34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, November 12, 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.
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.
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.
A daylong conference featuring Israeli academics discussing the implications of major events in Israeli ...
more >> history.
For over 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been a ...
more >> testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with its wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. Its history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.
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.
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the ...
more >> city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. This tour repeats every Sunday.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Don a top hat or bonnet, and travel back in time to 1887 when the synagogue first opened. The Generation ...
more >> to Generation Festival will present the traditions, music, and art of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Enjoy synagogue tours and musical performances. Take a 19th-century citizen test. Try your hand at nineteenth -century crafts. Take a photo at our old-fashioned photo booth. Partake in art activities inspired by immigrant life on the Lower East Side and your own family history. Dressing in period garb is encouraged.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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African-American marching bands have long been powerful agents of cultural and political expression, ...
more >> celebrating collective identities and asserting rights to public space and visibility. With Marching On, Bryony Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson, professors at Columbia University’s GSAPP, collaborate with the Marching Cobras of New York, a Harlem-based after-school drumline and dance team, to explore the legacy of marching and organized forms of performance. Commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture, this new project interweaves echoes of the 1917 Silent March against racial violence with references to the revered Harlem Hellfighters in order to celebrate the crucial role of the community's collective performances as acts of both cultural expression and political resistance. Start times: 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This book is your introduction to to physical computing with the Arduino microcontroller platform. No ...
more >> prior experience is required, not even an understanding of basic electronics.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Fantasia in A Minor Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) Sonata (1927) ...
more >> Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) Madrigal In Memoriam Oleg Kagan (1990) J.S. Bach (1685 -1750) Partita in D Minor BWV 1004 Violinist Natasha Lipkina plays a concert showcasing solo violin works from Baroque and 20th century.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of ...
more >> America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
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.
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.
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.
Its once abandoned waterfront is now is now filled with newly constructed condo towers and magnificent ...
more >> parks and stunning views of Manhattan. Known today as the hipster capital of the United States, Williamsburg is so much more than that, containing enclaves of Puerto Ricans, Polish, Italians, Dominicans and Hasidic Jews. In a city with an unmatched ethnic diversity, Williamsburg is a standout.
Spectrum Stage Works is a new all-university theatre organization dedicated to diversity and equity in ...
more >> the performing arts. In their debut production, Admissions by Tony Vellela, “racism and hidden prejudices surface when seven college students lock themselves in the president’s office to protest tuition hikes. As outside pressures mount, they must confront feelings which tear apart the personal relationships within the group, and threaten the success of their action.”
Kelly Nipper discusses her work Terre Mécanique with Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary ...
more >> Art and Media at Columbia University, Noam M. Elcott.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Between 1880-1924, over 4 million Italians immigrated to the United States. Many settled in the neighborhood ...
more >> in downtown Manhattan, where Italian-Americans began to establish a unique culture that mixed the traditions of the old country with the ebbs and flows of their new home. This two hour walking tour visits the churches, restaurants, and infamous locales that have made Little Italy one of America's most enduring and celebrated neighborhoods.
Program: Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) Toccata on Veni Emmanuel George Walker (b. 1922) from Three Pieces ...
more >> for Organ Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Scherzo, op. 2 Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H Organist: Rebecca Marie Yoder
3:15 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 Sunday from Sept. 10, 2017 to May 27, 2018..
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Opus 2 Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Opus 90 Sonata ...
more >> No. 30 in E Major, Opus 109 With: Lisa Joy Sitjar, piano
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Stephen Hartke The Horse with the Lavender Eye Brahms Trio in E-flat Major for Violin, Horn, ...
more >> and Piano, Op. 40 Dvorak String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77 The New York Times called Ensemble Connect “the new face of classical music,” while New York Classical Review said it is “one of the strongest ensembles in the city.” These exciting young musicians are members of a fellowship program that prepares them for careers as innovative performers, teachers, and advocates for music in the 21st century. Performers: ·· Bixby Kennedy, Clarinet ·· Nicolee Kuester, French Horn ·· Rebecca Anderson, Violin ·· Mari Lee, Violin ·· Adelya Nartadjieva, Violin ·· Andrew Gonzalez, Viola ·· Julia Yang, Cello ·· Lizzie Burns, Double Bass ·· Lee Dionne, Piano
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The duo of Michael Newman and Laura Oltman celebrates their 40th anniversary with music from around the ...
more >> Americas and the world featuring top-flight Mannes students.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Richard Frank’s 50-year career reaches back to Broadway’s 1960s golden age, tours and recordings ...
more >> with Patti LaBelle, Peter Allen, Janis Ian, Paul Anka , Neil Diamond, Bette Midler and Barry Manilow, plus the entire Archies cartoon TV series. Although you hear his guitar licks on hundreds of TV and radio commercials, you can truly appreciate his seasoned musicianship and mastery of the Great American Songbook in an intimate setting.
The book describes the activities of a New York based feminist organization campaigning for wages for ...
more >> housework. It is an archival book, in that it contains many of the material the New York Wages for Housework Committee produced: documents – for internal discussion and public use, pamphlets, flyers, photographs, discussions of events the NY Committee or other feminist groups organized. It is an important addition to the history of the feminist movement in the United States.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. ...
more >> Join Free Tours by Foot for a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
Rachmaninoff’s ethereal and lush setting of the mystical All-Night Vigil of the Orthodox Church was ...
more >> among his favorite works. Downtown Voices presents this a cappella masterpiece in beautiful Trinity Church. Stephen Sands, conductor
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Mannes Sounds Piano Cantabile presents music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Lutoslawsky.
New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required