14 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, November 21, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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
New York City, NY; NYC
Austro-Russian award-winning pianist and composer Sergei Dreznin will give an open master class for interested ...
more >> students. Dreznin appears regularly at prestigious music festivals including Bard Music, the Sviatoslav Richter in Tarusa, Russia and Annecy Classic in France. As a composer, Mr. Dreznin has 17 music theater works produced in Moscow, Vienna, New York, Madrid and Paris.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in China during the Qing dynasty and has spread throughout ...
more >> the world since the early 20th century.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
After the adversary of a bootlegger has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus ...
more >> girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her over. Director: Jack Conway. Starring Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts. 80 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:15 am
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take ...
more >> place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Editor's Pick
Popular music combos by Ryan Keberle & Ike Sturm. Described by The New York Times as a "trombonist of ...
more >> vision and composure", trombone player Ryan Keberle has worked with David Bowie, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake among others, and has appeared on five Grammy Award-winning records. Ike Sturm is a bassist, composer, and bandleader. He has worked with Gene Bertoncini, Donny McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Ingrid Jensen, Steve Lehman, Maria Schneider and many others.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A free-living New Yorker fights to retain custody of his nephew. Director: Fred Coe. Starring Jason ...
more >> Robards, Jr. and Barry Gord. 117 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn to play the most popular game ever: A game of strategy and problem solving. Whether you are beginner ...
more >> or a more advanced player you can learn the strategies that will make you a better chess player.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
The North Woods is the largest of the Park's woodlands, offering people and wildlife a 40-acre forest ...
more >> retreat in the middle of New York City. Guides for this tour will show you around tumbling waterfalls, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools. Highlights include the Harlem Meer, Huddlestone Arch, the Loch, Glen Span Arch, and the Pool.
New York City, NY; NYC
Coloring is an activity we think of as being for kids. However, it can be beneficial for adults. Coloring ...
more >> helps us de-stress because when we focus on a particular activity, we focus on it and not on our worries. Coloring generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, privacy has been on everyone’s minds. In this article, Rochell ...
more >> Gurstein makes a case that in the interest of protecting out privacy, law alone is insufficient—rather, an entirely new sense of “decency” is needed… one which respects the dignity of the inner world of personal thought. Is Gurstein correct in her assessment? Pick up a copy and discuss.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous ...
more >> eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the very different ways painting has given form ...
more >> to the dream of God’s kingdom come. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, when such issues were life and death – to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel face to face with the horrors of religious war in the Netherlands, Poussin painting the Sacraments, Veronese exulting in the contradictions of Love. Was it to painting’s advantage, is Clark’s question, that in an age of enforced orthodoxy artists could reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words?
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required