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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 6, 2011?

42 free events take place on Thursday, January 6 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 January 6 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 January . 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Other | Ice Skating in the Heart of the City


Bring your own skates and skate for free in the heart of the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

City Walk | Fort Totten, Queens Walk


Explore the area including a possible visit to the Bayside Historical Society. After walking the 2.5 miles along Flushing Bay, make a pit/lunch stop in Crocheron Park and continue to Northern Blvd. End Part 1. (Those who wish to continue to the Alley Pond Environmental Center and nature walk can take the Q-12 back to Main Street. Another option is to take the LIRR to Penn Station.) Great views of the Throggs Neck Bridge. Mostly flat terrain. Bring food and liquids. Bus ride is at least 45 minutes from Main St to Fort Totten. Wear sturdy shoes or hiking boots. Figure 5-6 hours for the day. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
$3

Workshop | MS PowerPoint Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Parade | The 34th Annual Three Kings Day Parade


Celebrates El Barrio's time-honored tradition of the Three Kings Day Parade, now in its 34th year, with the renowned procession through the streets of East Harlem. Where else can you find live camels, sheep, donkeys, music, colorful puppets, dancing, and parrandas in one fabulous event?
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Author Reading | Comedian Patton Oswalt signs his book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland


An inventive account of the evolution of Oswalt’s comic worldview.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: On & Off the Res’ w/ Charlie Hill. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Ice Skating in the Sky


Bring your owns skates and skate for free on this fifth-floor terrace-turned-ice rink.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Tour of the Exhibition Serbia - Frequently Asked Questions


Co-curator and Director Andreas Stadler will be joined by a special guest.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Featured Library Database: Credo Reference


Hands on using wireless laptops. Search over 400 dictionaries, encyclopedias, books of quotations, biographical and other reference titles from home. Subjects covered range from art, music, history, and philosophy to business, science, and technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: On & Off the Res’ w/ Charlie Hill. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: Untitled (painting) / Tulsa


Untitled (painting) is a group exhibition of paintings by artists from both the United States and Europe. Included in the exhibition are: Tauba Auerbach, Bernard Frize, Wade Guyton, Albert Oehlen, Josh Smith, Daan van Golden, Charline von Heyl, Christopher Wool, and Heimo Zobernig. Tulsa a 64-minute silent film by Larry Clark which was recently found by the artist, will be exhibited for the first time in the US. Made in Tulsa in 1968, Billy Mann and others from Clark’s seminal 1971 book Tulsa come to life in this 16mm black-and-white film footage. Much like the iconic photographs, the footage offers a glimpse into the group’s daily rituals. Clark shot the film on a rented Bolex camera and the film demonstrates his early interest in narrative filmmaking and directing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | QuietlyLoud, A Three-Person Show


A three-person show comprising paintings by Natasha Conway and Alisha Kerlin as well as sculptures by Cassie Raihl. In their late twenties, these artists have already received considerable attention through inclusions in such exhibitions as 4 New Sensations, Saatchi Gallery, London; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, and Knights Move, Sculpture Center, Long Island City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sharon Ellis: Paintings


A solo exhibition of six paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist. This will be Ellis’ second solo exhibition in New York City. Ellis’ evocative approach to landscape painting showcases a vibrant energy pulsing through the natural world. By pictorially manipulating natural environs, Ellis’ paintings touch upon the sublimity of the wild with rich hues, dramatic light sources and marked proportions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Choreographer Alwin Nikolais on Film


Screenings of works of ground-breaking choreographer Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993), introduced by dancer/choreographer/dance historian Claudia Gitelman, co-editor of The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Clarence Jones & Stuart Connelly discuss their book Behind the Dream


A look at behind-the-scenes events that led up to the writing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s immortal "I Have A Dream" speech.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Impromptu


Featuring the work of ten artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mixed Media Works: Johannes Wohnseifer’s Another Year


A new body of work focused on the themes of: light, time, dreams, and mortality. Through utilizing information and objects in the artist’s own life, Wohnseifer reinterprets texts and images from our daily surroundings by communicating their effects with our conscious and subconscious minds.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | New Landscape Guidelines Release


Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe will join Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space Deborah Marton and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability David Bragdon at a reception to announce the launch of the High Performance Landscape Guidelines: 21st Century Parks for NYC. Landscape architects will discuss their practical use in parks throughout the city. Refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: H. Lloyd Weston's Color-Concepts-Creativity


Infused with the vibrant hues of his native Jamaica, Weston's landscapes comprise a painterly, impressionistic homage to the simple beauty of nature. Whether depicting tropical flora and fauna, the play of light on water, or the rolling hills of Tuscany, Weston applies an exuberant palette and a keen sense of abstraction. Also showing: Winter Salon 2010-2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting: Hermann Amann's Fluorescence


His first show in New York, Amann presents seven paintings on paper ranging from 2005 to 2010. Using Golden’s polymer gel and fluorescent pigments, Amann’s style and technique, The New Pigmentation, reacquaints the viewer with the force of the painting medium amid the current concept driven contemporary art scene. Amann’s work, inspired by writers and philosophers such as Goethe and Derrida, includes fluorescent shapes tempered with constellations of black and white particles, dancing infinity symbols and monochromatic shapes. From the intricate sophistication of his earlier work to the simplicity in his newest paintings, Amman brings a life-long journey of abstract painting. Hermann Amann currently lives and works in the countryside of Paris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Slam: 10 Years/100 Poets/100 Poems


Writers from the AIDS Service Center NYC writing workshop gather to read their poems in celebration of the group’s 10-year anniversary. ASCNYC is a non-profit organization at the forefront of the effort to ensure that all New Yorkers have access to HIV testing, treatment, and care.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Printmaking: Joyce Ellen Weinstein's Denial


From the artist: "During a residency at Europos Parkas Open Air Museum of the Center of Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania, I observed a group of employees from a local furniture factory practicing trusting and bonding exercises. Some people were blindfolded and others walked on tight ropes attached high up on the trees. I took many photographs documenting this activity. Later when I looked at the photos, I found the imagery very startling, intriguing, mysterious and ominous, lending them to interpretations related to the human condition. I reinterpreted these images into the series of silk screen/linoleum block prints I call Denial. Also opening: Women's Nature - Members and others contribute work to an exploration of nature as seen through the eyes of women. Do women have a special relationship with nature? Come see for yourself to make up your mind. Artists: Joan Arbeiter, Marilyn Banner, Dare Boles, Georgia Christensen, Sue Collier, Sara Conklin, Pat Hill Cresson, Laura Eklund, Carol Goebel, Judy Greenwald, Sargam Griffin, Ellen Halloran, Hollis Hildebrand-Mills, Ethelyn Honig, Minako Ito, Madelon Jones, Nancy Kahlow-Curtis, Tania Kravath, Carole Kulikowski, Annette Lieberman, Anne Mondro, Perri Neri, Marian Osher, Francine Perlman, Phyllis Rosser, Ann R. Shapiro, Spitz & Pollack, Jane Stevens, Michelle Stone, Maria Torffield, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Judy Werlin, Ellen Wilkinson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Rainbow Parenting


No matter their age, sexual orientation, or gender identity, all parents want to support and nurture their kids. And all parents have questions about how to do this best. Many parents of LGBTQ youth, or who think their kid might be LGBTQ, ask themselves: how do I best prepare our home, extended family, and other institutions in our lives to support my LGBTQ child? How do I encourage my child to express themselves? How do I guide my child to communities of respect and affirmation? And how do I support my child when I have so many questions and uncertainties? Join a panel of experts and parents to discuss successes, blessings, common concerns and shared visions for a world where our children reach their full potential as human beings. Dinner Served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Stone Seal Carving: Ayako Wakahara's Tenkoku


Tenkoku is a highly sophisticated art form with more than 3,000 years of history. It requires mastery of craftsmanship, skill in calligraphy and design. Sanu Aoyama, a seminal figure in the Japanese calligraphy, refers to Tenkoku as an endeavor which requires as much skill as producing an immense calligraphic work. Wakahara uses Tenkoku as calligraphy within calligraphy, where art is created with a chisel and stone – instead of a bamboo brush and rice paper. To Wakahara, it is one of the archetypal examples of the Japanese esthetic – wabi-sabi. Placing a trace of Tenkoku on an empty white space means more than the act itself – it essentially transforms the empty space into a universe surrounding the small island of Tenkoku. Ayako Wakahara was born in Aichi, Japan in 1982. She had her first group show in 2007. In 2008, she exhibited her works at Consulate General of Japan in New York. She lives and works in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Genealogy 1: An Introduction


Hands on using wireless laptops. Exploring your family history? Learn how to trace your roots in this introduction to genealogy. Discover library and web resources for genealogical research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Joan of Arc: The Maid of the Upper West Side


Learn the fascinating story behind Anna Hyatt Huntington's statue of Joan of Arc on Riverside Drive with independent researcher Valerie Thaler.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | On the MOMA Exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century


Deborah A. Goldberg explores the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the twentieth century, a period when numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of drawing to a critical examination and expanded the medium's definition in relation to gesture and form. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from the reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed line across the plane into real space, thus questioning the relation between the object of art and the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Writers Philip Dray and Siri Hustvedt read their work


At the Hands of Persons Unknown, a history of lynching in America, made Philip Dray a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2003. His powerful voice on behalf of progressive causes and history—stripped of beguiling mythology—has continued in four other books, including one for kids. Just published in 2010, Dray’s There Is Power in a Union traces the American labor movement from the girl strikers of Lowell, Mass., to our anti-union computerized, decentralized, global workplace. All his works pose vivid challenges to concepts of “individualism” and “self-reliance” in the public sphere. Siri Hustvedt’s fiction and nonfiction always probe the psyche, her own, her characters’ and that of actual persons, usually artists. In her 2010 book The Shaking Woman, Hustvedt explores a personal neurological disaster: recurring seizures. Insights gained from wide reading, contact with researchers probing mind and brain, and a stint teaching writing to patients in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic power her investigation into what made her a “shaking” woman. The result challenges many conventional interpretations provided by poetics as well as psychiatry and neurology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | An Evening with The Paris Review


Editors Lorin Stein, Robyn Creswell, Thessaly La Force, and David Wallace-Wells of "the enduring lion of American literary magazines" (New York Times) discuss the challenges--and the opportunities--of publishing fiction and poetry in an online age. (And tell us why they keep doing it in print.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Moby Dick by Herman Melville


Mad Captain Ahab seeks revenge on an enormous white whale in this classic of American literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Phoebe Hoban discusses her book Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty


Bestselling writer Phoebe Hoban will discuss her comprehensive and authoritative full-length biography of Alice Neel's life. The biography provides a captivating look at the complex artist whose iconic personal portraits and paintings of urban scenery captured a social consciousness that belied her own counter-cultural beliefs. Her art also portends many of the important movements to come throughout her lifetime, including the suffrage movement, the upheaval of the Great Depression, the bohemian revolution of the 1960s, Civil Rights and the rise of feminism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Rachel Machacek discusses her book The Science of Single


One year of dating. One year of looking for love. One uproarious and touching memoir.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Roseanne Barr, Emmy-winning sitcom star, reads from and signs Roseannearchy


The comedienne and actress discusses the humor of everyday life with musings on more serious topics as class warfare, feminism, and Kabbalah.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Suzanne Corso discusses her book Brooklyn Story


Actress Lorraine Bracco interviews author Suzanne Corso about her compelling novel. It's a special event you won't want to miss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The New Yiddish Film


Eric Goldman will speak about the renaissance of Yiddish cinema that began in the 1980s and continues today. This new and emerging film form is taking place in Western Europe, Israel and the United States. The lecture will include excerpts from many of these films. There will be a book signing following the talk, in conjunction with the publication of Goldman’s revised and expanded book Visions, Images and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Take a Trial Tango Class


In this 45-minute class, learn all the secrets of tango to be able to go out and have fun on the dance floor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$5

Performance | Sxip’s Hour of Charm, An Unpredictable Variety Show


Circus music composer, performer and impresario Sxip Shirey (Luminescent Orchestrii, Amanda Palmer/Evelyn Evelyn) hosts an unpredictable variety show featuring some of New York City’s most intriguing performing artists, including Butoh-inspired contortionist Jonathan Nosan, the raunchy, funny and heartfelt comedy and storytelling of Greg Walloch, Butt Kapinski and Snaps performing A Clown Noir, new choreographed sword traditions by Samurai Sword Soul, the rapturous singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz, and other surprises.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Performance | God Tastes Like Chicken Comedy Show


The brainchild of erotic balloon artist John Murdock, the cast of God Tastes Like Chicken serves up society's sacred cows medium rare, with improv, sketch comedy, stand-up, chickens, and heresy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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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
11:00 pm
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Concert | Christmas Concert

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Classical Music | Works by Mozart, Dvorak and More

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