28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 9, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided ...
more >> tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
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.
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled ...
more >> 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.
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.
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
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ...
more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ...
more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and ...
more >> sparked a global movement. 100 min., Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
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.
This film is a sensitive examination of the music that has played such a central part in Mamlok’s life. ...
more >> It observes the composer at work in Germany and then accompanies her to New York, where Mamlok meets old friends and revives her former life there, while at the same time preparing for the League of Composers’ Season Finale.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. ...
more >> Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of his life―as spirited as his distinctive pen-and-ink drawings.
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ...
more >> 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.
Svati Shah of UMass Amherst locates a critique in the wake of the publication of the author’s monograph ...
more >> Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2014). An ethnography of sexual commerce in Mumbai, the book engaged a number of debates, including those on the proper relation between sexual commerce, migration, violence and human trafficking.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
How did the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social ...
more >> policy? Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee. With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a ...
more >> dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. 87 min. Under the baton of music director, trumpeter, and performance artist, Mark Gould, the CoPA Theater Orchestra, composed of students, will perform Charlie Chaplin’s original score (edited by Timothy Brock).
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Do you know where to take shelter in an earthquake? How to bust a lying car mechanic? Save money at the ...
more >> store? You’ll know now.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Passage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn ...
more >> in 1993.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Dutch author Niña Weijers took the world of European literature by storm in 2014 with her debut novel ...
more >> The Consequences, which has sold over 30,000 copies in Holland and garnered critical praise for its maturity and ambition. Using deft and captivating prose, Weijers tells the story of Minnie Panis, a young and talented conceptual artist, as she navigates love affairs, her unexpected success in the art world, and her relationship with an emotionally distant mother.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A special fall reading, featuring four all-star poets whose debut books came out this year. This will ...
more >> be a night to come together and discover thrilling fresh voices. Featuring Ife-Chudeni Oputa, Charif Shanahan. Erika L. Sánchez, and Sam Sax.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
Free, RSVP required
Speaker Andriy Lyubka was born in 1987 in Riga, Latvia. He is the author of three books of poetry – ...
more >> Eight Months of Schizophrenia, TERRORISM, and Forty Bucks Plus Tip - and five books of prose – Killer: A Collection of Stories, Sleeping with Women, Carbide, A Room for Sorrow and Saudade. His writings have been translated into Polish, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian, Turkish and German.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran ...
more >> New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom. Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater.
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held ...
more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church. Featuring: Massimiliano Balduzzi Hector Canonge (pictured) Fana Fraser The Olimpias
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the ...
more >> sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway.
Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring ...
more >> singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.