11 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, January 27, 2019
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
New York City, NY; NYC
A free fiction writing workshop led by Cullen Thomas and presented by the Gotham Writers Workshop.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
A journey through the vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City’s most notable landmarks, including ...
more >> the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
A tour of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the National Museum of the American Indian ...
more >> in New York. Tour highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, and sculptor Daniel Chester French; viewing the Collectors Office with Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140-ton Rotunda dome by Rafael Gustavino.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bloomingdale School of Music's Intermediate Orchestra, Guitar Orchestra, Broadway Ensemble and Chamber ...
more >> Groups will perform.
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Forty-five minute organ meditations celebrating the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. The program ...
more >> features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from September 9, 2018 to May 26, 2019.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In this groundbreaking work of science fiction -- winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards -- a lone human ...
more >> ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
The Orchestra Now; Zachary Schwartzman, conductor. Program Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) The Enchanted ...
more >> Lake Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Firebird Suite Ravel (1875-1937) La valse Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel) About the Performers The Orchestra Now (TŌN) is a group of more than 60 vibrant young musicians from 14 different countries around the globe: the United States, Bulgaria, China, France, Hungary, Malaysia, Mongolia, Peru, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Venezuela. All share a mission to make orchestral music relevant to 21st-century audiences. Zachary Schwartzman has conducted around the United States, in Brazil, England, Bosnia, and Mexico. His orchestral performances have been featured on NPR, including a national broadcast on “Performance Today.” He was associate conductor for two seasons with New York City Opera, as well as conductor in their VOX series, and has been associate/assistant conductor for fifteen productions at Glimmerglass Opera.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, reservation required
Pianist Victoria Schwartzman performs works by Beethoven, Haydn, Ravel, Messiaen, Shostakovitch. Victoria ...
more >> Schwartzman performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. Victoria has appeared at the Music Mountain Festival with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, at Summit Music Festival with Dmitri Berlinsky, at Bargemusic, in the Gessner- Schocken concert series in Cambridge, WMP Concert Hall, and the Nicolas Roerich Museum concert series in New York City. As a member of the Yanvar Trio, she was a prizewinner in the Val-Tidone Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the Zinotti International Chamber Music competition, both in Italy.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, reservation required
Editor's Pick
Hailed as “a great organist” displaying “phenomenal technique and sheer musicality” (Bloomberg ...
more >> News), James Kennerley of Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church is a multi-faceted musician, working as a conductor, keyboardist, singer, and composer. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum’s MetLiveArts series, Lincoln Center among others.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Lauren Willig discusses her book The Glass Ocean, a novel by the New York Times bestselling authors of ...
more >> The Forgotten Room, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White. A captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required