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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 2, 2010?

44 free events take place on Wednesday, June 2 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 June 2 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 June . 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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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
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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

Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing in the parks and gardens with a professional artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade”


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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

Discussion | Green Acres, Green Gardens


Whether you have an atrium, yard, terrace, or a plant, learn useful gardening tips by Maureen Hackett and a host of writers and specialists in the field. Panel: George Pisegna, Director of Horticulture, Horticultural Society of NY; Peter Kukielski, Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden Curator, New York Botanical Garden and Author of Sustainable Rose Garden: Exploring 21st Century Environmental Rose Gardening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Luiz Simas, Brazilian/American Pianist


Brazilian/American pianist Luiz Simas is a versatile performer who feels totally at ease with both the music of his native Brazil and the American genres of jazz, ragtime and stride. Keyboard Magazine has described his playing as "sassy, clear and vibrant," and his music as sounding "fresh, smart and witty."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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

Jazz | Midtown Jazz


Featuring Holli Ross, singer, and Gene Bertoncini, guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$7 donation requested

Workshop | Featured Database: Biography Resource Center


Hands on using wireless laptops. Find information on more than 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search for a specific person by name or use biographical facts, such as occupation or nationality, to identify relevant individuals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Workshop | Market Research Information Sources


Overview of selected sources, both print and electronic, for finding market research and reports.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour…..and it’s Free! Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories is just waiting to be peeled away.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Other | Oral Cancer Screenings


Screenings are on a first-come first-served basis. No appointment is needed. Testing is quick and painless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “Amble Through the Ramble”


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure al Fresco Drawing


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Rock & Country: Thought So


"Thought So does a gently rockin’, rootsy thing." - Time
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Statuesque


A new exhibition which brings together a dynamic group of six international artists--Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhabha, Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, and Rebecca Warren--whose work reinvigorates the tradition of figurative sculpture. Featuring ten major works of art, this exhibition marks the New York debut of each work included and is also the first time this international group of artists has been shown together.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Ming Fay discusses her work



   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Communicate with Confidence Part 2: Body Language


Join Michelle Edery of Toastmasters for this second workshop on communicating. This workshop focuses on body language: your smile, hand gestures, body movement, and unconscious habits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Everybody's Dance Class with Larissa Velez-Jackson


Explore the simple movement patterns that com­prise traditional dances like the tango, lindy, samba and boogie woogie. Experience these dances' inher­ent similarities and the nuance of their differences. Bring comfortable clothes for a possible communal sweat. Open to dancers and non-dancers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Folk Rock: Jeremy Udden's Plainville


The band Plainville is Udden's newest project and features a more folk-influenced twist, featuring Udden on sax, backed by a unique combination of pump organ/rhodes, banjo/guitar, bass and drums.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Word-Less


Featuring live performances, photography, video, sculpture and installation works by Michael Paul Britto, Brendan Fernandes, Duron Jackson, Fabienne Lasserre, Jason Lujan, Rashaad Newsome, Min Oh, Roxana Perez-Mendez and Carolyn Salas. Word-Less is an exhibition that explores aspects of “blind” communication: narratives transmitted though gesture and/or symbolism rather than the written word. With its deliberate disconnect, the title of the show emphasizes and plays on ideas of tension and connection. Some works are an emphatic expression of this tension, while others suggest the displacement or negation of the written narrative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Bradley Rubenstein's The Order of Angels


Rubenstein'&#128;&#153;s fifth solo exhibition in NYC, displays his continuing interest in expanding the parameters of representing the body's endless possibilities and posits Rubenstein's depiction of Freud's &#128;&#156;imaginary anatomy. Psychological test drawings, the works of children, elements of animal and sea life are combined with carefully depicted portraits and figure studies, then deconstructed and rebuilt in compositions of handmade oils on wooden panels. Rubenstein has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, The Pollock-Krasner Award and a grant from The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. His works are in the permanent collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Volleyball After Work


Join other adults for good-natured games of volleyball. Scorekeeper and balls provided. No experience necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

Talk | Artists' Residencies That Change Lives: Meet The Artists


Learn about creative opportunities. Cheryl Young, executive director of The MacDowell Colony, and Courtney Bethel, director of admissions, will speak about the Colony's free residency opportunities. Visual artist Gisela Insuaste, interdisciplinary artist Nicolas Estevez Dumit, and poet Frank Ortega will speak about the application process, a typical day at the Colony, and the importance of a residency at MacDowell in their own professional development.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dance Lesson | Capoeira Class with Luando


Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Maggie Jackson reads from her book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age


An award-winning author and Boston Globe columnist who writes often about the social impact of technology on our lives examines the rise of an attention-deficient modern culture, marked by split-focus, social diffusion, frenetic movement and superficial thinking. Among other subjects, she explores the cultural history, anatomy, psychology, and plasticity of attention, and relates the remarkable new neuroscientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus in a world of speed and overload.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | €urope’s Money: Has the Success Story Come to a Turning Point?


Andreas Stadler, Eric Frey (Der Standard), Helene Schuberth (Austrian National Bank), and Irene Finel-Honigman (SIPA-Columbia University) discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Euro and the European Union as a whole.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | American Idol finalist David Archuleta signs copies of Chords of Strength


Archuleta tells his allegedly inspiring personal story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Life Lessons with Lydia Love


Sex work has provided contortionist and gender bender Lydia Love some life lessons. Please join her for a frank and educational conversation about her first year as a sex worker, about radical sex-positive feminisms, and about the stigmas associated with sexual liberties.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Discussion | Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson


Ever ponder the mysteries of the universe? Join Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, for a casual conversation about stars, planets, the universe, and beyond. In this special SciCafe, he will answer questions from the audience for the duration of the program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Rebecca Chace reads from her book Leaving Rock Harbor


On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her parents leave their simple life in Poughkeepsie to seek a new beginning in the booming city of Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Frankie’s father finds work in a bustling cotton mill, but erupting labor strikes threaten to dismantle the town’s socioeconomic structure. Frankie soon befriends two charismatic young men—Winslow Curtis, privileged son of the town’s most powerful politician, and Joe Barros, a Portuguese mill worker who becomes a union organizer—forming a tender yet bittersweet love triangle that will have an impact on all three throughout their lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Simon Rich reads from his book Elliot Allagash


Rich the youngest-ever staff writer for SNL, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, author of Ant Farm and Free-Range Chickens and now, with this latest, a novelist. This book is a funny story (with spot-on dialogue) of money and power and youth in Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Truth Be Told Documentary Festival 2010


Short documentaries made by this year’s students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel lead a Q&A session with the artists following each screening. A public reception with students and faculty follows the opening evening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Discussion with the New York Philharmonic's Susan Graham


In discussion with WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon, opera superstar Graham will speak about her upcoming concerts of French music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | The Daily Show's Samantha Bee reads from her book I Know I Am, But What Are You?


Laugh out loud with essays by the most senior correspondent of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Comedy Drama: what happens during the mother of all delays at JFK Airport


   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Regular: $35
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Concert | Opera on Tap


Opera on Tap-ers fulfill the operatic stereotype that everyone dies in opera! Yes, it's true. Many great operatic characters across centuries and cultures have the writing on the wall written for them and we're prepared to present their sad and fatalistic stories all month. Luckily, despite the tragedy of their fate, they usually sing beautiful music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
No cover

Theater | The Subjective Theater Company's Swallow


Can love come in a pill? Is decreased romantic satisfaction a chemical imbalance that can be solved with a prescription, or is it a personal failing? Swallow explores how modern relationships are both hindered and influenced by society’s idea of love and courtship when a pharmaceutical company invents a love drug called Amorex and assembles a panel of experts (a.k.a) “love gurus” to administer the test amongst unassuming couples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Anime at Nite:The Phantom of Baker Street


Young Conan Edogawa possesses, perhaps, the keenest eye for detail of any living detective. Will it be enough to catch the most notorious serial killer of all time? Trapped in a virtual recreation of 19th century London, Conan is pitted against none other than Jack the Ripper! The only chance for survival is to follow in the footsteps of his hero – Sherlock Holmes – and crack a case that’s gone unsolved for over a hundred years. Will Conan apprehend the infamous Phantom of Baker Street?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:15 pm
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Screening | HBO Show Preview: The Neistat Brothers


A special sneak preview of the first two episodes of The Neistat Brothers, a handmade home-movie TV show on HBO, created by Casey and Van Neistat. 8:00pm: Doors Open 8:45pm: Live music by Keepaway 9:00pm: Episodes 1 & 2 of The Neistat Brothers 10:15pm: Meet the stars at a reception and enjoy complimentary drinks courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
Free

Performance | Volatile Organic Compounds, with Ty-lör A. Boring


The pleasure & pain of flavor: a short examination of how taste, smell, and chemistry effect our nervous system through volatile organic compounds. By rearranging these odorants and combining them we can increase our enjoyment or disgust of eating.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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