34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, November 5, 2017
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.
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.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
For over 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been a ...
more >> testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with its wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. Its 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.
A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will ...
more >> see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. We then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.
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
The Lower East Side was once the most densely populated neighborhood on the planet. This 10 stop walking ...
more >> tour, will visit some major historical sites of the Jewish Lower East Side, from the late 1800's all the way up until present day. Weaving stories of triumph, heartbreak, and humor together, this tour is at once informative, entertaining, and may put you in the mood for a knish or four.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
2pm | Caitríona O'Reilly and Rowan Ricardo Phillips 3:30pm | Desert Island Poems: Billy Collins and ...
more >> Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in conversation, moderated by Nick Laird 5pm | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Billy Collins
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.
Stars: Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton. Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent ...
more >> Eva and her friends. 104 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan ...
more >> is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
Its once abandoned waterfront is now is now filled with newly constructed condo towers and magnificent ...
more >> parks and stunning views of Manhattan. Known today as the hipster capital of the United States, Williamsburg is so much more than that, containing enclaves of Puerto Ricans, Polish, Italians, Dominicans and Hasidic Jews. In a city with an unmatched ethnic diversity, Williamsburg is a standout.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
On October 20, 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy arrived at the Army Signal Corp labs at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, ...
more >> looking to uncover and destroy a Communist spy ring. Storyteller Robin Bady is not afraid of the bogeyman; she knows who haunts her. It is Senator McCarthy, instigator of the anti-Communist witch hunts of the 1950s. To name her fears and claim her truth, Robin reveals the deeply personal story of what happened when her father, who worked at the Ft. Monmouth labs, was accused of being a traitor and Communist spy. And how her family was never the same. Appropriate for adults and youth 12 and older.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The panel will open with a spoken word poetry performance by Staceyann Chin. Marie de Cenival, “Frida ...
more >> Kahlo” of the Guerrilla Girls, Janisha Gabriel, Houda Benyamina and Tania Bruguera will reflect on the ways that big changes have begun in small places, both through activism and through the arts. Moderated by Elizabeth Sackler.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An information station created by Zanele Muholi where visitors can learn about LGBTQI rights in South ...
more >> Africa and Muholi’s long-term activism. This activation is a potent, interactive connection between South Africa and New York City.
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. 10, 2017 to May 27, 2018..
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In celebration of the restored Great Organ, the cathedral presents a concert series following Sunday ...
more >> Evensong, featuring guest recitalists from around the country. Great Organ: It’s Sunday concerts are held on Sundays at 5 pm in the fall and spring seasons. Organist: Raymond Nagem, New York, NY
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Gluck Dances of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme ...
more >> of Corelli, Op. 42 Brahms Klavierstücke, Op. 76 Ravel La Valse Liana Paniyeva, piano
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Dietrich Buxtehude Praeludium in e, BuxWV 142 Jon Cziner (b. 1991) Fantasy Chorale Wolfgang ...
more >> Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in F minor, K. 594 Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia and Fugue in g, BWV 542 Organist: Colin MacKnight
5:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Showings by Ainesh Madan, Victoria Robichaud, and Jessica Wray. ShowDown is a performance and feedback ...
more >> series for works-in-progress. The program provides emerging and mid-career dance artists an opportunity to show unfinished work in an informal, welcoming setting. Artists sign up to present their work through a non-curated lottery process. A feedback session following the performances is facilitated by a noted guest choreographer, providing crucial feedback to aid in the development of participating artists’ work.
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Caroline de Haas, Elizabeth Diller, Cecile Richards, and Heidi Steltzer will discuss how the equality ...
more >> and welfare of women hold the key to our future. Moderated by Carol Jenkins.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Pianists from the Collaborative Piano department perform sonata repertoire in partnership with student ...
more >> instrumentalists.
A video and performance by Narcissister, whose live works deploy humor, pop songs, elaborate costumes, ...
more >> and her trademark mask – all tools in dismantling what Stuart Hall calls "fixed and closed stereotypical representations.” Short-form live works are interspersed with performances made for camera, allowing for multiple costume changes. Each evening will conclude with a respondent in conversation with Narcissister, including Ariel Osterweis, Lia Gangitano, among others.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Celebrate the release of the second novel of writer Alysia Constantine. Live performance by Jennifer ...
more >> Miller of Circus Amok and reading by Constantine. The novel: When her parents vanish mid-act, Olympia Knife is cared for by the rest of the travelling circus in which she was raised. But as vanishings continue and the circus falls apart, Olympia and runaway Diamond the Danger Eater find each other and hold on tight.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
Mannes Sounds Piano Cantabile presents music by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach and W.F. Bach.
New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required