55 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 24, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Chicago tore down its high-rises, but what did the city do to build up the people who lived there? The ...
more >> New York City Housing Authority has done better than most in providing decent, affordable homes, yet many residents live in deep poverty. This is a discussion about public housing and the needs of resident families and children. Panelists will discuss the structural challenges of inequality and racial segregation that continue to isolate public housing communities and efforts to connect residents to opportunity. SPEAKERS: - Shola Olatoye, Chair and CEO, New York City Housing Authority - Susan J. Popkin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development, The Urban Institute and author of No Simple Solutions: Transforming Public Housing in Chicago - Axia Torres, President, Alfred E. Smith Resident Association - Alex Schwartz, Professor - Talib Hudson, PhD student - David Garza, Executive Director, Henry Street Settlement
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.
Kundalini Yoga is also called the Yoga of Awareness. It combines the physical practice of Asanas with ...
more >> Pranayama (breathing) and Meditation/Chanting – it targets the whole body system (nervous system, glands, mental faculties, chakras) to develop awareness and consciousness, strength and flexibility.
9:30 am
free, no reservation required
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.
Don't have enough time to take all of the tours? Prefer to experience Manhattan with a smaller group, ...
more >> but a private booking is out of reach? Then consider our All-in-One New York 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, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea Market and the Highline Park.
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend ...
more >> in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” Tours take place every Tuesday at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm until Dec. 12, 2017.
Discover some of the Central Park secret sites that West Siders know and love: a lost village, a poetic ...
more >> garden, and a bridge with a spectacular view. Join Central Park Conservancy guides on this tour through Central Park's historic and picturesque west side. Highlights of this tour include Winterdale Arch, Delacorte Theater, Shakespeare Garden, the Swedish Cottage, and Ladies' Pavilion. Tour ends near 72nd Street and Central Park West.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
The Parthenon is the most sculpturally rich building to survive from antiquity, and the frieze is the ...
more >> best-preserved section of its original adornment. Newly installed in the Graduate Center’s lobby and library is a remarkably early and well-conserved set of British Museum casts on long-term loan from CUNY’s City College that had originally been used to teach art and art history there for more than 100 years. This day-long symposium brings together a distinguished lineup of art historians, curators, and artists to examine their historical and contemporary context. Beginning with the original sculptural scheme of the Parthenon and its legacy, and turning towards the international distribution and educational role of the plaster cast, the symposium will conclude with a discussion of issues surrounding the production and reception of public works of sculpture.
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
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The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier ...
more >> on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This class will demonstrate the first steps and highlight the basic resources in genealogical research, ...
more >> and serve as an introduction to using genealogy and local history collections at NYPL.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
For fifty years the Indonesian state denied responsibility for the 1965-66 killings in Indonesia, which ...
more >> saw up to one million unarmed civilians murdered during the height of the Cold War. It is now possible to prove military agency behind the killings. This talk will present a case for why the 1965-66 killings can be understood as a case of genocide. Dr. Jess Melvin’s book, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder, will be published in December by Routledge. Melvin is a Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asia Studies and Postdoctoral Associate in Genocide Studies at Yale University.
Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside ...
more >> world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny. 141 min.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which ...
more >> forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them.
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
12:30 pm
$6 suggested donation
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
Non-profit work comes from the heart. It is something you are not going to be making large amounts of ...
more >> money from; what you are going to make (potentially) is an impact. It is a passion, an adventure, a way to give back and do good. No one told Bruce Byers how to do this, he just heard that he could join a mission and said, “OK, I am in!” It has been, not only an eye-opener, but also a wonderful ride to some of the great places on the earth. But within all that, Bruce never stops thinking about the next child he can help through his images. In this presentation Byers will discuss how he documents for non-profits: What it takes money-wise, equipment-wise, and the personal toll it can take as well. Bruce will give you the run down as to how he got involved and why, he will go over the ways he raises the funds he needs to make it possible to do this work, the equipment required, and how to be prepared for anything while being at the top of your game. He will also discuss doing both stills and video, the books he has created, and what he carries to get the job done. If have the desire to document for a non-profit, to use your photography skills to make a difference in the world (and Bruce thinks everyone should because it will change your life and your photography), this talk will be for you.
On this tour you not only learn about some of the most significant acts of heroism and the people who ...
more >> sacrificed their lives to save others, but we also discover the history of the World Trade Center, starting with the strategies in the 1950s that were put in place to build it, how it was designed, constructed, how it came down, and the new buildings that are redefining the center today.
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After his death, writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) became a global icon of modern literature and a pop ...
more >> culture brand. Best known for his Gothic horror tales and narrative poem “The Raven,” Poe’s stories are the basis of countless films and TV episodes, and have inspired even more, as has his name and image. At least four American cities claim this literary legend as their own – Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia and New York: an NFL football team is named after one of his poems, and his image appears on everything from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover to lunchboxes, bobbleheads and socks. Creating the detective fiction genre with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), Poe wrote over 100 short stories and poems altogether, beginning with Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), his first published work. Written and directed by Eric Stange (The War That Made America, American Experience: Murder at Harvard), the new documentary American Masters – Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive draws on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Here’s your chance to experience the ballerina in each of us. Learn basic ballet steps and experience ...
more >> the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. You’ll have fun as you dance and see for yourself the benefits of ballet for good balance, agility and grace. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have fun. Come for the whole month or just drop in. No experience necessary.
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh. A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his ...
more >> "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. 112 min.
2:00 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.
The first documentary to confront a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African ...
more >> Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness," a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Beyond Beauty Lighting – 4pm Starting with the basics of setting up a beauty shot Gavin Hoey will take ...
more >> the standard shot and enhance it in various ways. Props, lights and camera skills will all play their part in creating shots which go beyond basic beauty lighting. Lighten Up! - 6:30pm Beginning with simple but effective techniques to light your images, Gavin Hoey will show you how everyday items from around your home can become things of photographic beauty. Stepping it up with gear Gavin will move on to how he uses flash for shooting portraits. With the help of a very special guest "model", Gavin will pass on some top tips for lighting and interacting with your subject. The end results will amaze and entertain in equal measure.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Camila Agosto New Duo (2017), world premiere Vasko Dukovski Cicada Invasion for clarinets (2016) ...
more >> Chaya Czernowin Duo Leat (Slow Duo) for two bass clarinets in Bb (2009-10) John Zorn Sortilège (2002) Peter Eötvös Derwischtanz for clarinets (1993) The bass clarinet takes the lead in this concert featuring two of today’s most acclaimed and versatile musicians. While this beautifully expressive instrument rarely sees the spotlight, it possesses an incredible array of sonic possibilities inspiring many contemporary composers. Performers: Joshua Rubin, clarinet Vasko Dukovski, clarinet
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, super angel investor, best selling author and ...
more >> keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He is the New York Times best selling author of both Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business.
Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused ...
more >> sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists—from James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael Fitzgerald—Mumford analyzes the ways in which movements for social change both inspired and marginalized black gay men. Drawing on an extensive archive of newspapers, pornography, and film, as well as government documents, organizational records, and personal papers, Mumford sheds new light on four volatile decades in the protracted battle of black gay men for affirmation and empowerment in the face of pervasive racism and homophobia.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, ...
more >> featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
During the last 60 years, no cookbook editor has influenced American culinary life more than did Judith ...
more >> Jones (1924-2017). In her 57 years at Alfred A. Knopf, she launched the careers of many major food writers, beginning with Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, and Madhur Jaffrey. Almost 50 years ago she introduced the British scholar-writer Claudia Roden to American audiences. In 1976 she inaugurated an era of serious investigation into African American cooking with Edna Lewis's The Taste of Country Cooking. She created the ambitious series Knopf Cooks American, which surveyed traditions ranging from Southern baking (Bill Neal's Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie) to the Italian-American kitchens of Rhode Island (Nancy Verde Barr's We Called It Macaroni). She made Lidia Bastianich a household name, and gave cooks an enlarged understanding of American and worldwide Jewish cuisine through her many editor-writer partnerships with Joan Nathan. Panelists include Joan Nathan, author of King Solomon's Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (2017); Ray Sokolov, author of Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food (2013); Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (2017); Anne Mendelson, author of Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages (2008); Madhur Jaffrey, author of Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking (2015); and Bronwyn Dunne, Judith Jones's step-daughter. Moderated by Food Studies faculty member Andrew F. Smith.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
To mark the publication of Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the ...
more >> Elevated Park, this is a panel discussion with the book’s co-editors, cultural theorist Christoph Lindner (University of Oregon) and urban geographer Brian Rosa (Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center), along with sociologist Julia Rothenberg (Queensborough Community College). Exploring the after-effects of the High Line—both in New York City and beyond—these three urbanists will lead a discussion on the consequences, implications, reverberations, and distortions implicated in the contemporary fascination with infrastructural re-use. Exploring questions about the cultural, social, economic, and physical transformations that surround the High Line and other similar projects, the panelists will dissect the “High Line Effect.” Key themes will be the relationship between parks creation and gentrification, infrastructural reuse, the aestheticization of post-industrial landscapes, and the explosion of projects mimicking the High Line in cities throughout the world.
The genesis of the career and the rise of Esther, the most beloved actress of most popular theater in ...
more >> Havana at the turn of the 19th century. 108 min.
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Weekly guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable ...
more >> volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Takes place Tuesdays May 2 -October 31 2017.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe. An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as ...
more >> it grows and grows. 86 min.
Black LGBT Health in the United States focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, ...
more >> and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the black LGBT population. Join Follins and Lassiter as they reflect on the findings from the book and the influence politics and culture can have on black LGBT health.
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This documentary examines how the Nuit Debout (Arise at Night) protest that took place in March 2016 ...
more >> in Paris turned into a kind of movement in the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, a new form of democratic Assembly, without a leader or elected representatives, in which each person was given an opportunity to speak and participate in the collective. 98 min.
Journey through the literary travel landscape. This entertaining presentation features photographs of ...
more >> literary landmarks in the United States and Europe, stories about classic writers and the places that inspired them, and some of her own tales from the road.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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An informative talk on The Babylonian Talmud Translation Project, the significance of the Talmud, and ...
more >> the ethics of translation. Featuring: Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome, Chairman of the Talmud Project Rabbi Adam Mintz, Ph.D., founder of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim and member of the Talmud faculty at Yeshivat Maharat A light kosher reception will follow.
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Behar hits the most unpopular president ever elected where it hurts—and makes us laugh and cheer—in ...
more >> this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that’s wrong with the "Orange One," Donald Trump. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all ...
more >> stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. Featuring: Alaina V Danceworks Sarah McCaffery Andrea Spaziani
7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation
Deb Perelman, award-winning blogger, understands that a happy discovery in the kitchen has the ability ...
more >> to completely change the course of your day. Whether we’re cooking for ourselves, for a date night in, for a Sunday supper with friends, or for family on a busy weeknight, we all want recipes that are unfussy to make with triumphant results.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The cookbook that Top Chef fans have been waiting for, from the celebrated judge who makes delicious ...
more >> food and inspired cooking accessible for home cooks.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
No Name Comedy/Variety producer Eric Vetter brings some of NYC's best established and emerging comics, ...
more >> storytellers and writers.
7:00 pm
Free, donations welcome
This conversation will focus on identity, style, and dress―the codes and politics of self-presentation. ...
more >> Panelists will discuss connections between self-portraiture and self-styling, decolonizing the fashion image, and the role of the queer archive in the fashion industry. The conversation will be moderated by historian and author Tanisha C. Ford. Participating panelists include Collier Shorr, Nadine Ijewere, and Ethan James Green.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Kenneth Silver, speakers Nicholas Fox Weber and Donald Albrecht, and catalogue essayist for Partners ...
more >> in Design, will focus on the roles played by salons and gay culture and their leading lights in the development of modernism in New York in the 1930s.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An exploration of how the art-for-art’s-sake ideal of the Mir iskusstva or World of Art movement of ...
more >> the Silver Age morphed into the agitational propaganda of early Soviet children’s book illustration under Lenin and then Stalin. Michael Patrick Hearn is an internationally-renowned author, lecturer, critic and independent curator. His many books include The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Christmas Carol, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, The Victorian Fairy Book, and The Art of the Broadway Poster. His current projects include a critical study of Edgar Allan Poe, a study of Russian children’s book illustration, and his long-awaited biography of L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known ...
more >> by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Mozart Fantasy and Sonata in C minor KV 475/457 Chopin Introduction and Rondo in E flat major ...
more >> op. 16 Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Four Salon Pieces Gershwin Second Rhapsody Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert pianists of our time. Lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), “thoughtful artistry in the full service of music” (Washington Post), and “astounding virtuosity” (Philippine Star), Japan’s InTune magazine sums up: “Buechner has no superior.”
Join the founders of production company THISISPOPBABY, Jennifer Jennings and Phillip McMahon, and one ...
more >> of the stars of Riot, Panti Bliss, for an artist talk and Q&A on the creation of their groundbreaking theatrical show. Riot, described as “both party and politic, a love letter of hope to the future, a clarion call on the state of the nation and a celebration of Ireland,” broke box office records and won Best Production at the 2016 Dublin Fringe Festival.
How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough ...
more >> to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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With internationally-renowned violinist (and former Met Opera concertmaster) Elmira Darvarova and acclaimed ...
more >> French harpist Melanie Genin and a program of indescribably beautiful gems by Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Ibert, Messiaen, Marais, Berthomieu, and others.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required