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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 16, 2013?

37 free events take place on Wednesday, January 16 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 16 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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Other | The Goodbye Chilly. Hello Sunny Skating Party


Greater Fort Lauderdale will bring sunshine and warmth to New Yorkers with a takeover of the Rink. The Goodbye Chilly. Hello Sunny event will transform the rink into an island paradise featuring lavish tropical décor and free ice skating. The free “skating party” will feature bikini-clad ice dancers, street teams dispensing “warm hugs,” summery beach music, swaying palm trees, beach umbrellas and warming stations to defrost between skating.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

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
Free

Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom” Tour


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free

Concert | 2012 ChamberFest: Works by Beethoven and Lutoslawski


Program: LUTOSLAWSKI String Quartet; Siwoo Kim, violin; Francisco Fullana, violin; Danny Kim, viola; Jay Campbell, cello BEETHOVEN Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20; Fabiola Kim, violin; Jocelin Pan, viola; Tavi Ungerleider, cello; Corey Schutzer, bass; Jenny Ney, French horn; Anton Rist, clarinet; Ryan Wilkins, bassoon The Juilliard School’s 12th annual ChamberFest features 8 FREE concerts in six days of ensemble music-making by 95 Juilliard musicians and 3 Pre-College musicians in 20 ensembles, coached by faculty members in intensive sessions during the winter break.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | How to Create Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photographs and Videos


More and more people want to bring their cameras into the water. Some just want snapshots in the family pool while others want to document the underwater world for magazines, books and the internet. Join underwater photographers Larry Cohen and Mike Rothschild as they talk about the use of cameras when used underwater. They will go over simple Point and Shoot systems to very sophisticated systems for DSLR cameras.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Featured Library Database: Mango Language Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Hola! Ni Hao! Bonjour! Konnichiwa! Dobryi den'! Come try out the Mango Languages program and start learning one of more than 40 languages today. This is a conversation based language learning program with a built-in recording option. Record your voice and compare your speech to the narrator’s to hear your progress.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Workshop | Intro to Adobe Illustrator


Adobe Illustrator can be insanely useful for creating graphics for web, print, or anything. Unfortunately it’s not very intuitive for beginners to learn. In this seminar we’ll show you the fundamentals of Illustrator in a way that makes them approachable for someone who’s just getting started. Experience with another Adobe graphics app will help, but is not required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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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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3:00 pm
Free

Film | Robert Siodmak's Oscar Nominee The Killers (1946): Based on Hemingway's Story


Starring Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster & Ava Gardner. Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and Investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Group: Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin


Book discussion group members must reserve copies of each title through the Library's catalog system. Please reserve your copy by visiting your local branch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free

Workshop | College Funding Strategies Workshop


Join a discussion on choosing the right college funding strategy for you and your family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 3 Exhibitions: Alexandre Singh / Ignacio Uriarte / Ishmael Randall Weeks


The exhibition in the Main Gallery is Alexandre Singh: The Pledge, on view from Thursday, January 17 to Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The Pledge, the first North American museum exhibition of works by Singh, is comprised of his new series of Assembly Instructions. Also on view during this period are Ignacio Uriarte: Line of Work, inspired by Uriarte's former career in business administration the pieces showcase the aesthetics of the office and its travails; and Ishmael Randall Weeks: Cuts, Burns, Punctures, a meditation on recent Peruvian history in the form of a double slide projection using found slides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
$5

Opening Reception | Nouveau to Modern: Transitions in Art and Design


This exhibition gathers an array of works from the Allan Stone Collection, including decorative art, furniture, glass, painting sculpture and drawing, as well as African art, that together represent how changes in visual expression manifested from the late 1800s to 1945. Like the period of flux from which these works emanate, this exhibition allows the works to interact organically, evincing stylistic interconnections, formal influences and theoretical exchange. Included are works by Alfred Boucher, Harry Bowden, Manierre Dawson, Willem de Kooning, Andre Derain, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Franz Kline, Gaston Lachaise, Georges Lavroff, Elie Nadelman, Reuben Nakian, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Storrs, Van Dearing Perrine, and A. A. Weinman, with decorative works from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, Jean Besnard, Carlo Bugatti, Joan Busquets, Antoni Gaudi, Lalique, Loetz, Sevre and Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as African sculpture from the Makonde, Mende, Nafana, Pende, and Songye.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Open Sesame, an Exhibition on the Invasion of Kuwait


Featuring work by: Ganzeer, Jeanno Gaussi, Rheim Alkadhi, and Makan Collective (Diala Khasawnih & Samah Hijawi). In the evening of August 2, 1990, a family of four, vacationing in Greece was driving through the mountains on the island of Crete. Someone turned on the radio and the news announced, "the lands of Kuwait are invaded." The father slapped himself and shouting incoherently turned the car around and went back to the hotel. He asked the hotel owner for a radio, started making phone calls and soon thereafter the family flew back to Athens and from there to Jordan. Kuwait was no longer their home. The participating artists in Open Sesame take the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 as a starting point. Using material collected from people who left Kuwait twenty-two years ago and were interviewed for the purpose of this exhibition, the artists work with personal mementos such as housewares, letters, and diaries along with the interviews themselves. In their reflection and reaction to this moment, they bring in their own histories, circumstances, and geographies to the story. This exhibition presents a very personal narrative, oscillating between the fictional and the real with the aim of documenting a moment, or parts of a moment, that quickly escaped.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Artist Talk: Deborah Kass


Leading curator and critic Robert Storr joins influential artist Deborah Kass for a wide ranging informal conversation on the occasion of the publication of her first monograph Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After (Skira Rizzoli 2012) in conjunction with her mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Defending Jacob by William Landay


Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | How Can Dance Artists Help Shape the Future of the City?


Center Line is a series of informal talks about timely topics of interest for dance artists and audiences such as space, access, education, residencies, and community engagement. The through line of this year’s discussions will be “Back to the Future,” aiming to facilitate an ongoing conversation about the future of different aspects of the dance world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe Illustrator


Adobe Illustrator can be insanely useful for creating graphics for web, print, or anything. Unfortunately it’s not very intuitive for beginners to learn. In this seminar we’ll show you the fundamentals of Illustrator in a way that makes them approachable for someone who’s just getting started. Experience with another Adobe graphics app will help, but is not required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


Diana Lin, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


Diana Lin, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Bob Spitz discusses his book Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child


Spitz is the award-winning author of The Beatles, a New York Times bestseller, as well as seven other nonfiction books and a screenplay.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Ann Leary reads from her book The Good House


Ann Leary, author of the memoir An Innocent, A Broad and the novel Outtakes from a Marriage, reads from her new novel, a story about a middle-aged New England real estate broker keeping a secret from everyone including herself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Next to Love by Ellen Feldman


For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Positively Awesome


Abbi Crutchfield (VH1) and Andrew Singer (Atom TV) bring comedy swagger to this amazing stand-up variety show. Guests include outstanding talent with numerous national TV credits. Each show features a signature freestyle, giveaways and surprise guests. The most fun you can have in an hour! It’s Positively Awesome!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Poetry Reading | First Blues: Rags, Ballads, Harmonium Songs, Chanteys & Come-All-Ye’s


A musical soiree to celebrate a vinyl and digital reissue of Ginsberg’s First Blues. The work was originally released as a double LP back in 1983, and as a CD in 2006. Produced by legend John Hammond Sr., this record of songs is a collection of studio sessions from 1971, 1976, and 1981 and included the likes of Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, David Mansfield, Happy Traum, David Amram, Steven Taylor and Peter Orlovksy. To commemorate this reissue, a limited run of 500 seven track vinyl that mimics the original style down to the newspaper insert will be available that night and online. Join Allen Ginsberg's friends, collaborators, relatives and co-conspirators Thurston Moore, Ambrose Bye, CA Conrad, Steven Taylor, and others for a night of poetry and songs in one of New York's quintessential spaces to breathe new life into First Blues in 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Free Comedy Shows


7:00 Ca$h Only! & USA 8:00 Family Haircut & Birds 9:00 Super Nice & Someday the Cake 10:00 BODY HEAT & The Faculty 11:00 Improdome
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Tony-winning actress Patti LuPone performs from her CD Far Away Places: Live at 54 Below


The spectacular Patti Lupone performs songs from her latest CD, accompanied by musical director Joseph Thalken on piano. It promises to be a very special evening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | 2012 ChamberFest: Works by Mendelssohn and Schubert


Program: MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in C Minor (1820); Han Shi, violin; Stephanie Galipeau, viola; Wenting Shi, piano SCHUBERT Octet in F Major, D. 803; Sophie Pariot, violin; Joo Eun (June) Lee, violin; Anna Hopes, viola; Madeleine Bouissou, cello; Cécile-Laure Kouassi, bass; Taylor Peterson, French horn; Saerom Kim, clarinet; Remy Taghavi, bassoon The School’s 12th annual ChamberFest features 8 FREE concerts in six days of ensemble music-making by 95 of the college's musicians and 3 pre-college musicians in 20 ensembles, coached by faculty members in intensive sessions during the winter break.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Piano Recital


Tonia Miki, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | The New York Festival of Song


The New York Festival of Song celebrates their 8th season of residency at Juilliard with an evening dedicated to the world of operetta-witty, charming music from England, France, Spain, Austria, and America by composers ranging from Emmerich Kálmán and Frederico Moreno Torroba to Arthur Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | “Old Soul Revival” Concert


WITH DEREK CRUZ & OLD SOUL REVIVAL BAND. The “Old Soul Revival” is a free concert event on every Wednesday night. Talented live bands from all over come for a special intimate showcase, and concluding the night with a tremendous jam session. Bring a friend or two and spend your Wednesday night here. Featuring: ADRIEN REJU, THE NEW VELVET, TRACY THORNE, ANNA HARRINGTON, BRETT GLEASON, PLUS MORE TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Open Mic Night


Try out your playing skills with Jazz Combos members.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Hump Day!


HUMP DAY! is the bi-weekly open mic that provides upcoming stand-up comics with a supportive environment where they can throw material on the wall and see what sticks. Each comic will get 6 to 10 minutes, giving them the breathing room to cultivate a full set, nail down what works and throw out what doesn’t. The comic who gets the biggest laughs is guaranteed a spot in an upcoming mic, and the runner up receives a free beer- but EVERYONE is obligated to group hug. That’s for sure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
$1
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