25 free events take place in New York City on Sunday, October 11, 2009.
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25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 11, 2009
About 15 miles, moderate/brisk pace. In this series of walks, explore life at the end of the subway lines. On this walk, begin in beautiful Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, walk across the Manhattan Bridge down to South Ferry, up along the Hudson to Midtown and end at E. 148th Street Harlem. Many drop out points along the way. Rain cancels.
Join 20-minute instructional paddles, and explore the Hudson River first hand. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim.
Take a journey down historic Orchard Street and discover the origins of New York's first discount retail district. The two-hour tour highlights the integral role that the shopping district has played in the history and development of the Lower East Side.
Children and their families can tour the mansion, make colonial hats, dress up in colonial style costumes, or go on a scavenger hunt and win a prize. Free no advanced registration required
Take a walk around the lands dominated by Belvedere Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
Traces the lives of Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe and Irving Kristol as young idealists at New York's City College in the 1940s, their controversial role in the McCarthy era, their battle with the New Left in the sixties, and their vastly differing political views today.
109 min.
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Museum's renowned collections. Visitors will view rarely-seen works specially selected for Openhousenewyork and then get an overview of the Museum's history, collections, and the ongoing renovation and modernization of its landmark building.
Explore the island that was once the home of the undesirables of the city-prisoners, debtors, smallpox patients, etc. Once called Blackwells Island and Welfare Island, it is now a residential community. Highlights: The Tramway Ride, the Blackwell Farmhouse, Church of the Good Shepherd, the Octagon building.
As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
The Con Brio Ensemble -- featuring Anton Miller, violin, Andre Emelianoff, cello and Diana Mittler-Battipaglia, piano -- will play works by Arensky, Shostakovich and Beethoven.
Patterson's book includes over 100 pages of full color original photographs and 56 pages of documented oral history by those who lived on the Lower East Side in the period between 1985 and 2002, which was a particularly tumultuous time for downtown New York.
Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
Repertoire ranges from jazz standards to free improvs and from original tunes to rock/blues/funk and honky tonk – they even promise to take requests. With Raphael Fusco and Kurt Thumb on the dueling keyboards.
The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
The statistics are staggering. 1 in 4 girls will be sexual abused by the age of sixteen. Feuereisen weaves together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance, seasoned insights, and feminist perspectives. This revised edition has additional resources for boys and men. Please join Feuereisen for a courageous discussion and help lift the veil of secrecy.
Tealights are a gorgeous electro-classical pop quartet from Atlanta with a debut EP, Take Us By Sea, produced by Jordan Jefferes of the acclaimed indie-rock group Snowden. Fieldmouse was once the solo project of singer-songwriter Rachel Browne, now augmenting her lushly pretty songs with a full band.