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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 3, 2018?

27 free events take place on Saturday, March 3 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 3 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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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, March 3, 2018

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Hike | 45th Great Manhattan Bridges Walk


Duration: 13 Hours. Distance: 34 Miles. The main group will walk over every pedestrian-friendly bridge around the perimeter of Manhattan Island (~31 miles). A ~10% faster group will do the same around the perimeter of Manhattan Borough (~34 miles). Starting at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, proceed clockwise around Manhattan and end with the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan. There will be one ride on the Roosevelt Island Tramway for the longer route. Bring or buy lunch. There will be a few short breaks. Feel free to eat during the breaks or while walking. *NOTE: There is no slow group. Both groups will try to finish in 12-13 hours. If the number of people is small, they will try to stick together as one group.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:15 am
$3

Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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City Walk | Manhattan Street Art Tour


Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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Conference | The Social Responsibility of Intellectuals


Many academics work on issues of social justice, and in this politically tumultuous moment, they want to ask: What is the social responsibility of academics? What does it mean to assume this responsibility? This conference will be an interdisciplinary event where they aim to confront the limitations of their position as academics and conceive possibilities for moving beyond those limitations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:45 am
Free

Colloquium | Unruly Design: Making, Changing and Breaking Rules


Unruly Design explores the rules that govern design concepts, acts of making and fashion practices both historically and in today’s context. Who sets the rules within a design field, designers, clients, consumers or end-users? How should designers engage the legal structures that bind production and consumption and/or respond to market forces? How might consumers and end-users rewrite explicit or implicit codes of use through practice? How are the rules of design made, changed or broken?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | The NYC Diner Tour: The Rise, Fall, and Resiliency of the Everything Restaurant


From solitary eggs and toast to memorable late night hangs to infinite movie cameos, New York City Diners are an essential, albeit fading, component of NYC culture and attitude. This tour charts the rise of the "everything restaurant," celebrates its heyday in the second part of the 20th century, and examines the current state of the diner amidst the ever-changing economic conditions and everyday priorities of the city and its residents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Concert | Beethoven, Peace, and Victory: Listening to Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra


In response to the Allied victory in Europe on May 8, 1945 and in Japan on September 2, 1945, Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed Beethoven. Throughout the war, the opening motif of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony echoed the Morse Code “V for Victory,” and as fighting finally ended, the 9th Symphony’s hymn of brotherhood signaled hope for a peaceful future. In the finale event of the Library’s Toscanini 150 celebration, listen to excerpts of Beethoven’s 5th and 9th symphonies, plus excerpts from the Armed Forces Radio Service Victory Day broadcasts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Tour | The Brooklyn Cultural District Walking Tour


Learn how the concentration of venues and people that make up the Brooklyn Cultural District is shifting the cultural landscape of the borough and the city, while discovering the surprising historical core: a flourishing Fulton Street arts center of more than a century ago. The 120-minute tour will stroll through the gorgeous brownstone-dotted streets of Fort Greene, past both spontaneous and commissioned street art, to see where more than a dozen spaces and locations have already made the Brooklyn Cultural District a major arts destination for performances of every type, large and small. Adding to the Brooklyn cultural experience, "pop-up operas" -- live performances of specially selected arias -- by AOP, accompany the tour. Licensed tour guide and long-time resident of the neighborhood, Dr. Ron Janoff, will guide the tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Organize Your Job Campaign: Getting on Track and Keeping on Track


A talk by career coach Win Sheffield.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Play | The Retreat: A Comedy from Equity Library Theater


Enzo Gattuccio's The Retreat tells the scary story of a girl who has been ill for sixteen days. The play features stress, insanity, Swedish literature, Swedish meatballs, disgust, social media influencers, and a small, totally non-threatening corporate retreat center tucked in the woods of the Bay Area. Starring Kelsey Ann Wacker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Goal Setting: Make 2018 Your Best Year Ever


Speaker, trainer, and certified professional coach Barbara Phillip will help you create a set of meaningful, realistic goals for 2018, including why New Year’s Resolutions don’t work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sharon Washington discusses her play Feeding the Dragon


This is a preview of Sharon Washington’s new play Feeding the Dragon. A moving examination of family secrets, forgiveness, and the power of language, Feeding the Dragon explores Washington’s life growing up in the library and the fire she never allowed to fade. Join Washington in a conversation about life in the Library, illustrated by archival artifacts from the Library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Toscanini: Musician of Conscience


It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini—recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth century—was once one of the most famous people in the world. Like Einstein in science or Picasso in art, Toscanini (1867–1957) transcended his own field, becoming a figure of such renown that it was often impossible not to see some mention of the maestro in the daily headlines. As the Library concludes the celebration of Toscanini’s 150 year legacy, acclaimed music historian Harvey Sachs, author of the new definitive Toscanini biography, presents an afternoon program of commentary, listening, and exploration of historic musical genius.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Musique Libre Femmes: Jazz Trio


Musique Libre Femmes is a group of Women Improvisers who compose and create spontaneous music in the moment.They have recently played at the 2016 and 2017 Lady Got Chops Festival to celebrate Women's History Month, and also perform at Abc NO Rio, Downtown Music Gallery , 6BC Botanical Garden and other jazz venues in NYC. Cheryl Pyle -c flute/alto flute Claire Daly-bari sax Madeleine Yaodele Nelson-African percussion
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Photographer Dominique Nabokov discusses her book Berlin Living Rooms


Nabokov's book was recently published in the US with apartamento, with texts by the writer Darryl Pinckney and the editor of Die Zeit Magazine Christoph Amend. A wine reception and a book signing will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Saturday Afternoon Organ Meditation


Forty-five minute organ meditations celebrating the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. 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 and Boody Organ Builders. Takes place every Saturday from Sept. 9, 2017 to May 27, 2018.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Festival | First Saturdays: Free Programs of Art and Entertainment


At the monthly First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment, including dynamic performances and participatory experiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | All the Breath We Can Hold: Paintings by Maria Tomasula


Maria Tomasula (b. 1958, Chicago) has been exhibiting in Chicago and New York for two decades. Her mesmerizing paintings are carefully-arranged compositions of man-made objects and organic floral elements. Unlike conventional still lifes, they are the products of Tomasula’s unique, vivid imagination in concept and in execution. Preceded by an artist talk and walk-through of the exhibition at 4:30 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Daydream of Darkness: Paintings by Rainen Knecht & Nocola L.


RAINEN KNECHT (born 1982, Gig Harbor, WA) currently lives and works in Portland, OR. Knecht holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute where she received the Madjrakoff Painting award. Her work has been exhibited at Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR; Capital, San Francisco; Either Way, Los Angeles; Adobe Books, San Francisco; and Bear Ridgeway, San Francisco. This exhibition marks Knecht’s first exhibition in New York City. The artist will show eight new paintings. NICOLA L (born 1937, Mazagan, Morocco) currently lives in The Chelsea Hotel in New York City. She studied at the Académie Julian, followed by the École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Notable exhibitions include “The World Goes Pop” at Tate Modern, London; “A Modest Proposal” Hauser & Wirth, New York; The Liverpool Biennial; “artevida,” Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; “elles@centrepompidou, Paris; among others. Her first institutional survey was held at The Sculpture Center (LIC, NY) in 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Dream Machines: Short Films on the Unconscious


Dream Machines assembles a series of short films exploring the ethereal borderlands between unconscious desires and conscious thought, visionary dreaming, and spaces of somnambulistic sanctuary. Films by an international roster of historical filmmakers and contemporary artists, have been selected by writer Deena Denaro-Bickerstaffe and experimental filmmaker Albert Nigrin, who will be introducing the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Play | In the Middle: A Workshop Production


As the rain pours down and the water keeps rising, a mother sits in a flooded basement, weeping. After her son is gunned down by police, Mary, a woman with a cracked past, finds herself paralyzed with grief. So her mother, sister, and daughter try to uplift and help her wade through the water, as she mourns. But when her tears begin to overflow, deep family secrets rise all around them. And once their painful past floats to the top, there's no telling who's going to drown. Written by Donja R. Love Directed by Saheem Ali
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Donald Moss reads from his book I and You


“I've made a decision; I have to stop.” Thus begins psychoanalyst Donald Moss’s latest book, which collects one sentence from each analytic session every day for a year. Donald Moss and Ben Kafka discuss psychoanalysis, experimental writing, and the compulsion to repeat. Donald Moss is a psychoanalyst and writer, a member of the NY Psychoanalytic Institute, the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Green Gang (a four-person collective focusing on the relations between the human and non-human environments.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Rufus Khan Short Form Improv Show


Rufus Khan is a short form indie improv team. Their monthly show has rotating comedy and improv guests. The New York Times called them “reliably funny."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 pm
$5
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