37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, July 11, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These morning classes provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center are led by teachers and students who train ...
more >> at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Master Hyland Harris. All ages and levels are welcome. Classes are rain or shine.
7:30 am
free, no reservation required
Start your Tuesdays off right. Rise above the city streets and begin your day focused, centered, and ...
more >> connected with nature. Join the Integral Yoga Institute, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, and other guests for guided meditations. Open to people of all ages and experience levels. Every Tuesday, June through September.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
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.
Don't miss this amazing opportunity to discover a new discipline and find balance and relaxation in a ...
more >> beautiful park. Guides from the Taoist Tai Chi Society will host an introductory practice of the different moves included in the basic Tai Chi set. Tai Chi is learned by doing: the instructor will demonstrate, then perform the moves with the class, and finally watch the students as they repeat them. Movements are believed to help calm the emotions, focus the mind, and strengthen the immune system. Every Tuesday, June through September.
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.
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.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Gardener Steph leads a tour of our diverse collection of Hydrangeas. Learn more about the flower, including ...
more >> what it takes to grow them and what they need to survive. Remember to ask questions and have fun.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A former student of jazz legend Kenny Barron, Victor Lin is currently a jazz music instructor at Columbia ...
more >> University, Teachers College, and The Calhoun School.
12:30 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.
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
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.
Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall ...
more >> in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. 152 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
There is no particular theme guiding Social Photography V apart from how the cell phone camera is most ...
more >> often used. Both artists and non-artists email images from their phones which are then formatted, printed on 5" x 7" paper and sold online and in the gallery during the exhibition.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Welcome the man who is infamously known as Booger, Curtis Armstrong, for the release of his memoir. With ...
more >> whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey--one nerd's hilarious, often touching rise to the middle. He started his life as an outcast and matured into … well, an older, slightly paunchier, hopefully wiser outcast.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
After work take an evening stroll along part of Central Park's East Side. Guides lead you on a casual ...
more >> walk from the southeast corner of the Park to Bethesda Terrace. Learn about the Zoo, the Arsenal, Balto, The Mall, Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, and the Lake on this tour designed for New York summer evenings. Terrain: Some stairs and a few inclines Length of tour: approximately 60 minutes
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
What you don't know about credit cards and credit scores could cost you money. Bonnie Yam reviews the ...
more >> basics of credit reporting and credit scores. Learn time-tested methods for getting out of credit card debt and about legitimate organizations that can help. Yam graduated from Smith College with a BA in Math and Economics. She received her MBA in finance from University of Chicago.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience ...
more >> of inner silence, calm, and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A fun al fresco fitness series consisting of three 45-minute classes starting at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm. Classes ...
more >> will consist of a variety of modalities including yoga, bootcamp, dance cardio, boxing, pilates and more. Tuesdays, June 6-August 29, 2017.
Celebrate the release of Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style by Shantrelle P. Lewis, a companion ...
more >> to her traveling curatorial initiative, The Dandy Lion Project, which examines global black dandyism through photography and film. Lewis will be joined in conversation by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, photographer and Creative Director of The Brooklyn Circus Ouigi Theodore, for an exploration of “oppositional fashion” as a mode of self-expression and a catalyst for resistance to myriad social expectations and political ideas. Today’s black dandies assume none of the privilege associated with dandyism’s European origins, but all the delight and careful consideration of one’s style. The evening will be presented as a seersucker social. Before the program there will be portraits taken of the public. They will also host a light reception and book signing after the conversation.
Getting fit in New York City has never been better! This exercise series will take place every Tuesday ...
more >> and Wednesday all summer long. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June 6-Spetember 26.
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: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer. As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to ...
more >> receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways. 144 min.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Join Melissa Ricci of Base Fitness for a multi-level class that tones and balances your muscles, aligns ...
more >> your body, and strengthens your core. Bring your own mat. Tuesdays from June through August.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Veteran Donald Calliste leads a series of exercises with varied tempos that send your body into fat-burning ...
more >> overdrive and continue fat burning after you’ve completed your workout. This event repeats every Tuesday until September 26, 2017. Terrace at 108th Street in Riverside Park Manhattan Directions to this location Cost Free Event Organizer Summer on the Hudson Contact Number 311 Contact Email Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park West 89th Street and Riverside Drive Manhattan Directions to this location Cost Free Event Organizer Summer on the Hudson Contact Number 311
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Things heat up when the sun goes down with Sunset Salsa, featuring Talia. Get in some Salsa dancing with ...
more >> some of NYC’s best DJs!. Beginner Salsa dance lessons from 6:30-7:15pm, DJs start the party at 7:15pm. Tuesdays, July 11 -August 15, 2017.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An enjoyable walking tour of the park, and discover how they successfully transformed "Needle Park" of ...
more >> 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.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This introductory meditation class was featured as a New York Magazine top pick. Room is set up with ...
more >> both meditation floor mats and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary.
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Join Soul Sister Revue for its summer event where they ask "What does Soul mean to you?" Readers include ...
more >> Yasmin Belkhyr, Sean DesVignes, Marwa Helal, Brionne Janae, and Mia King with superfly host Ed Toney. SS Revue is a reading series for established and emerging poets who write in the narrative tradition of storytelling.
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Program: Henry Purcell (1659-95) Fantasia Upon One Note (1680) John Adams (1947-) Common Tones in Simple ...
more >> Time (1979) Judd Greenstein (1979-) New Work for Flute and Orchestra, (World Premiere co-commissioned by Naumburg & The Knights) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (1788) Performers: The Knights
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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It's all for one and one for all as D'Artagnan and the Musketeers fight to protect the ones they love ...
more >> from the revolting exploits of Cardinal Richelieu. A story of double crossings, kidnappings, and carefully-guarded secrets, complete with lavish fights and sweeping romance, The Three Musketeers reminds us that through strength, courage and unity, you can always defend what you believe in. Directed by Jenny Bennett, Choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Fight Director: Manny Brown. July 7-30, 2017, Tuesdays through Sundays.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The theater will transform into the most enchanted forest in all of theater in Shakespeare’s beloved ...
more >> comedy. When the merry sprite Puck meddles with a magical love potion, young lovers lost in the woods mysteriously find themselves infatuated with the wrong person in this hilarious, fairytale fantasia that proves the course of true love never did run smooth. Lear deBessonet, founder of The Public Theater’s groundbreaking Public Works program and Resident Director, brings her electric theatrical vision to the classic romance about the supernatural nature of love. July 11-15; July 17-22; July 24-29; July 31-August 6; August 8-13.
8:00 pm
Free tickets required