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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 2, 2024?

26 free events take place on Monday, December 2 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 2 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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26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, December 2, 2024

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free events nyc Artisan Holiday Market and a Miniature Train Show Display at a Historical Site
free events nyc Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
free events nyc Historical and Modern Design Spanning Centuries
free events nyc California Suite (1978) with Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, and More
        

Workshop | Morning Meditation


Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Morning Meditation

Fair | Artisan Holiday Market and a Miniature Train Show Display at a Historical Site


An artisan market featuring one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry, charming pottery, stunning artwork, and much more. You can also enjoy a seasonal display of a miniature train show that will delight both children and adults. Dates of the market: Nov 11th - Dec 24th Monday to Saturday: 10am - 7pm Sunday: 11am - 6pm Open Christmas Eve: 10am - 6pm Train show dates: Nov 14 - Feb, 2025 Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 7:30pm Saturday - Sunday, 10:00am - 6:00pm CLOSED major holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free
Fairs, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Artisan Holiday Market and a Miniature Train Show Display at a Historical Site

Master Class | Flute Master Class


Flute Master Class with Linda Chesis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Flute Master Class

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tours, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors

Fair | Holiday Market: Unique Gifts, Food Vendors and More


The market has over 180 vendors offering one-of-a-kind gifts created by local craftsmen as well as a selection of food from diverse cuisines and delicious desserts. Dates: 11/14 - 12/23 Mon - Fri: 11am - 8pm Sat - Sun: 10am - 8pm Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christman Eve. Closes at 4pm on Christmas Eve.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Fairs, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Holiday Market: Unique Gifts, Food Vendors and More

Fair | Winter Market: Holiday Shops, Ice Skating and Spectacular View


This is an iconic NYC holiday destination. Featuring over 200 artisanal vendors offering unique gifts, you're sure to find something special for your shopping list. Enjoy a variety of exciting food options as you shop. Ice rink is open daily; reservations required. Market Dates: 10/25 - 1/5 Market Hours of Operation: Sun - Sat: 11am - 8pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Fairs, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Winter Market: Holiday Shops, Ice Skating and Spectacular View

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tours, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors

Book Discussion | The Human Rights of Migrants: Protecting the Most Vulnerable of Us


What are the human rights of migrants? To what extent do national governments protect these rights? What are the political and economic factors associated with more and less protection? What can be done to better safeguard migrant rights in the future? Where are the best opportunities for impact? In this book project, Justin Gest and Ian M. Kysel address these questions by offering a comprehensive catalogue of state commitments to protect the human rights of migrants and leveraging a novel, 45-country database to explore the extent to which these rights are protected and implemented by national governments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Book Discussions, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, The Human Rights of Migrants: Protecting the Most Vulnerable of Us

Book Discussion | Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (online)


Author Hannah Pollin-Galay on how Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (online)

Talk | Observing Shadows: A Conversation with Award-Winning Artist (online)


Artist Alejandra Arias Sevilla's practice is rooted in printmaking, and encompasses papermaking, animation and more. Her latest creations in paper explore the semiotics of wrought iron guards, text, and the color blue. Sevilla will discuss her creative process and her involvement as the 2024 Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow at Dieu Donne.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talks, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Observing Shadows: A Conversation with Award-Winning Artist (online)

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:30 pm
$10
Tours, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors

Jazz | Jazz Festival


MSM Vocal Jazz Unites; My Tam Huynh, Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concerts, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Jazz Festival

Museums | Art from All Over The World: Modern and Contemporary


Discover a vast collection of art from a diverse range of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Japan, India, United States and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Art from All Over The World: Modern and Contemporary

Museums | Historical and Modern Design Spanning Centuries


The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, influence, and importance of design in everyday life. Housed in a historic mansion, the museum features a diverse collection of design objects, including decorative arts, architecture, graphic design, textiles, and industrial design. Free admission is daily 5 pm - 6 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Museumss, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Historical and Modern Design Spanning Centuries

Museums | Remembrance, Reflection and Resilience


A place of commemoration: exhibition, artifacts, photographs, stories and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Remembrance, Reflection and Resilience

Film | California Suite (1978) with Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, and More


In this adaptation of a Neil Simon play, four comedic scenarios occur. Hannah and Bill are divorced and fighting over cutody of their daughter. An actress's gay husband comes out of the closet as she worries about her Oscar nomination. A prostitute lies comatose in a businessman's bed. And finally, two doctors settle their differences with a tennis game. Director: Herbert Ross Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith Alan Aldais an American actor who is a six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner and a three-time Tony Award nominee. He is best known for playing Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the CBS wartime sitcom M*A*S*H (1972-1983). Michael Caine is an English retired actor. He has appeared in more than 160 films over a career spanning eight decades and is considered a British film icon. He has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades. Jane Fonda is an American actress and activist who is recognized as a film icon. Fonda is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and more. Walter Matthau was an American actor, comedian and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966).
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Films, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, California Suite (1978) with Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, and More

Film | Machuca (2004): The Strain of Friendship Under Dictatorship


Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase. Director: Andres Wood Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli 121 min. Followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Roberto Brodsky
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Machuca (2004): The Strain of Friendship Under Dictatorship

Discussion | A Celebration of Artist Sam Gilliam


A diverse panel of Sam Gilliam experts and scholars explore the pioneering artist’s legacy and his influence on contemporary art. This unique celebration delves into works developed in the mid-1960s that disrupted established artistic norms and styles. Relentlessly experimental and inspired by jazz's improvisatory ethos, Gilliam's lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials during this time. Learn how the art of Sam Gilliam continues to inspire and make an impact today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, A Celebration of Artist Sam Gilliam

Classical Music | Music from Uzbekistan for String Trio


Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara are ancient cities in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road that played a pivotal role in the histories of generations of Jewish families, shielding them from persecution and death. This is true of families of the members of Trio Fadolin, each of whom had a family member find themselves in Uzbekistan as a refugee from their homeland. This concert will showcase compositions from Uzbekistan and beyond, featuring works by renowned composers Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky (b. 1963), Alexander Zhurbin (b. 1945), and Ljova (b. 1978), plus selections by Frederick Block (b. 1934), as well as arrangements of folk music from Uzbekistan. Registration required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Overstaying: Strange Visitor Upends Woman's Life


Damion Searls presents his translation of this comic novel by Swiss writer Ariane Koch. When a visitor turns up, she takes him in, and instantly her life revolves around him. Yet it is hard to tell what, exactly, this visitor is. A mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence—possibly a pet? Mostly, he is a set of contradictions, an occasion for Koch’s wild imagination to take readers in brilliant and unexpected directions.
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Book Discussions, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Overstaying: Strange Visitor Upends Woman's Life

Performance | The Heat Will Kill Everything: One-Man Drama


A one-person play about a Black father whose search for his missing daughter during an extreme heat event forces him to finally confront his internalized patriarchy and its destructive grip on his life. Written by Keith Josef Adkins and performed by Francois Battiste. Preceded by a talk with the playwright.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performances, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, The Heat Will Kill Everything: One-Man Drama

Lecture | The Battle for Attu 1943 (in-person-and online)


A lecture by Theodore Cook of William Patterson University, co-author of Japan at War: An Oral History and Sacred War: Inside the Japanese Experience, 1937–1945.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lectures, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, The Battle for Attu 1943 (in-person-and online)

Discussion | Art in China and America Now (online)


Two artists in dialogue, one American/ Mexican (Francisco Hauss) and the other Chinese (Zhang Yu) will have a conversation about their diverse experiences as art makers in both China and the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussions, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Art in China and America Now (online)

Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. With: Sunhi Willa Keller, Roxanne Young, Babou Sanneh
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Dance Performances, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Dance Works-in-Progress
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Concerts, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Saxophone Studio Recital

Classical Music | Works by J.S. Bach, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, and More for Double Bass and Piano


Nina Bernat, Double Bass; Umi Garrett, Piano. Program Prokofiev (1891-1953), Five Melodies Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931), Pantomime J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Sonata for Viola da Gamba No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 1029 Shinuh Lee (b. 1969), [seomjib-agi] Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Sonata No. 2 in D Major
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Concerts, December 02, 2024, 12/02/2024, Works by&nbsp;J.S. Bach,&nbsp;Prokofiev,&nbsp;Mendelssohn, and More for Double Bass and Piano
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