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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 5, 2023?

24 free events take place on Monday, June 5 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 5 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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24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, June 5, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Garment District Tour: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More
free events nyc Yiddish to the Core: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City (online)
free events nyc Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
free events nyc Venezuelan Joropo, Post-Minimalism, Free Jazz, and More
free events nyc Jazz Quartet's Tribute to Frank Sinatra
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Festival | Spirituality Week Festival


Choose from hundeds on events, both free of charge and for a fee. See link for details. Runs June 2-11, 2023.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:15 am
Free

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Garment District Tour: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More


Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park


Come on by and tap your toes to The Big Apple's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists around! Featuring special events and performances by distinguished musicians. Today's pianist: Luiz Simas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | Yiddish to the Core: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City (online)


If you attended a typical American Jewish wedding in the 1950s, you might have noticed some departures from tradition, such as a photographer buzzing around the rabbi, a floral wedding canopy, or "kosher style" catering. The modern formula varied from one wedding to another, but one thing was certain: if it was a Jewish wedding, you danced a hora. Even as Jews became increasingly Americanized and abandoned older practices, they held on to Jewish dances and dance music as an easy and accessible way of articulating their Jewish identity at a public event, in front of their family and friends. Jewish music and dance underwent significant changes during the postwar period, absorbing strong influences from American popular music and Israeli folk songs. Nonetheless, dances like the hora, freylekh, and sher remained "Yiddish to the core." For many American Jews, these dances became a symbol of cultural continuity, and one of the important elements that defined their wedding as Jewish. In this talk, Uri Schreter will explore the evolution of Jewish wedding music in the early postwar period across different sectors of New York's Jewish community. We will discuss the relationship between diverse musical genres such as klezmer, Israeli folk song, swing, and Latin music, and learn how the choice of musical repertoire intersected with factors such as social class, religiosity, and political affiliation. Speaker Uri Schreter is an interdisciplinary musicologist, composer, keyboardist, and film-editor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Creative Writing Workshop


A weekly writing session led by Jon Curley. Taking inspiration from life events, participants will be encouraged to use reflection as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh


Author Kelefa Sanneh in conversation with Joe Coscarelli of the New York Times. Kelefa Sanneh has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2008, before which he spent six years as a pop-music critic at The New York Times. He is also a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning. Previously, he was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture based at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. His writing has also appeared in a number of magazines and a handful of books, including Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z, a Library of America Special Publication, and Da Capo Best Music Writing (2002, 2005, 2007, and 2011). Joe Coscarelli is a culture reporter for The New York Times with a focus on popular music and the author of Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story. His video series Diary of a Song -- featuring Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Rosalia and more -- pulls back the curtain on how hit songs and emerging artists are made, discovered, and marketed. A Florida native and a graduate of New York University, he previously worked at New York magazine and The Village Voice. Registration required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Work of Playwright Noel Coward


Noel Coward fellow Arianne Johnson Quinn will present her work to inventory the work of playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer Noel Coward, preserved around the world. The outcome of the fellowship will be a research guide publication of Coward holdings, digitization of significant holdings, a publication related to her research, and she will also curate a case exhibition. Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the Warren D. Allen Music Library, Florida State University. She holds an MA and PhD in Musicology from Princeton University, MA in Music/Women's and Gender Studies from Brandeis University, and BA (Honors) in Music from the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the intersections between the American and British musical in London's West End from 1920-1960, particularly Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, Lerner and Loewe, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. She has a forthcoming monograph on the history of the musical from 1920-1970 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Palgrave MacMillan). Registration required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Quartet's Tribute to Frank Sinatra


This performance will feature the charismatic frontman Gianluca Guidi (son of the great Johnny Dorelli), a singer and actor of great artistic depth, and a well known radio and television personality. He will be accompanied by the great pianist Michael Kanan (Jimmy Scott, Jane Monheit, Mark Turner), double-bass player with Italian roots Alexander Claffy (collaborated with Jimmy Cobb, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Christian Scott, Wallace Roney and many others) and internationally known Neapolitan drummer Elio Coppola. Through a show titled "That's Life!", they will pay tribute to the most famous Italian-American in the history of music: Frank Sinatra. The eclectic crooner will entertain with music and anecdotes, singing many of the beautiful songs made famous by "The Voice" (from "New York, New York" to "My Way", from "That Old Feeling" to "LA is my Lady").
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Meditation & Restorative Yoga


Rejuvenate yourself with this instructor-led class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Other | Musical Chairs in the Park


Be there or be chair! Don’t miss the park’s annual and epic game of musical chairs featuring the iconic green bistro chair. Host Ophira Eisenberg, DJ Flip Bundlez, and hundreds of players vie to be the last chair standing. This year’s event will have hundreds of participants, where circles of 30 players will battle it out for a seat in the winner's circle. The finalists will compete to take home a grand prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Jazz | Venezuelan Joropo, Post-Minimalism, Free Jazz, and More


PRISM Quartet performs Venezuelan joropo, post-minimalism, free jazz, and more. Program Marcos Balter (1974-present), Yarn (World Premiere) Helen Feng, Corner (World Premiere) Adam Silverman, TITLE (World Premiere) Renee Baker, Pratigraha (New York Premiere) Alfredo Cabrera, Rogue Flare, Fly Away (New York Premiere) Reservation required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Video | Beaut: Her Blood Ran Cold (The Silent Lizards) (online thru Jul 9)


An online video premiere. Concept, script, lizard sightings and drawings by Marti Wilkerson to accompany the photographs in her exhibition and originally performed live by Beaut on October 9, 2022. Vocals and Lyrics: Marti Wilkerson Guitar: Paul Twinkle Technical Director and Video Editor: Itziar Barrio Cameras: Isaiah Davis, John Brattin, Itziar Barrio Lighting Design: Marti Wilkerson DMX Programming: Kai Sundermann WILDBLUR Master Audio Recording: Adam Wolcott Smith Production Manager: Marbles Producer: Lia Gangitano After Dark Director: Itziar Barrio After Dark Technical Associate: Caroline Mills
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Video | Beaut: Her Blood Ran Cold (The Silent Lizards) (online thru Jul 9)


An online video premiere. Concept, script, lizard sightings and drawings by Marti Wilkerson to accompany the photographs in her exhibition and originally performed live by Beaut on October 9, 2022. Vocals and Lyrics: Marti Wilkerson Guitar: Paul Twinkle Technical Director and Video Editor: Itziar Barrio Cameras: Isaiah Davis, John Brattin, Itziar Barrio Lighting Design: Marti Wilkerson DMX Programming: Kai Sundermann WILDBLUR Master Audio Recording: Adam Wolcott Smith  Production Manager: Marbles Producer: Lia Gangitano After Dark Director: Itziar Barrio After Dark Technical Associate: Caroline Mills
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | King: A Life (online)


Biographer Jonathan Eig discusses highly anticipated new book. The first major biography of Martin Luther King Jr. in decades, Eig’s new book is a landmark — a product of exhaustive new analysis and research (including recently declassified FBI files) that reveals fundamental humanity that grounded the defining civil rights activist of his century. Hear Eig and Alexander discuss the significance of King’s enduring legacy — why our understanding of King must continue to evolve, the ongoing struggle for equality and civil rights in America, stories and research that didn’t make it into the book, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Memory of Animals: Love and Octopuses


Claire Fuller's beautiful and searing novel of memory, love, survival—and octopuses. In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London—perhaps humanity’s last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers—Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper—cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Club | Tirza by Arnon Grunberg (in-person and online)


Jurgen Hofmeester once had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house with a garden in an upperclass neighborhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely daughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. But during the preparations for Tirza's graduation party, we come to know what he has lost. His wife has left him; Ibi is starting a bed and breakfast in France, an idea which he opposed; the director of the publishing house has fired him; and his savings have vanished in the wake of 9/11.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Ficciones: Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra (online thru Sep. 1)


Ficciones is an immersive concert film experience featuring Roberto Sierra's newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra, which presents a mixture of Sierra's Latin-influenced ideas and modern compositional techniques through the voice of electric violinist Tracy Silverman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Festival | Sprituality Week Festival


Choose from hundeds on events, both free of charge and for a fee. See link for details. Runs June 2-11, 2023.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Songs of the Earth Vocal Concert


Xavier Choir; Bell Choir; Dancers and Players.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Book Discussion | 2 Books on Women Writers: Undaunted / Tomorrow Perhaps the Future


Two new books focus on the influence women have had on groundbreaking writing and journalism from the mid-1800s to the present day. Brooke Kroeger (Undaunted) and Sarah Watling (Tomorrow Perhaps the Future) present portraits of extraordinary writers, artists, and journalists -- women “hungry for adventure” and eager to make their name. From Margaret Fuller, reporting from Rome on the revolutions of 1848, to Martha Gellhorn in Madrid, as Spain fell to Franco in 1948, women were on the front lines, telling the story as they saw it. Kroeger and Watling will appear in conversation with Laurie Gwen Shapiro, award-winning author and contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Film | The Stroll (2023): Documentary on Meatpacking District Sex Workers


The history of New York's Meatpacking District told from the point of view of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. They recount the violence, policing, and gentrification that lead to a movement for transgender rights. Directed by Zackary Drucker, Kristen Lovell 84 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:35 pm
Free
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