Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 7, 2013?
39 free events take place on Sunday, April 7 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 7 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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The quality and quantity of free events, free things to do that happen in New York City every day of the year is truly amazing.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, April 7, 2013
6 miles, moderate pace. Forest Hills to Flushing, through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Botanical Garden, Kissena Corridor and Kissena Park. Optional dim sum meal @ $10-$12 at end. Bring snack, water.
Experience the Park as a precious bird habitat and learn how to spot our feathered neighbors on a walk with NYC Audubon. Binoculars available to borrow; space is limited; please arrive early to sign in. Ages 5+.
Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. 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 amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
As part of Season of Cambodia, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, taking place this spring in New York City, this is a two-day colloquium exploring the interconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology and community. The event provides a window into an ongoing exchange between designers, curators, architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York.
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.
Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.
Head to SoHo for artisanal chocolates, avant-garde jewelry and other unique products made locally. You will find some great Mother’s Day gift ideas. This fair brings together a wide range of local creators to give you an opportunity to discover hidden gems to surprise and delight even the hardest to shop for, while supporting local businesses.
Seneca Village was Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that would become the Park. Tour covers the history of the village, the property owners, and what New York City was like at the time. Tour is approximately one hour.
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.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan 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.
Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
Program:
Soundings (Wang An Ming)
Petite Suite sur un Motet de Gerald Bales OP. 41, I. Fantasie “Let the Earth Celebrate the Lord”, II. Cantabile “Mountains and Hills, III. Toccatina “Praise Him” (Rachel Lauren)
Elegy (Mary Howe b. 1882)
Fantasia su frammenti gregoriani (Barbara Rettagliati)
Te Deum (Jeanne Demessieux 1921-1968)
Nicole Leone, soprano and Donna Gill, piano, in a recital featuring songs by Argento, Debussy and Strauss and arias by Handel, Mozart, Bizet and Lehar.
NICKY LABOY & HIS LATIN ENSEMBLE features a group of talented percussionists, vocalists, and dancers sharing their Caribbean culture. These musicians represent Puerto Rico and Cuba and other Caribbean Islands. They promote and maintain the traditions, and cultures of their Afro/Latino roots through music performed in the States.
The musicians will perform songs from the 1940's to modern times, including bomba and plena from Puerto Rico to the rumba, palo, and the sacred music of Cuba and Africa. These artists dance and chant conjuring the evocative sanctifying realm of the Afro/Latino tradition.
GUEST PERFORMERS: IMPACT REPERTORY THEATRE, Harlem's own 2008 Oscar and 2009 Grammy nominated youth group that
features 40 young performers who are part of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic community. They capture spoken word in engaging and spellbinding performances using poetry, hip hop and R&B cadence of contemporary sounds.
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.
Program:
Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547 Johann Sebastian Bach
On the Arents Memorial Organ: Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral “Adnos, ad salutarem undam” Franz Liszt
Organist: PHILLIP KLOECKNER
1. Cheryl Pyle, flute; and Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic, bass
2. Bob Meyer (drums) Trio with Steven Frieder tenor sax and Luke Franco guitar
3. Sult (Oslo/San Francisco): percussion, contrabass, acoustic guitar (including Jacob Felix Heule of Basshaters and Ettrick)
4. An open session
Director Jeremy Marre places the viewer in the center of the Jamaican reggae scene at its pinnacle in this remarkable documentary. The film is worth it just to see The Gladiators perform a never released song, "Play on Mr. Music" with Lee Perry at the boards of his legendary Black Ark recording studio. This is a must see for any fan of conscious roots music at the height of its brilliance.
60 min.
13 to 15 miles. Walk from Highlands, New Jersey into Sandy Hook and to Fort Hancock Historic district. Beautiful vistas of Highlands, NJ; Sea Bright, NJ; and Raritan Bay. Pass a 19th century life-saving station. View buildings in Fort Hancock from another era. See what a 19th century Army post looked like. Important: bring water and lunch.
CALL TO CONFIRM
Program:
Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale (. . .explosante fixe. . . Originel) - Rebecca Baehr, flute; Jeffrey Milarsky, cond.
Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye - Cinq Pièces Enfantines - Yoshiaki Onishi, cond.
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (orch. Arnold Schoenberg) - Jeffrey Milarsky, cond.
With the Columbia University Orchestra