost (online)


Performer and compost-lover Alex Tatarsky will share some ongoing research into the connections between clowns and dirt clods – considering their shared choreographies of falling down and falling apart. Tracing American fear of the so-called “scary clown” alongside efforts to keep waste and rot out of sight, Tatarsky examines the pathologizing impulse towards those figures and substances whose presence suggests in-between, ambiguous, and disordered states. If laughter is a mode of displacing abjection, can the fool guide us towards generative decay? An etymological foray, essay as sashay, clown talk in the abyss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Songbook: Broadway's Future


After a two-year hiatus, Broadway's Future Songbook Series--produced, directed, and hosted by John Znidarsic--returns. The evening will spotlight the songs from Jermaine Rowe's Children from the Blue Mountain. This original musical, set in the magical folk underworld of Jamaica, tells of Akan folk creature, Anansi, who meets Jack Mandora within the hills of the Blue Mountains. As the world navigates an imbalance, they journey to find the power within all lost folkloric stories that were promised to set the world back to normal. This original musical score features reggae, dancehall, kumina, pocomania.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | On Faith: Harlem (online)


Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories both to document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify struggles for social justice and equity.  This panel’s title, On Faith: Harlem, points both toward her enduring impact as well as the importance of Harlem, and particular values, in her work. Moderated by exhibition co-curator Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum, panelists will include leading scholars, artists, and directors to consider Faith’s creative practice and vision in relation with Harlem. Panelists include: writer and historian Sharifa Rhodes Pitts, Rob Fields, Director, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, artist Nari Ward, and Sandra Jackson Dumont, Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Club | Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (online)


Host Alison Stewart will accompany readers throughout an astounding work of fiction, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt (in-person and online)


Friends, family, and admirers discuss Tony Judt and the reissue of his classic 2010 polemic.Tony Judt died in 2010. His son Daniel Judt, his friend and collaborator Timothy Snyder, and his longtime admirer Ta-Nehisi Coates, discuss the enduring power of his work and the renewed resonance of his words amid the pandemic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Life


Author Thomas Pletzinger, basketball star Dirk Nowitzki and photographer Tobias Zielony discuss the new book which offers a glimpse into the maddeningly difficult climb to sports stardom through basketball legend Dirk Nowitzki's story. A masterpiece of sports journalism and a work of personal obsession, The Great Nowitzki brims with a fan’s passion and offers an intimate portrait of an iconic performer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Music of the Early German Baroque Period (online)


Program: Franz Tunder - "Salve Coelestis Pater" Nicholas Bruhns - "Mein Herz ist bereit" David Pohle - "Vox Domini super aquas" Bruhns - "De profundis clamavi" This concert, recorded at Americas Society, features Canadian Indigenous baritone Jonathon Adams and a band of New York's finest baroque specialists led by Robert Mealy for a program dedicated to music from the extravagant early-baroque "Stylus Phantasticus."
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Our History with Native Plants (online)


We know native plants are good for birds, but how do we relate to them as people? Maureen Regan is the founder of Green Earth Urban Gardens, a Queens-based nonprofit organization that focuses on the importance of green spaces and gardening in urban communities. She will give a talk on our native plants, their benefits, and their historic role.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | As I Open My Eyes (2015): Tunisian Youth's Choices (online through Mar. 6)


A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18-year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor. Director: Leyla Bouzid Stars: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari 102 min. In Arabic with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Filipino Animated Shorts (online)


Josephine and Blush will be streamed and will  precede the virtual conversation with animators Avid Liongoren and Joe Mateo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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