34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, September 11, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided ...
more >> tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
8:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi presents "9/11 Table of Silence Project." She was inspired to create the ...
more >> piece by Italian visual artist Rossella Vasta's sculptural installation of 100 ceramic plates that represent a banquet table uniting humanity. Given the unrelenting and tragic acts of terror and violence that continue in the world, "9/11 Table of Silence" remains as relevant and timely today as when it was first performed seven years ago.
8:15 am
free, no reservation required
The past decade has seen a rise of openly racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic ...
more >> groups both in the United States and around the world. The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore the ideologies and ideas of these groups, to consider their commonalities, as well as their divergencies and tensions.
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.
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled ...
more >> and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
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.
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane. After returning to the criminal underworld to repay ...
more >> a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life. 122 min.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory ...
more >> Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
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Bob Straus has been a professional photographer his entire life and in this presentation, he will share ...
more >> anecdotes, tips, and his experiences as an editorial and advertising photographer.
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.
Stars: Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte A young fourth-grade teacher in the South faces ...
more >> a challenge in the form of an 11-year-old boy whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and an exalted liar. 68 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ...
more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
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.
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.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
NYC based vocal ensemble The Salvatones. Directed by Associate Director of Music Daniel Brondel. Held ...
more >> on the 16th anniversary of 9/11, this program features choral works and arrangements about courage and survival.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing program you can use to create documents. ...
more >> Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
From sculptures and murals to performances and videos, the park is filled with public art. Join Art Assistant ...
more >> Curator Melanie Kress for an insider's view of the current Mutations exhibition.
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ...
more >> French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
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A discussion with Meghan O'Sullivan, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and the Director ...
more >> of the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School, former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan. Following her remarks, they will move into an actively moderated discussion with Dr. O'Sullivan and a panel of experts on geopolitics, energy markets, and America's energy boom.
"I don’t worry about terms like abstraction or non-objective. For me, it’s about organizing a painting, ...
more >> organizing pigments. Of course, you have abstract gestures, but when I’m making a painting - in the back of my head - I always have a landscape or a figure and then sometimes the landscape hides behind the figure and vice versa . After all classic sujets of painting. Eyes, bodies trees - sounds like The Fall song LA ( "'bushes , trees , LA !' )." - Michael Bauer
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The 2016 U.S. Presidential election revealed the stubborn persistence of bigotry in the United States, ...
more >> and demonstrated that race continues to play a significant, if changing, role in how we define our communities, develop our public policy, and shape our democratic institutions. This lecture brings together scholars, experts, thought leaders and activists to examine such issues as racial stratification, implicit bias, and the complex, intersectional relationships between race, gender, and class. What is race and how do we understand it today? How are demographic shifts driving wedges between communities and/or fostering pluralism? How democratic is our pluralist society? What is the role of racial divides in fomenting political partisanship? What impact does racialized discourse have on such issues as the social safety net, immigration, criminal justice, technology, voting, and urban policy? This lecture will be presented by Linda Sarsour, Organizer of the Women’s March, Former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York.
Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers—including ...
more >> hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers—to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Stoic School of Life is inspired (with a bit of immodesty) to the ancient Greco-Roman schools of ...
more >> philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus and many others simply gave lectures about their favorite topics and engaged in Socratic discussions with people interested in what they had to say. In this case, examine the theory and practice of Stoicism as a modern applied philosophy that aids us in navigating a world in some ways just as confusing and uncertain as that of ancient Athens and Rome.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Bottoms, and Copland. With: Mark Peskanov, violin; David Bottoms, ...
more >> piano; Rita Sloan, piano.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Free, RSVP required
Sylvie Weil was raised in Paris and earned her degrees in classics and French literature at the Sorbonne. ...
more >> She has taught French literature at Barnard, Bennington, and Hunter Colleges, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of several works of adult and young adult fiction.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran ...
more >> New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom. Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater.
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the ...
more >> sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway.
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Music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Bottoms, and Copland. With: Mark Peskanov, violin; David Bottoms, ...
more >> piano; Rita Sloan, piano.
8:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring ...
more >> singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required