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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 4, 2022?

25 free events take place on Sunday, December 4 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 4 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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25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, December 4, 2022

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Holiday-Themed Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour
free events nyc The Nutcracker: One-Hour Version of Tchiakovsky's Holiday Classic
free events nyc Grammy-Nominated Pianist Performs in Intimate Venue (In Person and Online)
free events nyc Spanish Guitar: Music by Albeniz and Others
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Birdwatching | First Sunday Bird Walk


Explore the park for resident and migratory birds that visit throughout the different seasons. Please bring your own binoculars.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Classical Music | Chamber Music by Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Brahms and More (In Person and Online)


Program: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) Trio elegiaque No. 1 in G minor Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983) Trio pour violon, violoncello et piano Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) String Quartet No. 12 in C minor Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Tour | Holiday-Themed Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Film | The Grinch (2018): Animated Dr. Seuss Classic Updated


A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville. Directors: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones 85 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5

Film | The Grinch (2018): Animated Dr. Seuss Classic Updated


A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville. Directors: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones 85 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Dance Performance | The Nutcracker: One-Hour Version of Tchiakovsky's Holiday Classic


The one-hour version of the beloved holiday ballet performed to Tchaikovsky's cherished score is set Art Nouveau-style circa 1907 with innovative choreography by long-time New York Theatre Ballet choreographer Keith Michael.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Hike | Park Super Hike


Explore the hidden paths, waterways, meadows and woods the way that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux intended for visitors in this 585 acre green gem of Brooklyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Brimming with verse and conversation, PoetryFest has for 13 years brought "literary revelry" (New Yorker) to audiences across NYC. Curated by Nick Laird, the weekend-long festival is a haven away from our world of fast online verbiage, celebrating the value of sitting and listening to words written with sharpened care, intent, and nuance by today's foremost poets. Featuring: Jess Traynor and Ilya Kaminsky
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music (in-person and online)


A sea-music event ,Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music - the original NYC chantey sing - continues virtually. Join for a round-robin of shared sea songs, featuring members of The New York Packet and friends. How did the old time sailors keep their spirits up? Singing together! Work songs and fun songs, story songs and nonsense songs, songs of nostalgia and songs of up-to-the-moment news -- all were part of the repertoire onboard.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Brimming with verse and conversation, PoetryFest has for 13 years brought "literary revelry" (New Yorker) to audiences across NYC. Curated by Nick Laird, the weekend-long festival is a haven away from our world of fast online verbiage, celebrating the value of sitting and listening to words written with sharpened care, intent, and nuance by today's foremost poets. Featuring: Desert Island Poems
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Jazz | Grammy-Nominated Pianist Performs in Intimate Venue (In Person and Online)


Original arrangements infused with the spirit of calypso and reggae performed by The Monty Alexander Trio (Monty Alexander, piano; Hassan Shakur, bass; Obed Calvaire, drums). Veteran pianist Monty Alexander is often hailed for his work as an accompanist with the likes of Ernest Ranglin, Ray Brown, and Tony Bennett, and he has performanced on more than 75 recordings. The Jamaican government designated Alexander Commander in the Order of Distinction in 2000 and conferred on him the national honor of the Order of Jamaica in 2022 for "Sterling Contributions to the Promotions of Jamaican Music and the Jazz Genre Interpretations Globally".
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Spanish Guitar: Music by Albeniz and Others


A classical Spanish guitar concert by Jose Ruciero. The performance titled Iber is a journey through Spain traversing from the romantic Recuerdos de la Alhambra (1899) by Francisco Tarrega to the lively Asturias (1892) by Isaac Albeniz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | PoetryFest


Brimming with verse and conversation, PoetryFest has for 13 years brought "literary revelry" (New Yorker) to audiences across NYC. Curated by Nick Laird, the weekend-long festival is a haven away from our world of fast online verbiage, celebrating the value of sitting and listening to words written with sharpened care, intent, and nuance by today's foremost poets. Featuring: Maurice Riordan and Patricia Smith
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Serene organ meditations in an intimate venue


Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Works by Handel, Bach, and More


Lutz Rath, conductor; Festival Chamber Ensemble; David Whitwell, countertenor and trombone. Program: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Gloria -Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris Girolamo Deraco () Eight songs for a Drag Queen George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) O Lord Whose Mercies Numberless Erzherzog Rudolph von Osterreich (1788 - 1831) Septet in E-minor
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Jazz | An Improvisational Jazz Journey


This concert is a musical gathering of five musicians from New York City, Berlin and Stockholm with manifold musical roots who meet for the first time in this constellation. Composer and saxophonist Birgitta Flick meets Alan Ferber, Teodora Ohlsson, Norine Castine and Ike Sturm to set out on an improvisational journey, taking with them pieces from Flick's latest composition series Circular Compositions and Color Studies Experiments, as well as new music by Norine Castine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital in a World-famous Church 


Internationally recognized German organist Amelie Held plays a 45-minute program on an instrument tauted as one of North America’s most significant pipe organs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Poetry Reading | Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems


“All Kavanagh’s gifts are on display,” as Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of Patrick Kavanagh’s career. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Reducing Anxiety through Meditation (online)


Life is full of anxieties and stress, now perhaps more than ever before. Come to this workshop to learn how you can calm your body and mind by sitting in meditation. Find a place of happiness and peace within yourself to reduce your anxiety and fortify against the stresses of life. Join Umesh Bhatia, long time meditator, for this informative lecture. There will even be a chance to meditate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII (online)


Lauren Young's new book is a groundbreaking history that reveals how authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain in the 1930s. Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy, as significant factions of the upper class methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. They formed a murky so-called Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacency and complicity of the English to topple its democratic tradition - and they very nearly succeeded. Young exposes secret organizations, shadow foreign policy projects, and a shocking affair.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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City Walk | 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. Lighting and window displays we visit on the tour: (tentative until displays are up): Rockefeller Center St. Patrick's Cathedral Saks Fifth Ave Macy's Herald Square Bergdorf Goodman Tiffany and Co. and much more Rain, snow or shine. Dress appropriate for the weather (jackets, scarves, hats, gloves and layers).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Bach, Schumann, and More for Oboe (In Person and Online)


Oboe Studio Artists. Program: Marin Marais (1656 - 1728) Les Folies d'Espagne Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) Sonata for Oboe and Piano Antal Dorati (1906 - 1988) Duo Concertante Marina Dranishnakova (1929 - 1994) Poeme for Oboe and Piano Eugene Bozza (1905 - 1991) Fantasie Pastorale Gilles Silvestrini (1961 - ) Six Etudes for Solo Oboe Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006) Sonatina for Oboe and Piano Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Concerto for Oboe in F Major Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918) D'un Matin de Printemps Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 Jeffrey Agrell (1948 - ) Blues for DD for Solo Oboe Liza Lim (1966 - ) Gyfu
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Orchestral Pieces by Wagner, Respighi, and Brahms


Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor. Program: Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Tristan and Isolde Prelude to Act I Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936) The Fountains of Rome Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) Symphony #3 in F Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Saxophone Ensemble Performance


Paul Cohen, Director. Paul Cohen has appeared as a saxophone soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Richmond Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Charleston Symphony and Philharmonia Virtuosi. In addition, he has played in numerous ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, New Jersey Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, Group for Contemporary Music, Charleston Symphony, New York Solisti, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. He has published more than 100 articles on the history and literature of the saxophone in music journals around the globe, and has rediscovered and performed lost saxophone literature, including solo works for saxophone and orchestra by Loeffler, Florio and Dahl (for winds), as well as rare chamber works by Grainger, Ornstein, Sousa, Cowell, Siegmeister, and Loeffler.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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