Give a gift of CFT!
free things to do in New York City
Free events for Friday, 10/25/13
<

October 2013

 >
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
Free Events, Free Things to Do in New York City!  Read More

Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 25, 2013?

45 free events take place on Friday, October 25 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 25 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of October . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
Join the Club!

Go!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.

So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!

45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 25, 2013

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc The Creative Time Summit: Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City
free events nyc Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (2012): Documentary on the Unreliability of Memory
free events nyc American Candy: Part Sketch-Comedy Show, Part Musical Satire
More Editor's Picks for 10/25/13
        

Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary. Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute and Sacred Sounds Yoga. He has practiced martial arts for over 30 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:30 am
Free

Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
10:00 am
Free

Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
10:00 am
Free

Conference | The Creative Time Summit: Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City


The fifth annual Creative Time Summit is the only regularly scheduled conference devoted to the intersection of art-making and social justice. Creative Time strives to provide meaningful opportunities for artists to explore new ideas, expand their practice and play a role in shaping a more just world. This year’s Summit, titled Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City, explores ways in which cultural production might address issues like gentrification, racialized urbanism, environmental catastrophe, and poverty. It will look at strategies for bottom-up planning and economic sustainability, and square off over best practices, as well as the risks of the increasingly popular creative placemaking. Lucy Lippard, Rebecca Solnit, Pedro Reyes, Vito Acconci, and a host of leading artists, planners, architects, activists, politicians, critics, and others from around the world discuss the role of art in the making and re-making of cities—for better or for worse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Pay-what-you-wish admission policy

Conference | The Lateran Pacts: The Rights of the Jews and Other Religious Minorities


In light of the upcoming 85th anniversary of the Lateran Pacts and current debates on the position of the Catholic Church on the Jews during World War II, Centro Primo Levi has invited an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore and discuss the legal, social, political and economic aspects of the relations between Church and State in the fascist era. The conference will offer an overview of the Lateran Pacts, background on the negotiations between Mussolini and Pius XI and an analysis of the ways in which the Pacts affected Italian society and the rights of minorities with particular focus on the subsequent re-organization of the Jewish communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:00 am
$6...

Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:00 am
Free

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international 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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
11:15 am
Free

Hike | Lawrence Long Island Museum Hike


Walk to Lawrence Long Island Rock Hall museum, easy 3-4 miles. Admission free. After, walk to Woodmere Park, some street walking. Bring lunch and water. Can go back to LIRR at end. Cancelled if raining.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:00 pm
$3 plus train...

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:20 pm
Free

Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
$6...

Film | Gus Van Sant's Promised Land (2012): Smalltown Shakedown


Starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Francis McDormand. Corporate sales man Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rual town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. 106 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Film | Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010): Asylum Escapee


With Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In this drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby. 138 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:00 pm
Free

Film | Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-Winning Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Hunting Bin Laden


Starring Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgarton, and Chris Pratt. This movie chronicles the hunt for Osama bin Laden. 157 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
1:30 pm
Free

Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (2012): Documentary on the Unreliability of Memory


In this inspired, genre-twisting film, writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets behind a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. 108 Minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
3:00 pm
Free

Other | Preview the NY‘Z’ Scream Haunted House on the Eve of Pumpkin Fest


Join hundreds of New Yorkers for a sneak peak at this year’s Haunted House! With a zombie theme, this year’s NY ‘Z’ Scream Haunted House will make its debut for a special preview on Friday, in anticipation of the 2013 Pumpkin Fest taking place on Saturday. Designed by staff and children from each borough, the spooktacular Haunted House takes you through five well-known landmarks in the city (one from each borough) after they’ve been infested and infected with zombies!
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
4:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach Suites in the Dark, a "Concert Exhibition"


Cellist Augustin Maurs's Bach Suites in the Dark offers a unique approach to Bach’s Cello Suites. After of years of investigation, the Suites are removed from the concert hall and placed in an unilluminated space, in which the cellist repeatedly plays them over a period of ten days. Through the extended time frame and the elimination of any visual input, the listener and the playing musician are unified within the same visual and musical space. Originally conceived as studies, Bach’s Cello Suites are a series of dances written around 1720. Although unaccompanied, they are expansive polyphonic musical masterpieces, considered both the beginning and culmination of the cello repertoire. Uncertainty about the original creative intentions of the Suites invites perpetual debate and allows imaginative free reign for redefining the environment in which they are played. Bach Suites in the Dark removes the Suites from the concert hall explores their malleability and the notion of practice in which they are rooted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | The High Line Night Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
5:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Blackburn 20|20 Annual Member Show


Blackburn 20|20 is an exhibition space operated by the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. RBPMW 2013 Annual Member Show is an exhibition featuring the work of current RBPMW members showcasing a variety of fine art printmaking techniques: lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, artist books and digital prints.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The 'F' Word: A Conversation About Fashion


With Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. In conversation with: Grazia d'Annunzio (US Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia); Eugenia Paulicelli (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, co-Director of The Concentration in Fashion Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY).
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Other | The Rema Hort Mann Foundations awards 8 visual artists


The winners of the visual art grant award this year are: Daniel Bejar, Andrew Brischler, Claudia Cortinez, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Allison Ginsberg, EJ Hauser, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jennifer Packer. Be the first to see their work and meet these talented young artists. Join them in a celebration at the awards ceremony.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Mirror Reflections: Diplomacy and Decoration in France and Siam 1680s/1860s


This talk given by Meredith Martin, associate professor of Art History at New York University, explores the circulation, use, and interior display of images and art objects associated with diplomatic missions that traveled between France and Siam (Thailand) in the 1680s and 1860s. A reception will follow the lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:15 pm
Free

Lecture | In Praise of Wordless Comfort


Dr. Helen Stein discusses why she chose art therapy over talking therapy to help her cope with her and her sister’s concurrent cancer diagnoses, and why she felt that much of her experience was beyond words. Stein, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, supervises psychology interns at New York Presbyterian Hospital and clinical psychology graduate students at the City University of New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | Reinventing Fire: Energy Abundance by Design


To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Amory B. Lovins, one of the world's leading experts on energy systems, will give a talk on how to imagine a world without fossil fuels, without climate change, and with safe, affordable energy for all. He will demonstrate how smart businesses are creating an explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels, and how the US can get completely off oil and coal by 2050.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
6:30 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Dance Works: Pearl Marasigan / Danita Shaheen


PEARL MARASIGAN and DANITA SHAHEEN of HalloHallo Dance present group works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Theater | Eric Dufault's Year of the Rooster, a Dark Comedy about Cockfighting


A wildly dark comedy about the legends of cockfighting. Everyone mocks Gil Pepper: his clinging mother, his nubile young boss at McDonald's, and most of all, his great nemesis, rival cocker and local tycoon Dickie Thimble. But now with his new rooster, Odysseus Rex, a fearsome killing machine, Gil is experiencing things he's never felt in his life: hope, victory, revenge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish admission policy...

Author Reading | Mitchell S. Jackson reads from his book The Residue Years


Jackson’s debut novel was published in August by Bloomsbury. “The Residue Years: A Documentary” will also be screened.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Organ Works by Bach, Franck, and Messiaen


Pastoral musician and concert organist Mark Bani has been a featured artist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. Music Director and Organist at the Church, he designed both the chancel and gallery organs, and his program will showcase the splendid tonal array of the instruments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Rock Hall of Famer Ray Davies signs copies of his book Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road


As a boy in post-War England, legendary Kinks' singer/songwriter Ray Davies fell in love with America—its movies and music, its culture of freedom, fed his imagination. Then, as part of the British Invasion, he toured the US with the Kinks during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Age of Ladyblogs, or, How Women's Websites Are Shaping the Cultural Conversation


In honor of the publication of the first book by the popular website Jezebel, The Book of Jezebel, editors of influential online outlets for women come together to discuss the genre's more recent history and female readers' appetite for progressive discussions about contemporary womanhood, pop culture and politics. WORD bookstore will be on hand selling books. With: Jessica Coen, editor in chief, Jezebel Kate Harding, co-author of The Book of Jezebel (moderator) Anna Holmes, founder, Jezebel Lori Leibovich, executive lifestyle editor, Huffington Post Women Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor, Feministing Amelia McDonnell-Parry, editor in chief, The Frisky Edith Zimmerman, founder, The Hairpin
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Sounds of the Stars: Lecture Plus Stargazing


A lecture by Jeff Oishi, Research Scientist, American Museum of Natural History. Oceanic waves break upon the seaside, harmony governs the construction of music, and noise shapes our acoustic environment. What do these seemingly unrelated topics have to do with astronomy? All of them have to do with waves: how they are born, how they die, and how they interact with one another. This talk will discuss astronomical discoveries in the context of sound, music, and noise with live demos in order to bring to life the ongoing hunt to unravel the mysteries of the waves on distant shores.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | War is Murder: Writing Fiction In An Age of Perpetual Warfare


It took many years for the events of the Vietnam War to manifest themselves in fiction. In marked contrast, novels and stories about the contemporary American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being published concurrently with those invasions. With Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Helen Benedict and Roy Scranton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:00 pm
Free

Other | Academy of American Poets Award Ceremony


Celebrate recipients of the premier collection of awards for poetry in the United States. Participants to be announced. A reception will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
Free

Film | Congolese Documentary: Fernand Melgar's Special Flight (2011)


Each year, thousands of men and women in Switzerland are imprisoned without trial or sentence. Simply because they stay in the country illegally, they may be deprived of liberty for up to eighteen months before being deported. Filmmaker Fernand Melgar immersed himself for 9 months in the administrative detention centre Frambois in Geneva, one of the 28 deportation centers for the paperless in Switzerland, many of whom have been established in Switzerland for years. 100 min. In French w/ English subtitles. Followed by reception with live musical performances by Lyke Mike, Isaac Katalay, and Rafiya.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Theater | Romantic Drama: The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood


A romantic drama about two middle-aged sisters in 1943 Harlem whose world is uprooted by the arrival of a handsome young boarder from the south. Directed by AUDELCO Award-winning Ajene D. Washington.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
7:30 pm
$12 suggested donation...

Concert | College Piano and Cello Recital


Qilin Sun, Piano, and Madeline Bouissou, Cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour


New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Join the Club!
Go!
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | American Candy: Part Sketch-Comedy Show, Part Musical Satire


AMERICAN CANDY is a new Brooklyn-based troupe that scours the far reaches of American pop culture for the most ripe-for-parody material they can skewer with a healthy dose of attitude and irreverence. Taking inspiration from groundbreaking series like In Living Color and The Carol Burnett Show, this diverse cast of over 30 actors come together for a pre-Hallow’s Eve performance. Recommended for fans of old-school Dave Chappelle and naughty musical numbers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 pm
No cover, no...
Complimentary Tickets

to shows, concerts ... (CFT Deals!)

Musical | Hit Show Musical Parody

Regular Price: $58.50
CFT Member Price: $0.00

Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

Regular Price: $59
CFT Member Price: $0.00
More CFT Deals
Join the Club!

Go!
Today's Events All 923 Events Events This Week Events This Weekend
Contact FAQ Reviews About Terms of Use Privacy Policy
All events are free unless otherwise stated. All programs subject to change. Please confirm before going.
© Copyright Club Free Time. All rights reserved.