32 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 24, 2018
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.
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ...
more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
Learn mindfulness techniques that bring relaxation and effortless focus to challenging situations and ...
more >> relationships. Mindfulness is the practice of bringing full, non-judgmental awareness to the present moment. The struggle of searching for a job can be overwhelming at times. See if the practice of mindfulness meditation and some easy to use on-the-spot techniques can help you during these challenging times. Instructor Laura Jackson has been practising Zen meditation for 12 years and is a UCLA-trained mindfulness facilitator.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
Stars: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling. Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada ...
more >> mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning. 85 min.
11:15 am
free, no reservation required
After performances in Hamburg, Moscow and Hong Kong, the 2018 Bachauer Competition Preliminary Round ...
more >> continues in New York City with 42 international pianists presenting 30-minute concerts. Schedule: 12-5 pm & 7:30-9:30 pm
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In November 1939, a group of sixty Polish-Jewish refugee authors and journalists who had managed to escape ...
more >> to still neutral Vilnius from recently occupied Poland clandestinely founded the Komitet tsu zamlen materialn vegn yidishn khurbn in Poyln, 1939, the "Committee to Collect Material about the Destruction of Polish Jewry 1939." It would be the earliest known Jewish collective effort in Eastern Europe to document German atrocities against Polish Jewry, preceding every other known comparable activity by roughly a year. Its archive had been lost in the depot of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London for almost eighty years and was only recently unearthed by Miriam Schulz. Her book provides the first analysis of the genesis, agenda, activities, and achievements of the Vilnius Committee as the cradle of Jewish Shoah historiography and includes a Yiddish to German translation of the Komitet’s six bulletins.
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: Selections from the Variations on Folk Songs, Op. 107 with flutists Madelyn Baker, Annie Nikunen, ...
more >> and Aimee Toner Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 Sonata Op. 111 Featuring Michael Skelly, music associate, piano Michael Skelly has pursued an active and varied career in music both as soloist and accompanist, including many duo-piano performances with his mother, Marga Richter. In addition to this recording he has recorded with the New Calliope Singers on Finnadar and CRI and is preparing a new CD with guitarist Winslow Browning as part of the "Guitar Among Others" series. Skelly was born in New York City and grew up in Huntington, Long Island. He is on the piano faculty.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
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Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ...
more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
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
Whether you want to learn key words and phrases for travel or build up fluency for school and work, these ...
more >> beginner-classes resources will make learning French practical, easy, and fun.
2:00 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.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Planning a trip or looking to start traveling? Learn about domestic and foreign travel; everything from ...
more >> ticket buying to applying for a passport. Class will run approximately 2 hours.
3:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Author and diplomat Herman Portocarero, former ambassador to Cuba from the European Union and Belgium, ...
more >> presents his book. Illustrated with original photographs, this volume presents a unique account of Havana’s history, its present, and what its future may hold.
Piano Performance Forum Recital 4:00PM Piano Performance Forum Recital 4:00PM Liederabend 6:00PM Changyong ...
more >> Shin, Piano 8:00PM
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Anyone familiar with the work of Sylvan Lionni will be interested to see his recent transformations of ...
more >> common objects. Cake boxes, toilet stalls and paintings have been carefully produced and transformed with minimal changes from what one can imagine was their original state and purpose.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Brooklyn-born Allan Gorman is a realistic oil painter who brings his strengths as an internationally ...
more >> celebrated brand marketing consultant and graphic designer to artworks that certainly reflect his own unique and distinctive brand. Soaring towers of industry, chrome exhaust pipes, distorted reflections, a macro trip inside mechanisms and technology. His carefully thought-through compositions permeate works that have been featured in numerous gallery and museum shows and private collections in both the US and Europe.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based, German artist Volker Hüller presents brightly-colored, ...
more >> large-scale paintings, along with a small suite of hand-colored etchings. This is the artist's fifth solo exhibition in New York, and coincides with the recent publication of a 104-page hardcover monograph published by Skira (2017), edited by Paola Gribaudo, with texts by Scott Indrisek and Tony Godfrey.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Raquel Albarran’s work celebrates the human form through a perceptive and specific interest in bodies ...
more >> and food. Her process includes detailed drawings that act as a roadmap for creating her strange and endearing sculptures. With the adorable and repulsive side by side, Albarran’s works both charm and surprise.
Rebellious Mourning contains reflections on the relation between structural losses, mourning, and resistance.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
YouTube's Trends manager discusses his book. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Would you like to make a career change but aren’t sure how to go about it? This seminar will help you ...
more >> reconnect to who you are at your core to envision a career move that works for you. David Lees offers tips to inspire and motivate you so you'll be more optimistic and confident about your new career direction
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A tour of NYU's open-to-the-public art galleries in New York City. There will be four exhibitions included ...
more >> on the tour: The Beautiful Brain, which displays drawings of the brain created by the modern father of neuroscience Santiago Ramon; Baya: Woman of Algiers, the first North American exhibition of the self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine; the inaugural NYU All Alumni Exhibit, where the works of over 40 NYU alumni will be shown; and The Dream of Solentiname, which examines the relationship between aesthetics, social change, and revolution in Central America.
Protestors for civil rights across the United States in the 1950-60s offered up—and sometimes sacrificed—their ...
more >> bodies for the greater good. By exercising their right to public assembly, under the constant threat of violence at the hands of other civilians and the state, their very bodies were both a threat and were threatened. In protest, the strength of the individual was multiplied by that of the collective; public gatherings formed composite bodies of solidarity against racial discrimination and systematized inequality. In Halt, a new solo dance piece, dancer and choreographer Jamar Roberts examines the language of the body in protest. His work will focus on what it means for human beings—the committed individual and the organized collective—to be equally the subjects of progressive change and the targets of unjust corporeal punishment. The performance will be followed by a Q&A session with Roberts.
In a small town south of the city, a group of women – and one man – come together every month for ...
more >> a potluck supper. They are a diverse and engaging group, with ages ranging from mid-20s’ to early 70’s; They are straight and gay; black, white and Asian; they work as bartenders, CPA’s and booksellers but they all have one thing in common: their former profession.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A Black Puerto Rican–born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938) was a well-known collector ...
more >> and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He was also an autodidact who matched wits with university-educated men and women, a prominent Freemason, a writer, and an institution-builder.
Greetings, from Queer Mountain is a themed comedy, prose, and storytelling showcase created by Micheal ...
more >> Foulk and Ralphie Hardesty. The show is currently running in Austin, New Orleans, and now New York. The mission of the show is to provide more stage time for the LGBTQIA voices that are often left out of heteronormative art spaces and to foster the growth and acceptance of new voices in writing, comedy, and performance. The New York edition of long-running showcase Greetings, from Queer Mountain features Lynae DePriest, Chewy May, Whitney Chanel Clark, Sam Sax, Jes Tom, and Tommy Pico. Hosted by Micheal Foulk.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. ...
more >> Here, she digs deeper into the connections between toxic stress and the lifelong illnesses she was tracking among so many of her patients and their families. She reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Restrictions apply. Call store details.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries ...
more >> of one of the boldest series in fiction. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The acclaimed Focus! festival returns for its 34th season featuring a series of concerts exploring the ...
more >> music of composers in China, including seven new commissions by Chinese composers born after 1980.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required