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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 21, 2025?

14 free events take place on Monday, April 21 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 21 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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14 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 21, 2025

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Birdwatching | NYS Birding Trail


Naturalists teach you more about The New York State Birding Trail which highlights world-class birding opportunities across the state. Together, explore the park, and see what makes this spot a hang-out for urban birds and marvelous migrators! Binoculars and field guides provided, or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Birdwatchings, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, NYS Birding Trail

Workshop | Morning Meditation


Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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Workshops, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Morning Meditation

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend 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 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
$10
Tours, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors

Discussion | Taking Women – and Women Writers – Seriously (in-person and online)


No one could accuse Jennifer Weiner of being shy . . . about the messy truths of women’s lives, about her own life, about her view of the publishing industry or her distaste for the phrase “chick lit.” Perhaps that’s why her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. In 23 novels and nine collections of short stories, she’s explored how women cope with philandering husbands (Fly Away Home), sibling conflict (In Her Shoes) and what to do when your mother comes roaring out of the closet (Good in Bed). Weight issues, addiction, female friendships, finding your place in a changing world . . . few of the dilemmas that women confront are absent from her storytelling. Upon the publication of her highly anticipated new novel, The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits, Weiner discusses her celebrated writing career, using social media to amplify women’s voices and the struggles of her latest female characters to chase dreams, survive the consequences and open the secrets that have confined them. A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Jennifer is a frequent contributor to the New York Times opinion page. She’s active on Instagram, Facebook and Threads, and publishes “The Inevitable Substack,” a publication that covers reading, writing and whatever’s on her mind. Jennifer will be in conversation with Zibby Owens, author, podcaster, bookstore owner and CEO of Zibby Media.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Taking Women &ndash; and Women Writers &ndash; Seriously (in-person and online)

Book Discussion | Trauma and Truth: PTSD, Trauma Theory, and Literature on the Chechen Wars (in-person and online)


The dissolution of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen wars were not. Between 1994 and 2009 two violent civil wars took place between Chechen separatist forces and Russian federal troops. By the end of this period, Moscow had been rocked by multiple terrorist attacks and Grozny was declared “the most destroyed city on earth.” While the Chechen wars were unique in some ways to the former USSR, they were also part of a more general “Global War on Terror” that pitted regular military forces from large, powerful countries such as the US and Russia against insurgents, frequently with Islamist ties. This created a new trend in war literature, one focused on the trauma and alienation of the GWOT combatants, who experienced the uncertainty of the asymmetrical battlefield in combat and then the difficulty of integrating with a largely ignorant and indifferent civilian populace once they returned home. This trend, Elena Pedigo Clark argues, is visible Russophone as well as Anglophone literature from this period. Clark's book examines works by four significant authors of literature about the Chechen wars through the lens of trauma theory. Using Kalí Tal’s concept of “the literature of trauma,” it focuses on works that were created in order to share the author’s personal experience of trauma with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Discussions, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Trauma and Truth: PTSD, Trauma Theory, and Literature on the Chechen Wars&nbsp;(in-person and online)

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshops, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Learn Juggling in the Park

Staged Reading | Saved, Part One: The Girl and the Sky: Drama about the South Korean Adoption Industry


The first play in a two-part drama about the South Korean adoption industry, from its Cold War origins to its transformation into a lucrative business empire built by systemic fraud and negligence. Three epic stories spanning six decades across Oregon; Washington D.C.; Vermont; Seoul; and Jeju Island, Jesse Jae Hoon's Saved explores what happens when we kill the parents and raise the children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:30 pm
Free
Staged Readings, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Saved, Part One: The Girl and the Sky: Drama about the South Korean Adoption Industry

Museums | Art from All Over The World: Modern and Contemporary


Discover a vast collection of art from a diverse range of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Japan, India, United States and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Art from All Over The World: Modern and Contemporary

Museums | Remembrance, Reflection and Resilience


A place of commemoration: exhibition, artifacts, photographs, stories and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Museumss, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Remembrance, Reflection and Resilience

Staged Reading | Saved, Part One: The Girl and the Sky: Drama about the South Korean Adoption Industry


The first play in a two-part drama about the South Korean adoption industry, from its Cold War origins to its transformation into a lucrative business empire built by systemic fraud and negligence. Three epic stories spanning six decades across Oregon; Washington D.C.; Vermont; Seoul; and Jeju Island, Jesse Jae Hoon's Saved explores what happens when we kill the parents and raise the children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Readings, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Saved, Part One: The Girl and the Sky: Drama about the South Korean Adoption Industry

Lecture | Anne Frank's Diary: The Making of an Urtext of the Holocaust (in-person and online)


Historian Raphael Gross, Director of the German Historical Museum and editor of a history of the worldwide reception of Anne Frank’s diaries, discusses the making of and response to a unique document in literary history. Neither a true diary that chronologically records the daily life and thoughts of its author, nor a work of fiction, Diary of a Young Girl is an unfinished manuscript. Adapted from diary entries in multiple stages by the young author herself – and posthumously by her father – it made Anne Frank into perhaps the most famous German- Jewish writer of the 20th century. Today, it is an unparalleled urtext of the Holocaust. Against this background, the lecture will focus on the worldwide reception of the diary over almost eight decades. How was the edition of the text authorized by Otto Frank received in countries as diverse as Holland, Israel, the USA, Japan, Hungary, Spain, and the GDR? Which aspects of her notes were included? Which faded into the background? And what did the icon “Anne Frank” stand for in all these contexts?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Anne Frank's Diary: The Making of an Urtext of the Holocaust (in-person and online)

Classical Music | String Quartets by Mozart, Dvorak, and more


The swiftly rising Isidore String Quartet are winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the most recent Banff International String Quartet Competition. Their joyful and communicative performances have quickly won over audiences, as they surely will here in this program of classics by Mozart and Dvorak alongside Gabriella Smith's wry, fresh Carrot Revolution. Program: Mozart (1756 - 1791) String Quartet No. 19, K. 465 ("Dissonance") Gabriella Smith (1991) Carrot Revolution Dvorak (1841 - 1904) String Quartet No. 13, op. 106
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:45 pm
Free
Concerts, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, String Quartets by Mozart, Dvorak, and more

Classical Music | Contemporary Music Group Performs World Premiere of New Work


Established in 1976, the New York New Music Ensemble aims to work with important and emerging current composers--like Marcos Balter, whose new work will be debuted during this show. Program Marcos Balter [untitled world premiere] George Lewis Thistledown Tonia Ko Evermore Everyday Martin Matalon La Rueda
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Contemporary Music Group Performs World Premiere of New Work

Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. With: Paris Cullen, Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC, Morgan Gregory
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performances, April 21, 2025, 04/21/2025, Dance Works-in-Progress
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