29 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, January 6, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
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.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan ...
more >> 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.
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.
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Moderate 5-mile walk, along a trail or two in Forest Park, and into Richmond Hill with stops to admire ...
more >> the historic landmarks and architectural gems of the neighborhood Jacob Riis raved about.
John Crant shows how making the cuts necessary to be seen as a stand-out during your job search actually ...
more >> increases the value of the items on your resume.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky on a special winter walking tour. This is a 45-minute ...
more >> long tour led by High Line docents, knowledgeable volunteer guides who offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Tours are subject to cancellation due to weather. Tours are every Saturday until February 24, 2018.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Cultural hybridity, identity negotiation, and contested language politics, are all hallmarks of transitional ...
more >> experiences affecting postcolonial societies. Examining major works of literature produced in Ukraine during the first two decades after independence, this pioneering study situates the post-independence literary process within a grid of specific contexts, focusing especially on how regionalism, gender and language issues, as well as social marginalization and popular culture, are reflected in literary works following the collapse of the Soviet empire.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ...
more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
The tour explores the social and political history of the one of the most active and most famous squares ...
more >> in NYC through discussions about the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped its surroundings. You’ll hear how the square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on the famous sculpture and so much more! The tour takes place every Saturday.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Research suggests that setting and making progress on goals that are important to you is a key determinant ...
more >> of sustainable happiness. Speaker, trainer, and certified professional coach, Barbara Phillips, will help you create a core set of meaningful, realistic goals for the New Year.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Stars: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl. The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, ...
more >> Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion. 127 min.
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.
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.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau. Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is ...
more >> pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust? 113 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Forced from their homelands by war and persecution, a generation of Europe’s most noteworthy and imaginative ...
more >> composers found a new home in Los Angeles, California. America idealism, Tinseltown glamour, and sunshine fueled a new era of creativity. Houston Symphony Principal Cellist Brinton Averil Smith and acclaimed concert pianist Evelyn Chen present a recital soaked in the suspense, spectacle, and romance of classic Hollywood, with music by Miklós Rózsa, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Godowsky, and George Gershwin.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An afternoon with Larissa Shmailo and Dean Kostos. Since myths were chanted above the swirling fires ...
more >> of prehistory, contradictions arose in these received tales. Myth, in the classical tradition, also includes the irreverent frolicking of gods and goddesses. There was something comforting, as well as terrifying, in the deities' human flaws.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An exhibition of paintings many from the collection of Harvey and Phyllis Lichtenstein. Harvey Lichtenstein ...
more >> was the longtime director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Forty-five minute organ meditations celebrating the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. The program ...
more >> 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 and Boody Organ Builders. Takes place every Saturday from Sept. 9, 2017 to May 27, 2018.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
At the monthly First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including ...
more >> dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The show introduces the artist's newest direction of combining figures with folds of fabric. Nagel states, ...
more >> "As a figurative artist, I've always had a fractious relationship with clothing. My concern is with the body, with creating mood. Clothes always seemed like a needless complication - and I know nothing about fashion. Somewhere along the way, though, I discovered that clothing, or more simply fabric, can have its own body and mood. It can cover, and it can interact."
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The exhibition explores the way language and personal and collective histories are formed and passed ...
more >> down, through a series of paintings on canvas, scroll paper, and large silk banners draped from the ceiling. Glaessner’s brightly hued paintings teem with life, drawing on personal history, memory and ritual, both real and imagined.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The paintings evoke the phantasmagoric worlds of Bruegel, but his scenes address the contemporary world. ...
more >> The paintings, some as large as 6’ x 8’, are visually complex, depicting groups of manic figures in absurd scenarios. Hayes’ vision of the human condition is comic and bleak, yet laced with poignance. The detailed paintings reward a close reading.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Originally from San Jose, California, saxophonist David Yee studied music at the University of Portland ...
more >> in Oregon. Since moving to NYC in 2015 he has performed with various jazz, rock, pop, funk, and R&B artists as well as his own groups at venues including B.B. Kings, The Bitter End, Silvana, The Shrine, and The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.