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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 31, 2019?

20 free events take place on Sunday, March 31 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 31 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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20 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, March 31, 2019

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free events nyc Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today
free events nyc Vai (2019): An Anthology Drama From New Zealand
free events nyc J.S. Bach, Mozart, Fauré, Brahms For Cello
free events nyc Third Eye Film Festival: Short Films that Delve into Spiritual and Supernatural Realms.
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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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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


A journey through the vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Tour: Echoes of the Past


Explore the little known "West Village" of secluded and Forgotten streets like Patchin and Mulligan Place and see a 19th century Sephardic Jewish Cemetery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Pushcarts, Pickles, and Million Dollar Pastrami: The Jewish Lower East Side Tour


The Lower East Side was once the most densely populated neighborhood on the planet. This 10 stop walking tour, will visit some major historical sites of the Jewish Lower East Side, from the late 1800's all the way up until present day. Weaving stories of triumph, heartbreak, and humor together, this tour is at once informative, entertaining, and may put you in the mood for a knish or four.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Author's Voice


The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur pair up with New York City actors to give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland featuring Daniela Emminger, Laura Freudenthaler, Pierre Jarawan, Stefanie de Velasco, Dana Grigorcea, and Gianna Molinari. The event will be moderated by one of the festival curators Tim Mohr. English excerpts will be read by the actors Adelind Horan and Robert Lyons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Saxophone Recital


Paul Cohen, coordinator. Paul Cohen has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi and others. He has performed solo works of Jacques Ibert, Claude Debussy, Paul Creston, Alexander Glazunov, Charles Martin Loeffler, Karel Husa, Frank Martin, Ingolf Dahl, Henry Cowell, and Henri Tomasi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Screening | Vai (2019): An Anthology Drama From New Zealand


Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by nine women filmmakers in seven Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Roviana (the Solomon Islands), Kuki Airani (the Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue, and Āotearoa (New Zealand).The movie follows the journey of empowerment-through-culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai, who is played by a different indigenous actress in each country. In all of these Pacific nations vai means water. Directors: Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Miria George, Ofa Guttenbeil, Marina McCartney, Nicole Whippy, Sharon Whippy. An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point). Sometimes each one is directed by a different director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Organ Recital: Works by Bruhns,  Howells and more


Program Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1934) Præludium in G Major Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Psalm Prelude in D Minor Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) from Symphonie gothique, Op. 70 Henri Mulet (1878-1967) from Byzantine Sketches About the Musician John T. Lowe, Jr. has performed recitals in Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia, and his accompanying engagements have taken him to the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, and Australia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from September 9, 2018 to May 26, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Boy, the Bachelor and the Bride: Adaptation as Variation in 3 Films


This talk considers the process of adaptation in The Window, Rear Window and The Bride Wore Black. Rather than worry about whether the films get the Cornell Woolrich source material "right," this talk envisions the films as unique performances or variations of their source texts. The films each amplify certain themes and components of the plots while abandoning others, and, in some cases, supplement the original material. In this sense, adaptation can be seen as a kind of authorship that simultaneously reflects the concerns of the film's author and provides a new lens on the original Woolrich story. Lecturer: Pamela Robertson Wojcik, University of Notre Dame
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Staged Reading | Urfaust: A Reading of Goethe


A reading of Goethe's landmark work of the worldwide canon. The reading will again team up members of the company of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater with a handful of theater stalwarts. The actors will be: Deborah Beshaw-Farrell, Vit Horejs, Will Kroeze, Robert (Moe) Maloney, Kerry Milliron, Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado, Jonathan Slaff, Bonnie Stein and Jenne Vath. Refreshments will be served. Theater for the New City is located at 155 First Ave., at E. 10th Street. For more Info and tickets, call 212-254-1109 or go to www.theaterforthenewcity.net.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Classical Music | Baroque Music 


Program Dieterich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707) Fürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit, BuxWV 31 Dieterich Buxtehude was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Today, Buxtehude is considered one of the most important composers in Germany of the mid-Baroque.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | J.S. Bach, Mozart, Fauré, Brahms For Cello


Cellist Teresa Kubiak presents works by Purcell, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Fauré, Massenet, Poulenc, Grieg, Brahms and Bizet. Teresa Kubiak is the principal cellist and a featured soloist of The Orchestra of The Bronx. She is also principal cellist of The Bronx Opera Company and has performed with vocal artists extensively in concert. She has worked with many organizations including The New York City Ballet, Greenwich Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Taconic Opera and New Rochelle Opera. Ms. Kubiak’s cello ensemble accompanies the 9/11 memorial ceremonies at Ground Zero.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Romanzas de Zarzuela: A Celebration of Music and Dance


Romanzas de Zarzuela is an interdisciplinary mix of dance, music and theatre celebrating the Spanish genre of musical theatre called Zarzuela, a 19th century art form which blends singing, popular song and Spanish dance. It is a collaboration of several dance, music and theatre artists including Grammy-nominated soprano Lori Phillips, highly acclaimed pianist Matei Varga and successful choreographer Matthew Westerby and his New York-based dance company.      
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Ghosts in the Machine: Haunted Memories and Reimagined Futures


How would living under Communism have shaped your identity? What about being the child of Jehovah’s Witnesses; or a wife deceived by her husband; or living in the continual (and reasonable) fear of attack by a ravenous wolf? Perhaps, if you were affected by such conditions, you could ignore the “monster in the house,” and form successful friendships, relationships and careers. Then again, your experience with that fraught backdrop might linger, stretching into future generations. In this panel, speak with four authors whose novels and short stories bring to life the specters that haunt them — some political, some familial, some ineffable. These ghosts in the machine have colored their characters’ views of themselves and the world around them. We explore the question of how those who form their selfhood in the shadow of dark influences can use memory to illuminate their reality and liberate their truth.  With: Stefanie de Velasco Laura Freudenthaler Gianna Molinari John Wray Jenny Zhang
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Third Eye Film Festival: Short Films that Delve into Spiritual and Supernatural Realms.


Founded by Rhode Island School of Design alumnae perpetually in pursuit of the unknown, Third Eye Film Festival connects an international community of visionary filmmakers who explore ‘otherworldly’ stories. TEFF is proud to amplify the voices of marginalized artists. The official selection of TEFF 2019 celebrates filmmakers whose concepts live at the frontiers of innovation and revolution. Twenty-four of the 29 films in the festival are made by women directors or cinematographers—more than 80% of the program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Illuminations on Market Street: On Sex and Loss


Benjamin Heim Shepard's story begins in San Francisco in the early 1990s: Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. A story about AIDS and sex, acting up and praying for the dead, this is a story about living and fighting in the face of insurmountable challenges.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Wrong Crowd: A College Play


This student play by Federica Borlenghi is part of a festival highlighting the culminating work of the BFA Dramatic Arts students, exploring their training in technique, the depth of their critical inquiry skills, and the contextualization of their work through the lens of citizen-artist.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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