50 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, May 13, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Beautiful trees, flowers of the Bronx Botanical Garden, Arthur Avenue, The Edgar Allen Poe Cottage and ...
more >> the Hall of Fame. Moderate walking, some hills, about five to six hours. Walk down Bedford Park Blvd. to meet with the walkers arriving on the Metro North from Grand Central Terminal at 9:45AM. Entrance to the “Gardens” is free on Saturdays until 10:00AM. After a walk in the “Gardens” we will walk west on Fordham Road to Arthur Avenue for lunch. We will then go to The Edger Allen Poe Cottage (fee $3.00) off the Grand Concourse and then on to the Bronx Community College for the "Hall of Fame for Great Americans". Bring lunch, water, binoculars or a camera with optical zoom lens. We will go rain or shine. Check the Shorewalker’s calendar for possible changes.
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.
Moderate-to-brisk walks led by the NY Walkers Club for people 18 years and older of all abilities. This ...
more >> low-impact fitness program is perfect for those who want to get in shape, build muscle tone, strength and increase cardiovascular health while enjoying the Park's beautiful landscapes. This event takes place every Saturday.
7+ miles, moderate-to-brisk pace. Combination of beaches and pathways. A visit to Hanger B, displaying ...
more >> many vintage WW ll aircraft (some in stage restoration) . Possible hike extension across the Marine Park Bridge. Bring lunch and water. Call for hike status or information.
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> 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, ...
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.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> 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.
No prior artistic experience is required. Volunteer with the talented community in producing a wonderful ...
more >> testament to the power of community and art. The mural will be a permanent installation on the Port Authority Bridge on 34th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. They're installing a mural in Hell's Kitchen. Come paint with them! Come out, meet the lead muralist, and work together with your community to paint a mural being installed this summer. Join an event-filled day of music and mural painting. All ages and abilities welcome.
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
free, no reservation required
10:30 am
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Veteran Donald Calliste leads a class to tone and define your core, lower back, and glutes combined with ...
more >> cardio exercises that will maximize your fat-burning potential. This event repeats every Saturday until September 30, 2017.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
You are invited to a free ongoing drop-in group reading and discussion of a collection of short stories ...
more >> with additional background lectures on their place in literature. Willa Cather. A Wagner Matinee Ring Lardner: The Golden Honeymoon
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
A guided walking tour of the historic and revitalized 34th Street District. Tour-goers will explore the ...
more >> neighborhood's rich history of commerce, transit, and architecture. This 90-minute tour is held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through May 28, 2017.
The Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk (SAW) will launch its interactive art happening. This year, fifteen ...
more >> working artists—all from Brooklyn—were chosen by a jury to create unique site-specific art installations in collaboration with merchants along the avenue. The storefronts will be the platform to exhibit these works, offering Bay Ridge residents and visitors a unique opportunity to engage with the visual arts and explore the dialogue between commerce, art and community.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Learn tips to address emergency situations and disaster preparedness. Attendees receive information on ...
more >> the steps to prepare, prevent and ensure safety before, during and after an emergency or natural disaster. Participating agencies and services to be announced at a later date.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Join Shape Up NYC for Zumba in the park. Dance in the sun and get fit with friends. Colorful outfits ...
more >> are encouraged! This event repeats every Saturday until Sept. 30, 2017.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Discover some of the Central Park secret sites that West Siders know and love: a lost village, a poetic ...
more >> garden, and a bridge with a spectacular view. Join Central Park Conservancy guides on this tour through Central Park's historic and picturesque west side. Highlights of this tour include Winterdale Arch, Delacorte Theater, Shakespeare Garden, the Swedish Cottage, and Ladies' Pavilion. Tour ends near 72nd Street and Central Park West.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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The Modern Dance Awareness Society, Dance Afghanistan, and Generation Outside of Afghanistan are joining ...
more >> forces for an afternoon of dance-based performances that highlight refugees and migration in a global context, and the role that the arts plays in building capacity for the integration of refugees.
A guided walking tour of the historic and revitalized 34th Street District. Tour-goers will explore the ...
more >> neighborhood's rich history of commerce, transit, and architecture. This 90-minute tour is held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through May 28, 2017.
In conjunction with the exhibition, this panel features: Ted Russell, photographer Bob Yellin, musician ...
more >> and photographer John Cohen, musician, photographer and filmmaker Sean Wilentz, historian and author Moderator: to be announced
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A group of thirty-somethings reunite after life puts a damper on their social lives. What happens next, ...
more >> may give them a case of indigestion. A semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwright Conference, this deliciously decadent, dark comedy is a mediation on what it means to be a member of The Mooching Class amidst the Age of Trump, technology, and student loans.
Reflecting on his family's immigration legacy, the filmmaker confronts the delicate images of a once ...
more >> intact family. 86 min. In English and Cantonese with English subtitles.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> 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. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
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Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt. A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los ...
more >> Angeles. 128 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Producer Rizr will make an awesome beat and you'll get to see the whole process. He will explore fundamentals ...
more >> of beat making with FL Studio, go over important techniques in detail and reveal some of his coolest tricks. He will also discuss business aspects such as how to get started, self-promotion and freelancing. If you are curious about how to perform live, he can provide you with insight regarding that as well. You don't have to be an FL Studio user to attend, in fact this workshop is designed for the ones who are interested in FL Studio as well as current users.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan ...
more >> 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.
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On May 3rd, Cory Doctorow will be at the Schwartzman building and he will be virtually interviewing Edward ...
more >> Snowden. The discussion will be about dystopian futures and the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. Tonight, watch the recording of the conversation on a big screen. Light snacks will be served.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> 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.
The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions ...
more >> of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more! This tour takes place every Saturday.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis. Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil stepmother ...
more >> and stepsisters. When she wins a local beauty contest, she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. 75 min. Also playing: Buster Keaton in The Goat (1921) and Harold Lloyd in Number Please? (1920). Live piano accompaniment by Ben Model.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Lilia Skala flees Nazi-occupied Austria and works her way out of a NY zipper factory to an acting career ...
more >> culminating in Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations. Libby Skala captures her grandmother’s indomitable spirit in a heart-warming one-woman show that explores the influence a grandmother can have on a young woman’s life. Libby Skala performed Lilia! in a successful Off-Broadway run at the Arclight Theatre, produced by Mirror Repertory Company; at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles presented by founder Gary Austin; and to sold out houses in London, Seattle, Toronto and Winnipeg (where it was selected “Best Show” out of 118 shows by University of Manitoba Radio (CJUM) at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival). Lilia! enjoyed a critically-acclaimed run at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, followed by performances in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and Berlin and Dresden, Germany. It toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and ran for three weeks in London, sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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7:1 transforms a young, modern dance company into an incubator for contemporary dance, music, and interdisciplinary ...
more >> collaboration. Its latest repertoire includes seven new pieces, the four-month labor of composers and Rovaco Dance Company choreographer Rohan Bhargava. Enjoy the exciting, 90-minute show followed by a talk-back session with composers, dancers, and 7:1 founders.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The program features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker ...
more >> and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. The Organ Meditation takes place every Saturday from Sept. 10, 2016 to May 27, 2017.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Raunak Mukherjee will demonstrate key skills and how to get started as an audiobook engineer. He is an ...
more >> experienced audio engineer who has been working at world-class facilities such as Avatar Studios as well as engineering audiobooks for more than five years. The topics he will cover will include editing basics, learning how to work fast and maintain deadlines. He will also talk about how to create a successful freelance career in the audiobook industry. At the end, they will have a Q/A sessions so that you can ask specific questions such as "where to start?".
The century of persecution, struggle, and broken hopes for the Russian LGBTIQ. How was it to live inside ...
more >> the mental and spiritual prison for years during the Soviet Union? What does it mean to live under the rainbow shadow within the Putin's Russia? Speaker: Lyosha Gorshkov, PhD in Political Science, Co-President at the Russian-Speaking LGBT American Association (RUSA LGBT, USA). Gorshkov was forced to leave Russia in 2014 for being open gay professor and activist in Perm region. Lyosha has been studying and teaching LGBTIQ identity since 2005, and was one of few people in Russian Academy, trying to make LGBTIQ issues visible. He is a vocal and outspoken public advocate for LGBTIQ rights.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Three student teams in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, ...
more >> led by composer Randall Eng (Composers & the Voice, Before the Night Sky), were paired with AOP professional singers to create 30 minute operas about New York's vital International House, a non-profit organization for more than 90 years whose residents are provided a culture in which to become the next generation of global leaders. See the results, fully staged by opera director Sam Helfrich (The Summer King, Angels in America).
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Tenor Christopher Yoon has performed leading roles in operas by Mozart, Rossini, Stravinsky, and Britten. ...
more >> A graduate of The Juilliard School, Yoon is the winner of the Giulio Gari International Vocal Competition Encouragement Award, and was a finalist in the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition. He has also performed at Music Academy of the West, where he took on the role of Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen. Yoon is joined by dynamic and versatile pianist Binna Han.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Summer on the Hudson re-joins with Barnard College for an evening celebrating women in music, featuring ...
more >> a selection from NYC colleges and universities performing in an astounding natural setting.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In this lecture, William Villalongo, assistant professor in the School of Art, and Mark Thomas Gibson ...
more >> will discuss Black Pulp!, a traveling exhibition they co-curated that examines the evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 1990 through rare historical printed media and contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by artists, graphic designers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, to etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by some of today’s leading artists.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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A group of thirty-somethings reunite after life puts a damper on their social lives. What happens next, ...
more >> may give them a case of indigestion. A semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwright Conference, this deliciously decadent, dark comedy is a mediation on what it means to be a member of The Mooching Class amidst the Age of Trump, technology, and student loans.
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.
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Program: Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 Mišek: Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 6 Schumann: ...
more >> Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47 Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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In this show – a sort of German cabaret - the “lesbian” songs of the era are intertwined with short ...
more >> monologues and dialogues that enhance the seriousness of the stories, tempered by the levity of pure entertainment. The show presents a series of women who embody the minorities who at the time of the advent of Nazism (as it happened in Italy during Fascism) were forced to “not exist.” By Francesca Falchi with Francesca Falchi and Marta Proietti Orzella. Musical direction Ennio Atzeni. 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.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams. While on a journey of physical and spiritual ...
more >> healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts. 115 min.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A bi-monthly cabaret/open mic hosted by Jessie Bangarang Atkinson and Kiley Caughey, accompanied by the ...
more >> incomparable Kevin O'Leary.
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required