Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 24, 2014?
38 free events take place on Monday, March 24 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 March 24 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 March . 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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The quality and quantity of free events, free things to do that happen in New York City every day of the year is truly amazing.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 24, 2014
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international 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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional"
Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled 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.
Featuring Cynthia Phelps, viola, this special event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central 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.
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.
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
Lecturer Michael Khodarkovsky is a Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He grew up in Kiev and emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. The focus of his research has been Russia's imperial periphery.
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays with an entertaining and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
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.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, 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, 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.
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, 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.
Benjamin Bryce discusses competing perspectives about the meaning of German ethnicity in the Americas, showing how parents, children, education bureaucrats, and religious leaders understood ethnicity in different ways and, in so doing, slowly created different forms of cultural pluralism. Language and religion stand out as the two central pillars that defined ethnicity for many people, and the fears of community leaders and parents over both linguistic and denominational changes were central preoccupations in both Buenos Aires and Ontario. Benjamin Bryce is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of history at the University of Toronto.
In recent years Broadway has increasingly looked to Hollywood for musical theater source material, and this spring is no exception. Join Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg for Disney Theatrical Group, Marsha Norman, book writer for The Bridges of Madison County, and Thomas Meehan, book writer for Rocky, for a revealing discussion about the process of adapting a film into a musical.
Starring Mae West, Gregory Ratoff and Cary Grant.
Tira shimmies and sings in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocket Slick, relieves her distracted audience of their valuables.
87 min.
Ian Wallace was born in Shoreham, England, in 1943 and lives and works in Vancouver. His signature diptych canvases juxtapose photography and monochrome painting; he has also worked in sculpture, large-scale photographic tableaux, and collage. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012); Power Plant, Toronto (2010); Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2008); and Kunsthalle Zurich (2008).
Are there any instructions on how to be a woman these days? Everything seems possible for the thirty-somethings tackling their lives today, as the globalized world offers a myriad of options – more than ever before. Over a period of three years, director Beatrice Moeller followed three of those young women in their individual search for the „right“ way to live their lives.
70 minutes. In German with English subtitles.
After the screening, the director, one of her film’s subjects, Marie Sarah Linke, and game designer/animator Lea Schoenfelder will discuss the film and the private and professional challenges young women face these days.
For twenty years, Connie Brown has painted custom maps for clients—individuals, organizations, and companies. Each map presents cartographic and aesthetic challenges. She has mapped private properties, favorite places, exotic travels, family genealogies and diasporas, life histories, school campuses, and environmental /historical regions. In this illustrated lecture the audience sees examples of her maps, hears their backstories, and learns how a painter-cum-cartographer combines 21st century geography with traditional manuscript map-making methods.
Celebrate the Tournament of Books, the granddaddy of high-brow bracketology that pits the year's best books in a literary cage match with one winner: the coveted Rooster. Enter a giveaway for ToB swag, enjoy free drinks from media partner Tumblr, and hear readings from ToB judges past and present taking a break from the competition to celebrate their very favorite books: author and New Yorker writer Elif Batuman (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them); author and co-proprietor of The Awl Choire Sicha (Very Recent History); novelist Elliott Holt (You Are One of Them); author and Oxford American editor Roger Hodge (The Mendacity of Hope); New Yorker editor John McElwee; Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin (Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down), the co-founders of The Morning News.
In Tova Mirvis's intimate and provocative novel, she writes about three couples whose paths intersect in their Upper West Side neighborhood, forcing them to weigh the comfort of stability against the costs of change.
At 6:00 a.m. sharp, the numerous children of jazz musician Phil Cohran began band rehearsal. A family of 24 living on Chicago's South Side, the "brothers" of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble were raised by their father and three mothers on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. In this award-winning film from the festivals including SXSW, Urban world and HotDocs, the band works with artists including Mos Def, Blur and Prince, while struggling to maintain their own identity and bring their distinctive blend of jazz, hip-hop, and funk from the halls from Europe to the streets of New York City.
84 min.
Pnini Grubner, bass. Experience the freshness and excitement of a solo performance by a gifted young artist - a uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers. The program for this event is TBA.
Phil Rashkin, oboe. Experience the freshness and excitement of a solo performance by a gifted young artist - a uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers. The program for this event is TBA.
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join artists-in-residence and international guests each season in performing.
With: Andrew Vidich, PhD.
In today’s stress-filled world, many of us find ourselves frequently dispirited, anxious, and scattered. This class offers highly effective life skills to help us become more peaceful, centered and conscious at home and at work, and can be of particular use to business leaders and professionals.