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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 25, 2014?

51 free events take place on Tuesday, March 25 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 March 25 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 March . 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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51 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 25, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Former President Jimmy Carter signs copies of his book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
free events nyc The Clash of Values in the Modern World and Prospects for Eurasian Integration
free events nyc Tackling Urban Poverty Through Research, Data and Innovative Design
free events nyc Play Reading: Killing Spiders by Barbara Lebow
free events nyc Great Thinkers of Our Time: Harold Evans
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Tour | 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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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: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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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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Other | Sweeten Your Spring Event


Visit for demonstrations, samples and tips on how to make your Spring ever so sweet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Signing | Former President Jimmy Carter signs copies of his book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power


The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights. This is President Carter’s call to action.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

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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Lecture | The Clash of Values in the Modern World and Prospects for Eurasian Integration


A talk by Alexander Lukin, Deputy Director of the Russian Diplomatic Academy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Discussion | Theological Que(e)ries


Come and hear the tale of Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish, two men of the Jewish Talmud whose relationship might be classified as “queer.” Whatever your knowledge of issues of sexual orientation, gender roles, and gender identity in Judaism and traditional Jewish texts, you are welcome to attend this discussion. This will be led by Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, who holds a BA in Women’s Studies from Harvard University and an MA and PhD in Performance Studies from NYU.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | Breakthrough Innovation and Global Economic Growth


A discussion with Alec Ross, senior advisor for innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
   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
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Master Class | Master Class: Margo Garrett, collaborative piano


This collaborative piano masterclass provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Nature Talks: Remarkable Fishes of New York Harbor


New York Harbor is home to an immense array of fishes, many of which have great historical, commercial, and recreational value. Discover the diverse marine and freshwater fishes that inhabit the water off Battery Park City with an emphasis on the giants, oddities, and most delicious varieties. Learn about their ecological importance and what you can do to help protect them. Dr. Peter J. Park, Assistant Professor of Biology at Nyack College, is an evolutionary ichthyologist who studies ecological diversification of the brain and behavior in Alaskan three-spine stickleback fish.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Richard Weise's Harold of Orange (1984): Comedic Short Film


The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world. 35 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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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Concert | College Violin Competition Finals


Program: SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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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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5:30 pm
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Film | Albert and David Maysles' What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964): Fab Four in America


A humorous, freewheeling and candid account of The Beatles arrival in America in February 1964. The Maysles follow the Fab Four for five days, from the crazed JFK airport reception to unguarded moments inside the Plaza Hotel in preparation for their landmark Ed Sullivan Show appearance to their equally frenzied homecoming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Fighting for Freedom in the Mediterranean: Italian International Armed Volunteers in Greece in 1897


A lecture by Gilles Pécout, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. From the middle of the 1890s, international opinion was mobilized around the question of Crete, then an Ottoman province whose Greek majority sought union with Greece. There was a call for international philhellenic action by armed volunteers and this resulted in the massive participation of over 2000 Italians during the short Greco-Turkish war in the spring of 1897. The mobilization of volunteers took place in a context of a clear opposition between "people's diplomacy" and "cabinet diplomacy", between the "armed nation" and the "army of the nation". The lecture will look at the case of the Italian volunteers and will argue that the category of international political friendship can be used to shed light on this significant, if little known, Mediterranean epic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Mapping the Bookstore: Retail Cartographies in Antebellum Manhattan


Kristen Highland, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English, lectures. The romanticization of the independent bookstore, haven of book lovers, erudite employees, and serendipitous discovery, obscures the historical reality of selling books at a rapid turnover, failure, and looming bottom lines. But bookstores are also more than the sum of their books.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Killing Spiders by Barbara Lebow


A German family hopes for peace following the 1936 Olympics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Tackling Urban Poverty Through Research, Data and Innovative Design


Bernise Ang shares her experience directing an experiment in urban innovation and neighborhood transformation in inner-city Singapore. The project aims to develop a new method of tackling urban poverty, which blends disciplines such as anthropology, data science and design - doing so through a highly participatory process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Bernhard Hoesli: Collages


Fifty-four collages by architect and educator Bernhard Hoesli illustrating his ongoing exploration of the relationship between painting, architecture, and form, and which parallel his development of the architectural curriculum at the ETH in Zurich.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | An Evening with Twitter's Simon Rogers


Simon Rogers, Data Editor at Twitter, takes your questions. Light refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | China's Informal Imperialism in Korea in the 1880s


A talk with Professor Wayne Patterson, Professor of History, St. Norbert College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano and Violin Recitals


6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Jie Yuan, piano 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Wing Chun Hui, Violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Conflict: And the Writers Who Love It


With moderator Peggy Ehrhart and panelists Jillian Abbott, Deborah Nolan, Dirk Robertson, and Laura Joh Rowland from Mystery Writers of America. What is it that makes our breath come quicker, our pulse beat faster, our eyes flash and our knees grow weak? Love? Hah! It’s conflict! That spark-throwing feeling of tension that comes when two opposing sides have something to gain. Power. Vengeance. World domination. Come hear how some of our favorite mystery writers create it, nurture it, would be lost without it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Staged Migration and the Role of the Self: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Novel The Bridge of the Golden Horn


Migration is a pivotal subject in contemporary German literature. The work of writer and actress Emine Sevgi Özdamar shows that the so-called authenticity of a narrative is established not so much by factual biographic experience, but rather by giving it aesthetic form. Speaker Dr. Ortrud Gutjahr is Professor of German Literature and Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg.
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Jen Davis


For the past 11 years, photographer Jen Davis has been working on an extended self-portrait series that explores notions of beauty, identity and body image. More recently, her work has opened up to include the world of men, sexual desire and relationships.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Bob Mankoff reads from his book How About Never - Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons


If the title sounds familiar to you, it is because it derives from one of the author's cartoons, the most widely reprinted drawing in New Yorker history. Come see why as Bob Mankoff discusses and signs copies of his new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Laurel Atwell / Teresa Fellion / Lena Lauer


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by an Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists' process.
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Great Thinkers of Our Time: Harold Evans


Harold Evans was the editor of London's Sunday Times and the Times. He has also written a number of bestselling histories. He holds the British Press Awards’ Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement of Journalists. In 2001, British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


These introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | James Romm discusses his book Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero


In a conversation about James Romm’s latest book, Romm and the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro discuss the curious relationship between the sage Seneca and the despot Nero in the years between 50 and 68 AD, a period whose tumultuous events include the fire of Rome.
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Author Reading | Lisa Unger reads from her book In the Blood


Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | My Life as a Black Panther


Join S.O.A.D (Students of the African Diaspora) for an evening with Aaron Dixon. In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age nineteen. Through his eyes - in a memoir that begins with the story of his enslaved ancestors and takes us on a journey throughout America - we see the courage of a generation, and the unforgettable legacy of Black Power.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class: Ed Roscetti


Ed Roscetti, originally from New York, is a drummer, composer, educator, author, and clinician. Roscetti has performed, produced and composed for numerous Records, TV shows and films such as Saturday Night Live, The 60's, The Secret, The History Channel, WWE, Property Ladder, General Hospital, Santa Barbara and has worked with Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample and The Crusaders, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Pictures vs. Words: Should You Write a Script or a Novel?


It's easier now than ever for a writer to succeed in pursuing writing projects in various mediums. But how do you decide what format is the best for your creative material? Are there certain styles or subjects that lend themselves better to a screenplay? Or is there an advantage to writing a novel first and possibly having a script follow? And where to begin? Join an evening with novelist and award-winning filmmaker Priyanka Kumar, and film critic Peter Rainer—artists whose work jumps genres from screenwriting to literature and beyond—to discuss the challenges and advantages of pursuing different mediums for the written word.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Touchy Feely Tech: Coding for the Social and Emotional Body


A sidelong glance or a loving touch can express more than a thousand words. Dancing around the living room can make you just as happy as reading good news in an email or text. Yet we still leave the expressive social and emotional body out all too often when designing software and technology to support everyday living. In this talk, Katherine Isbister, director of the Game Innovation Lab at NYU, will present a series of evocative tech prototypes built at the NYU Game Innovation Lab aimed at better supporting the social and emotional aspects of being in the world and being with each other. These range from a public game that uses a surveillance camera to encourage collaboration and connection, to a door entry security system that lets you make rude gestures to open the door if that's what suits your fancy, to a dance battle game that uses mobile devices to get people looking at and moving with each other instead of being together alone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Xinluogang-Qinchuan Cup Winner's Concert


The winners of the first Xinluogang-Qinchuan Cup Piano Competition will perform various works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Enriqueta Perez-Somarriba Yravedra, Piano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Ruilong Fan, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Suejin Jung, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Eunjin Jung, soprano. Experience the freshness and excitement of a solo performance by a gifted young artist - a uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers. The program for this event is TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: Food as Medicine: Healing with Whole Foods, Herbs and Medicinal Mushrooms


With: Drew DiVittorio. This class will teach how to use herbs, whole foods and medicinal mushrooms to build and balance our life-force energy, regenerate our internal organs, strengthen our immune system, and prevent disease.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Juilliard Student Organists


The Organ as Chamber Music Partner - A concert featuring the students of Paul Jacobs from the Juilliard Organ Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE: THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Open Mike | The Open Mic Downstairs


Hosted by Dan Ricker, Mike Milazzo and Kaitlyn O’Connor. Sign-ups get seven minutes to try anything in one of the most supportive rooms in New York. Whether it be a performance art piece, comedy, music, storytelling, dance, something entirely off the top of your head, or you just would like to have a drink and watch the show, you'll find a home in the welcoming community every Tuesday night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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