21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, April 20, 2014
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Editor's Pick
On Easter Sunday, you have the opportunity to see Easter bonnets to the New York City extreme as "paraders" ...
more >> wander along the avenue. The area around St. Patrick's Cathedral is the ideal place to see the parade. Unlike most New York City Parades, the Easter Parade is a far less organized event.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Experience the park as a precious bird habitat and learn how to spot our feathered neighbors on a walk ...
more >> with a bird expert from NYC Audubon. Binoculars available to borrow; space is limited. Please arrive early to sign in. Ages 5+.
New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs ...
more >> 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
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For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been ...
more >> a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's 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.
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Editor's Pick
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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.
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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history ...
more >> tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves ...
more >> many hills and stairs. 75-minutes.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Enjoy an interactive and informative tour led by a knowledgeable museum educator. In 1942, cultural anthropologist ...
more >> and novelist Zora Neale Hurston listed the term “draped down” as one of several terms meaning “well-dressed” in a glossary of Harlem Renaissance-era slang. The term seems as prescient today as it did when Hurston first recorded it. Draped Down highlights the ways in which feminine beauty is constructed, traced and interpreted in painting and photography.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
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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.
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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.
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Editor's Pick
A moving and solemn ceremony to pay tribute to those who fought and those who perished during the Holocaust. ...
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On April 19, 1943 a group of about 220 Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto staged a historic, heroic uprising. It marked the largest organized armed rebellion within a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Holocaust.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Listen to Easter music played by two Assistant Organists, Benjamin Sheen and Stephen Buzard.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
3:00 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 & Boody Organ Builders.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio BWV 249
Featuring The Bach Choir and Players.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free-will offering
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.
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