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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 18, 2014?

38 free events take place on Wednesday, June 18 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 18 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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Workshop | Park FitClub: Boot Camp with The Rise NYC


Energize your day with a workout before work. Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back - and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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Workshop | Morning Crunch Fitness


The Crunch Gym will be holding FREE fitness classes. Schedule: Mondays: Yoga, Sunrise Salutations Tuesdays: Breakfast Bootcamp w/ Personal Trainers Wednesdays: Wellness Wednesday with a Yoga/Pilate’s fusion Thursdays: Throwback Thursdays w/ Retro-Robics Fridays: Zumba or Dance classes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour


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
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Chess, Checkers and Board Games


Stop by to play some brain games like chess, checkers, and other board games. All ages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Early Bird Game Social


Join to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Early Bird Game Social gives you a chance to start the day in the park, and warm up your mind with games that get you thinking like dominoes, Scrabble, cards or Boggle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood 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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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
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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing nature in the parks and gardens with an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 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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Author Reading | Jenny Mollen reads from her book I Like You Just the Way I Am


The actress and Twitter star discusses her brand new hysterical memoir. Mollen is writer who tells it like it is, and refuses to acknowledge boundaries of any kind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park: Deanna Witkowski


Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a former guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, pianist/composer/bandleader Deanna Witkowski has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless imagination” (All Music Guide). Moving with remarkable ease between Brazilian, jazz, Afro-Cuban and classical music, Witkowski approaches her work with the heart and technique of a daring improviser. Her most current album, From This Place, features her liturgical jazz with musicians including John Patitucci and Kate McGarry and led to a second appearance on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Lunctime Concert with the Schola Cantorum


A 30-minute midday concert with the Schola Cantorum, the professional choir of the church.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:40 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.
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1:00 pm
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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: 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Park Walk | Park Garden Tour


Offering constantly changing floral displays, Battery Park City’s parks and gardens contain more than 400 species of perennials, shrubs, and trees. On these garden tours, horticulturists share their considerable knowledge of plants, pointing out the species that give each garden its own identity and style.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | 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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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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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure Al Fresco: Drawing Outdoors


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Lecture | Spatial Analyses for a Stronger, More Resilient New York


Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that New York is much more vulnerable to extreme weather than we previously thought. The City’s resiliency plan, A Stronger, More Resilient New York, presents a multi-layered approach to rebuilding after Sandy and for protecting against future events that is ambitious, achievable and based on the best available science. Erika Lindsey will speak to the GIS analyses done during the development of the plan that informed policy recommendations, and will discuss how the office has already taken steps, with many partners, to advance many of its key initiatives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2014)


James Broughton is the most famous, inspiring, and interesting poet you might never have heard of. Born in Modesto, California in 1913, Broughton lived in San Francisco most of his life, made 23 wildly different experimental films and wrote 23 books, mostly poetry. He received a special award for poetic cinema from Jean Cocteau in the 1950’s, made the quintessential hippie film, “The Bed,” in the 1960’s, and became a bard of Gay Liberation in the 1970’s and 80’s. 83 min. There will be a reception before the screening from 6-7pm with an opportunity to view some of Broughton’s own films. Special guest Justin Vivian Bond will have a discussion of the film with Jon Gartenberg, Robert Haller, and Jim Hubbard.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Surveillance City: The War on Drugs in Urban Neighborhoods


The 2014 Nathan Levin Lecturer, Alice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, spent six years documenting the complex web of warrants and surveillance in Philadelphia which leads to long-term damage to working class and low-income communities. Goffman will be in conversation with Jeff Smith, assistant professor of politics and advocacy, and Jamelle Bouie, politics, policy, and race reporter, Slate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Universal Thump, Avant-Garde Popsters


Greta Gertler and Adam Gold, who have toured the US and Europe extensively, mine an overstuffed banquet of musical styles to create an exciting alchemy of avant-garde pop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Volleyball After Work


Leave your workday behind and join other adults for good-natured and fun pick-up games of VOLLEYBALL overlooking the Hudson River. Everyone gets to play. Participants will also learn the basic rules and strategies of volleyball. Scorekeeper and volleyballs are provided. No experience is necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Whatever Happened to the Gay Revolution?


When gays resisted police oppression at the Stonewall Inn on June 27, 1969, they were launching a sexual revolution that would liberate gays and lesbians and other sexual minorities and allow them to create their own utopia. They wrote the rules, chose the spaces, founded the neighborhoods, organized the bars, confronted the AIDS epidemic, and declared independence from heterosexual society. But heterosexual society fought back and sought to overthrow the sexual and cultural freedom of this utopia. Do gay marriage, service in the military, gay adoption, gay ministers and rabbis, and heterosexual stereotypes mark the end of the gay revolution? With Dr. Ronald J. Brown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Yoga: Evening Salute to the Sun


End your day with relaxing Hatha yoga in a beautiful sunset setting. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Yogamaya Yoga


Yogamaya invites you to flow, sweat, chant, and breathe with us - to move dynamically, with grace and precision - here on the mat and out in the world. Yogamaya Yoga is a workout for your body, mind, and spirit. Classes are limited to 75 people. Bring your own mat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | A concert by the legendary DISBAND, followed by a book presentation of the brand-new anthology, Performing the Sentence: ....


A concert by the legendary DISBAND, followed by a book presentation of the brand-new anthology, Performing the Sentence: Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts by editors Carola Dertnig and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and series editor Andrea B. Braidt, Vice President of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Active in Manhattan's downtown art scene from 1978-82, the members of DISBAND screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City’s new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Self-described as "the all-girl conceptual art punk band of women artists who can’t play any instruments," the group developed new songs during the summer of 2011 during a MacDowell Colony residency in New Hampshire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Meryl Gordon reads from her book The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark


Huguette Clark, daughter of a copper baron, is the subject of Meryl Gordon's new biography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | Nicole Atkins, Indie Pop Singer


Nicole Atkins, a New Jersey native, was recognized shortly after her debut by Rolling Stone as one of the top ten artists to watch in 2006. Known for her “smoky vocals and dishy delivery,” Atkins has been the recipient of three Asbury Music Awards in 2002 for “Top Female Vocalist”, “Best Solo Act”, and “Song of the Year”, as well as an ASCAP award in 2005. Bring a blanket for lawn seating (no chairs are allowed).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Say It to My Face: Confronting the Comments Section


The first rule of writing on the internet is to expect that someone will respond with a comment that they would NEVER say to your face. The second rule of writing on the internet is to never acknowledge the comment that someone would NEVER say to your face. But most people who are writing on the internet aren't interested in rules, which is why Tyler Coates and Jolie Kerr invite you to join them, along with some of New York media's finest writers — Mikala Bierma, Jessica Coen, Foster Kamer, Miles Klee, Maris Kreizman, Andrew Krucoff, Tom Ley, Alex Pareene, Erin Gloria Ryan, Beejoli Shah, and Cole Stryker — as they take back the comments section and regale you with some of the meanest, dumbest, most ridiculous online comments that strangers (or friends!) have published about them. SAY IT TO MY FACE will guarantee a few laughs and, hopefully, an abundance of emotional catharses.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Film | Documentary: Nick Bentgen and Lisa Kjerulff's Northern Light (2013)


Competitors in a 500 mile-long Michigan snow mobile race come to life in this gorgeous and subtle cinéma vérité portrait of contemporary working-class America. 105 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour


New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Film | Gore Verbinski's Oscar Winner Rango (2011): Lizard Lawman


Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. 107 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, with Tony Award Nominee Lily Rabe


Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe return as the wise-cracking, would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick in this beloved romantic comedy. The park becomes sun-drenched Sicily at the turn of the last century, where the heat of summer ignites the fevered passions of lovesick ladies in corsets and pining gentlemen spying from the verandah.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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