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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 29, 2023?

19 free events take place on Sunday, January 29 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 29 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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19 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, January 29, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour
free events nyc Illusions: An Exercise in Collective Storytelling
free events nyc Jewish Life in the Late Ottoman Empire
free events nyc Organ Recital in a World-famous Church
        

Birdwatching | Park Birding


Explore New York City's largest park with Joe McManus. In addition to passerines and raptors, a variety of waterfowl can be found in the waters off Orchard Beach and on Hunter and Twin Islands. During low tide on sunny days, seals are usually visible. Scopes may come in handy if you have them. Dress with extra layers, as you will be near open water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations 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
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10:00 am
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Hike | Winter Tree ID Hike in Old Growth Forest


A guided hike along the park’s white trail as Urban Park Rangers teach you how to identify the tree and shrub species of this old growth forest community.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Museums | Special Viewing: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper


This limited-viewing exhibition will feature works on paper by el Greco, Goya, Fernaõ Gomes, Volkmar Machado, and Lázló.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Hike | Winter Tree and Plant ID Hike


Trees have a special place in our environment. This is a hike in the park in search of different tree species and learn some ways to identify these trees during the changing season.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Opening Reception | 2023 Battery Park City Annual Art Exhibtion


All are welcome to enjoy the inspired work created by participants of art programs. Meet artists and the artists/educators who lead the programs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | DomesticanX: Exhibition Walkthrough


A gallery tour to explore and discuss the on-view exhibition that explores the concept of “domesticana,” first theorized by artist, scholar, and critic Amalia Mesa-Bains in the 1990.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Play | Illusions: An Exercise in Collective Storytelling


Ivan Viripaev's play is an exercise in collective storytelling about people you've never met. Two men and two women untangle the lives of two couples they've never met based on the traces they've left behind: a pile of broken lamps, tattered chairs, and overturned refrigerators, all left to rot and rust on a sidewalk. Except...who left them? Who were these couples? What have they left behind? And who have they left it for? This is a directing thesis production by current student Andrew Freeburg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Opera | Dark Tale Inspired By a True Story


Follow one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism in the early 20th Century largely because of the LDS Church’s renunciation of polygamy. The male founders of the Mormon faith (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, chief among them) loom large in American history, but this new show puts the women front and center. The narrative draws inspiration from the flurry of media attention surrounding the two most infamous raids on FLDS compounds (the 1953 raid at Short Creek, AZ and the 2008 raid at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX) as well as the stories of the over 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Set against a red-earthed landscape filled with revelations, dark prophets and white temples stretching towards heaven, chart one woman’s quest for self-discovery in a world where personal identity is forbidden. Directed by Laine Rettmer. Conducted by Geoff McDonald. Cast: Betsy Podsiallo, Sofia Durante, Melissa Hartman, Ziwan Nie, Marcella Astore, Meredith Gray, Emily Summers, Gabriella Aguilar, Joohyun Kim, India Rowland, Sunwei Li, Isabel Silva, Luna Park, Carolyn Boulay, Christopher Lau.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Juan Francisco Elso: Por América: Exhibition Walkthrough


A gallery tour to explore and discuss the on-view exhibition that examines the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Play | Macabre Tale Set in Ireland


It's August 1939. Europe's boiling up to war, but Ireland's having none of it. On a day trip to Drogheda, Dubliner Tadgh Steele is captured by a dairy farmer named Murphy and locked in a cowshed. Is Tadgh a poet as he claims or - as Murphy suspects - a Nazi spy? Makes no difference to Murphy's slop girl Dolly, who falls in love with the handsome stranger and casts him as the hero in her mind's eye. But there's only one way off the farm. Directed by Nick Cotz
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Jewish Life in the Late Ottoman Empire


The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, the food is sandy: but you see so much more when you're eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late and post Ottoman society, and "vernacular" picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering how Sephardic Jews relaxed and ate in nature at a time when so much was shifting around them. It also asks whether the scattered, globally diasporic, family-owned archive of the Sephardic photo album can be united to restore a lived, dusty, lusty image of late and post-Ottoman Jewish life. Speaker Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Serene organ meditations in an intimate venue


Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital in a Cathedral 


The largest Cathedral in the world presents noted English organist and Artist-in-Residence David Briggs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Play | Servant Stories from Acclaimed American Play


Ronan Noone's Thirst is set during Eugene O'Neill's classic Long Day's Journey Into Night, where passion, wit and beauty bubble to the surface as two Irish servant women and an American chauffeur pass that day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family's residence in 1912. "...an intense emotional experience." --Times Argus "Sublime...a stunningly offered story."--Brattleboro Reformer Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, first published posthumously in 1956. The play is widely considered to be his magnum opus and one of the finest American plays of the 20th century. It premiered in Sweden in February 1956 and then opened on Broadway in November 1956, winning the Tony Award for Best Play. O'Neill posthumously received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Long Day's Journey into Night. The work concerns the Tyrone family, consisting of parents James and Mary and their sons Edmund and Jamie. The "Long Day" refers to the setting of the play, which takes place during one day. The play is autobiographical.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital in a World-famous Church


Internationally recognized American organist Nicole Keller plays a 45-minute program on an instrument tauted as one of North America's most significant pipe organs. Ms. Kellar has concertized at St. Patrick Cathedral, New York and Cathedrale Notre-Dame, Paris, among many others. She specializes in eclectic programs which pair familiar and obscure repertoire. Ms. Kellar serves on the faculty at The University of Michigan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:15 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poetry by Candlelight 


New York-based poets will share their own original work and one poem by another writer that has influenced them creatively. Sponsored by the New York Poetry Society; wine and light refreshments will be offered. Featuring: Matt Starr, Jiwon Choi, Larissa Murray, Cierra Martin, Leo Ibragimov, Ahmed Elguindi, Jane Scheiber, Allison Boenig, Lisette Boer, Emi Bergquist, Liz Bondulich, Lars Montanaro, Keighly Baron, Anna Winham, Jane LeCroy, Avi Tutman, Ada Elechi, Allison Sylvia, and Kyle Studstill. Co-hosted by Matt Proctor and Tova Greene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Play | A Story of the Irish Troubles


Elizabeth, an RUC widow, walks into a Sinn Fein office seeking assistance with anti-social behavior in her area. There she sparks up a friendship with community officer Frank. This brief encounter challenges their pre-conceptions and beliefs, their family and political loyalties. Those You Pass On The Street explores the complexities of dealing with the legacy of conflict, especially when that conflict is local and personal. Commissioned by Healing Through Remembering and first produced by Kabosh Theatre Company, both from Northern Ireland. Director: Ciaran Byrne Cast: Mazvita Chanakira, John Duddy, Labhaoise Magee, and Ciaran Byrne Produced by Origin Theatre Company & Ciaran Byrne
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Musical | Broadway Actors in a Tony Winner's Musical Comedy

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Classical Music | Works by Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Ravel, and More at a Landmark Venue

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