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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 7, 2013?

45 free events take place on Friday, June 7 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 7 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, June 7, 2013

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Concert | Acts from The X Factor: Little Mix / Emblem3


Little Mix are a British four-piece girl group formed in 2011 exclusively for The X Factor TV show, where they became the first group entry to win in the program's history. After winning, they released their single, a cover of Damien Rice's "Cannonball". They later released their debut album DNA in 2012. Emblem3 is an American three-member band from Huntington Beach, California consisting of brothers Wesley Trent Stromberg, and Keaton Robert Stromberg, and Drew Michael Chadwick. They signed with Columbia Records after finishing fourth on the second season of The X Factor. Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Eddie Money, 70s/80s Rock Singer


Brooklyn-born Eddie Money has released 11 albums and scored a couple of Top Ten hits with "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Walk on Water."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Lionel Richie, Pop Singer-Songwriter


Since 1982, when Richie left the Commodores to start his solo career, the Alabama-born has racked up 12 Top Ten hits, including four number ones - "Say You, Say Me," "Hello," "All Night Long," and "Truly." Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary. Hing also teaches Tai Chi at the China Institute and Sacred Sounds Yoga. He has practiced martial arts for over 30 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Tour | The Bronx Tour: Williams Bridge, Norwood


Approximately 4 miles, moderate to brisk pace, but with frequent stops. Explore this north-central part of the Bronx, starting with the recently renovated Gun Hill elevated station, then the 52nd Precinct Station house, 204th Street, the Valentine-Varian house. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
$3

City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   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 | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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" 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
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Yoga at the Library


Free Yoga Classes at the Library bought to you by Shape up NYC. Expert Instructors. Please bring your own mats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | The Art of the Park Tour


Walk and learn about the intricate design of the Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Todd Robbins, Ragtime/Tin Pan Alley Pianist


Todd Robbins plays Ragtime and classic Tin Pan Alley songs. He is often heard on Monday nights playing piano with Woody Allen's Jazz Band and has recorded two albums with that group.
   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

Workshop | Learn Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher (2012): Military Mystery


With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. 130 Minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Emma Sky, Violinist


An hour of live violin performance by Brooklyn-based artist Emma Sky. Emma will perform classical as well as contemporary pieces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photos: Ralph Toporoff's The Leap of the Leopard: 1963-2013


Photos from the Set of "Il gattopardo" On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Luchino Visconti's masterpiece. The opening will include the screening of A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, an hour-long documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D’Amico, Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others, produced by the Criterion Collection, followed by a Q&A with Ralph Toporoff.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Connecting The Dots...


Artists: Mira Alibek, Beth Dary, Amanda C. Small, and Margaret Withers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Joe Simko's Neon Graveyard, Original Artwork of Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages


Joe Simko's solo art exhibit features original artwork of Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages done for the Topps trading card company. Other artworks on exhibit include screen-printed show posters for rock bands and paintings of Cereal Killers, the artist's own trading card company art. Free beer at the opening event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Michael Kamber signs copies of his book Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq


a book party and signing with author Michael Kamber and photographers featured in the book With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by the world's top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking visual and oral history of America's nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

City Walk | The High Line Sunset Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park. Reservations Required RESERVE NOW
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Theater | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a Madcap Romp Through the Bard


Susane Lee, Hudson Warehouse’s Assistant Artistic Director, will direct the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, a tireless trio of actors who cavort and careen their way through the Shakespeare canon in 90 minutes including tackling Hamlet in under one minute. This madcap take on the classics will surely delight.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Jazz | Chuck Braman Jazz Band


Chuck Braman was born in Cleveland in 1959, and moved to New York City in 1989. He has had a varied career in jazz as an editor, critic, speaker, teacher, theorist, author, drummer, and bandleader.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy Rush: Standup


Featuring standup comedians who have been on Comedy Central, NBC, MTV and YOUTUBE. Comedians of all types! Black, white, lady, gay, asian, even Canadian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
No cover

Film | Diane Crespo & Stefan C. Schaefer's Arranged (2007): An Unusual Friendship


Stars Zoe Lister Jones, Francis Benhamou, Mimi Lieber. Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages. 90 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Film | John Ford's 2-Time Oscar Nominee They Were Expendable (1945): The War in the Pacific


Stars Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mark Goldblatt reads from his book The Unrequited


A writer of newspaper columns and a professor at FIT, Mark Goldblatt also has a lively career as an author. His latest book is a mystery involving two reporters trying to get to the truth about a convicted killer/rapist's guilt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Open Roads: Italian Cinema on Stage


A roundtable with representatives of the artistic delegation of Open Roads 2013, which includes: Marco Bellocchio, director, Dormant Beauty Maria Sole Tognazzi, director, I Travel Alone Daniele Ciprì, director, It Was the Son Pappi Corsicato, director, The Face of Another Daniele Orlando, actor, The Face of Another Elisa Fuksas, director, Nina Guido Torlonia, director, Handmade Cinema Salvatore Mereu, director, Beautiful Butterflies Susanna Nicchiarelli, director, The Discovery of Dawn Moderated by Stefano Albertini and Antonio Monda. This event will be in ENGLISH.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Outdoor Theater: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull


New York Classical Theatre presents the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
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Concert | SHOW LOCATION HAS CHANGED***Punk Rock: The Oblivians / Ex-Cult


Desperation, the long-awaited new album from acclaimed garage punk trio the Oblivians, will be released June 4 on In The Red Records. This is the first record from the band in over fifteen years and follows 1997’s …Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron. Taking cues from the psychedelic noise of the 1960’s, the art-damaged post-punk of the late 1970’s, and the aggression and immediacy of early 1980’s US Hardcore, Ex-Cult has curated a sound that audiences nationwide find accessible, yet not quite like anything else they’ve heard. BECAUSE OF THE RAIN, THE SHOW HAS A NEW LOCATION (LISTED BELOW).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Other | Sunset Singing Circle


Raise your voice and join singer/guitarist Terre Roche as the sun sets over the River for enchanted evenings of folk songs, rounds and chants. Novice and experienced singers of all ages are welcome. Bring a favorite song.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Theater 2020 presents Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream


This much-loved Bard play portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Walter Mosley signs copies of his book Little Green


When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress—a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright—he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Simone di Bagno & Michele Capozzi's T.V. Transvestite (1982)


Before Paris Is Burning, there was T.V. Transvestite. Shot in 1982 by filmmakers Simone di Bagno and Michele Capozzi, the documentary captures a fierce House of LaBeija ball thrown at a Harlem Bingo hall. "Lost" and not screened in public for over two decades, this rare film shows such legends as Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey and Sugar in a period before vogueing and at the advent of AIDS. 60 min. Post-screening Q&A to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Performance | Nat Towsen's Downtown Variety Hour


With: * Chris Gethard (IFC, The Other Guys) * Bob Holman (founder of the Bowery Poetry Club) * Downtown History (an educational presentation) * Standup from your host, Nat Towsen * Free comics from Forbidden Planet * New York Trivia
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Film | French Film: Francois Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (1969)


Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet. Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not look like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her. 123 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Theater | Shakespeare Under the Stars: The Comedy of Errors, with Jesse Tyler Ferguson


This new production concerns two sets of identical twins who were separated as children and now live as master-servant pairs in rival neighboring cities. When one pair crosses the border to find the other, so begins an exquisitely enjoyable mess of mistaken identity, wrongful imprisonment, questionable flirting and general mayhem. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Bobbito Garcia & Kevin Couliau's Doin' It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC (2012)


Doin' It In The Park explores the history, culture and social impact of New York's summer b-ball scene, the worldwide "Mecca" of the sport. In New York City, pick-up is not just a sport. It is a way of life. There are 700+ outdoor courts, and an estimated 500,000 players, the most loyal of which approach the game as a religion, and the playground as their church. 83 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Musical | A Heart-Warming Musical

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Classical Music | Piano Works by Robert Schumann

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