54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 28, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Fitz and The Tantrums are an American indie pop and neo soul band from Los Angeles that formed in 2008. ...
more >> The band consists of Michael Fitzpatrick (lead vocals), Noelle Scaggs (co-lead vocals and percussion), James King (saxophone, flute, keyboard, percussion and guitar), Joseph Karnes (bass guitar), Jeremy Ruzumna (keyboards) and John Wicks (drums and percussion). Their self-titled third album was released on June 10, 2016.
7:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Imagine Dragons has won two American Music Awards for Favorite Alternative Artist, a Grammy Award for ...
more >> Best Rock Performance, five Billboard Music Awards, and a World Music Award. In May 2014, the band was nominated for a total of fourteen different Billboard Music Awards, including Top Artist of the Year and a Milestone Award, which recognizes innovation and creativity of artists across different genres. As of January 2017, Imagine Dragons have sold 9 million albums and 27 million singles worldwide.
7:00 am
free, no reservation required
Parmalee is an American country music band consisting of brothers Matt Thomas (lead vocals, guitar) and ...
more >> Scott Thomas (drums), along with their cousin Barry Knox (bass) and Josh McSwain (guitar), who is a best friend since childhood.
7:00 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.
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled ...
more >> and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
Are you a Bridge buff? Put your game face on and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new ...
more >> friends! All players welcome!
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
It is easy to forget that you are in a crowded city while walking through this spectacular park! The ...
more >> original plan for the City of New York, laid out by the City Commissioners in 1811 did not include the park. But as the city grew rapidly in size, we needed a place for New Yorkers to get a breath of fresh air! Central Park, with its 843 acres of meadows, lawns, ponds, lakes and more, was the solution. Today it is one of the best-known parks in the world and is enjoyed by millions-both locals and tourists alike.
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Learn how to protect your computer from viruses and perform regular maintenance functions to keep it ...
more >> running smoothly.
A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip-Hop and more. Enthusiastic Instruction ...
more >> creates fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends.
10:30 am
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
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ...
more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Russ Kassoff is playing trio and solo jazz concerts, clubs, festivals, master classes, private parties, ...
more >> and continues to perform in concert as conductor/pianist to Rita Moreno with her heartfelt and sumptuous autobiographical show. In addition, he recently went into the recording studio as pianist/conductor/arranger for Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte and the Russ Kassoff Big Band for an exciting and wonderful new recording called Big Band Broadway! which will be available in the not too distant future.
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.
The park will be the site of Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin’s sonic experimentations. The two Blank ...
more >> Forms artists will continue their joint venture into sonic creation in this weeklong residency. Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee will lend his improvisational approach to the artistic vision of sound-composer Graham Lambkin in this time-tested expression of artistic collaboration.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris. The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their ...
more >> macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. 193 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson. A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons ...
more >> investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. 112 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Tobias Menzies. Vampire death dealer Selene fights to end the eternal ...
more >> war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. 91 min.
2:00 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. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz. Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on ...
more >> Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. 94 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers. Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity ...
more >> amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India. 110 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
Rockefeller Center is one of the most popular public spaces and tourist attractions in New York City. ...
more >> This depression-era commercial complex takes up over three full city blocks and is rich with history, public art, and art-deco architecture. Built by business mogul John D. Rockefeller Jr. with his own money, he instructed his team of designers and architects to build the most beautiful commercial complex of it’s kind in the world. That vision resulted in what is still one of NYC’s greatest treasures and gave rise to some of NYC’s favorite traditions including the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the famous dance team the Rockettes and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Introduction to bonds and to the best of print and electronic resources for researching bonds and bond ...
more >> mutual funds. Other public web sites are introduced.
3:15 pm
free, no reservation required
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Every Friday on the lawn, the park has a free picnic, featuring over 100 free blankets to borrow, lawn ...
more >> games, entertainment, and food vendors from the Hester Street Fair, with wine and beer also for purchase from ARK Restaurants. Each week, the park will bring to the picnic a theater, music, or dance production. Every Friday from May 12 to September 1, 2017. Bryant Park Lawn in Bryant Park Manhattan Directions to this location Cost Free Event Organizer Bryant Park Corp. Related Links Bryant Park Website Categories Accessible, Concerts, Dance, Art, Festivals, Games, Theater, Free Summer Concerts, Free Summer Theater, Food Additional Media
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The park will be the site of Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin’s sonic experimentations. The two Blank ...
more >> Forms artists will continue their joint venture into sonic creation in this weeklong residency. Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee will lend his improvisational approach to the artistic vision of sound-composer Graham Lambkin in this time-tested expression of artistic collaboration.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A summer block party celebrating all things culture. Enjoy live music, art activities for kids and adults, ...
more >> video games, karaoke, and delicious food.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm Kalyani Singh (pictured) - Acoustic indie folk 6:05 pm Richard McGraw - Gospel preacher-meets-Leonard ...
more >> Cohen 6:40 pm Rachelle Garniez - Genre-fluid story-songs
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ...
more >> French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
Learn a new strategy game and discuss tactics at socials focused on tactical games like King of Tokyo, ...
more >> Shadows over Camelot, Forbidden Island, Alhambra, and more.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Calling all fans of tabletop and strategy games. Bring your friends to this monthly Tabletop Gaming Gathering. ...
more >> Play demos of featured games as they continue our 2017 Gaming Gathering events. This month's featured games are Catan and the family friendly Spot It! Beginners and advanced players are all welcome to join the fun.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Hudson Warehouse presents Shakespeare's history play, directed by Nicholas Martin-Smith. July 27 ...
more >> – Aug 20, Thursday through Sunday nights.
6:30 pm
Pay-what-you-can admission policy
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A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker ...
more >> on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. 113 min. In German with English subtitles.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France young Henry VI comes to the ...
more >> throne, under the protection of the duke of Gloucester. July 27-August 12, 2017, Thursdays through Saturdays.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Incorporating dancers with and without disabilities, the mission of Heidi Latsky Dance is to redefine ...
more >> beauty and virtuosity through performance and discourse, using performers with unique attributes to bring rigorous, passionate and provocative contemporary dance to diverse audiences. Visitors are invited to walk through the sculptures, photograph their experience, or simply witness.
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count ...
more >> she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Social media addiction and millennial romance cross with electric fury in this collection of interconnected ...
more >> stories about dysphoric interconnectedness.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Lyrics of message and social consciousness with a rock guitar. "Eljuri punctuates her clever, metaphorically-charged ...
more >> Spanish-language lyrics with intense, dynamic, often exhilarating lead guitar work – she’s sort of this era’s David Gilmour of Rock en Español." — New York Music Daily
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Friday nights mean great local music on the pier. Hear some of NYC’s best local artists.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Directed and original cut by Matt Engle, with performances by Samantha Cunha, Cassie DeMarco, Anthony ...
more >> Gabriele, Stefanie Harris, Germainne Lebron, Kat Peña, Hallie Samuels, Alexander Stene, Jenna Tanzola, and Chelsea Thiboutout. With costumes by Will Atkins and live music with Philip Santos Schaffer.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Young Dancemakers Company is a unique summer ensemble of 17 ethnically diverse New York City teens, creating ...
more >> and performing their original choreography under the direction of founder and Bessie-award winner Alice Teirstein and music director William Catanzaro. Every year the ensemble also performs a dance by a noted choreographer, and this year they will appear in an excerpt from Jose Limon's "A Choreographic Offering," taught by Kristen Foote, a principal dancer with the Limon Dance Company. Performances end with the lively "Dance With Us," in which audience members with dancing feet are invited onto the stage to improvise with the dancers.
7:00 pm
free, reservations recommended
Strike, punch, kick and kata your way through calories to superior cardio fitness with this martial arts-inspired ...
more >> workout. Your instructor will lead you through a workout which combines upper and lower body moves using power training, muay thai and karate. Fridays at 7 pm, July 7 - August 11
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This Dodge YMCA class gets your heart pumping with Hip-Hop music and hot step-by-step dance moves. Fridays ...
more >> at 7 pm, July 7 - August 11
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Come hear poet Hossannah Asuncion and nonfiction writer Laurel Fantauzzo write about the ghosts of love—the ...
more >> emotional distance it can create when the desired intimacy fails, and the ways love haunts the people who witnessed it, even when it's passed. With her debut poetry collection, Hossannah Asuncion’s Object Permanence uncovers a geography of longing and unfulfilled relationships—a startling contrast to contemporary narratives of an seamlessly interconnected, digitally mediated urban dating web space. Combining memoir and reportage, Laurel Fantauzzo’s The First Impulse is an account of the writer’s return to her mother’s homeland, the Philippines, and an obsession she discovers upon her arrival there: the tragic death of two lovers in Manila.
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
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The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) celebrates pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros in a program ...
more >> spanning more than 50 years of sonic innovation. From the tiniest microsounds of found objects in Applebox Double (1965) to the acoustic phenomena of Heart of Tones (1999), this performance invites audience members to practice Oliveros’s philosophy of deep listening and discover new possibilities of musical expression. Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The ghosts of Greenwich Village are too numerous and interesting to meet in just one evening! Due to ...
more >> popular demand, they are offering a new tour, “Ghosts of the East Village,” as a companion tour to one of their biggest crowd-pleasers, Ghosts of the West Village.
7:30 pm
Free plus subway...
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Classically inspired, whistling, violin-wielding songwriter Andrew Bird returns after his unforgettable ...
more >> opening night performance in 2011, with a new record in tow.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The mission of Lamprophonic is to present and promote new voices in the New York writing community. We ...
more >> prepare a diverse and entertaining reading each month that demonstrates the quality and variety of emerging New York writers. In a typical reading, we hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and are open to anything that thoughtfully engages listeners.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The theater will transform into the most enchanted forest in all of theater in Shakespeare’s beloved ...
more >> comedy. When the merry sprite Puck meddles with a magical love potion, young lovers lost in the woods mysteriously find themselves infatuated with the wrong person in this hilarious, fairytale fantasia that proves the course of true love never did run smooth. Lear deBessonet, founder of The Public Theater’s groundbreaking Public Works program and Resident Director, brings her electric theatrical vision to the classic romance about the supernatural nature of love. July 11-15; July 17-22; July 24-29; July 31-August 6; August 8-13.
8:00 pm
Free tickets required
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Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer. Polish countess Elena falls in love to a Frensh radical ...
more >> party's candidate, a general, in pre world war I Paris, but another officer pines for her. 98 min. In French with English subtitles. Also showing: A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès. 13 min.
8:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey. A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical ...
more >> suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. 101 min. Free Popcorn. Beverages and snacks available for purchase. Movie begins at dusk (around 8:30pm).
8:15 pm
free, no reservation required
It's all for one and one for all as D'Artagnan and the Musketeers fight to protect the ones they love ...
more >> from the revolting exploits of Cardinal Richelieu. A story of double crossings, kidnappings, and carefully-guarded secrets, complete with lavish fights and sweeping romance, The Three Musketeers reminds us that through strength, courage and unity, you can always defend what you believe in. Directed by Jenny Bennett, Choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Fight Director: Manny Brown. July 7-30, 2017, Tuesdays through Sundays.
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required