26 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, March 29, 2015
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Editor's Pick
Distance: Approx. 11 miles. Walk through Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Kissena Park, and ending in Cunningham ...
more >> Park. Some hills. Brisk, steady pace. Bring lunch and water. End at Cunningham Park for bus connection. Rain cancels.
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ...
more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. 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.
For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been ...
more >> a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ...
more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
Eduardo Porter, who writes the Economic Scene column for The New York Times, will be interviewed by Dr. ...
more >> Terry Perlin. Porter's columns focus on economic inequality, corporate ethical issues, and novel ideas for social reform. A former member of The Times’ editorial board, he writes about business and labor with a critical edge.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the ...
more >> city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Highlights: The Jefferson Market Court House Library, A 19th Century Jewish Sephardic Cemetery, The Salmagundi ...
more >> Club Building
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
1:30 PM Marina Iwao, piano
1:30 PM Shuang Yu, piano
4:30 PM Natacha Fam, soprano
4:30 PM Youyang ...
more >> Qu, violin
7:30 PM Alexandria Smith, trumpet
1:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
1:45 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker.
A man vacationing with his wife and son near ...
more >> a desolate jetty in Baja becomes trapped under a rotten timber as the inevitable tide threatens to drown him.
69 mins.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves ...
more >> many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Featuring Japanese Sacred Gagaku Court Music and Secular Art Music. This concert features three world-renowned ...
more >> Gagaku musicians invited from Japan as well as New York-based artists and students of the Music Performance Program. The program includes classic repertoires as well as contemporary works for Japanese heritage instruments by John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi, John Kaizan Neptune, and others.
Exhibiting artist and winner of the 2014 Alexander Wein Artist Prize Samuel Levi Jones will lead an interactive ...
more >> tour and in-depth paper pulping and book-binding workshop that illustrates the techniques he employed in fabricating works for his Project Space exhibition. His unique practice—which reworks diverse source materials, from encyclopedias and law books to technical manuals—literally breaks down these widely published arbiters of authenticity and confronts the irrelevance and inaccuracy of certain types of historical records. Through this practice of omission and the fracturing of information, Jones is able to forge a more personal alliance with the materials and will work with program participants to examine their own attachments to materials of their choosing.
No experience necessary, however, please bring your own selection of paper source materials with you to the workshop.
The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker ...
more >> and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:00 pm
Free-will offering
Sam Jinks lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been exhibited internationally at La ...
more >> Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Bembo (2013); McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin (2011); National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2006/2007). Museum collections include The Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Dehli; Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporaenea (MEFIC); the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Collection, Victoria; McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria; Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program:
STRAVINSKY Concertino for 12 Instruments
CARTER Wind Rose
STRAUSS Symphony for Winds in ...
more >> E-flat Major ("The Happy Workshop")
Acclaimed faculty clarinetist Charles Neidich leads the school's newest ensemble, the Juilliard Wind Orchestra.
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
You're sitting next to a guy at a play who laughs very loudly--annoyingly so--at all the funny parts. ...
more >> Does he maybe know someone in the cast, you wonder. You pointedly glance his way several times, hoping he'll get the hint and lower the volume. You stand to leave at the end, and he says, "Your looking at me repeatedly was really offensive." Tempers rise, words are exchanged, and you go your separate ways. Luckily, you'll never seen him again. Or…will you?
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Freeway: Crack in the System tells the true story behind the crack scourge, featuring exclusive interviews ...
more >> with characters who lived it.
103 min.
7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation
The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents College chamber music ensembles in a series performance. ...
more >> The program for this concert will be announced a week before the performance.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required