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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 16, 2014?

36 free events take place on Tuesday, December 16 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 16 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, December 16, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Historical Performance Chamber Music Series
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 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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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 | iMovie for Beginners


Learn how to use Apple's popular iMovie software. Create your own short movie clip by editing different clips from videos and add a sound track to fit your movies feel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Historical Performance Chamber Music Series


Home of the celebrated Bach Vespers series, the 110-year-old church offers a historically appropriate venue for the performance of early music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

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
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Concert | Microcosmos: Ice Sculpture Carving


Join renowned NYC-based artist collective Okamoto Studio as they return to create their annual icy experience on Grace Plaza. Enjoy the art of live ice carving as master artisans transform ordinary blocks of ice into insects, small creatures, and other many-legged friends.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | North Woods Tour


View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Jazz | Dan Martin Trio, Jazz Holiday Music


The Dan Martin Trio returns to delight audiences with joyous jazz music for the holiday season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Metropolitan Klezmer, One of the Finest American Klezmer Bands


This holiday season, the band will give another must-see performance with inspired neo-traditional interpretations and compositions springing from a varied, eclectic Yiddish repertoire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 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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Other | Open Hours at a Nature Sanctuary


Normally closed to visitors except on guided tours, come meander at your own pace along the rustic trail and see how this once weed-filled promontory has become a native woodland garden for birds and other wildlife. The wood-chipped trail is uneven; please wear appropriate shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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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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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Citizen Cartography: Building a Virtual Atlas of New York


Help NYPL build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the set of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps by overlaying digital images of historical maps onto a contemporary digital map through a process called georectification, or "warping" maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Connecting to the Cloud Workshop


Learn all about the Cloud, what it is and how you use it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw


Join a Museum Ambassador for a guided tour through the temporary exhibition. This exhibition presents the work of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, who documented life in rural Oklahoma from the 1920s to the 1960s. The tour will discuss Kiowa pictorial traditions, the formation of Oklahoma, Native participation in the U.S. Armed Forces, and the American Indian Exposition, as documented by Poolaw.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Keyboard Improv Class Recital 4 p.m. Chamber Music Recital 6 p.m. Yuchong Wu and Junhai Chen, Pianos 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks


Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
Free

Film | Documentary: The Mike Brown Rebellion


A documentary film and discussion chronicling the youth leaders and resistance in Ferguson - featuring the people's demand for justice, the militarization and repression by the State, and the responses to the verdict of no indictment of Darren Wilson in October. This documentary has been created as a tool for education and starting discussions around policing, militarization, resistance and organizing in communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

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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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Alain Badiou discusses his book The Age of the Poets


Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Collège International de Philosophie. In addition to novels, plays and political essays, he has published many philosophical works including Logics of Worlds, The Adventure of French Philosophy, Being and Event, Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, and Metapolitics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Robert Gober discusses his book The Heart Is Not a Metaphor


Robert Gober’s objects and installations are among the most challenging artworks of the last thirty years. On his emergence in the mid-1980s, with deceptively simple sculptures of everyday objects such as sinks and beds, this New York artist was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant of his generation. Whether in his exacting handcrafted replications of machine-made products, his enigmatic transformations of the human body, or his enveloping theatrical environments, Gober’s formal intelligence is matched by a penetrating reading of his times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction


With Amy Gross. Learning to be mindful — to pay attention in the moment without resistance or judgment - can shift the course of our lives. Instead of being driven by our fears and hopes, we learn how to listen to ourselves and others, to pause and respond wisely. In this course, practice MBSR’s tools for living: the body scan, sitting meditation, mindful yoga and walking meditation, all of which increase self-awareness and empathy, connect us to our intuition, weaken unwholesome mental habits and replace struggle and stress with ease and relaxation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Year-End Tax Tips


Find out now if there are smart moves you can make before January 1st to reduce your tax bill.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Sam Lewitt


Sam Lewitt was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1981. His recent solo exhibitions include International Corrosion Fatigue, at Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2013); Verbrannte Erde: Second Salvage, Leopold-Hosch Museum, Düren (2014); as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco in 2015. Lewitt was also included in the Whitney Biennial, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012). He lives and works in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Recitals


6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sujin Kwon, viola 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM British Vocal Literature Recital
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Happy Birthday, Beethoven!


With Cesare Civetta, conductor and music director of the Beethoven Festival Orchestra in New York City and the author of "The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro." This mixed-media presentation features the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, touches upon the incredible challenges the composer faced as he gradually lost his hearing and how he overcame the psychological torment of the accompanying social awkwardness, and his evolution into a life of inner peace in his last years. Music from his early, middle, and late styles demonstrate his spiritual journey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Teach Yourself: Computer Self-Study


Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search NYPL’s Catalog for books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2010 and 2013, the Internet, typing and other topics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | Korean Film: Kwon Lee’s Attack on the Pin-Up Boys (2007)


After the unusual attack (tossing of a bag of feces) on a school heartthrob, the same attacks begin to happen at different high schools on every month of the same day. Rumors say that the next victims will be at Neulparan High School.
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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
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Sonatas by Brahms and Franck


Joint recital featuring graduating masters students from the Mannes School of Music. Sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Cesar Franck. Accompanied by Yun Kyung Choo, piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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