38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, May 7, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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Join Silvana Pizzuti to learn and practice Tai Chi, a slow moving martial art with health benefits for ...
more >> all fitness levels. This event repeats every Sunday until August 13, 2017. 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
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.
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.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> 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.
10:00 am
free, timed entry...
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. ...
more >> In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
A guided walking tour of the historic and revitalized 34th Street District. Tour-goers will explore the ...
more >> neighborhood's rich history of commerce, transit, and architecture. This 90-minute tour is held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through May 28, 2017.
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the ...
more >> city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. This tour repeats every Sunday.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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
Piano concert series, showcasing ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists. Every weekday at 12:30 pm.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A classical piano recital by faculty member Janice Wijaya with a champagne and tea reception.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Avery Cardoza, double bass 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Janice Wijaya, piano 12:30 PM - 2:00 ...
more >> PM Jeremias Sergiani Velazquez, violin 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Kristina Brost, soprano 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Le Ji, Accompanying 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Si Yi Wu, piano 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM James Larter, percussion 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hanyun Gu, piano 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Liangping Yu, accompanying 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Rui Xue Ma, piano 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Sherry Kim, piano 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Yidi Zong, piano 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Jungin Yun, oboe 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM King Yin Yu, guitar 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Robin Baytas, jazz drumset 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Rongxin Peng, composition 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Shuang Shuang Li, accompanying 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Yesul Yeon, soprano
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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The annual day-long Irish Dance Festival features performances by hundreds of the best Irish dancers, ...
more >> with opportunities for the whole family to join in.
Chamber Music Recital 1 p.m. Chamber Music Recital 3 p.m. Mosa Tsay, Cello 3 p.m. Chamber Music Recital ...
more >> 5 p.m. Matthew Chen, Cello 6 p.m. Chamber Music with Fortepiano 8 p.m.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of ...
more >> America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> 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. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Once the turf of Gangs and Gangsters. Now gentrified with international restaurants and off-off Broadway ...
more >> theaters. See the Statue of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden.
Movies provide an ideal “lens” through which to understand Israel’s birth, growth and development ...
more >> as a country. Join film historian Eric Goldman, adjunct professor of cinema, as he explores the changing nature of Israeli society as reflected through its movies. The program will be preceded by a viewing of YUM’s exhibition City of Gold, Bronze and Light: Jerusalem between Word and Image, and will be followed by a reception.
Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum. Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point ...
more >> that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle. 104 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Martinů: Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, H. 286 Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. ...
more >> 60 Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Teresa Cheung, ...
more >> conductor Sophie Shao, ‘cello
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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This Blues Hall of Fame band plays authentic Blues from the Delta to Chicago and New York, to Texas and ...
more >> Louisiana.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Diana Allan, horn 3:00 pm Erez Feuer, Trumpeter 4:00 pm BFA Senior Project Presentations 8:00 pm
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
3:15 pm
free, no reservation required
As the brutal siege rages outside, two Palestinian refugees debate the best plan of escape. Set outside ...
more >> Damascus in the Yarmouk refugee camp, this black tragicomedy reveals the catastrophic absurdity of the Syrian civil war.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The program features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker ...
more >> and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. The Organ Meditation takes place every Sunday from Sept. 11, 2016 to May 28, 2017.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Selections from pianist Tania Stavreva's new album Rhythmic Movement (Billboard Classical Top 10 Album) ...
more >> as well as works by Ginastera, Mompou, Rachmaninov, Stavreva + new works by Stavreva, Mario Angelov, Dobrinka Tabakova, Mason Bates, Erik Satie, Vladigerov.
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The New York Piano Society, non-professional pianists who have careers outside of music, will present ...
more >> selected accomplished pianists who spend their working hours as doctors, architects, engineers, mathematicians, designers and police officers, performing a collection of classical music inspired by great works of literature. Guest Artists: Joseph Rosen, clarinet & Sonna Kim, cello.
6:00 pm
free, $20 suggested...
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This disturbingly humorous prison play evokes the daily struggle of life behind bars for a group of Palestinian ...
more >> inmates. It follows their collective fight to overcome the despair of long-term incarceration.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The New York Piano Society, a non-profit that seeks to develop exceptional non-professional pianists ...
more >> who have careers outside of music, will present selected accomplished pianists who spend their working hours as doctors, architects, engineers, mathematicians, designers and police officers. Guest Artists: Joseph Rosen, clarinet, and Sonna Kim, cello. Presenting a collection of classical music inspired by great works of literature. Reception to follow.
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Imprisoned by Gestapo. Solitary confinement. Mind disintegrating. A stolen book on chess sets your imagination ...
more >> ablaze. Your conscious self divides into two feuding master players. Eventual escape. And finally you teeter at the edge of madness as you dare to challenge the greatest chess player in the world. A one-person drama inspired by Stefan Zweig's classic novella Written by Richard McElvain.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Richard Frank’s 50-year career reaches back to Broadway’s 1960s golden age, tours and recordings ...
more >> with Patti LaBelle, Peter Allen, Janis Ian, Paul Anka , Neil Diamond, Bette Midler and Barry Manilow, plus the entire Archies cartoon TV series. Although you hear his guitar licks on hundreds of TV and radio commercials, you can truly appreciate his seasoned musicianship and mastery of the Great American Songbook.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of ...
more >> September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. ...
more >> Join Free Tours by Foot for a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
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Desperate to reunite with her parents, a North Korean defector decides to return to her nation’s capital, ...
more >> Pyongyang. All she needs is 50 million won. Thus she is forced to navigate South Korean capitalism.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Acclaimed pianist Gila Goldstein is set to perform a program that will include pieces by 20th and 21st ...
more >> century composers, representing both early and post modern compositions some 100 years apart. Goldstein will perform four short works by 20th century Eastern European composers Janacek, Bartok, Medtner, and Prokofiev. The program will also include the premiere of three works by Israeli composers Yoav Gal, Tamar Muskal and Ronn Yedidia, personal friends of Goldstein who each composed their pieces especially for her, as well as "Earring", two minute piece composed by faculty member and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required