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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 19, 2015?

42 free events take place on Tuesday, May 19 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 May 19 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 May . 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, May 19, 2015

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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Classes for all ages and experience levels. Park Tai Chi is provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center and led by teachers and students who train at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Jeremy Hubbell. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
Free

Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Park Yoga


Perfect your downward dog under the trees at the 12th season of outdoor yoga classes, presented by Athleta with media support from Flavorpill. Mats are provided by Athleta - no need to bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Google Hangouts Workshop


Learn all about Video Chatting via Google Hangouts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | Jaume Collet-Serra's Non-Stop (2014): Action in the Air


Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moores, Scoot McNairy. An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account. 106 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Film | Documentary: Felix Moeller's Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film


A thoughtful, provocative analysis of the 40 Nazi-produced movies still banned from broadcast or public screening in Germany (except in a scholarly context) because they are considered too inflammatory or offensive. The Third Reich’s anti-Semitic films are well-known (among them THE ETERNAL JEW, THE ROTHSCHILDS, JEW SÜSS), but less famed are their anti-British and anti-Polish dramas, featuring heroic young Germans, mercilessly bullied by greedy, deranged foreigners. Nearly 70 years after the demise of the Nazis, do Joseph Goebbels’s notorious propaganda movies still pose a threat to civil society? See this galvanizing documentary and judge for yourself. Start times: 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:40pm, 7:00pm, 9:10pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Great Organ Recital: Midday Monday


Claudia Dumschat, organ. Contemporary Sounds.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Tour | Lower East Side/NoLIta/East Village Tour


This three-hour tour is a great way to explore three of Gotham’s most historic locations. This tour meets at the East Broadway F train station, and takes you through legendary Lower East Side streets like Essex, Grand, Hester, Orchard, and Delancey. Along the way, you’ll get a feel for what life was like for the millions of immigrants who arrived here throughout the 19th and early part of the 20th Century. You’ll also see how this neighborhood has transformed into one of the hippest and trendiest areas in the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Blogging for Beginners Workshop


Learn what a blog is, see examples of blogs, learn how to blog and to create your own using Blogger/Word Press.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Pretty Hunger by Patricia Ione Lloyd


Leah, a biracial seven year old girl with an epic imagination, takes us on a journey of growing up as she realizes that her babysitter is actually her father and that she is actually Black. Guided by her imaginary friend Bette Davis, Leah explores what it means to be a woman of color and how to come to terms with both of her parents and the baggage they carry with them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Concert | Make Some Noise: A Celebration of Women and Music


A celebration of women in music with some of finest musicians from NYC colleges and universities at an evening performance in an astounding setting. Featured groups TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Scrabble Game Social


Join weekly Game Socials to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. On Tuesdays, they play the classic word game Scrabble.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Russell Connor discusses his exhibition Past and Present Perfect


This is an exhibition that foregrounds art canon, and highlights historically informed experimentation with paper, paint, wood, iron, glass, wheat paste and found objects. Reacting to a widespread lack of proficiency in art history. Past and Present Perfect assembles four artists who study their predecessors and integrate this knowledge into their practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Erica Baum


Erica Baum was born in New York in 1961. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at such venues as Bureau in New York (2014) and Kunstverein Langenhagen in Germany (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: PLATEFORME(S), Centre d’art contemporain d’Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland; Athens Biennial: AGORA (2013); Postscript, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); and the São Paulo Biennial (2012). In 2015, her work will be included in the exhibition Photo Poetics at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She lives and works in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Opera on Film: Verdi's Il trovatore


From the 2014 Salzburg Festival. Presented with the Salzburg Festival Society. Length: Aprox. 150 min. In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Park Circuit Workout


Reach your fitness goals in the world’s most beautiful outdoor gym! Get fit with innovative exercises designed by top trainers to utilize the Park’s best natural features: rocks, trails, stairs, hills, and gorgeous open lawns. A variety of in-Park classes will help you to maximize your strength and agility, as well as increase flexibility and muscle tone. Age 18 years and older.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | PC vs. Mac Workshop


Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? Learn about the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows PCs by exploring the advantages and limitations of each platform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Stitched: The Intersection of Virtual Reality and Photography


An event for those interested in photography, virtual reality and the latest in tech development. Presentations will include keynote speaker Allyson Torrisi, Director of Photography at Hearst Magazines, among two other experts, PJ Morreale and Calder Wilson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Stitched: The Intersection of Virtual Reality and Photography


An event for those interested in photography, virtual reality and the latest in tech development. Presentations will include keynote speaker Allyson Torrisi, Director of Photography at Hearst Magazines, among two other experts, PJ Morreale and Calder Wilson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | The Bloomingdale Family Program: From Grass Roots to Community Institution


In the 1960’s the Bloomingdale neighborhood nurtured a community group that prefigured and inspired the Head Start program and continues to serve our families today. Two of the Bloomingdale Family Program’s “founding mothers,” Susan Feingold and Sandra Roche, will share highlights and slides from the program’s history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | 3 poets read their work


Featuring: Jason Schneiderman, Rachel Zucker, Wayne Koestenbaum
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Austrian Cinema: Jem Cohen's Museum Hours (2012)


When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world. 106 minutes. In English and German with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Contributors read from A Book of Uncommon Prayer


A launch party of an anthology of everyday invocations by 64 authors, edited by Matthew Vollmer. With brief readings by Jaime Clarke, Catherine Lacey, J. Robert Lennon, Ariel Lown Lewiton, Robert Lopez, Courtney Maum, Rick Moody, Dawn Raffel, Joseph Salvatore, Benjamin Samuel and others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elena Delbanco reads from her book The Silver Swan


Alexander Feldmann is a revered and sought-after performer whose prodigious talent, striking good looks and worldly charm prove irresistible to all who hear and encounter him. After years of searching he acquires a glorious cello, the Silver Swan, a rare Stradivarius masterpiece long lost to the world of music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Richard Olson, Out On a Limb Dance Company, Sharon Penz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Author Reading | Lauren Acampora reads from her book The Wonder Garden


Acclaimed novelist Lily King and debut writer Lauren Acampora discuss landscape, memory, the art of fiction and so much more in this special Discover Great New Writers event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Masterpieces of French Art Deco


Author Jared Goss gives a lecture and booksigning. The talk will be introduced by Olivier Gabet, Director of Le Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Pretty Hunger by Patricia Ione Lloyd


Leah, a biracial seven year old girl with an epic imagination, takes us on a journey of growing up as she realizes that her babysitter is actually her father and that she is actually Black. Guided by her imaginary friend Bette Davis, Leah explores what it means to be a woman of color and how to come to terms with both of her parents and the baggage they carry with them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Organ Works by Mendelssohn, Elgar, Jongen, Reubke


With Benjamin Sheen, International Concert Organist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$20 suggested donation...

Concert | Flute Ensemble Spring Concert


This informal recital features ensembles from the chamber music class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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