57 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 12, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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.
This tour focuses on the middle of Central Park, starting in front of the beautiful American Museum of ...
more >> Natural History. From there enter the park and explore, seeing everything from a castle to the wild-looking Ramble. See an Ancient Egyptian obelisk and the place where Stuart Little raced his sailboat in the E.B. White children’s classic. Don’t forget to bring along your camera. There will be many wonderful photo opportunities throughout.
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.
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking ...
more >> revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. 129 min.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Explore the southwest of Central Park with Central Park Conservancy tour guides, and see it like never ...
more >> before. From a planned military parade ground to the site commemorating a famous activist for peace, one of the most-visited areas of the Park has some secrets to share with even the most seasoned Park-goer. Highlights of this tour include: Maine Monument, the Children’s District, Sheep Meadow, Tavern on the Green, and Strawberry Fields.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
If you have been collecting the information, now it is time to shape your genealogy research into a cohesive ...
more >> family history for others to read. Learn the different types of family history writing styles and explore the writing manuals that will match your style. Learn how to explore the history of the places where your family lived, tips for creating a cohesive narrative, and why writing a family history is the ultimate goal of genealogy research.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Robert Schumann/Debussy Six Etudes in the Form of a Canon Bach Prelude and Fugue BWV 552 compositions ...
more >> by Carey and Musto With: Norman Carey and John Musto, Pianos
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton. A Korean War veteran and a nurse get married too soon. ...
more >> 112 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles ...
more >> keep you going, then Scrabble is your game! Are you a chess or checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join them for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a tour of The Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan. Learn about the park's rich history, ...
more >> many important landmarks and monuments, the Seaglass Carousel, 134,000 square feet of beautiful perennial gardens designed by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, and so much more. Every Thursday from September 7 to October 26, 2017.
Stars: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel. Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless ...
more >> marriage with an older man in order to save her beloved brother from an embezzlement charge. 146 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join a three hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. Begin in Greenwich Village, ...
more >> one of the cultural centers of America. From there, make your way through the Gansevoort Market and the Meatpacking Historic Districts and then onto the extraordinary High Line. Then relive the bygone days of a thriving cruise ship and industrial waterfront along the Hudson; we'll see where trains ran along "death avenue", where the New York harbor along the Hudson was perhaps the most significant waterfront in the world at one time.
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe. An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as ...
more >> it grows and grows. 86 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson. A team of scientists explore an uncharted island ...
more >> in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden. 118 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones. A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight-year-old ...
more >> daughter is a heartless killer. 129 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton. A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy ...
more >> client's dinner party after her car breaks down. 82 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. Tour takes place every Thursday.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
The Evil Dead, 1983 Approx. 85 mins. Not Rated Poltergeist, 2015 Approx. 94 mins. PG-13 rating
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw. A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation ...
more >> to meet with God at a place called "The Shack." 132 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Panelists: John Birdsall, Writer and Beard Award Recipient ’14, ’16 Mitchell Davis, Executive VP, ...
more >> James Beard Foundation Krishnendu Ray, Chairman, Department of Nutrition & Food Studies Mayukh Sen, Writer, Food52 Lukas Volger, Editorial Director, Jarry magazine Moderator: Clark Wolf, Food & Restaurant Consultant
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.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Womxn challenges the prevailing patriarchal belief that women are a subset of men and the lack of intersectionality ...
more >> on traditional feminist movements and discourse around “women's issues.” At the height of mass incarceration, where approximately 2.3 million individuals are incarcerated, the conversation has been centered around the impact on men of color. Although that is a crucial conversation to have, it is important to discuss the rapid rate at which womxn are being incarcerated and marginalized as well. Through a series of conversations, we will challenge the notion of criminalization through an intersectional lens. We will discuss the impact mass incarceration has had on womxn, but also broaden the conversation of criminalization to include the different ways womxn identities are oppressed. Note: Each conversation will have a different group and topic (ex. reproductive justice, trans women, etc.) Speakers: Mariame Kaba, educator, organizer, curator and Founder and Director of Project NIA and Co-founder of Survived and Punished; Miyhosi Benton, Associate with the Women and Justice Project; Myaisha Hayes, Community Organizer
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
With: D. Nurkse, Charles Bernstein, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Elaine Equi, Larissa Schmailo, Dean Kostos, Marc ...
more >> Vincenz, Jerome Sala.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Robert Herman has been a street photographer since his days as an NYU film student in the late 70’s. ...
more >> He is the author of two monographs. The New Yorkers is a collection of his New York City photos between 1978-2005. The Phone Book is Herman’s collection of iPhone photographs made using the Hipstamatic App’s square format while traveling across the world. He is currently working on a new book with images he created while living in rural Georgia.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Williams extends her longstanding interest in gender roles to the strangeness of feminine identity in ...
more >> our current moment. The works bring together a variety of painting techniques, including oil, airbrush, and the staining of raw canvas, resulting in lush, deeply textured works. The complexity and variety of the medium mirrors the layered narrative of the works themselves, reflecting the internal contradiction that Williams reveals in her subject.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Check out Bowtie Dave, the Ecudadorian native, coming to you live. The multi-talented musician plays ...
more >> bass, guitar and is a singer-songwriter as well as a loopmaster and sound engineer.
This presentation offers a retrospective view of the history of architectural conservation in Cairo. ...
more >> Blessed, or perhaps cursed, with an astonishing number and variety of historic structures, Cairo has served as a physical laboratory for different conservation approaches from the time of the foundation of the "Committee for the Conservation of Monuments of Arab Art" in 1882 until the present. The lecture addresses many of these approaches ranging from "honest repair" to "Disney-esque" fabrication, and looks behind them to motivations that vary from the aesthetic to the commercial. Recent attempts to quantify Cairo’s architectural heritage, to devise strategies for its economically sustainable re-use, and to expand the scope of preservation efforts to include late-19th and early-20th century buildings will also be discussed in the context of recent civil conflict. Speaker: Nicholas Warner
Data science and analytics is one sector of the job market that bucked the great recession. CEOs everywhere ...
more >> are urgently building data and analytics teams to cope with the world of Big Data. A leading jobs website estimated that the number of data analytics jobs quadrupled in the last six years. Kaiser Fung provides insights, tips, and educational recommendations to help you break into these fast growing career paths.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This will assess the transformative potential in the architecture of urban housing in America in a challenging ...
more >> time. In the face of population growth, climate change, a degraded infrastructure, a material culture invested in superficial greenwashing and inequities in economic opportunity, a panel of prominent architects from various regions across the United States will gather to discuss the central issues of design that make urban housing successful. Following the lecture, there will be a brief conversation between Lawrence Scarpa of Brooks+Scarpa in Los Angeles and Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster.
In the more than 40 years he has been performing on the concert stage, American pianist Murray Perahia ...
more >> has become one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time, performing in all of the major international music centers and with every leading orchestra. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with whom he has toured as conductor and pianist throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South East Asia.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join the New York Labor History Association for the Third Annual Debra E. Bernhardt Journalism Award ...
more >> presentation and a discussion about using history to understand current issues with Sarah Leonard (pictured; The Nation), Ginger Adams Otis (NY Daily News) and Ed Ott (former president, NYC CLC).
British postmodernist architecture in the 1980s and 1990s looked ‘American’ to English eyes and many, ...
more >> including Charles Jencks, saw it as little more than a faint echo of a mainly New York or East Coast phenomenon. But quarter of a century later, it is becoming clear that British architects were drawing directly on their own Edwardian heritage. Timothy Britain-Catlin has spoken to the leading practitioners of the time and presents their architecture in a new light. Lecturer Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect who has been writing about architectural history for many years, both for a general readership and for those with an interest in the revolutionary changes in architectural thinking in early nineteenth-century England. He is deputy chairman of the 20th Century Society, and a member of the Southern Buildings Committee of the Victorian Society and the South East Regional Design Panel.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. When did America lose its mind? If you follow Kurt Andersen's article ...
more >> in the The Atlantic's September issue, it was some time during the 1960s when "mainstream" culture, for better or worse, became increasingly suspect. To what extent has Andersen articulated our "post-truth" moment? Does he hit the nail on the head or fall woefully short?
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A part of Roosevelt Island’s first phase of residential development that opened in 1975, the Eastwood ...
more >> building (now known as Roosevelt Landings) is renowned as a milestone in affordable housing. Architect Matthias Altwicker, Associate Professor and Chair at the School of Architecture and Design of the New York Institute of Technology, will discuss the fascinating history of Eastwood and the contributions of its designer, noted architect Josep Lluís Sert, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mr. Altwicker will also discuss the origins and progress of affordable housing in New York City.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Photographic historian Judith Mara Gutman and acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz explore the work produced ...
more >> for the WPA by pioneering social photographer Lewis Hine, chronicled in the new book Lewis Hine: When Innovation Was King. In 1936, science-teacher-turned-photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the U.S. government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine produced more than 700 photographs for this project. Please arrive early.
6:30 pm
free, RSVP recommended
Editor's Pick
Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection ...
more >> that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. Her subsequent fictions—The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland—were published to great acclaim, as was her nonfiction exploration of the often emotionally fraught links between identity and language, In Other Words.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
From Facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, ...
more >> the film is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists. 91 min. Screening followed by discussion with Professor Jane Gaines and curator Nora Philippe.
Can the two Koreas achieve reconciliation and reunification, the goal for nearly seven decades? How can ...
more >> a potentially catastrophic clash between the US and North Korea, or even a second Korean War invoving the US and China, be avoided? Will the future of the Korean Peninsula be war or peace? Dr. Charles K. Armstrong gives an insightful review of Korean history and guidance for the future. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University's Department of History, author of Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992. There will also be a performance by EnoB, a global outreach organization that designs and performs high quality musical concerts for isolated individuals in New York, Seoul and Shenzhen.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
David, the narrator of this transgressive coming-of-age novel, is a freshman at the University of Vermont ...
more >> who is struggling to define himself against the white backdrop of his school. He is also mourning the loss of his New York girlfriend, Melody, whose grandfather's alma mater he has chosen to attend.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In honor of Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday, explore his one film soundtrack, 1960's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. ...
more >> Producer Zev Feldman will explore Monk's musical contributions and play some selections. Following that, there will be a screening of the film.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The College of Performing Arts newest large ensemble is the New School Studio Orchestra, performing music ...
more >> from a wide variety of genres including jazz, soul, pop, and improvised music. Each semester the 20-45 member group will be led by two special guest artists. The ensemble's debut performance on October 12th will feature trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader Steven Bernstein, whose restlessly creative approach to music perfectly embodies the eclectic spirit of the New School Studio Orchestra.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Elif Batuman is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, ...
more >> and most recently, The Idiot (Penguin, 2017). Nick Laird is the author of three collections of poetry, and three novels—most recently, Modern Gods (Viking, 2017).
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native ...
more >> 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.
The popular New Sounds Live series returns. Curated by WNYC‘s John Schaefer, New Sounds offers dynamic ...
more >> music from artists, composers, and traditional musicians. Performances: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros Darmstadt Ensemble led by Ben Neill and Zach Layton
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Program: Charles Ives Impressions of ‘St Gaudens’ in Boston Common (1915) Josef Matthias Hauer Zwölftonspiel ...
more >> (April 1956) Igor Stravinsky Sonate pour deux pianos (1944) Craig Peeples Monkeys at Play (2013) (*world premiere) Erik Satie “Cinéma” from Relâche (1924) **in 2-piano reduction by Darius Milhaud In the final stages of a terminal illness, Mr. Paul Zukofsky programmed the repertoire for this recital with the help of his lifelong friend, the pianist Ursula Oppens. The concert will feature two formidable pianists, Aaron Likness and Andrew Zhou (pictured), performing two-piano selections.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The use of data in communication disciplines like journalism, marketing, advertising, P.R., etc., is ...
more >> becoming widespread. News graphics have quickly become a popular feature in news media, and many organizations, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, have created departments devoted exclusively to dealing with data. Unfortunately, what is otherwise a positive phenomenon has also a dark side: the lack of knowledge that average citizens have about statistical reasoning opens the door for crooks of all ideological orientations to mislead them. The talk will cover strategies to verify sources, reason about data, and critically read graphics like charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. Lecturer: Alberto Cairo
This commission commemorates Howard Zinn’s seminal book, A People’s History of the United States, ...
more >> with music and spoken word performances that will bring to life the extraordinary history of ordinary people in the book: those who built the movements that made the United States what it is today, ending slavery and Jim Crow, protesting war and the genocide of Native Americans, creating unions and the eight-hour workday, advancing women's rights and gay liberation, and struggling to right the wrongs of the day. Musicians, actors, and spoken word performers, including Staceyann Chin, Brian Jones, Ramon Rodriguez, Michael Ealy, Gaby Hoffmann, Geoffrey Arend, and activist Linda Sarsour, will bring to life original source materials from the rebels, dissenters, and visionaries of our past—and present. Anthony Arnove, coeditor with Howard Zinn of the Voices of a People's History of the United States anthology and author of the introduction to the new 35th-anniversary edition of A People's History of the United States, narrates.
7:30 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.
Host and mediator, physicist and writer Marcelo Gleiser leads a workshop discussing the nature of faith ...
more >> and the relationship between science and religion with two intellectuals, National Humanities medalist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Goldstein and award-winning novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman.
9:30 pm
free, registration required