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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 26, 2013?

50 free events take place on Tuesday, February 26 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 February 26 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 February . 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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50 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 26, 2013

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Other | A Taste of Cocoa 2013


Visit for delicious samples of hot chocolate from participating retail stores.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | 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
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Other | AARP Free Tax Preparation Service for New Yorkers


The AARP will conduct free tax preparation services for New Yorkers Tuesdays and Saturdays. First 30 clients in line will be processed each day--first come, first serve.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Master Class | Clarinet Master Class


With Burt Hara.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring you all your old favorites and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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
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Lecture | Online Social Media and Political Awareness in Authoritarian Regimes


With David Szakonyi (PhD candidate, Political Science Department).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Park Walk | “Views from the Past” Tour


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Theater | God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever, a Gospel Stage Play by Gregory Charles Royal


A gospel musician's faith is tested when he meets a famous singer who believes everlasting life is a cruel hoax perpetuated by God himself. It's takes a little girl to change their lives forever. Lunch included. Stars: Gregory Charles Royal (Duke Ellington Orchestra; Broadway Hit Five, Guys Named Moe); Shannen Rae; John B. Ross (Mama I Want To Sing); introducing Zari Veres Royal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassador Yvonne provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Third Annual African History Month Exhibition


The Art Collective Presents Its Third Annual African History Month Exhibition. Spoken Word Artist, Musicians, Vocalists are welcomed. Refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


Museum Ambassador Asia Tail gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bonita High School Chamber Singers & Concert Choir


From La Verne, California. Todd Helm, director. Choral works and arrangements by Greenberg, Certon, Hogan, Young, Shank, Kirchner, Brinsmead, and Gibbs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | A Discussion of Jackie, a Play by Nobel Laureate for Literature Elfriede Jelinek


A panel discussion in conjunction with the North American premiere of Jackie, presented by the Women's Project Theater. Jackie is an intensely theatrical dissection of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the myths surrounding her well-coiffed veneer. Martin Rauchbauer, the director of Deutsches Haus at NYU, will moderate this panel discussion, which will feature the production’s director, Tea Alagic, and translator Gitta Honegger.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Other | Winter Whiskey Festival: Free Whiskey Tasting Every Day in February


A whiskey a day keeps the winter blues away. The first annual Winter Whiskey Festival offers a free tasting of at least one whiskey each day for the entire month of February. Customers will have the opportunity to sample whiskeys from around the globe: American small batch bourbons and ryes, peaty Scotches, smooth Irish whiskeys and even a new whiskey from the Bronx. Free and fun, drop by every day and take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to educate your palate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: ProQuest Historical - The New York Times (1851–2009)


Hands on using wireless laptops. Search for articles and page images in back issues of The New York Times. Find historical headlines, news stories, book, film and theater reviews, obituaries, advertisements and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | Citizen Cartography Workshop: Building a Virtual Atlas


Help build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the a set of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps. The workshop will focus on the core activity of the website: 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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5:30 pm
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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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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Avoiding Common Mistakes on Wills


Learn how to simplify the process of making a will.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | CNN's Anderson Cooper talk to author Jack Gray about his book Pigeon in a Crosswalk


Broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper interviews writer and television producer Jack Gray about Gray's new book, a hilarious and touching collection of his unique observations on life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Exhibition: Christian Philipp Müller's Elective Affinities


Drawing its title from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous novel, Christian Phillip Müller's exhibition will bring together rare archival materials from two landmark documenta exhibitions: documenta 5 (1972), curated by Harald Szeemann, and documenta 6 (1977), curated by Manfred Schneckenburger. Two metal and copper walking sticks gifted to documenta's founder Arnold Bode by Joseph Beuys begin the exhibition, which continues with a selection of letters that chart the development of works proposed for the exhibitions by artists from the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Lisa Daehlin, Soprano


With Richard Pearson Thomas, Piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Stop, Question and Frisk: Targeted Policing or Discriminatory Practice?


A panel discussion on New York City's Stop, Question and Frisk policing practices. This will bring together expert practitioners and academics to discuss this important topic. The panel discussion with will include: Robert Gangi, Director, Urban Justice Center, Delores Jones-Brown, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Heather Mac Donald, John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Reception to follow panel discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Tuesday Night Yoga


In this Basic-Level Vinyasa Flow class for adults and seniors of all ability levels, they break down the basics of individual movements and teach basic fundamentals. They are geared toward the beginner, but great for students with more experience looking to further develop basic postures. It is our intention to get you moving so that you can feel the effect of the yoga, but provide extra instruction at a slightly slower pace to help you build your yoga foundation. Yoga mats are provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Author Adam Phillips in Conversation


Adam Phillips, renowned psychotherapist, literary critic, and essayist, is the author of many books, including Winnicott (1988), On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored (1993), Darwins Worms (1999), Going Sane (2005), and the recent Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life (2012). Andrew H. Miller, Professor of English at Indiana University, and the author of Novels Behind Glass (1995) and The Burdens of Perfection (2008), will talk with him about literature, ethics, and lives led and unled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | The Significance of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Its Legacies


A talk by Sandra Divkovic, Former ICTY UN Officer, Office of the Prosecutor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin: Verdi and the Italians


The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will be a special event for the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth. Fred will share the stage with Prof. Francesco Izzo and returning guests Barbara Frittoli and Ferruccio Furlanetto, who are starring in Don Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Performance | Ala' Diab's Homeland Alakazam, a Performance of Storytelling and Music


Ala' Diab recounts his childhood in Kuwait through song and performance. 22 years on, the memory of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait tends to either fade completely or be replaced with new stories about what transpired. The presenter Ala' Diab relates his own personal account of his life in Kuwait through storytelling and musical performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Eric Manheimer discusses his book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital


Manheimer, the medical director at Bellevue from 1997-2012 and now medical director the NYU Langone Medical Center, takes the audience through the medical system from top to bottom and on a tour between life and death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Killing God, Executing Christ: Modern Weapons for Old Dreams


Lecturer Vicente Sánchez-Biosca is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Valencia (Spain) and for the last four years also at the University of Paris III. From 1992 to 2012, he was editor of Spain’s major cinema journal, Archivos de la Filmoteca. Reception to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Forum | Nonfiction Forum: Tom Lutz


Tom Lutz is the author of, most recently, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums; American Nervousness, 1903; Cosmopolitan Vistas; and Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears. He has also written many shorter works in a variety of genres. He currently serves as editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and teaches at University of California, Riverside. Moderated by Robert Polite , director of Creative Writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Ninth Avenue El: The Columbus Railroad from 1879-1939


With local historian Jim Mackin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Barbara Reich reads from her book Secrets of an Organized Mom


Frequent contributor to The Today Show Barbara Reich presents her method for streamlining and organizing everything from cluttered play-rooms to a hectic social calendar with her new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Pushing the Mop


PIT interns come together for a night of improv to prove they’re more than just your ticket takers and they’re more than just a broom. Hell, when they’re alone mopping the floors, well, they’re the funniest in the room. So come and spend some time with them, ’cause you know just what they say: nothing makes one go crazier than all work and no play…
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


With Yuri Dhara.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | Korean Animated Film: The Window (2012)


From the director of The King of Pigs comes Yuen Sang-ho’s rarely-seen first short feature. Private Jung is proud to be a member of a leading military division; but after Private Hong joins, everyone starts to get disrupted. Jung tries to train Hong, who is indifferent to everything, but he only ends up causing even more trouble. After an altercation, troubles become even more intense, leading to a shocking, powerful conclusion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Photographer Pamela Hanson discusses her career


Photographer and director Pamela Hanson’s work has appeared worldwide in magazines such as Allure, Elle, Nylon, Vanity Fair and Vogue and her corporate clients include Armani, Coach, Halston, J. Crew, L’Oréal, Lancaster, Lancôme, Liz Claiborne, Max Mara, Nikon, Tommy Hilfiger and Victoria’s Secret.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Between Pretty Places by Susan Merson & Shellen Lubin


Fighting the ghosts of the land and their own daughter, an aging ranch couple must decide if rescuing their abandoned grandchild will heal or destroy them. A musical play about the desperation, danger and drought of love in the harsh landscape of Central California. Based on a true story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Smash Class: Women's Self-Defense


SMASH is a free weekly women's self-defense class offered as a service to the women on NYC for over a decade. All women 14 years and older are welcome to attend the class as often as they like. No experience is necessary. Comfortable workout clothes, no street shoes allowed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Understanding of the Origins of Contemporary Art: Erasmus and Upheaval


Liam Gillick presents this lecture addressing the immediate aftermath of the French and American revolutions, which leads to new models of work, life and social organization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Hostias by Darren Lougee


Featuring the acting talents of: Joe Mancuso, Tim Mullins, Shetal Shah, Tara Westwood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: The Vast Mystery of Who You Are by Kim Yaged


Considered a sexual romp because of its humor and boldness, The Vast Mystery of Who You Are is an irreverent, hard-hitting exploration of love via sex parties and philosophical sparring about the nature of relationships and death via the sudden passing of a family friend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | Cafe Jazz


A performance from Jazz Arts Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Composers Spring 2013 Concert


This concert will feature performances of new works by faculty composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard String Quartet performs works by Beethoven and Mozart


Program: BEETHOVEN Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 RHODES Viola Quintet MOZART Viola Quintet in D Major, K. 593 With: Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, violins; Samuel Rhodes, viola; Joel Krosnick, cello; Roger Tapping, guest violist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Concert | The Winter Antifolk Festival


A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the presentation of live music at the East Village fixture. Some 80 artists representing the entire span of the venue's remarkable music timeline, including those whose careers were launched there,
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:59 pm
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