21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 20, 2015
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new ...
more >> friends. All players welcome.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
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.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ...
more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
Join a Museum Ambassador for an in-depth look at the unique architecture and exquisite beauty of the ...
more >> Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the museum. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1907, the Custom House is a National Historic Landmark. The building’s interior splendor includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Valencia-born engineer Raphael Gustavino and murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh, as well as monumental marble arches and columns. Tours include a visit to the Collectors Office, not normally accessible to the public. The Collectors Office features woodwork by Tiffany Studios and can be seen on Boardwalk Empire and in films like Spike Lee’s Inside Man.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Marcelle Thiébaux began this project upon learning that some Germans and Americans were executed in ...
more >> Hitler's Germany by decapitation. Two Prussian baronesses, left destitute by the War of 1914-1918, were rewarded as the daughters of heroes with trusted secretarial jobs. They were paid less than men, naturally. Finding they could earn extra money selling drafts and carbons from the office wastebasket, even papers from the office safe, they became traitors to the Reich. For these women, their actions allowed a more genteel, less humiliating way of subsisting than prostitution, a desperate recourse for women of all social classes. They were naïve. A buyer of their secrets was an enterprising Polish spy, Jerzy Sosnowski. He lived in Berlin in the guise of a playboy, but trained by Warsaw.
A fictional plot presented itself to the writer: to bring in an American as the protagonist and to endanger the American. This innocent abroad became The American Girl, in homage to one of speaker Marcelle Thiébaux’s favorite novelists, Henry James, author of The American.
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Help NYPL build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the set ...
more >> of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps by overlaying digital images of historical maps onto a contemporary digital map through a process called 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.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Practice of meditation and slow-moving exercise. Eliminate stress, enjoy peace of mind.
New York City, NY; NYC
Join a Museum Ambassador for a guided tour through the temporary exhibition. This exhibition presents ...
more >> the work of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, who documented life in rural Oklahoma from the 1920s to the 1960s. The tour will discuss Kiowa pictorial traditions, the formation of Oklahoma, Native participation in the U.S. Armed Forces, and the American Indian Exposition, as documented by Poolaw.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
While continuing to explore language and perception with her familiar word-objects, Nancy Dwyer’s exhibition ...
more >> showcases new work that employs vernacular graphic elements to conflate context and object. By manipulating scale, color and repetition- integrating printed wallpaper, abstract form and furniture-like elements- each part’s expected role is switched. This reversal of background and foreground- i.e. form and content- allows for a new way to ‘read’ the work and its meaning.
Nancy Dwyer has exhibited internationally since the early ‘80s. A core member of the Pictures Generation, she was also a cofounder of Hallwalls, the non-profit organization created as a cooperative for artists in Buffalo, NY in 1974.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Starring: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, and Allen Jenkins.
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope ...
more >> to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
90 min.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Ramsch und Rosen are two Austrian musicians, Julia Lacherstorfer and Simon Zöchbauer, who rummage for ...
more >> old tunes among old paintings, manuscripts, and between the lines of old letters, finding a treasure trove of material underneath the layers of dust.
Their music bridges past and present - a past where the clocks tick differently and a present where we can connect to the entire world and choose from an immeasurable number of opinions, and pick the most precious, most suitable items for our individual character. The result: A type of unique music that is inseparable from the people who perform it. It needs to take place within them, earnestly, yet with a wink.
The playground they are moving on contains traditional tunes and songs from Austria as well as improvisations and their own written tunes.
Editor's Pick
James Brown, New York City's chief economist, will be giving a talk on his view of The Economy for 2015.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Editor's Pick
The Train to Crystal City focuses on the experiences of two American-born teens who survived the ordeal ...
more >> narrated by its author, Jan Russell.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A well-thought-out idea is the starting point of almost every great drama. Through a combination of in-class ...
more >> exercises and creative feedback, you will learn useful methods and tricks to maximize the dramatic potential and individuality of the premise, story, main characters and central conflict of your screenplay or play. With Neal Rowland.
Editor's Pick
The Alwan 3rd i Awards Competition aims to present the very best in recent short films and video art ...
more >> that increase awareness of the creative vitality and sociopolitical realities of the Middle East, North Africa and South and Central Asia as well as their global diasporas.
7:00 pm
$5-$10 suggested donation