53 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, November 7, 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.
Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with ...
more >> Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.
9:30 am
free, no reservation required
An all-day symposium investigating the rise of Trump and America’s turn towards authoritarian rule. ...
more >> This symposium is the culminating event to a series of essays published daily on Public Books in the weeks preceding, in which leading intellectuals address what’s at stake in Trump’s America for a wide range of topics. Schedule: 9:30: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Eric Klinenberg, Sharon Marcus, Caitlin Zaloom 9:45-11:15: Class, Culture, and Politics Jefferson Cowie, Shamus Khan, Michèle Lamont, Harel Shapira Moderator: Caitlin Zaloom 11:30-1:00: Creating Insecurity: Gender, Immigration, and Ethnicity Geraldo Cadava, Alina Das, Linda Gordon, Jack Halberstam Moderator: Sharon Marcus Lunch Break 2:30-3:45: The Politics of Energy and Climate Change Michelle Anderson, Gretchen Bakke, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Ricky Revesz Moderator: Eric Klinenberg 4:15-5:45: Cities, Race, and Social Policy Kim Phillips-Fein, Patrick Sharkey, Tom Sugrue, William Julius Wilson Moderator: Eric Klinenberg 6:30-8:00: Truth, Reason, and Democracy Steven Lukes, Alondra Nelson, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen Moderator: Caitlin Zaloom
A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will ...
more >> see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. We then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend ...
more >> in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” Tours take place every Tuesday at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm until Dec. 12, 2017.
A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more. Enthusiastic instruction ...
more >> creates fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier ...
more >> on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Wendy S. Walters is a poet and Associate Dean of Parsons School of Design. These readings draw on a ...
more >> community of elected affinities responding to the exhibition Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: New York--A Botany of Colonization, as they look to the future it promises in the spring of 2018 when the plants are re-sited in ballast flora gardens around New York, including the forthcoming installation at The High Line.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Discuss the trauma related to incarceration and the resulting impact of mass incarceration. Leading the ...
more >> discussion will be Clifton Hall, President of the Hall Leadership Academy. This event is open to anyone in the New York City area, however some of the language and topics are geared towards social work students and professionals.
This class will demonstrate the first steps and highlight the basic resources in genealogical research, ...
more >> and serve as an introduction to using genealogy and local history collections at NYPL.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
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.
Artist Brian Belott speaks with curator Jens Hoffman in the lead-up to his DADA-inspired work, People ...
more >> Pie Pool.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Author Grayson Dantzic shares more behind-the scenes anecdotes and images from his 17 year journey making ...
more >> his book. Through the rediscovering of his father’s unseen photographs of Billie Holiday taken in 1957, the previously known narrative changes resulting in a rediscovering of her humanity.
Featuring guest artist Will Crutchfield, this vocal masterclass provides music lovers with a rare opportunity ...
more >> to witness the interaction between gifted Mannes students and a great artist as they examine and explore the craft of performance at the highest level.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Victor V. Bobetsky is Professor of Music and Director of the Teacher Education Program in Music at Hunter ...
more >> College, and Associate Professor in the C.U.N.Y Graduate Center’s Program in Urban Education.
Learn the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, hear from people who have the disease, and find out ...
more >> how to recognize the signs in yourself and others.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
As part of the Estonian pavilion, this hour-long short film program spans over two decades of works showing ...
more >> the presence of performance in Estonian contemporary art, as seen through the camera. The program touches on questions of identity, while demonstrating the inherent fragility in today’s social constructs and relationships. The program features works by Jaan Toomik, Ene-Liis Semper, Mark Raidpere, Marko Mäetamm, Marge Monko, and Taavi Talve among others.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Anna Ziegler shows up for a discussion and signing to celebrate her upcoming productions of The Last ...
more >> Match at Roundabout Theatre Company and Actually at Manhattan Theatre Club. Ziegler will sit down with playwright Steven Carl McCasland for a discussion about her plays.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Isaac Mizrahi, one of the most successful designers in high fashion, plans his fall 1994 collection. ...
more >> He combines inspirations such as the Hollywood Eskimo look, the Mary Tyler Moore show, and Ouija-derived advise like "dominatrix mixed with Hitchcock" into a well-received collection. A behind-the-scenes look at the creative side of fashion. 73 min.
Featuring: Lee Backer Irene Greenberg Alexander Krohmer Pierre-Yves Linot R. Wayne Parsons (pictured)
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The book is a study of Silicon Valley technology titans and how their narratives of success have influenced ...
more >> political, social, and economic discourse.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Welcome Eric Ponthieu, Head of Unit Section for Agriculture, Rural Development, European Economic and ...
more >> Social Committee (EESC) for a talk on global sustainability. Mitigation of climate change means that CO2 emissions must be drastically reduced in the long term (i.e. 2050). This implies a substantial reforming of the entire food production and consumption pattern in order to disassociate economic growth and carbon emissions. This transition to a low carbon economy will require not only technological efforts but also profound organizational and cultural changes.
A panel discussion of the men's engagement with women's rights from the early 20th century on, with New ...
more >> York Times columnist Gail Collins and biographers Christoph Irmscher and Brooke Kroeger. Panelists will also discuss Brooke Kroeger's new book The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
The screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion including lead actor Dewanda Wise.
New York City, NY; NYC
An evening celebrating and reintroducing the bold, mysterious and prophetic work of the late Jamaican/American ...
more >> writer Michelle Cliff (1946-2015). Honor Moore, Creative Writing Program faculty and Nonfiction Coordinator, will read from and talk about Michelle Cliff with Suzanne Gardinier, poet, novelist and friend of Cliff; Tiphanie Yanique, fiction writer and former faculty member who considers Cliff an influence; and the critic Joshua Jelly -Schapiro, author of Island People: the Caribbean and the World.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This new documentary tells the story of American volunteers in France during the First World War. Centered ...
more >> on the American Hospital of Paris, the film shows how thousands of doctors, nurses, and ambulance drivers stepped up to help France and, in doing so, strengthened the historic ties between the two countries. 58 min. Screening followed by a Q&A with Marshall Wais, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Hospital of Paris, Vice Chairman John Crawford, and CEO Prof. Robert Sigal.
In a little village in the center of Sicily there is a boy, Ignazio Bonaventura (Antonio Emanuele) working ...
more >> sporadic and, of course, illegal jobs, receiving unemployment benefits. Tired of his condition, he decides to write a book about Sicilians, thus setting out on a journey to interview Sicilians and many popular people (such as Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Leo Gullotta, Tony Sperandeo, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Ninni Bruschetta). 120 min. In Italian with English subtitles. Followed by a Q&A with director Francesco Lama and actor Maria Grazia Cucinotta.
The renowned Brentano Quartet (“magnificent”—The Times, London) takes the stage with Distinguished ...
more >> Professor Scott Burnham for an evening of conversation and music, featuring performances of Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet (K. 465) and Haydn's Op. 64, No. 2 quartet.
An intimate conversation with consultant and lawyer Graciano Gaillard. Gaillard has provided his legal ...
more >> and administrative expertise to the United Nations. He also has relevant experience dealing with Latin America as a UN employee, particularly with the former Ambassador of the Dominican Republic. During his talk, he will describe the lateral sequence of power that goes into decision making between international governing bodies and Latin American countries, as well as how the relationship differs with the UN and Latin America compared to countries in other diasporas.
Sam Contis is a California-based artist whose first book, Deep Springs, was published in May 2017. Contis ...
more >> uses photography as a tool to understand the landscape of the American West in both its physical manifestation and in its mythic connotations. Responding to canonical classic photographs of the American West, such as those of Carleton Watkins and Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Contis began photographing her own version of the West through the lens of Deep Springs College, a tiny all-male school in Deep Springs Valley, near the California-Nevada border.
Maria Thereza Alves will speak about a manuscript she wrote in 1983 while a student: a path-breaking ...
more >> ethnography of three impoverished villages in Brazil, accompanied by 42 black and white photographs. Originally presented as “Brazilian Recipes”, it will be finally be published, in 2018, as “Recipes for Survival”.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Velma Middleton, most noted for her tenure in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars, would have celebrated her ...
more >> 100th birthday this year. Join Seton Hawkins, Director of Public Programs and Education Resources, and scholar Maxine Gordon and as they explore the music and life of this underrated gem of jazz.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In 2005, Ethan Persoff began the online magazine “Comics with Problems”, a comics archive of “political ...
more >> ephemera, sex items, and drug hysteria”. The website became widely distributed via word of mouth and press and TV coverage, noted for its peculiar and unique selection of comics. In 2007, Persoff then worked with Paul Krassner on The Realist Archive Project, an authorized online archive of the entire run of Krassner’s 1960s counterculture magazine. In 2016, Fantagraphics published the best comics of the archive, appropriately titled “The Realist Cartoons”. As a cartoonist, Persoff has collaborated on numerous projects with Scott Marshall. When The Realist archive completed, Persoff began a comic biography project with Marshall on John Wilcock, a writer who had contributed to The Realist, as well as co-founded the Village Voice, worked with Andy Warhol, and helped establish the Underground Press Syndicate, which largely influenced modern day journalism. The comic biography “John Wilcock, New York Years” is regularly serialized on Boing Boing, and focuses on Wilcock’s time in New York, from 1954-1971. In a discussion with numerous visual examples, Persoff will describe how these three projects grew from one another, and will provide other comics on the site that demonstrate the odd effect of posting something on the Internet and seeing it become part of the larger global conversation.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all ...
more >> 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. Featuring: Talia Mason Aya Shibahara Amy Yopp Sullivan
7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation
A book of more than twenty essays written between 1998 and 2016 that uses Marxist concepts (some old, ...
more >> some new) to answer many political questions posed by that modern Sphinx, the global oil industry.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This shebang of a book is based on Justin Loeber's quirky personal life experiences. Get Out of Your ...
more >> Own Way Guide to Life will give you the courage to: shake down your fear, which is squelching your dream; find the "it" that makes you "tick"; take a risk, which in the end, isn't risky after all; and put down the electronics, look up; and transfer from the passenger to the pilot of your life.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Mad Monk Improper Parables offers enlightening life, love and work inspirations from a Zen/Chan monk ...
more >> who traveled On and Off The Way.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York's best established and emerging authors ...
more >> and storytellers including: Dawn J. Fraser, Anoush Froundjian, Harmon Leon and Will Lee.
7:00 pm
Free, donations welcome
A screening of classic film clips featuring vampires, werewolves, giant apes and creatures from assorted ...
more >> lagoons. The films will be followed by a moderated discussion about why audiences are so fascinated by these images.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
From Frankenstein in the 30s to modern horror now, children – not to mention adults – are still ...
more >> fascinated by the monstrous. They’ll watch footage of vampires, werewolves, giant apes, and creatures from assorted lagoons, but they’ll also take a few moments to contemplate why we are so fascinated by these beasties.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Internationally renowned and award-winning duo Friedrich Kleinhapl (cello) and Andreas Woyke (piano) ...
more >> performs "Rebels and Collaborators" that includes sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Schnittke, Friedrich Gulda and Dmitri Shostakovich. "United by passion and power" - The New York Times
7:30 pm
free, reservations required
Mauricio KAGEL (1931-2008) (Argentina/Germany) Garbled News for Baritone and Instruments (1988-1991) ...
more >> Giya KANCELI (b. 1935) (Georgia/Belgium) Exil (1994) Performers New Juilliard Ensemble; Joel Sachs, conductor About the Performers New Juilliard Ensemble, led by founding director Joel Sachs and in its 25th season, presents music by a variety of international composers who write in the most diverse styles. Joel Sachs has conducted orchestras and ensembles in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, El Salvador, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and has held new music residencies in Berlin, Shanghai, London, Salzburg, Curitiba (Brazil), Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (U.K.), Helsinki, and the Banff Centre (Canadian Rockies).
7:30 pm
free tickets required,...
Program: MAURICIO KAGEL (Argentina/Germany) From Stücke der Windrose (1988–94, U.S. premiere) Südosten ...
more >> (1991, U.S. premiere) Süden (1989, U.S. premiere) GIYA KANCHELI (Georgia/Belgium) Exil (1994) Psalm 23; poetry by Paul Celan and Hans Sahl Joel Sachs, conductor Vivian Yau, soprano
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required