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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 4, 2022?

27 free events take place on Tuesday, October 4 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 4 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.
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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 4, 2022

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc The Gotham Jazzmen: Traditional Jazz
free events nyc Music for Organ: Bach, Vivaldi, and More (in-person and online)
free events nyc Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers
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Birdwatching | Park Birding Tour


Spot a wonderful diversity of birds that visit the park during migratory season with guided tours by NYC Audubon. Located in the heart of Midtown, our park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Adult Zumba


Exercise in disguise! Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Bring your friends and come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Book Discussion | Figments of the Architectural Imagination: Essays on Design and Theory (in-person and online)


Architect, critic, and historian Todd Gannon is joined by School of Architecture faculty Lydia Kallipoliti and Michael Young to discuss his collection of essays Gathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture contemporary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Futures of Black Resistance: Disruption, Rebellion, Abolition (online)


The summer of 2020 saw the largest black-led protests in UK history. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across Britain, primarily focused on the ongoing problem of police racism. Britain had not seen black-led protests on this scale since the early 1980s, and this talk by Adam Elliott-Cooper examines some of the impediments to radical black action and thought during that thirty year period. The liberalization of black politics in the 21st century is analyzed through the language of diversity, hate crime, privilege and unconscious bias. These processes offer a window into how grassroots collective action against state power can be displaced by individualized policies which focus on racial prejudice. This talk goes on to argue that police brutality is always a point of antagonism that invests black social life with recurrent sites of contestation. In other words, policing is where moments flare up to shed light on other issues. These moments include specific case of police violence, but also the everyday forms of state power and control which criminalize black spaces, black lives and black cultures. It is this direct antagonism with the state that enables a more radical black politics to break away from the limitations of liberal anti-racism, culminating in protest movements like Black Lives Matter. Adam Elliott-Cooper is Lecturer in Public and Social Policy at Queen Mary University of London.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen: Traditional Jazz


The Gotham Jazzmen features Pete Sokolow on piano, Lee Lorenz on cornet, James Lincoln Collier on trombone, Ernie Lumer on clarinet, Ed Bonoff on drums, and Skip Muller on bass. Enjoy a live set of traditional jazz music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | There's Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women


Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, will talk about her new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Blitz Chess & Backgammon


A lunch time program for passersby to play a quick game of chess or backgammon. Using clocks, opponents will play 5 minute games that are fast, furious and fun. An instructor will be on hand to offer pointers and tips to improve your game.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Drop-In Chess


Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning -- plus it's fun. For ages 5 and up (adults welcome).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Classical Music | Music for Organ: Bach, Vivaldi, and More (in-person and online)


Eddie Zheng, organ Program Bach/Vivaldi I. from Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor, BWV 593 after RV 522 (1714) Bach II. Andante from Trio Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528 (1730) J.P. Redmond Ricercar for Organ (2022) Charles-Marie Widor Andante Sostenuto from Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70 (1895) Charles-Marie Widor I. Allegro Vivace from Organ Symphony No. 5, Op. 42 (1879)
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
$6 suggested donation

Jazz | Piano in the Park


New York City's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Discussion | The Role of Biotrade In Protecting the Peruvian Rainforest (online)


Professor Silvia Maier and Professor Jens Rudbeck, Clinical Associate Professors at the Center for Global Affairs, will discuss how the Peruvian government seeks to alter the dynamics of land use through the promotion of Biotrade. They will also share their research on how Biotrade impacts gender relations, income, and food security among farmers in Peru’s Ucayali region. Finally, they will address the potential of market-based solutions, such as Biotrade, to the climate crisis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Book Discussion | A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union (online)


Kristy Ironside will present a selection from her recently published monograph, which looks at how money, an ideologically problematic “vestige of capitalism” was mobilized by the Soviet state after the Second World War in the intertwined projects of recovering from the war’s damage and moving toward the promised abundance of communism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Architectural Tools and Technology for Tribal Communities (online)


Speaker Miriam Diddy is a planner and specialist and has worked on planning, mapping, and community engagement efforts for several tribes across the Southwest. While at AOS Architects, Diddy was the lead designer coding and building the award-winning Zuni Housing Authority mobile app, which collects housing and demographics data on nearly 2,000 homes at Zuni Pueblo. Diddy will highlight the importance of architectural tools and technology for tribal communities and share her experience developing the app and its potential expansive use for other departments or tribes in the future. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (online)


This lecture by Jovan Scott Lewis, Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, covers the history of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, more famously known as Black Wall Street. It assesses how the 1921 race massacre’s destruction of Greenwood was reproduced by insidiously violent processes that include urban renewal. Throughout successive waves of dispossession, Greenwood became geographically and narratively glossed as North Tulsa. From advocating for food access to formal reparations claims, it details how North Tulsans responses to these circumstances are organized and driven by community formation, understood as an ethic of restoration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Book Discussion | Other Birds: From New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah Addison Allen (online)


Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits--a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky: an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Symposium | To Remedy Past and Continuing Harms: Racial Justice Ballot Measures (in-person and online)


In November, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to vote for three measures intended to address structural racism and persistent inequality. These ballot initiatives were proposed by the City's Racial Justice Commission and would change the City Charter by including a statement of values to guide government and commitment to justice and equity, establishing and maintaining an office of equity, and adopting a true cost of living measure. If the proposals pass, they'll provide new tools to promote equity and justice for all New Yorkers. They’ll bring new power, access, and opportunity to BIPOC residents. And they’ll create lasting capacity and accountability to achieve racial equity over the decades to come. Join members of the Racial justice Commission and other racial justice leaders to discuss the measures and their anticipated impacts.   Speakers Include: ● Jennifer Jones Austin, Chair, Racial Justice Commission; President, FPWA ● Henry Garrido, Vice-Chair, Racial Justice Commission; Executive Director, DC37 ● Darrick Hamilton, Commissioner, Racial Justice Commission; Founder and Director, Institute for Race, Power and Political Economy ● Melanie Hart, Senior Vice President for Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice and Chief Diversity Officer ● Sideya Sherman, Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Equity  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York


Steven Heller’s memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and valleys of his comparatively “normal” life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby, with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and ‘70s in New York City. Heller’s delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26 shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Ceramic Traditions from the Hispanic Society Collection


The Hispanic Society’s recent exhibition, American Travelers: A Watercolor Journey Through Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, provides a wonderful opportunity for visitors to traveler in time and space through the work of various artists who traveled to Spain, Portugal and Mexico in the early 20th. This tertulia will highlight the pottery traditions represented in the exhibition and explore the depth of the Hispanic Society’s world-renowned collection. With Dr. Margaret Connors McQuade, Deputy Director and Curator of Decorative Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Translated and Untranslatable. A Conversation with the Writer and His Translator (in-person and online)


A discussion with Vladimir Sorokin and Max Lawton. Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Slavic Languages. Vladimir Sorokin was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, and his first novel, The Queue, was published by the famed emigre dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in France in 1983. In 1992, Sorokin's Their Four Hearts was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize; in 1999, the publication of the controversial novel Blue Lard, which included a sex scene between Stalin and Khrushchev, led to public demonstrations against the book and to demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer. Max Lawton is a translator, novelist and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen's College, Oxford, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Celine and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin and is also working with Jonathan Littell and Christian Kracht. Lawton is also the author of one novel and two collections of stories currently awaiting publication and is writing his doctoral dissertation on phenomenology and the 20th-century novel at Columbia University. He lives in Los Angeles and is a member of four noise-music ensembles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Young Dante: Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography


Maria Luisa Ardizzone's book deals with Dante's Florentine years, particularly those of his early intellectual formation between the '80s and early '90s of the 13th century, and presents them as a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and two canzoni that Dante later commented on in the Convivio, the volume evaluates the continuity (and discontinuity) Dante establishes between his early work and the two poems, and identifies a few of the archetypes that the young poet takes from the ancient-medieval tradition and reshapes in order to pave the way for his own early and future work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | The Ever-Changing Visuals of the East Village


Held on the occasion of Megan Marrin’s mural "340 E. 9th St," this is a conversation between Marrin and writer, scholar and activist Sarah Schulman. Both longtime residents of the East Village, Marrin and Schulman will discuss the ever-changing visuals of the neighborhood, from murals to signage, and how those changes accumulate in the memories of those who live here.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Spirit of Beings (In Person AND Online)


Universal spiritual music with Jordan Barow, cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Is Now Concert


A concert with vibraphonist Joel Ross and bassist Endea Owens. These innovative artists have already made a splash on the international jazz scene with Ross releasing three albums on the legendary Blue Note record label, and Owens locking in the bass chair in Jon Batiste's Stay Human band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Stargazing in the City


Head to the park for a walk and a chance to take a closer look at the stars. Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association to see rare celestial sights. No experience is necessary and telescopes will be provided. Starts at dusk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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