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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 27, 2025?
26 free events take place on Monday, October 27 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 27 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 27, 2025?
26 free events take place on Monday, October 27 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 27 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 27, 2025
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Start the Day with Morning Meditation
Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
Free
Free
Screening | Most Watched International Sporting Events on the Big (30-foot!) Screen Outdoors: Tennis & Football
Today's Schedule:
10:00am - 6:00pm Center Court Live - Paris ATP, Jiujiang WTA, Hong Kong WTA, Chennai WTA
6:00pm - 8:00pm NFL Monday Night Countdown
8:00pm - 11:00pm NCAA Football James Madison vs Texas State
*Scheduled programming subject to change. Seating is open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis. Wells Fargo customers receive priority seating.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend 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 serve 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 11 mayors, beginning with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Each tour is one hour, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session with an assigned docent.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
$10
$10
Workshop | Walk and Creative Writing Session
This walk and writing session is led by Author and Poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free
Free
Tour | Discover One of New York's Most Famous Parks
Discover how Bryant Park Corporation successfully transformed "Needle Park" of the 1970s into Manhattan's Town Square of today. The guides are loaded with expertise on the park's rich history, award-winning design, distinct amenities, and ongoing maintenance efforts. Tours will continue as scheduled in light rain, but will be cancelled in heavy rain or inclement weather. Bring an umbrella if needed!
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend 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 serve 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 11 mayors, beginning with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Each tour is one hour, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session with an assigned docent.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
$10
$10
Party | Fiber/Textile Arts Meetup
Are you a knitter? Do you like to crochet? Maybe you like a different type of fiber art? Whichever it is, bring your supplies and lose yourself in the meditative world of creating art with fiber. Invite your friends, or make new connections there. This is a meet-up, not a class.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Snazzy Piano Tunes: Outstanding Jazz Album Nominee by the NAACP Image Awards
Jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker has performed at the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. Also a drummer and composer, Whitaker, who was born with blindness, has collaborated with the multi-talented Jon Batiste and famed bassist Christian McBride, both winners of multiple Grammys. Whitaker’s current CD, On Their Shoulders: An Organ Tribute — an homage to his own Hammond heroes — has been nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album by the NAACP Image Awards.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Clothing/Fabric Mending Session: Patches & Embroidery
Build your mending skills to save money, reduce waste, and express your personal style. Learn together with others who enjoy fixing well-loved items that still have use in them.Bring your own item of clothing to repair. This week's focus is patches and embroidery. Need more extensive repairs for your most well loved items? The group will look at techniques for patches and patterned stitching, also known as boro and sashiko. And if you have unsightly stains that just won't come out, decorative embroidery can be used to embellish and disguise those areas. Organizers will provide: Needle, thread, fabric, tools, case by case guidance, technique instruction, books, and other inspiration. Space is limited. Priority will be given to those who register in advance.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Party | Community Plant Trade-Off
Meet other plant enthusiasts for a free plant swap. Share tips, advice, and plants in this community event Tips for success: Please bring only pest-free plants. If your plants are in containers, please be sure they are in containers that you are ready to give away or exchange. Rooted cuttings may be brought in a sealed plastic bag wrapped in a moist paper towel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Art from All Over The World in the Most Amazing Museum
Discover a vast collection of art from a diverse range of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Japan, India, United States and more. Tickets for Pay-What-You-Wish hours are available online only and released at 10 am the morning of the event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Beginner Digital Photography Class; Composition & Storytelling
Whether you’ve never picked up a camera or you’re looking to take your work to the next level, this class is for you! In this seven-part continuing education series, photographer Derek Fahsbender guides you from the basics to better photos, from settings and gear to photo theory—and everything in between. Taking photos should be fun and getting the results you want should be easy, so make this part of your photography learning journey and be on your way to creating images you love. In part two, the group will be focusing on: - Composition - Perspective - Storytelling
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Expert Discusses Her New Book on Social Revolution in Uzbekistan (In Person AND Online!)
Social historian Marianne Kamp discusses her new book, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan. Morgan Liu will serve as a discussant. Born between the early 1900s and the early 1920s, the collectivization generation were rural youth who participated in the transformation of Uzbekistan’s agricultural life in the 1930s as children or young adults. Readers meet Uzbeks whose fathers disappeared into the Stalinist gulag, who suffered from starvation and orphanhood, and readers meet Uzbeks who told of embracing the collectivization project and of feeling rewarded with pay and recognition. The talk then turns to using oral history interviewing for research in international contexts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | PBS & NPR-Featured Pianist Teaches the Ins-and-Outs of Piano Mastery
Pianist Douglas Humpherys--gold medalist of the first Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition--provides his expertise in the fine details of great piano playing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Remembrance, Reflection and Resilience
A place of commemoration: exhibition, artifacts, photographs, stories and more. Reservations available starting each Monday at 7:00 a.m.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Film | Testing the Limits (1989): Documentary about AIDS Activism in NYC
Created by a video collective formed in 1987 to document AIDS activism, this documentary depicts an informative record of the early struggles against the federal government's inaction over the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Chanting "Test drugs, not people" and "Educate, don't isolate", activist groups took to the streets of New York City to denounce mandatory testing as a discriminatory practice and to demand more HIV/AIDS research and educational initiatives. Director: Testing the Limits Collective
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Artist & Author Shares New Book of Original Drawings, Bouquet
Enjoy a conversation with Abbie Zabar to celebrate her book, Bouquet, the first-time collection of a decade of illustrating the museum's iconic entrance bouquets. She will be in conversation with Matt Mattus, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Explore the Concepts of "Victimhood" and "Oppressor" through History (In Person AND Online!)
Attend an event that brings together Pascal Bruckner and Adam Gopnik for a conversation about the framing of social justice. “Victimhood” at the hands of "oppressors" is the lens through which many in the new generations have learned to analyze history and current events. Has this paradigm, inspired by a quest for social justice, gone too far? Is it the right key to understanding how the world works? Does it provide a path to greater justice or rather encourage an adversarial ethos, notably vis-a-vis the West, that some have described as "suicidal empathy" embraced by "useful idiots"? Pascal Bruckner, a distinguished French writer, essayist, and public intellectual, has been among the first to point to the centrality of what he calls "the tyranny of Western guilt" as the driver of this new ideology, and to denounce it as a threat to the preservation of Western societies.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Learn & Practice Chess with an Expert
Learn to play chess or develop your strategies with chess expert Tamar Chanadiri from the Marshall Chess Club. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions, as each one builds on the previous. Bring a friend or join on your own--all levels and ages are welcome! Chess sets are provided but you're welcome to bring your own. From 6-7 PM Tamar will provide instruction for beginner-level players. From 7-8 PM there will be open play for all levels.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Scholar & Author Shares His New Book: Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
Enjoy a reading by theater scholar and author Thomas Blubacher from Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood (translated by Elizabeth Lauffer) followed by a conversation between the author and Sabine von Mering. In the early 20th century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world’s largest Christian center. But by the end of the 1920s, the Los Angeles neighborhood had become the refuge of the rich and beautiful as German and Austrian filmmakers, among them Salka and Berthold Viertel. They were soon followed by cultural and intellectual giants of the Weimar Republic who were fleeing Europe, such as Max Reinhardt, Hanns Eisler, or Max Horkheimer. These great minds turned Pacific Palisades into a “Weimar under the palm trees.” Though many were successful in exile—including Vicki Baum, Thomas Mann, and Lion Feuchtwanger—others felt as if they were in a “sun prison” far from home. Recounting a story of glamor and great minds, Thomas Blubacher tells of the history of German-speaking exiles that is still alive there today, going on a foray through the film industry. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and there will be a book signing following the program.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Theatre Experts Talk about Iconic Theatre Critic Linda Armstrong
For 40 years, Linda Armstrong has been a theater critic with the New York Amsterdam News covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and a great deal of Black Theater. Throughout her four decades she has always focused on spotlighting the talents of Black artists, playwrights, director, producers Now, members of the theater community come together to share what Linda Armstrong has meant to Black theater and to them. The panel includes Woodie King, Jr., founder of New Federal Theatre, Jackie Jeffries, president of AUDELCO, which celebrates Black theater Excellence, playwright David Lamb, playwright Keenan Scott II, Rome Neal, actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, and theater critic for the New York Times, Brittani Samuel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Yarn/Wire Quartet Performs Contemporary Works
The adventurous piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special concert, collaborating with Zeena Parkins, harp, and Sam Pluta, electronics. Program: Zeena Parkins Lace Action Cards Sam Pluta Seven Systems Enjoy a free drink at this concert, then mingle with the musicians and fellow concertgoers after the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Experts & Musicians Reflect on Luciano Pavarotti's Legacy (In Person AND Online!)
To celebrate late opera singer Luciano Pavarotti's 90th birthday, Italian opera expert Fred Plotkin and guest artists (including Lawrence Brownlee and Freddie De Tommaso) will reflect on the great tenor and discuss what made him unique.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Poetry Reading | Explore the High Line's Beauty & History through Poetry
Poet and photographer Albert Dépas's book, The High, combines his talents to create an immersive experience of a unique park once part of the city’s industrial past now reclaimed by nature. The evening will begin with an introduction of the High Line by Robert Hammond, former Executive Director and co-founders of Friends of the High Line. Albert will then take the audience on a visual, poetic journey through one of New York City’s most iconic transformations. Through Albert Dépas’ vivid and thoughtful narration, the story of the High Line becomes a mirror of human experiences. Albert invites the reader to see and feel the High Line in ways they never imagined.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Dura Europos and the Birth of Jewish Art (Online!)
Explore the origins of Jewish visual culture with artist and writer Richard McBee, tracing the significance of the 245 CE Dura Europos synagogue mural and the mysteries it holds. McBee, a leading figure in contemporary Jewish art, shares insights on biblical and historical themes that shaped Jewish artistic expression, offering a fresh perspective on the birth and evolution of Jewish visual storytelling.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Innovative Ensemble Performs Nordic Folk-Chamber Music
Danish String Quartet violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen joins Dreamers' Circus (Nikolaj Busk, piano and accordion, and Ale Carr, Nordic cittern), a driving force in folk-chamber music. This innovative ensemble performs music from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the far reaches of the windswept Faroe Islands, as well as folk-inflected versions of classical music. Program: Traditional folk selections to be announced from the stage.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
Free
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