34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, April 12, 2015
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Well-known for his painting "The Banjo Lesson," this African American painter devoted much of his art ...
more >> to Biblical subjects, to which no earlier Realist had successfully turned. Presented by Dennis Raverty, Ph.D., Art Historian.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ...
more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
With: Dr. Joseph Chuman.
Let's talk values. What do the anti-vaccination campaign, outbursts of ...
more >> racist verbal assaults, the Republican move to turn Medicare into vouchers and the top one percent owning 40 percent of American wealth have in common? Though each is a product of many underlying dynamics, what threads through them all is hyper-individualism.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Join docents on a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, the park's sustainable ...
more >> design, and how the park came to life.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lisa Burwinkel, mezzo-soprano
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Ben Benack III, jazz trumpet
12:30 ...
more >> PM - 2:00 PM Laura Sacks, viola
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Vincent Ip, piano
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Kristen Miller, horn
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Christa Dalmazio, soprano
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Devon Morin, baritone
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Moon Young Yang, piano
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Aleh Remezau, oboe
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Tomasz Arnold, percussion
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Wenqi He, piano
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Salon Style brings together work by artists in which hair and nails figure as media and/or inspirations. ...
more >> Comprised mostly of objects from the permanent collection, Salon Style suggests hair and nails as fluid sites of self-expression where identities and personhood are asserted. Demonstrating the cultural, economic and gender politics of these facets of personal style, several works in the exhibition feature synthetic hair and nails as artistic materials, while others use found objects as proxies for them.
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Highlights: Former B. Altman Dept. Store, the DeLamar Mansion, Sniffen Court Stables, Scandinavia House, ...
more >> former home of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.
1:30 PM Kyle Walker, piano
1:30 PM Mengyi Cao, violin
4:30 PM Delaney Harter, violin
4:30 PM Yulin ...
more >> Liu, violin
7:30 PM Adam Kramer, viola
7:30 PM Upperwest Chamber Music
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A conversation with editor, writer, and rural reporter, P. Sainath. Sainath will introduce the People's ...
more >> Archive of Rural India, an online journal and archive, founded by him.
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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A riveting discussion of both the history and the modern state of Jewish children's literature today. ...
more >> Join panelists Marjorie Ingall (Tablet Magazine), Joanna Sussman (publisher of Kar-Ben Publishing) and Barbara Krasner (Sydney Taylor Book Award committee member) for an in-depth look at how books for and about Jewish kids have changed over the last century and where they may go in the future.
2:00 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.
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.
In a small Chinese fishing town, two teenage girls who are best friends become torn apart when one becomes ...
more >> happily married to a stranger and the other is cruelly betrothed to the abusive son of a wealthy family.
99 min. Film is subtitled in English.
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.
View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves ...
more >> many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Caeli Smith, Viola 2:30 p.m.
An Afternoon of Sonatas 3 p.m.
Alaina Rea, Viola, and Rannveig Sarc, ...
more >> Violin 4 p.m.
Chamber Music Recital 5 p.m.
Chamber Music Recital 7 p.m.
Brofsky Cello Studio Recital 8 p.m.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Program:
STEVE REICH Music for Pieces of Wood
CAGE Child of Tree
CAGE Third Construction ...
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BRYCE DESSNER Music for Wood and Strings
Not many ensembles make great music on flower pots, but the four dexterous, polyrhythmic masters of Sō Percussion do just that and more. Using drums, marimbas, woodblocks, gongs, and pretty much anything else that can be hit, scraped, or shaken, the group plays some of the most eclectic and consistently excellent music today. Whether performing a new work by The National’s Bryce Dessner or a classic by Steve Reich, Sō Percussion’s “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker) is always a great show.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Jerry Willard, international classical guitarist, will offer a program that will include works by Santiago ...
more >> de Murcia, Gaspar Sanz, Baden Powell, Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, Scott Joplin and Kondo Koji, performed on three different period guitars.
4:00 pm
$20 suggested donation...
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.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program:
J. S. Bach Bleib bei uns, BWV 6
Johann Michael Bach Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt
Johann ...
more >> Hermann Schein Maria Magdalene et altera Maria
5:00 pm
Free-will offering
Join the Cathedral community with a free series of recitals played on the Great Organ, one of the largest ...
more >> and most spectacular instruments of its kind. Great Organ: Eugene Lavery.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An interactive sing-along concert of Handel’s Messiah with the Schiller Institute Community Chorus. ...
more >> Come and sing, or come and listen! Special solo performance by violinist Yaegy Park: Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001. Selections from part II and III of Handel’s Messiah will be performed.
5:30 pm
$10 suggested contribution
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Gregory, a 50-year-old, gay, semi-retired Psychology Consultant has a near-death experience, triggering ...
more >> the appearance of THE LADY, an apparition out of the Hollywood silver screen who pushes Gregory into a dangerous relationship with a beautiful young male escort; leading him to a deeper understanding of what it means to love.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of ...
more >> September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. ...
more >> Join 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.