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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 17, 2013?

36 free events take place on Monday, June 17 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 17 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, June 17, 2013

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Workshop | Spring Into Yoga


Teachers trained in different styles will be giving classes throughout the afternoon, with the scenic park lake in the background. Please bring your own mat, as there will be none provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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 | Beginner Japanese Language Class


Instruction by inlingua. Learn a new language or brush up on your skills in these standalone classes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 am
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Jazz | Luiz Simas, Brazilian/American Jazz 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 "fresh, smart and witty". His latest CD, Mata Atlantica (Atlantic Forest) Piano Suite, was released by Lydjul Music in 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Film | Oscar-Nominated Documentary: Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury (2000)


Sound and Fury takes an unexpected approach to the "medical miracle" film by examining the political and emotional turmoil that erupts between brothers over the cochlear implant that might allow their deaf children to hear. 80 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

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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2:00 pm
$6

City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   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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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Video | Jacqueline Jonée: Video Verité


A video presentation featuring musical highlights and memorable comic numbers from the past five years by the world’s première concert pianist drag diva, Jacqueline Jonée. The program will feature a special live encore performance by Jonée and members of the JouJou Jacquettes Philharmonic Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Teach Yourself: Learn a New Language


Hands on using wireless laptops. Discover a wide selection of self-study resources to help you learn a new language or brush up on one you’ve studied before. Class covers resources available through NYPL and free websites.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Group: The Attic by Danilo Kiš


The first novel by Serbian writer Danilo Kiš is composed variously of prose, letters, journals entries and lists. It is the antic account of a young man, the pseudonymous Orpheus, his love interest, also known to us by the pseudonym Eurydice, and his colorful friend Wiseass, as they attempt to come to terms with life and death, love and art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Video | Jacqueline Jonée: Video Verité


A video presentation featuring musical highlights and memorable comic numbers from the past five years by the world’s première concert pianist drag diva, Jacqueline Jonée. The program will feature a special live encore performance by Jonée and members of the JouJou Jacquettes Philharmonic Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Mornings at Ten to Four by Luca De Bei


Every morning at ten to four, three youths – a construction worker, a Romanian immigrant, and a girl – meet at the same bus stop. The lives of the three characters are told through the vivid slang of the slums.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Rock Hall of Famer Darlene Love performs and discusses her memoir My Name Is Love


Pop music icon Darlene Love will perform tonight. And then she will discuss her memoir. Priority seating with purchase. Call store for details.
   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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Other | Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation's 22nd Annual Awards Ceremony


Honoring businesses, individuals, institutions, and organizations in recognition of their significant contribution to the legendary quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Hosted by humorist Calvin Trillin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Photographer George Steinmetz discusses his book Desert Air


This illustrated presentation explores the world's “extreme deserts,” which receive less than four inches of precipitation per year. The author has spent 15 years on his epic body of work, the first comprehensive photographic collection of the world's deserts, capturing surreally beautiful visions of deserts, from China’s great Gobi Desert to the Sahara in northern Africa to Death Valley in California.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Reading: Bad News! i was there… by JoAnne Akalaitis


A staged reading comprised of "messenger" speeches from classic plays, ranging from Euripides to Racine, in adaptations by distinguished translators. This new work by JoAnne Akalaitis explores this dramatic device, central to the structure of many great tragedies, invented by the Greeks around 520 B. C. Bad News! will be performed outdoors by a company of seasoned New York actors — Bill Camp, Karen Kandel, Joan MacIntosh, Elizabeth Marvel, Efthalia Papacosta, Rocco Sisto and Nora York — with accompanying music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Third Rail Projects' Roadside Attraction


Created by Bessie Award-winning Third Rail Projects (Jennine Willett, Tom Pearson, Zach Morris, Artistic Directors), Roadside Attraction is a versatile new work housed in and around a vintage pop-up camper that has been retrofitted to become the stage and setting for a new dance-theater performance which incorporates the intimate, quirky, stunning and startling choreographic sensibility that is the hallmark of Third Rail’s critically acclaimed work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Bloodworks 2013 Play Reading


Youngblood's annual reading series features 23 new full-length plays from the members. Tonight's playwrights: 7pm - Emily Chadick Weiss 9pm - Zhu Yi
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Full Metal Literature: The War Novel


Full Metal novelists Robert Olmstead (The Coldest Night), Ben Fountain (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk), and Ben Fountain (Fobbit), discuss the war novel. Olmstead's book focuses on the Korean War, the other two on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jeffrey Ourvan reads from his book The Star Spangled Buddhist: Zen, Tibetan, and Soka Gakkai Buddhism and the Quest for Enlightenment in America


Jeffrey Ourven describes Buddhism as the fastest growing religion in America and sees enlightenment as a real possibility for all in this lifetime.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Outdoor Strength Training


Brooklyn Strength leads challenging and fun outdoor fitness classes that focus on strength training and aerobic intervals in and around the Park. Meet at Pier 6, but make sure to arrive on time because the class is mobile! All fitness classes are one hour long. Registration opens 30 minutes prior to class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Mom's Gift by Phil Olson


Mom has been dead for 11 months and shows up at her husband’s birthday party as a ghost with a mission. Like Clarence in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” she has to accomplish a task to earn her wings. Only what the task actually is, is a mystery. There are so many things to fix. The problem is complicated by the fact that the only person who can hear or see Mom is her eldest daughter, Kat, who has been ordered by the court to spend Dad’s birthday with him as part of her “anger management program.” FREE Reading and Wine Reception. A panel discussion will follow with prominent New York producers and general managers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Shameless: Queer Ladies Pride Reading


As Pride Week 2013 approaches, Melissa Febos (Whip Smart) curates a lineup of queer women writers to share shameless stories of sex, love, rebellion, redemption, and pride. With readings from: Suzanne Gardinier, Robin Carson Cloud, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Jennifer Baumgardner, Shelly Oria, Melissa Febos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: A Voluptuary Life by James Scruggs


James Scruggs was awarded a grant from Franklin Furnace in August 2002. In March 2003, he became an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Film | Sydney Pollack's Oscar-Winning Tootsie (1982): Acting's a Drag


With Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray and Teri Garr. An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera. 116 Min. The lawn opens at 5:00pm for blankets and picnicking. Film begins at sunset (between 8pm and 9pm).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Theater Improv II Performance


Performers delve into challenging scene work, character creation, storytelling, physical/verbal expression in this group performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Forum | What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money & Morals, with Alan Alda, Liev Schreiber, Vanessa Redgrave, and More


Are there some things money can't buy? Do we have obligations to each other as citizens? Join in an evening of theatre and public debate. This one-night-only Public Forum will include Shakespeare readings about money and justice by Alan Alda, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Raúl Esparza, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber, and others, as well as a lively town-hall conversation with the audience conducted by Harvard professor and best-selling author Michael Sandel about the way the language of money has been taking over our lives – the subject of his recent book, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Woolly Mammoth Panic Attack Comedy Show


A bizarre, perturbing odyssey into the mind of a deeply troubled soul. In this debut standup show Matt Nagin proves he's darker than the average Jew. Opening act: Mike Kramer from Comedy Central.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 pm
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