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28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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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 more 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. This tour takes place every day at 10am. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend more 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. Gracie Mansion is 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 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. Start times: 10am, 11am, 2pm, 3pm. This event occurs every Tuesday. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

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 more on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar. This event recurs every Tuesday. less
   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 more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays. less
   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 more choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free

Talk | Feeling Law: Queer Subjects and Reform Agendas


With: Senthorun Raj, Scholar in Residence at the School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global more Justice less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 more 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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays. less
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Get Photoshopped! Photo Retouching


In this class you will use the Photoshop to modify digital images. Learn how to use the clone stamp tool, more duplicating backgrounds and much more. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Nick Golebiewski's Literary Greenwich Village


Literary Greenwich Village features photographed ink drawings of historic literary sites in Greenwich more Village. In his distinctive style of pen-and-ink sketch situated precisely within a photograph’s frame, Golebiewski’s exhibition captures authors’ and poets’ buildings and apartments. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Is Putin's Popularity Real?


A talk with Timothy Frye, Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. Vladimir Putin has managed to more achieve strikingly high public approval ratings throughout his time as president and prime minister of Russia. But is his popularity real, or are respondents lying to pollsters when asked about Presidential approval in Russia? With three colleagues, Tim Frye conducted two surveys in Russia in January and March 2015 specifically designed to detect dishonest responses to this question. The results have important implications for the prospects for political change in Russia as well as they reliability of survey research in the region. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Organ Recital


With: David Hurd of New York, NY.
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5:00 pm
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Reading | The Seated Stage: Pygmalion


Do you love plays? Do you enjoy reading aloud? This play reading group meets once a month and participants more take turns to read aloud from the selected play. Next play is George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. less
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5:00 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 more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays. less
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Job, Primo Levi and The Search for Roots


With Manuela Consonni of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In The Search for Roots (1981), Primo more Levi discusses four books that shaped his intellectual and individual itinerary. Defining the horizon of his perspective are Job and the black holes. In his reflection on Job's heavenly monsters, Levi addresses the themes of deliverance through laughter, the unjust suffering of man, a man's stature, and, most importantly, deliverance through knowledge. Why does Levi choose Job? Should we accept the reasons he gives in the preface? In spite of the fact that the book is not part of his formative readings, he instinctively attributes to it an archetypical role because of his connection with Judaism and, even more profoundly, because of its universal place in the understanding the relation of man to pain and evil. In ENGLISH. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Phillip Brian Harper discusses his book Abstractionist Aesthetics: Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture


Reviewing exemplary instances of visual art, music, cinema, theater, and literature, Phillip Brian Harper’s more new book argues that there are limits to the social-critical efficacy of realist representation, and posits non-realist abstractionist aesthetics as a powerful alternative mode of African-Americanist critique. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Six solo shows: photography


Six artists will present their works including Miana Jun's touching work on the aftereffects of breast more cancer. less
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6:00 pm
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Film | Canadian Documentary: Terrence Turner's Parviz Tanavoli, Poetry in Bronze (2014)


Parviz Tanavoli, Iran’s leading modern sculptor, is the subject of this documentary. Tanavoli’s life more and work are portrayed through conversations with the artist, vintage film footage and photographs, and interviews with leading scholars and curators. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | economic challenges faced by dancers in NYC


Gibney Dance will discuss the economic challenges faced by New York City dancers and how Gibney Dance more will combat these issues through its new initiative, Dancer’s Economic Empowerment Program (DEEP). Business skills are a natural part of being an artist; DEEP’s aim is to develop these skills and to equip artists to make sound decisions for themselves in regards to financial conditions and self-management tools. less
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6:30 pm
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Film | Roger Weisberg's First Degree (2015): Documentary and Discussion


A new documentary about a college behind bars that prevents released inmates from returning to prison. more 25 min. Following the screening, political comedian John Fugelsang moderates a panel with producer/director Roger Weisberg, the founder and first executive director of The Fortune Society David Rothenberg, and two of the remarkable subjects profiled in the film, Sean Pica and Clarence Maclin. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Joseph Douglass, guitar 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Jae Young Bea, violin, and Yelin Park, more violin less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | Rabbit Hole: A College Production


Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire. Directed by: Janis Powell. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything more a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | An Image Dump: Sleeping Reputations and Narratives of Meaning from Five Decades of Collecting


Professor Monroe Price presents a speed tour through a wide variety of images, a collection assembled more over 50 years together with his wife, art historian Aimée Brown Price, which consists mostly of works on paper: children's drawings from a Japanese interment camp in China, examples of Kitaj's "autobiography" drawn from screened book covers, commissioned portraits of US soldiers in Iraq found in Baghdad's Green Zone, and works of obscure artists who need reputational upgrading (including large apocalyptic woodcuts, WWII ink drawings, 1920s cross country travelogue, works illustrating transformations in Russian propaganda policies, the output of a famous Mexican print workshop and transformations in Hungarian communist aesthetic practice). Monroe Price is on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and at Cardozo Law School in New York. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Character in Art with Artist David Salle


David Salle, a painter, writer, set designer and filmmaker, looks at "failed" paintings and asks, "How more does one form an artistic identity?" less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elliot Ackerman discusses his book Green on Blue


Aziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains more of eastern Afghanistan. They are poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. One day a convoy of armed men arrives in their village. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Real Estate for Birds: Performance Art as Workshop


Looking for ways to talk to your neighbors about gentrification? Real Estate for Birds is a performance more art score (set of instructions for a live art project) which centers around literally trying to teach the concept of landownership to birds. It’s a fun, light hearted tool you can use to push your neighbors to think critically about the concept of land ownership and how it influences gentrification. Participants will work together to do the score using Theater of the Oppressed-inspired acting exercises and found object sculptures. Professional creatives and novices are equally welcome. Over the evening, participants will learn about ways to effectively take advantage of the opportunities that currently exist, explore our relationship to the larger history of land ownership in the United States, and imagine ways our existing opportunities could be leveraged to cultivate the kind of scenarios we would like to see happening 50-100 years from now. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Open Mic | Super Storytellers


No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York's best established and emerging authors more and storytellers. < This month's theme is Hot...or NOT-- Stories of when things got busy or went bust; feeling frisky or frozen out, the best you ever had...or that one time at (fill in the blank)...you're still in denial about. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | A Conversation with Paul Gemignani, Stephen Sondheim’s Musical Director


Stephen Sondheim’s musical director for the last 40 years sits for an intimate conversation about his more exceptional career. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Chamber works by Mendelssohn, Zemlinsky, and more


Merlin Ensemble Wien (Martin Walch, Violin; Till A.Körber, Piano; Luis Zorita, Violoncello) with Mendelssohn's more Italian Journey program. The Merlin Ensemble Wien was guests of festivals and concerthouses such as Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikfest Bremen, Musikverein und Konzerthaus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Center Vienna, Carinthian Summmer, Berliner Ensemble, Opera Leipzig, NDR Hannover, Teatro Fenice, Teatro Comunale Bologna and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and Washington and many others. Reservations are required and can be made three weeks in advance of the performance less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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