49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 11, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
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.
Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. ...
more >> In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a tour of The Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan. Learn about the park's rich history, ...
more >> many important landmarks and monuments, the Seaglass Carousel, 134,000 square feet of beautiful perennial gardens designed by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, and so much more. Every Thursday from May 11 to June 29, 2017.
Join a tour of the current exhibitions with Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s curator for self-taught ...
more >> art and art brut. Meet in the museum atrium.
1:00 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.
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore. In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with ...
more >> several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. 66 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles ...
more >> keep you going, then Scrabble is your game! Are you a chess or checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join them for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Join Diderot String Quartet for an afternoon of Mozartean delight!.This program features selections from ...
more >> KV 387 and KV 575, two sunny pieces that are among Mozart's most famous and beloved quartets. Performers: Adriane Post, violin Johanna Novom, violin Kyle Miller, viola Paul Dwyer, cello
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with ...
more >> several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. 66 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston. The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, ...
more >> actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. 126 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen. A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet ...
more >> and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early. 116 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. Tour takes place every Thursday.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. Topics include using transitions, animations, ...
more >> etc. Please note: Bring a flash drive with an MP3 or WMA audio file, and an MP4 or MOV video file if you wish to practice embedding media.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Sohee Hwang, piano 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Abigail Shapiro, soprano 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Sirintip ...
more >> Phasuk, jazz voice 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Kaisa Maensivu, jazz double bass 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Yixin Tan, accompanying 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Harpsichord Recital 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Hyerim Song, accompanying 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Karly Epp, jazz voice
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Are you retired? About to retire? Thinking about retiring? Welcome to the “NEW” Retirement! Come ...
more >> join speaker, trainer, and certified professional coach, Barbara Phillips, to clarify what is most important to you at this stage of life AND learn from other retirees. You will learn how to identify your purpose, clarify your values and life priorities and turn them into meaningful goals that inspire you to move forward.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Grace Mariel Canfield, Soprano 4 p.m. Seiyoung Kim, Tenor 6 p.m. Neil Chen, Baroque Basson 6 p.m. ...
more >> Liam N Boisset, Oboe 6 p.m. Adam Cockerham, Lute and Theorbo 8 p.m. Yeri Roh, Violin 8 p.m.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Gather to discuss the immigrant experience. They invite you to share your own stories as an immigrant ...
more >> to the U.S. or as a new New Yorker.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with a guided ...
more >> tour. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
*Also Opening May 11: “Sonia Gechtoff – Paper Paintings” May 11 – June 17 | Anders Wahlstedt ...
more >> Fine Art | 40 East 63rd Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10065 The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is pleased to present “A Non-Objective Couple”, an exhibition featuring husband and wife team Sonia Gechtoff and James Kelly. This exhibition features some of the remaining works of these artists’ oeuvres. As prime examples of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism’s raw, unique influence, Gechtoff and Kelly’s experimental approaches are exemplary of the collective coolness of the Bay Area. A focus on smooth, otherworldly strokes permeate their works, in contrast to the faster movements and more vibrant palette of New York, where much of the cultural dialogue came from and where they eventually settled. Inspired by poetry, particularly by their contemporaries of the Beat generation, Gechtoff, Kelly, and their peers viewed painting as the visual component of literature, yet unlike their New York counterparts, emphasized this duality through allusions to distant figuration, swirling motifs, spiritual encounters, and visual representations of verbal expression in their paintings. Originally from Philadelphia, Gechtoff and Kelly married in 1953 in San Francisco and moved to a loft on the legendary Fillmore Street, where contemporaries Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, and Michael McClure also lived. They were active participants in the Beat scene, and exhibited at King Ubu Gallery on 3119 Fillmore Street, one of the several locations where the heartbeat of the scene pulsed.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
To mention Shirley Goldfarb is to conjure an image of Paris, a city she loved deeply and called home ...
more >> for 26 years. In 1953, she and her husband Gregory Masurovsky moved from Manhattan to Paris, where, like so many others from their generation, they survived on the GI Bill. Goldfarb adopted a purely abstract style, breaking completely with the figurative Expressionism that had characterized her academic training in New York.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Welcome beginners! Learn to setup a chess board and map out your next move with assistance from our Chess ...
more >> Host. Kids welcome.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Les Lalanne are a French artist duo comprising married couple François-Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008) ...
more >> and Claude Lalanne (born 1924).
As letters have largely become a thing of the past, conveying a kind of intimacy that is increasingly ...
more >> hard to achieve, Love H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones, a selection from the 40-year correspondence between poet, writer, and teacher Hettie Jones and sculptor Helene Dorn, is a treasure trove of essential social history. While these letters explore the battlegrounds of women’s rights, tenants’ rights, marriage, motherhood, and a shared past that kept the two irrevocably connected in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s, they are also the portrait of deep and abiding friendship. In celebration of the publication of the book, Hettie Jones will read from the letters and present her side of the story. She will be joined by Professor Claudia Moreno Parsons of LaGuardia Community College in a discussion of the importance of letters and friendship in the documentation of social history. The discussion will be followed by Q & A.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Korea is a country that contains many wonders in its ancient and recent past - in the fields of art, ...
more >> philosophy, and science. The theme this week will be devotion in art and science – how artists and industrial workers have made sacrifices for the common good. The screening will be followed by a traditional Korean meal, and those who attend will also receive a choice of free books on Korea.
Spring is a time for rebirth, renewal and reawakening. It’s a time when many people dust off their ...
more >> homes and open the windows to let the fresh air in and stale air out. Kristina Leonardi talks about doing the same for your soul! It’s a perfect time to review where you are in your career and life, make adjustments , and do what’s necessary in order to get you where you want to be. Examine what no longer serves a purpose and what ideas, work, or relationships need to be revised or let go of altogether. Take this opportunity to stop and reflect on who and where you are at this moment in time to make this your best, most fulfilling year yet.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Lisa Dwan will explore the relationship between body and identity in the works of Samuel Beckett. Drawing ...
more >> on her extensive experience with performing Beckett’s works, Dwan will highlight the role ballet played in developing her unique way of unlocking Beckett to a modern audience and how it was her experience as a dancer that helped her first and foremost to explore and give expression to the expansive metaphysical world where identities exist.
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Pianist Michael Sellers plays works by Beethoven, Schumann, Barber, Chopin, Piazzolla, and Ravel.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Hasidism has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed ...
more >> in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing exponentially. With powerful attachments to the past, mysticism, community, and charismatic leadership, Hasidism is the opposite of contemporary Western culture, which is built on the ideals of constant change, secular rationality, and individual achievement. Yet Hasidism has thrived in the Zionist state and the democratic countries of the West. Why? And how? Samuel Heilman's latest book finds the answers to these questions in the fascinating story of five contemporary Hasidic dynasties and their handling of the delicate issue of leadership and succession. Prof. Heilman, recognized as a foremost expert on modern Jewish Orthodoxy, will discuss the book, which provides outsiders with the essential guide to continuity in the Hasidic world.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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This illustrated lecture explores the rhythm within what the author calls the "grand sequence," a series ...
more >> of levels of sizes and innovations building from elementary quanta to globalized human civilization.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Link mindful breathing with movement in this full spectrum yoga practice that includes modifications ...
more >> and intensifications depending on experience level. Veteran Nina Semczuk helps you cultivate strength, flexibility, balance, and focus while enjoying yoga outdoors. Bring your own mat. This event repeats every Thursday until September 28, 2017.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, From Vinyl to Download explores Brazilian ...
more >> music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil, and Marisa Monte, among other luminaries of the industry. In Portuguese with English subtitles. The screening will be followed by a conversation between André Midani and journalist Larry Rohter.
When genre-smashing graphic memoirist Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle ...
more >> and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Moustafa Bayoumi, Alexandra Kleeman, Roy Scranton, Mychal Denzel Smith, Salamishah Tillet, Tony Tulathimutte, ...
more >> and Emily Witt will read passages by their favorite authors, past and present, that help us envision a better America.
From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes ...
more >> a dazzling novel of World War II. In The Baker's Secret, Stephen P. Kiernan presents a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The Honorable John Lewis, U.S. Representative of the 5th Congressional District of Georgia and a longstanding ...
more >> leader of civil and human rights, will discuss the need for civic engagement. Often called "one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement ever produced," Congressman Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community" in America. Representative Lewis has served as U.S. Representative since he was elected to Congress in November 1986.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native ...
more >> tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
Enjoy some of the best short films directly from Dublin’s GAZE International LGBT Film Festival.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Join Morley's global exploration of songs to, from and for the water and stars. This performance will ...
more >> feature new compositions from Morley's forthcoming album Thousand Miles with special surprise guests.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Examining post-war suburban culture from within, Bill Owens' images of friends and neighbors in his own ...
more >> California suburb present a poignant, sympathetic, and occasionally idiosyncratic portrait of middle class life in the mid-1970's. Compiled together in a book, Suburbia conveys a kind of optimism mixed with vulnerability; a class of people searching for "a better life" while burdened with the responsibility of fulfilling the mythological narrative of the American Dream.
Inspired by the private diary of Riccardo Lerro, a poet and an anti-fascist activist, who was also Lerro’s ...
more >> grandfather, the show depicts the true story of two simple people, Riccardo and Lucia, in post-war Southern Italy. The play focuses on some eternal themes such as love, absence, the strength to believe in something again and to never betray it in order to remain true to oneself and be happy. By Claudia Lerro, directed by Claudia Lerro, with Claudia Lerro and Pio Stellaccio. Produced by Teatrificio 22 (Puglia). In Italian with English supertitles.
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the ...
more >> sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway. Takes place Thursdays and Saturdays.
Featuring some of the top comedians and up-and-comers in NYC. The show is one of the most diverse and ...
more >> well curated comedy shows in NYC. Past guests have included Judah Friedlander, Mark Normand, Aparna Nancherla, and Jena Friedman. Hosted by Joon Chung and Chris Donahue.
“Micic is bringing an intriguing new perspective to the jazz guitar” LA TIMES "Micic is the cool ...
more >> cat, and Serbia is mellow, tight and tasteful. Micic is subtle, intelligent player who echoes the likes of Jim Hall" DOWNBEAT "The New York jazz scene, and by extension jazzʼs modern mainstream, has Rale Micic to thank for a portion of its continued growth" ALL ABOUT JAZZ
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required