These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ... more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
Central Park is home to thirty bridges and arches. Urban Park Rangers highlight the most scenic and iconic ... more >> bridges and arches of Central Park.
Downtown Manhattan's East Village is one of NYC's most beloved neighborhood's for good reason--it's home ... more >> to one of the world's most renown centers of architectural study, a 163 year old bar, was the center of the punk rock scene and Nuyorican literary movement, and even holds a cemetery where a President was once buried. This walking tour showcases the the rich history of a neighborhood that means so much to so many.
A journey through the vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City’s most notable landmarks, including ... more >> the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday.
Guides walk through the Park to see how generations of New Yorkers have used the Park as a place to remember ... more >> and honor our veterans. Highlights of this tour include Maine Monument, Merchant's Gate, 7th Regiment Memorial, S. Rankin Drew Memorial, Navy Terrace and Navy Walk, 307th Infantry Regiment Memorial, Red Cross Memorial Flagpole, 107th Infantry Regiment Memorial, and the Arsenal.
The Lower East Side was once the most densely populated neighborhood on the planet. This 10 stop walking ... more >> tour, will visit some major historical sites of the Jewish Lower East Side, from the late 1800's all the way up until present day. Weaving stories of triumph, heartbreak, and humor together, this tour is at once informative, entertaining, and may put you in the mood for a knish or four.
Are there parallels between the circumstances of late '60’s and our current political/social stresses? ... more >> In Bad Brother, Loren Niemi draws on his experience of being in a Catholic religious order during the tumult of Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Vatican II, including his involvement with the September 1968 burning of draft files with homemade napalm by the Milwaukee 14 and their subsequent trial. As Loren says, "I entered The Christian Brothers order Catholic and left seven years later a bad Buddhist with an FBI file." Loren Niemi is an innovative storyteller, a published poet, the author of “The New Book of Plots” and co-author with Elizabeth Ellis of the critically acclaimed, “Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories.” He has been performing solo and duo performances in Fringe Festivals around the country since 1995 and is the recipient of a 2016 National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
ShowDown is a performance and feedback series for works-in-progress. The program provides emerging and ... more >> mid-career dance artists an opportunity to show unfinished work in an informal, welcoming setting. Showings by Ramona Sekulovic, Jack Blackmon, and Rebecca Gual.
Guanqun Yu, currently Michaela in Carmen at the Met, and Oliver Imig, conductor/organist/pianist of the ... more >> Oper Koln of Landestheather Innsbruck, preform. Refreshments following.
40 musicians, a 30-member choir, and a tenor soloist from the Hungarian State Opera perform Zoltán Kodály's ... more >> Masterpiece Psalmus Hungaricus: Zoltán Kodály ( 1882 – 1967) is a great Hungarian composer. He composed Psalmus Hungaricus for the unification of Buda and Pest. The piece premiered 95 years ago, November 19, 1923, and has not been performed in New York until 1968.
This is the first United States exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist’s cycle of very small ... more >> human figures created in France and Switzerland during the Second World War. Evolving against a backdrop of unprecedented socio-political upheaval, this unique body of work represents a profoundly transformative phase of Giacometti’s career: at no more than three inches tall and as thin as nails, these works reveal the path that led the artist to the elongated figures for which he became famous in the final two decades of his life.
Charlie is happily surprised when his long absent daughter unexpectedly visits with joyful news of her ... more >> pregnancy. However, as cracks begin to appear in her story and she is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Charlie is forced to confront a truth that, until now, he has refused to see. A Peregrine Falls is a play about a family on the brink of collapse and the stories they tell each other to try to stay together. Written by Leegrid Stevens.
Alejandro Briceño, oboe. Program Britten (1913-1976) Phantasy Quartet for oboe, violin, viola, and ... more >> cello Loeffler (1861-1935) 2 Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano
Ensemble led by Annie Shikany; William Woodward, piano. Annie Shikany has directed Così fan tutte for ... more >> Opera Cooperative, Cavalleria Rusticana for North Shore Music Festival, and New York Lyric Opera’s Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall.