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19 free events take place on Sunday, March 15 in New York City.
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19 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, March 15, 2015

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded 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.
   
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10:00 am
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.
   Midtown East,
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10:00 am
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Tour | Manhattan Street Art Tour


Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
   Lower Manhattan,
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10:00 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
   Midtown,
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11:00 am
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Melissa's Choice by Steven Somkin


A scene from the drama about a lawyer who is passionate about women’s rights, the environment, population control, and two men. An unintended pregnancy produces increasingly bizarre fantasies that compel her to choose between them. The play is set at a campsite in the Oregon woods where a raunchy cowboy and a forest ranger (a single mother of two) become Melissa’s unlikely guides in discovering who she is and with whom she belongs.
   Lincoln Square, New York, NY
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11:00 am
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   Upper East Side, New York, NY
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Herald Square-'The Hub of Manhattan' Tour


Highlights: Pennsylvania Hotel, Macy's Dept. Store, The Statue of Horace Greeley, The Houdini Museum of N.Y.
   Midtown,
1:00 pm
$20...

Concert | College Recitals


1:30 PM Jarred Morehead, piano 1:30 PM Meixu Lu, cello 4:30 PM Courtney Johnson, soprano 4:30 PM Liz Faure and Joe Landi, guitar 7:30 PM Siman Chung, countertenor 7:30 PM Yuti Chang, violin
   Upper West Side, New York, NY
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1:30 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   East Williamsburg,
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2:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Richard Kane's Jon Imber’s Left Hand (2014)


Jon Imber’s Left Hand traces this artist’s life and adaptations, switching from painting with his right hand to his left, then to both as his degenerative condition worsens. Adversity only makes him more determined: more than 100 portraits in three months. 63 min. Discussion immediately following the film.
   Midtown,
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, 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.
   Upper Manhattan,
2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   Midtown,
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3:30 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   Lower Manhattan,
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Bach Vespers


the little match girl passion by David Lang Madeline Apple Healey, Anna Lenti, Stephen Biegner, and Jonathan F. Cooper
   Lincoln Square,
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Great Organ Recital


In celebration of the restored Great Organ, the church presents a concert series following Sunday Evensong. This recital is free and open to the public. Today: Renée Anne Louprette, New York, NY
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Organ Recital


Today's recital is by Andrew Schaeffer of Norman, OK.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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5:15 pm
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Dance Performance | ShowDown: Dance Works-in-Progress


ShowDown is a performance and feedback series for works-in-progress on the third Sunday of every month at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at 280 Broadway. The program provides emerging and mid-career dance artists an opportunity to show unfinished work in an informal, welcoming setting. Upcoming performances by Nicole Bugge, Erin Carlisle Norton, and Joyce King. Discussion facilitated by Ursula Eagly.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
5:30 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: First, Do No Harm by J. Thalia Cunningham


This play explores today’s themes of medical ethics, medical error and racial profiling, presented from the rare point of view of the physicians and their world. Surgeon Elissa Kerry performs a routine appendectomy on 21-year-old African-American Treshaun Clester, who unexpectedly dies on the operating table.
   Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Sophie Sartain's Mimi and Dona (2014)


What happens when love runs out of time? For a 92-year-old mother, Mimi, who has cared 64 years for Dona, a daughter who has an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable - she will not outlive her daughter - and finding her daughter a home. This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a wonderfully quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo. 66 min. Q&A with director Sophie Sartain.
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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