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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 28, 2013?

40 free events take place on Friday, June 28 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 28 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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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, June 28, 2013

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Concert | Demi Lovato, Teen Pop Act


The singer and actress will stop by to promote her fourth album, Demi. She has recently been in the Top Ten with its first single, "Heart Attack." Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | Phillip Phillips, Singer-Songwriter Who Won American Idol


The Georgia native has released his first album, The World from the Side of the Moon, which has gone gold. His first single, "Home," has sold three million copies. Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Concert | The Doobie Brothers, Soft Rockers


Since 1971, the Doobie Brothers have sold 40 million records worldwide. They have had more than 25 different lineups, but have rarely changed their soft rock approach shown in hits like "Listen to the Music" and "Jesus Is Just Alright."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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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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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
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Concert | Lunchtime Listen: Harlem Chamber Players


Lunchtime sounds even better now. Enjoy the ambient acoustics every last Friday of the month. Bring a bag of yummies and drink in the reverberations. Today, the Harlem Chamber Players play chamber music for all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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Jazz | Joel Forrester, Contemporary, Boogie-Woogie, Trance and Stride Pianist


Joel Forrester is a contemporary two-handed piano player, essaying the stride, boogie-woogie, and trance styles. He wrote the theme to NPR's Fresh Air, studied composition with Thelonious Monk, co-founded the Microscopic Septet, and did music for the early films of Andy Warhol. On the first Sunday evening of each month, Joel plays for silent movies (of his own choosing) at the Gershwin Hotel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | Ben Affleck's Oscar-Nominated Gone Baby Gone (2007): Little Girl Lost


With Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman. When a little girl is lost on the tough streets of Dorchester in Boston two detectives must risk their sanity and even their lives to take on the case. 114 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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

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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Film | Joe Wright's Oscar-Winning Anna Karenina (2012): Tolstoy Adaptation


With Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen. Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. 130 Minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

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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Dance Performance | Booking Dance Festival Edinburgh


A showcase of several dynamic dance companies as a preview of the dance festival at The Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland, featuring BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, Dzul Dance, Synthesis Dance Project, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Meet the Filmmakers: AnnaSophia Robb, Liam James, and Oscar winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash of The Way Way Back


Join Oscar-winning screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash ("The Descendants") and actors AnnaSophia Robb ("Soul Surfer") and Liam James as they discuss their new film, "The Way Way Back." Written and directed by Faxon and Rash, the film is a funny and poignant coming-of-age story of an introverted 14-year-old boy finding his place in the world while on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and his daughter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings by William Daniels


In his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Daniels will present new oil on board paintings, each of which investigates the composition of an arch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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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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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway


The Friday Night Book Group meets in the Cafe to discuss this month's selection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 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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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
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: Chez Deep's Common Visions


Drag sisterhood/performance art collective Chez Deep starts off Pride Weekend with a performance of Common Visions — a ritual drag transformation with special guests Domonique Echeverria, Linda Simpson and Mss Vee. Chez Deep is the New York City-based drag sisterhood of performers Sam Banks, Hari Nef, Alexis Penney, Colin Self and Bailey Stiles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Random Access Theater presents Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing


Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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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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Concert | Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Psychedelic Rock Band


Unknown Mortal Orchestra is Ruban Nielson, bassist Jake Portrait and drummer Riley Geare. The band released their debut self-titled album in 2011 on Fat Possum Records. They quickly received critical acclaim including Pitchfork who gave the album an 8.1, describing that with "an expert use of space rare for such a lo-fi record, UMO manages a unique immersive and psychedelic quality without relying on the usual array of bong-ripping effects."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | BMI Jazz Composers Workshop


BMI Jazz Composers Workshop presents its 25th Annual Concert. Featuring The BMI NY Orchestra, under the direction of Jim McNeely.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Christine Turner's Homegoings (2013)


Harlem's own Isaiah Owens, proprietor of the Owens Funeral Home, and his family are the focus of this thoughtful cinematic portrait by New York filmmaker Turner. 58 min. Preceded by: Storycorps: A Selection of Short Films, The Rauch Brothers, 2010-2013, approximately 10 mins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Legendary South African Choral Group


Ladysmith Black Mambazo, still led by its indomitable founder Joseph Shabalala, first won international fame through its work on Paul Simon’s 1986 album, Graceland, but the group has been active for more than half a century. Today they are the living embodiment of Zulu song, and a mobile academy of South African culture. With the soulful singer and guitarist AURELIO MARTÍNEZ, the standard bearer of Garifuna music and the first black member of Honduras’ National Congress.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Film | Steven Spielberg's 3-Time Oscar Winner Jaws (1975): Chomp! Chomp!


With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. Universal Studios 124 minutes Doors open at 7:30PM, film begins at sunset, weather permitting. Space is limited. Seating is on a first come first serve basis, and there is no admission after 8:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | blessing the boats: the remix, a Reimagining of an Original Play by Sekou Sundiata


blessing the boats: the remix is a powerful reimagining of one of Sekou Sundiata’s acclaimed plays. Originally presented as a solo performance, director Rhodessa Jones revisits Sundiata’s story of life-threatening illness and recovery as told through the unique interplay of three next-generation poet/performers: Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Mike Ladd. These three compelling voices revive Sundiata’s incisive writing, finding the universal in the particular and exploring the ritual and complexities of the play. This remix encompasses language, music, and visual projections of healing and hope. Video projections by Sage Marie Carter, set by Mimi Lien, lighting by Roderick Murray, sound design by Garth MacAleavey, and costumes by Oana Botez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | French Cinema: Alix Delaporte's Angel and Tony (2010)


Tony, a fisherman in a small harbor in Normandy, crosses paths with Angèl, a beautiful but emotionally stunted woman with a dark past. 83 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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