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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 12, 2017?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, April 12 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 12 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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Workshop | Park Boot Camp


Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp in the park. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back--and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine. Every Wednesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
Free

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


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 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, 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
9:45 am
Free

Workshop | MS Word 2010 for Beginners


Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Park Walk | Public Park Tour


Join an enjoyable walking tour of the park, and discover how they successfully transformed "Needle Park" of the 1970s into Manhattan's Town Square of today. The guides are loaded with expertise on the park's rich history, award-winning design, distinct amenities, and ongoing maintenance efforts. Every Wednesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Concert | Joseph Morag, Award-Winning Violinist


Acclaimed by The New York Times for his "gorgeous tone" and "physically expressive cues," Joseph Morag has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist. A student of Aaron Rosand, under the prestigious Dolan Prize awarded by Columbia University, Morag appeared in Alice Tully Hall with the Columbia University Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Jeffrey Milarsky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting and print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Piano Music in a Park


Piano concert series, showcasing ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists. Every weekday at 12:30 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Exhibition Tour: A World of Emotions


Bringing to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompting questions about how we express, control, manipulate, or simulate feelings in our own society, A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD is a path-breaking exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble


Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in this hour-long lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


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. This tour takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Wednesdays with the Bill Wurtzel Trio


During the run of the exhibitions Eugen Gabritschevsky: Theater of the Imperceptible and Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974), the Bill Wurtzel trio will perform music that celebrates the creativity and expressiveness of the human mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Justice after Marx


The talk addresses the question of how to read Marx in the light of current discussions about theories of social justice – and vice versa. It argues that Marx saves us from a one-sided and truncated way to think about justice – but that his own thought is in danger of leading to another form of one-sidedness. Speaker Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He is Co-Director of the Research Cluster on the ‘Formation of Normative Orders,’ of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’, Director of the Leibniz Research Group ‘Transnational Justice’ and Member of the Directorate of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Bad Homburg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Yifat Gutman discusses her book Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine


Yifat Gutman offers an innovative analysis of memory, social activism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork. Gutman explores practices of "memory activism" by three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens (Zochrot, Autobiography of a City, and Baladna), showing how they appropriated the global model of truth and reconciliation while utilizing local cultural practices such as tours and testimonies. Through deep ethnographic work, she shows how these activist efforts gave visibility to a silenced Palestinian history in order to come to terms with the conflict's origins and envision a new resolution for the future. This unique focus on memory as a weapon of the weak reveals a surprising shift in awareness of Palestinian suffering among the Jewish majority of Israeli society in a decade of escalating violence and polarization--albeit not without a backlash.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Nightingale


Discuss the book by Kristin Hannah.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


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 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Egyptian vs Greek in Late Antique Egypt: The Struggle of Coptic for an Official Status


During the first three centuries of its history, Coptic, the final stage of the Egyptian language written with Greek letters, was only used for literary purposes and private correspondence but not for contracts between individuals, documents sent by individuals to the authorities, or internal administrative communication—areas in which the Greek language had a monopoly. This situation is unique in comparison with what is observed in other provinces of the Roman Empire and cannot be explained by a legal prohibition. With: Jean-Luc Fournet
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Healthcare Jobs: What Are They, Where They Are, and How To Get Them


A panel of human resources professionals from the leading New York City hospitals discuss careers in the healthcare industry. Learn how to transfer into this industry from other careers, the skills hiring managers are looking for, and where to find jobs in this field
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Italy as a Muse: A Conversation with Novelist André Aciman


André Aciman, novelist and 2016 Bogliasco Fellow, will join professor Giancarlo Lombardi to discuss his latest book, Enigma Variations, and the new film based on his 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Opera Moments 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Tactus: Contemporary Chamber Music
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953): Oscar for Audrey Hepburn


Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. 118 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | An Evening with Writer Phillip Lopate


Among Phillip Lopate's many books are three personal essay collections -- Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body, two novels, Confessions of Summer and The Rug Merchant, and three collections of poems. His most recent books are A Mother's Tale, a memoir, and To Show and to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction. He edited The Art of the Personal Essay and, for Library of America, Writing New York. He is the director of the nonfiction concentration in the graduate Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, where he also teaches writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Bob Eckstein discusses his book Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores


This illustrated lecture captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers and features evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes about the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | David Callahan reads from his book The Givers


While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan’s new book, The Givers: Wealth, Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, charts the rise of these new power players and the ways in which they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Leonardo Drew


Leonardo Drew was born in 1961 in Tallahassee, Florida, and he grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Drew’s work is included in numerous important public and private collections. Public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; and Tate, London. Drew has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Fiction That Matters: The Story of Social Engagement


How does fiction successfully explore and represent social history? What is the future of fiction’s role in such endeavors? Exploring these questions and many more will be Edie Meidav (Kingdom of the Young, Lola, California) Dana Johnson (In the Not Quite Dark,) and Sunil Yapa (Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Jennifer Finney Boylan reads from her book Long Black Veil


Author Jennifer Finney Boylan delivers a novel about a woman whose life is threatened by the secrets of her past. One night, six students sneak into the ruins of a penitentiary, looking for a thrill. They realize they're locked in--and not alone. The terrifying night ends in tragedy and reverberates through their lives. Decades later, new evidence is found and one of them is charged with murder.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Reading: Double Take 20


Organized by Albert Mobilio, Double Take is a unique reading series that asks award winning and emerging poets, novelists, editors, and artists to trade takes on shared experiences. Thomas Devaney and Jim Cory reveal that all Philadelphia stories can be told as versions of Rocky. Roberta Allen and Peter Cherches riff on aging and mortality. Democracy, nu? Robert Marshall and Helen Benedict visit Capitol Hill.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Vice Media presents Watch and Learn


Get a fresh perspective on today’s most pressing issues at a special screening and talk-back with some of the great minds behind Vice Media, the North American digital media and broadcasting company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Workshop | Beginner Excel for Macs Workshops


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for Mac. Topics include: entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting your spreadsheets for readability and much more. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Comedy Club | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show - with Free Pizza


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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