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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 8, 2014?

39 free events take place on Monday, December 8 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 December 8 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 December . 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 Monday, December 8, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc For Peace and Money: The Price of War and Revolution in Late Imperial Russia
free events nyc Choral Works and Christmas Carols
free events nyc How Unconditional Cash Transfers are Transforming International Development
free events nyc Lee Wilson reads from her book Rebel on Pointe: A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway
free events nyc Fifty Years of (Cold) War and Peace: Vladimir Putin's Russia and US Foreign Policy
free events nyc Theatrical Workshop Performance: From Boccaccio to Shakespeare
        

Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
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Workshop | Advanced MS Word 2010 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2010. Topics include mail merge, tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Learn 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. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Great Organ: Midday Monday


Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit with an entertaining and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | U.S. Custom House Tour


Join a Museum Ambassador for an in-depth look at the unique architecture and exquisite beauty of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the museum. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1907, the Custom House is a National Historic Landmark. The building’s interior splendor includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Valencia-born engineer Raphael Gustavino and murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh, as well as monumental marble arches and columns. Tours include a visit to the Collectors Office, not normally accessible to the public. The Collectors Office features woodwork by Tiffany Studios and can be seen on Boardwalk Empire and in films like Spike Lee’s Inside Man.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | For Peace and Money: The Price of War and Revolution in Late Imperial Russia


The story of British and French private and government loans to Russia in the late imperial period up to the Genoa Conference of 1922 is a classic tale of money and power in the modern era—an age of economic interconnectivity and great power interdependency. Lecturer Jennifer Siegel, a former writer in residence in the Library’s Wertheim Study, is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Workshop | MedlinePlus Database Workshop


Use the MedlinePlus website, produced by the National Library of Medicine, to find reliable, up-to-date information about diseases, medical conditions and wellness issues in language a non-specialist can understand. Learn about treatments, look up information on drugs and supplements and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

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
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2:00 pm
Free

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | How'd You Do That? Connecting Stuff to Your Computer


Learn how to connect printers, monitors and all types of other accessories to your computer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Infinity of Nations


Join a Museum Ambassador for a guided tour through the permanent exhibition. This exhibition presents works of art from throughout Native North, Central, and South America, with more than 700 works on display. The rich exposition of focal objects, including a magnificent Apsáalooke (Crow) warrior’s exploit robe, demonstrates the degree to which Native America was interconnected before European peoples arrived and how cultural exchange has profoundly shaped our shared histories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Choral Works and Christmas Carols


The Chamber Singers of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York performs choral works and Christmas carols by Parker/Shaw, Sharlin, Gjeilo, Greenberg and others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Screening | Swan Lake on Film


Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic for The New York Times, leads a conversation exploring various versions and interpretations of the much-loved ballet Swan Lake with The Wall Street Journal writer Robert Greskovic and dance historian David Vaughan. Enjoy rarely seen, historic video excerpts and photographs from the Dance Division’s collection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ann C. Pizzorusso reads from her book Tweeting Da Vinci


Geologist and Italian Renaissance art scholar Ann C. Pizzorusso will present her new book which explores the geology of Italy and how it influenced its art, architecture, religion, medicine, literature and just about everything else. She will discuss not only Leonardo but Dante, Virgil and many others, shedding new geologic light on their works as well as showing us the places they described exist in Italy today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Design Talk: Josh Cochran


Brooklyn-based illustrator Josh Cochran’s bright, dense, and conceptual drawings have appeared in galleries, on billboards, and in the "New York Times," where he occasionally fills in as art director for the op-ed section. Join Josh as he talks about his work, including his first children’s book and other projects he’s working on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A Discussion of H.G. Adler's Novel The Wall


A conversation on Adler's book with the translator Peter Filkins, the writer George Prochnik, and Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. One of only a few death camp survivors to fictionalize his experiences, the Prague-born H. G. Adler is a strong missing link between Kafka and Sebald in German literature. The New Yorker called Adler’s first two novels Panorama and The Journey “modernist masterpieces” and the New York Times Book Review compared his work to Joyce, Kafka and Gertrude Stein. Now his magnum opus, The Wall, the final installment of Adler’s Shoah trilogy and Adler’s crowning achievement as a novelist, has been translated by Peter Filkins and is available for the first time in English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | How Unconditional Cash Transfers are Transforming International Development


Unconditional cash transfers are the controversial innovation changing the international development landscape. Organizations like GiveDirectly transfer money to poor clients living halfway around the world, who are then free to use the money as they please. While GiveDirectly is the only NGO set up for the sole purpose of distributing unconditional cash transfers, cash transfers are quickly becoming a popular development intervention. DFID estimates that 1 billion people in emerging markets receive them each year. For example, economist Jenny Aker has studied the use of cash transfers in disasters, including the differences between handing out vouchers, physical cash, and sending money via cellphones. Join the founders of GiveDirectly, Jenny Aker, and Timothy Ogden of FAI for a discussion about what this trend means for those living in poverty, for microfinance, and for the development industry as we know it. The discussion will be followed by a networking reception. Panelists: Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor, Tufts University Johannes Haushofer, Assistant Professor, Princeton University Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President, GiveDirectly Jeremy Shapiro, Co-Founder, GiveDirectly Moderated by: Timothy Ogden, Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Infrastructures of Labor


Infrastructures of Labor explores how infrastructures are not just technical artifacts but are comprised of human labor. From networked infrastructures in the global North to do-it-yourself “people as infrastructure” systems in the global South, the panelists will present research considering how human bodies and communities are interwoven with the built environment and its technological systems. PANELISTS: Kafui Attoh / Assistant Professor of Urban Studies / The Murphy Institute / CUNY Catherine Fennell / Assistant Professor of Anthropology / Columbia University Malini Ranganathan / Assistant Professor / School of International Service / American University Rosalind Fredericks / Assistant Professor / Gallatin School of Individualized Study / NYU MODERATOR: Penny Lewis / Associate Professor of Labor Studies / The Murphy Institute / CUNY
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Marc Kaufman discusses his book Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission


This illustrated lecture takes the audience inside the mission and onto the surface of Mars, with images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Paul Auster reads from his books Report from the Interior and Winter Journal


Paul Auster is the internationally bestselling author of Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, The Invention of Solitude and The New York Trilogy, among many other works of fiction, poetry, memoir and translation. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Lee Wilson reads from her book Rebel on Pointe: A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway


Award-winning writer, producer and actor Lee Wilson discusses her ballet training and career, from her professional debut before the Rainiers in Monaco to her show business turns on Broadway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Marguerite Van Cook reads from her book The Late Child and Other Animals


Marguerite Van Cook will read from and discuss her original graphic autobiography, accompanied by a slide show of images from the book. The book is written and colored by Van Cook and adapted to the comics form and drawn by artist James Romberger.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | New York Holiday Lights Tour


It's time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no other place in the world. Mechanical window displays, synchronized light and sound shows, not to mention Santa Claus and toy soldiers surely await you in this winter wonderland. Check them all our on the New York Holiday Lights Tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Trombone Master Class: Weston Sprott


Weston Sprott was appointed to the position of second trombone of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in the spring of 2005. He served Acting Principal Trombone of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra during the 2012-13 season. Sprott has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto Festival USA, Hot Springs Music Festival, The American Wind Symphony Orchestra, The Sphinx Symphony (Detroit) and many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | “No Name“ Presents The Uptown Cabaret, a Singers Showcase


The multi-talented Alex DeSuze returns to host the “No Name Uptown Cabaret Second Monday” monthly singers showcase. DeSuze, whose background includes acting, directing and singing at venues throughout the NYC-metro area, will be joined by a guest musical director. Producer Eric Vetter calls the Cabaret an opportunity to enjoy and share your art with your fellow singers, composers and lyricists in a safe and fun place!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Aeolus and Aizuri Quartets perform works by Mendelssohn and others


Program: Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat Major, op. 20 Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet Dan Welcher Museon Polemos for String Octet (New York Premiere) Lembit Beecher These Memories May Be True Two of the most vibrant young American quartets join forces for the first time: the Aeolus Quartet ("very impressive," Baltimore Sun), currently in residence at Juilliard, and the Aizuri Quartet, in residence at the Curtis Institute, pair up for Mendelssohn's youthful Octet and the New York premiere of Dan Welcher's Museon Polemos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Chamber Music Concert


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program. The program for this concert will be announced a week before the event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Percussion Ensemble: A Frank Zappa Tribute


Jonathan Haas, Director/Conductor, Program in Percussion Performance
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:30 PM An Evening of Duos 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Electronic Music Concert 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM The Jazz Room Series
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Discussion | Fifty Years of (Cold) War and Peace: Vladimir Putin's Russia and US Foreign Policy


With: Peter Baker is chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. His latest book is Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, which takes the reader on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney administration, arguably the most controversial presidency in recent decades. Nina Khrushcheva is associate professor of international affairs. Her latest book is The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, which examines political and social mindsets of modern Russia, and its people who are too easily settled by "stability and order" often promised by the Kremlin strongmen, be it Joseph Stalin or Vladimir Putin, Stalin’s ideological successor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Karen Dekker and Friends: An Evening of Violin Duos


Karen Dekker, Krista Bennion Feeney and others TBA perform violin duos
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Theatrical Workshop Performance: From Boccaccio to Shakespeare


An evening of theater to uncover similarities and differences between Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Kairos Italy Theater explores Shakespeare's work to discover how much the great playwright was influenced by Italian theater and literature as well as what differences emerge in the work of these three giants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Jazz | College Jazz Ensemble


Ryan Keberle, director
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Kevin Ahfat, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights. Movement Research at the Judson Church supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. With: boomerang, g1br33l|Alex Rodabaugh, ROSÈ, Björn Säfsten
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Singers Space


Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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