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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 13, 2013?

42 free events take place on Monday, May 13 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 May 13 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 May . 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 13, 2013

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Birdwatching | Birding Tour of the Park


Discover the varieties of birds that call the Park home during the migratory season with guided tours.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

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. Tour times: 11am & 2pm.
   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 | Beginner Japanese Language Class


Instruction by inlingua. Learn a new language or brush up on your skills in these standalone classes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 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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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks” Tour


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Lecture | Intellectual Self-Trust and Trust in Others: An Argument from Analogy?


A lecture by Lizzie Fricker (Magdalen College, Oxford).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Downton Abbey: Episode 2


Downton Abbey--a sprawling Edwardian mansion and park nestled in the lush North Yorkshire countryside--needs an heir. A tragedy at sea has claimed the life of the presumed heir, and Lord Grantham is faced with the possibility that the house he's loved his whole life might one day belong to a distant cousin he's never met. As hundreds of years of British aristocratic privilege are battered by the tides of social upheaval and technical progress, as World War I looms, what does fate have in store for Downton? How will the troubles of its family--above and below stairs--be resolved? Or will life be altered so dramatically that its master no longer matters? 66 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Greenwich Village 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
2:00 pm
Free

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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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | College Double Bass Recital


Simon Polezhayev, Double Bass
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Simone Easthope, Soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | BFA Product Design Flat-Pack and Micro-Manufacturing Exhibition


The Flat-Pack Studio challenges BFA Product Design students to design a piece of furniture that can be packed flat in a UPS box or tube. Each project involves the design and construction of a full-scale working furniture prototype, packaging, and an assembly manual. The Micro-Manufacturing Studio engages students in the design, modeling, prototyping and testing of a family of household accessories or furniture designed with small-scale, self-sufficient production in mind.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 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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5:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Francisco Fullana, Violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Virginie Verrez, Soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Dream House: The White House as an American Home


A lecture by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief Curator, Curator of Decorative Arts, Newark Museum. "Dream House" tracks the evolution of the president's home across the shifting perception of the ideal home in America. Conceived of as a great country house on the model of the English aristocratic mansion, the White House has often been out of sync with the American concept of home. In the 1830s-50s the White House was forced into the cozy domestic fantasy of the Villa. After the Civil War, in a newly industrial America, the White House was finally allowed to live up to its enormous scale, and become a Gilded Age mansion in earnest. In the 20th Century, as the Gilded Age died away and the modern world emerged, the White House was again at odds with the way Americans lived.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Italian Film: Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani's The Cruelest Day (2003)


Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international environment scandal. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story. 100 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | The Lusty Month of May, Presented by The PhilHallmonics


The PhilHallmonics present a celebration of spring and all that comes with it—when love is in the air, when warm sunshine thaws our weary winter bones, and when April showers bring May flowers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Forum | Coming Out About Hearing Loss


How does hearing loss impact your professional and personal life? Katherine Bouton, Richard Einhorn and Jay Alan Zimmerman share personal stories of losing their hearing, gradually or suddenly, and offer strategies for overcoming the stigma. There will be real-time CART captioning available at this program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Picture This Festival: Illustrators Antoine Guilloppé and Istvan Banyai


An evening with acclaimed illustrators Antoine Guilloppé and Istvan Banyai, moderated by MFA Visual Narrative faculty member Leonard Marcus. The program is the final event in a series of conversations with illustrators from Paris and New York presented this spring by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets John Yau and Arlo Quint read their work


John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor, as well as publisher of Black Square Editions, a press devoted to poetry, fiction, and translation. He recently published a book of poetry, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) and a chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). He has received numerous grants and fellowships including one from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2006), and the National Endowment for the Arts (1976). Arlo Quint is the author of Drawn In (Fewer & Further, 2010) and Photogenic Memory (Lame House, 2007). He collaborated with writer Charles Wolski on Check Out My Lifestyle (Well Greased, 2012), and his book Death to Explosion is forthcoming from Skysill in 2013. He is an editor of Brawling Pigeon and program coordinator for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | The Refugee Hotel


"The Refugee Hotel," with Gabriele Stabile, an Italian photojournalist based in New York. This illustrated lecture documents refugees, from their first steps on American soil to the cities and towns where they're rebuilding their communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok


The Monday night fiction reading group meets in the cafe and is open to all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Trumpet Recital


Lesedi Ntsane, trumpet
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Great Thinkers of Our Time: Physicist Alan Guth


Alan Guth is a world-renowned physicist who has won innumerable awards. He has held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, working mostly on rather abstract mathematical problems in the theory of elementary particles. While at Cornell, Guth was persuaded to join the study of the production of magnetic monopoles in the early universe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Lisa Lillien discusses her book Hungry Girl 200 Under 200


Lillien, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hungry Girl brand, follows up her successful 200 recipes under 200 calories cookbook with 200 new low-calorie desserts in her latest book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough discuss her book Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--and My Own


Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. On Morning Joe, she is often so adamant about improving America’s eating habits that some people have dubbed her “the food Nazi.” What they don’t know is that Mika wages a personal fight against unhealthy eating habits every day, and in this book she describes her history of food obsession and distorted body image, and her lifelong struggle to be thin. She believes it’s time we all learned to stop blaming ourselves, and each other, and look at the real culprits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Play Reading: The Arrival by Chad Beckim


Buck and Addie are expecting any day now, and their tiny Brooklyn brownstone barely fits the two of them. But when Buck’s father shows up unannounced ­with nowhere else to go and a terrible secret in tow­, space quickly becomes the least of their worries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | What is the Queer Novel?


A reading and conversation with Sarah Schulman and Barbara Browning. Free drinks thanks to sponsor Togather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Gamelan Dharma Swara & the NOW Ensemble


Program: Traditional and new music for gamelan orchestra New gamelan-inspired works for the NOW Ensemble Classical gamelan-inspired works TBA One of the world's most vital art forms, Balinese gamelan music continues to inspire composers everywhere. Don't miss your only opportunity to hear the thrilling gamelan orchestra Dharma Swara collaborate with the acclaimed NOW Ensemble, known for its ability to strike a "balance between the old and the new [that] has rarely sounded this good." (Newsweek)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | “No Name“ Presents The Uptown Cabaret, a Singers Showcase


The multi-talented Alex DeSuze returns to host the “No Name Uptown Cabaret Second Monday” monthly singers showcase. DeSuze, whose background includes acting, directing and singing at venues throughout the NYC-metro area, will be joined by guest musical director Marilynn Seits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Baroque Chamber Players Spring Concert


Directed by Nancy Wilson, the Baroque Chamber Players present historically informed performances which evoke the spirit of the Baroque period through ornamentation, improvisation, and the idiomatic conventions of notation and rhythm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Composition Recital


Jan Stoneman, Composition
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Malgorzata Goroszewska, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Yekwon Sunwoo, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | College Guitar and Voice Recital


Danielle Pelled, guitar and voice
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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