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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 24, 2024?

38 free events take place on Thursday, October 24 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 24 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 24, 2024

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Park Walk | Nature Walk by the Water: Learn About Ecosystem, History, Birds and More


This nature tour of the park will focus on the restored tidal marsh ecosystem, with some ecological history of NYC weaved in. Learn about the great potential these habitats have both as an oasis for migrating birds and how they serve as buffers from storms and sea level rise, and increase the resiliency of our waterfront and neighborhoods. Please make sure you arrive 5-10 minutes before the start time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Park Walks, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Nature Walk by the Water: Learn About Ecosystem, History, Birds and More

Tour | NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many


These tours take place at various times. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. See link for details: scroll down to find the daily scheduled tours at $4 (more costly tours are listed on top). Daily tours may include: Brooklyn Bridge SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Lower Manhattan Harlem Downtown Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Graffiti and Street Art Tours
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tours, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many

Workshop | Pick Up Pickleball


An exciting fusion of badminton and tennis, pickleball has been proven to strengthen muscles, boost cardiovascular health, and enhance brain function.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Pick Up Pickleball

Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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Fairs, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Street Fair

Tour | Tour of New York City Hall


One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tours, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Tour of New York City Hall

Film | Dial M for Murder (1954) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Starring Grace Kelly


Trying to get his wife Margot's inheritance, ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice tries to have her murdered. After he discovers her affair with Mark Halliday, Tony blackmails an old acquaintance to carry out the murder. But the plan goes awry, and Margot doesn't die. Tony now has to outwit the police before they discover his attempted murder. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams Alfred Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense," he became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director despite five nominations. Grace Kelly, also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she starred in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars list. Ages 18+
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
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Films, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Dial M for Murder (1954) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Starring Grace Kelly

Lecture | Understanding the Toll of Race and Inequality on Health (online)


Though America is the wealthiest country in the world -- and spends more on medical care than any other nation. Yet, we have the poorest health outcomes. Racial disparities in health, from birth to the end of life, have remained stubbornly in place for decades or longer, even among educated, wealthy Black Americans. This talk by Linda Villarosa will discuss these issues, and lean into solutions informed by her perspective as a journalist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Understanding the Toll of Race and Inequality on Health (online)

Screening | Hispanic Heritage Celebration: TV Show and Concert Recordings with Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Grammy Awards, and More


Immerse yourself in a curated selection of TV shows and musical programs celebrating some of the most influential and groundbreaking contributions by legendary Hispanic and Latino/a performers. Screenings will include the Latin Grammy Awards, Saturday Night Live with Desi Arnaz, performances by Celia Cruz and Tito Puente as well as children's shows such as Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go, The Brothers Garcia, etc.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free
Screenings, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Hispanic Heritage Celebration: TV Show and Concert Recordings with Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Grammy Awards, and More

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in 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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Workshops, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Learn Juggling in the Park

Museums | Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions


The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, art, and culture of its area with a permanent collection of 10,000 items. One of the exhibitions includes famous Tiffany's leaded glass objects and a valuable insight into the development of the inuctry in the US at the turn of the 20th century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, reservation required
Museumss, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions

Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Workshop | Craft Studio


Open 'studio' craft sessions are a great opportunity for seniors to be creative, learn new skills, and socialize with others through group activities and individual projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Craft Studio

Classical Music | Music in Midtown: Reflections on Scriabin


A recital by pianist Nicolas Namoradze.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Music in Midtown: Reflections on Scriabin

Classical Music | Baroque Works for Flute and Harpischord (In Person AND Online!)


Melanie Williams, Baroque flute; and Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord, perform works by J.S. Bach's pupil Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) and Georg Benda (1722-1795).
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free
Concerts, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Baroque Works for Flute and Harpischord (In Person AND Online!)

Film | Abigail (2024): horror


The 12-year old daughter of a powerful figure in the underworld is kidnapped by a group of criminals. They hold her for ransom in an isolated mansion, but they soon discover she’s actually a bloodthirsty vampire, and their plan quickly unravels. Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett Cast: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Will Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Alisha Weir, Giancarlo Esposito
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Film | The Far Country (1954) with James Stewart


At the height of the Yukon Gold Rush, cowboy Jeff Webster and his partner, Ben Tatum, want in on the action, and decide to drive their cattle from Wyoming to Yukon. Along their journey, the two run afoul of crooked lawman Gannon, who vows revenge when they escape him. After traveling through all manner of terrain, Webster and Tatum finally arrive at their destination. But Gannon has business in the town, and he intends to make good on his promise. Director: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan James Stewart was an American actor. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality, which he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors. He received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985.
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Jazz | Blend of Jazz and South-African Traditional Sound


The JFCI (Jazz Camp for Female Instrumentalist) Music Ensemble fuses jazz and South-African traditional sound, creating a harmonious combination that showcases the origins and influences drawn from the diverse cultures and areas reflected in the group.
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Museums | Film and Television Industry: History, Artifacts, Interactive Displays


This museum is dedicated to the art, history, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It houses a diverse collection of industry related objects, including cameras, scripts, costumes, production materials, as well as interactive displays, and themed installations.
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Lecture | How the Cold War Solved Problem of Soviet Displaced Persons After WWII


A lecture by Sheila Fitzpatrick will draw on the analysis of postwar great power politics and diplomacy with regard to “displaced persons” from the Soviet Union offered in new book, Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War, to be published by Princeton University Press in November.  
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Lectures, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, How the Cold War Solved Problem of Soviet Displaced Persons After WWII

Museums | Tour - Hispanic Legends and Latin Grammy


This event highlights rare archive treasures featuring Hispanic legends, such as Desi Arnaz, Jose Feliciano, and Rita Moreno. The curator talk will be followed by a tour of the Latin Grammy exhibit: costumes, instruments, artifacts, and more.
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Book Club | Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene


For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, outside the war, until he happened to win a cake at the fete. From that moment, he is ruthlessly hunted by Nazi agents and finds himself the prey of malign and shadowy forces.
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Book Clubs, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

Museums | Photography: From the Early 19th Century to Today


This renowned institution hosts a variety of exhibitions showcasing the work of both established and emerging photographers. The collections encompass the full range of the photographic medium, including the first techniques of the early 19th-century to modern technology and digital displays. Last entry is at 7:15 pm.
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Museumss, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Photography: From the Early 19th Century to Today

Screening | The Bowery on 16mm: Three Short Films


Join us for three films on 16 mm featuring one of NYC's oldest and most architecturally diverse streets, the Bowery! The Bowery Men's Shelter (1972): A portrait of the men's shelter on East 3rd Street in New York City. It is the only home for many alcoholics, drug addicts and ex-mental patients. Directed by Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter. (10 min.) How do you like the Bowery? (1972): Men from the Bowery in New York are interviewed and speak candidly about how they think and feel. Directed by Dan Halas and Alan Raymond. (14 min.) On the Bowery (1965): A dramatization of life on New York's Skid Row, refuge for the homeless, the alcoholic and other marginal people. Directed by Lionel Rogosin. (65 min.)
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5:30 pm
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Screenings, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, The Bowery on 16mm: Three Short Films

Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: The Museum of the Old Colony


Pablo Delano and Laura Katzman examine Delano's site-specific exhibition, The Museum of the Old Colony.  
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Discussion | Journalism and Democracy in an AI World


In an era where democracy hinges on access to accurate information, the global media landscape faces growing threats and shrinking resources. Behind the decline are tech behemoths that divert advertising dollars from news outlets to their platforms, platforms which have long profited from hosting news stories, headlines, and summaries. This business model rewards sensationalism at a time when we are just beginning to see the effects of generative AI on an informed electorate on which democracy relies. This special panel of international experts will discuss global efforts to support quality journalism, the need to protect free expression and diverse cultures, and the critical role of platform payments in sustaining reliable information. 
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Lecture | Rose Schneiderman: A Voice for Women and Workers (online)


Early 20th-century labor and suffrage activist Rose Schneiderman served as an advisor to FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, helping establish the eight-hour workday, workers' compensation, and other protections that benefit workers today. Annie Schneiderman Valliere, a great-niece of Rose Schneiderman, is the speaker.
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Discussion | The Style and Politics of Choreographer Talley Beatty’s Dance


An iconic figure in 20th-century dance, Talley Beatty developed a dance style, grounded in the blues aesthetic, that integrated ballet, vernacular, modern, jazz, and African diasporic movement. Through his monumental dance art as a choreographer Talley Beatty helped shape American life. His sense of humor resonated in his choreography, in which his approaches to using movement vocabulary of these different forms was often surprising and amusing. His work also focused on his own life of alienation, racial discrimination, and hardships, so that his exploration of these struggles shaped the Black tradition in American art.  This evening event brings together dance historians, dance students and professionals, and artistic directors, who worked with Beatty's choreography on Broadway or in his concert dance theater pieces. The center of the program will include excerpts from an interview Marcea Daiter conducted with Talley Beatty on September 10, 1992. Beatty tells colorful stories of his childhood, his dance training in Chicago, performing, choreographing, and recalls anecdotes about his associates including Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Duke Ellington, Jerome Robbins, and others.  As part of this event, Marcea Daiter and Dyane Harvey-Salaam co-host a panel discussion about Talley Beatty’s life and career. Registration required.
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Discussions, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, The Style and Politics of Choreographer Talley Beatty&rsquo;s Dance

Book Discussion | A Book about Ray by Ellen Levy


A Book about Ray is the first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art. Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson’s practice as one that was constantly shifting—whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art. A Book about Ray takes an elliptical path, circling around rather than trying to arrest in flight the elusive artist and his purposefully ephemeral art. By crafting the book in this way, Levy evokes Ray Johnson’s art in the moment of its making and draws readers into the artist’s world, while making them feel, from the beginning, that they somehow already know their way around that world. In exploring Johnson’s scene, readers will also encounter the artists who influenced him, like Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, and his friends and peers like Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. The work of such figures will look forever different in light of Johnson’s subversive take on their shared aesthetic. At this event, author Ellen Levy will discuss her new book and more with Allison Nellis. 
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Book Discussions, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, A Book about Ray by&nbsp;Ellen Levy

Book Club | Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci.


From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes a memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes readers beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them. Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia; falling in love over dinner; and teaming up with his wife to create meals for a multitude of children.
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Open Mike | Nuyorican Poets Cafe


An open mike with a photographic twist.
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Open Mikes, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Discussion | Re-visioning Native Histories


Cree artist Kent Monkman and Nathan Young, a member of the Delaware Tribe, look at some of the foundational narratives of the United States of America, centering Indigenous figures, events, and narratives that have been downplayed or erased.
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Discussions, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Re-visioning Native Histories

Poetry Reading | 4 Poets Read Their Work


Matthew Rohrer, Annelyse Gelman, Jack Underwood, and Matthew Zapruder are the readers.  
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Book Discussion | Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore


Manan Ahmed Asif's sweeping history of Pakistan's capital.
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Classical Music | Choral Works


NOVUS; Alicia Hall Moran, soprano; Gabriel Kahane, Holland Andrews, and Holcombe Waller (the chorus of inconvenient statistics); choirs from the Borough of Manhattan Community College; Daniela Candillari, conductor, perform Gabriel Kahane’s (b. 1981) oratorio, emergency shelter intake form.
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Classical Music | Works for String Quartet


Momenta Quartet (Emilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello). Program: Charles Ives (1874-1954), A Set of Three Short Pieces Julian Carrillo (1875-1965), String Quartet # 4 Stephanie Griffin, The Overgrown Cathedral Claude Vivier (1948-1983), Zipangu
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City Walk | Dazzling Lights! Immersive Experience by the Waterfront


Spanning across six acres, this Illuminating display features an array of 18,750 lowlight, fiber-optic stemmed spheres that illuminate with a slow subtle change of hue. Guests are immersed in the installation as they walk a winding path through the ethereal painted landscape framed by the city's iconic skyline and the waterfront.
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City Walks, October 24, 2024, 10/24/2024, Dazzling Lights! Immersive Experience by the Waterfront

Classical Music | Orchestral Works


The New School Studio Orchestra performs works by Bob Brookmeyer (1929-2011).
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Classical Music | Piano Concert


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