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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 3, 2016?

37 free events take place on Tuesday, May 3 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 3 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, May 3, 2016

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Mid-Park Welcome Tour


Explore the Park’s central features including the Lake and Ramble woodland, then marvel at the views from Belvedere Castle. Route involves many hills, stairs, and uneven paths. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

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. This event recurs every Tuesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Prism Concert: Organ Works


This lunchtime concert series is one for every music and art lover visiting or living in New York. The concert is performed on the Gabe M. Wiener Memorial Organ, an extraordinary instrument. The organ was constructed by the renowned firm of Casavant Frères of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, and built for the specific requirements of the congregation's worship services and music program. Concerts take place the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | BBC Documentary: Simon Schama: Shakespeare and Us (2012)


With historian Simon Schama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Are We Better Off?: Race, Obama and Public Policy


Dr. Julianne Malveaux presents a lecture on the impact of Obama's presidency on African Americans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | What Would Sanders Do? Or, How a Naive College Professor Stumbled into a Professional and Media Buzzsaw


Gerald Friedman, a professor at UMass-Amherst, created a firestorm with his recent article in Dollars and Sense on how mainstream economists should not be so eager to dismiss Bernie Sanders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Journalists and the Caustic Campaign of 2016


Featuring: ++ Jamil Smith, Senior national correspondent for MTV News ++ Heather Haldon, reporter for The Wall Street Journal ++ Hunter Walker, national correspondent for Yahoo! News Moderated by Greg Birnbaum, Senior Editor for Buzz at CNN Politics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | MS Excel 2011 for Mac for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 6 Photography Exhibitions


The gallery presents Israeli photographer Avshalom Levi's acclaimed series Sliding Doors; Ellen Jacob's multi-media Born Here Project, which includes live photography and interview sessions with gallery visitors; Lou Krueger's work, The Temple of Wonders, one of the winning portfolios from the 2016 International Portfolio Competition; and Peter Agron, Irene Greenberg and Barry Guthertz's solo shows.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Jonathan VanDyke


VanDyke explores the performance of painting and the persona of painters. He proposes that painting is a point situated within a matrix that encompasses display, architecture, audience, institution, patronage, and provenance. He frames the marketplace and its recent outposts – art fairs, model apartments, online auctions – as a space of cash-and-carry theatricality and illusionism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Democracy and Legitimacy: Popular Justification of States Amid Globalization


In this talk, author and theorist John R. Wallach analyzes important theoretical analyses of political legitimacy in order to identify what, if any, aspects of legitimacy can be logically and practically connected to democratic citizenship as an exercise of ethics and power in contemporary political life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Faculty Reading: Sarah Van Arsdale / Elaine Sexton


Award-winning novelist Sarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction is In Case of Emergency, Break Glass. Her poetry, book reviews, interviews and essays have appeared in national publications. She teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program. Elaine Sexton’s new book Prospect/Refuge is her third collection of poetry. Her poems, reviews, and visual works have been widely published. She teaches poetry, text and image, the art of the book, and creative writing in various colleges and universities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings by Zachary Armstrong


Zachary Armstrong's newest body of work consists of bold, energetic paintings that are perceived primarily as abstractions. However these paintings are in fact Armstrong's latest exploration of a figurative image that he has been working with for some time. The use of existing images is key to his art and it is important that the image depicted, whether drawn or lettered, is recognizable and meaningful, at least to him. For Armstrong, his whole art is about using things that already exist to try to create his own vision and to paint a very personal portrait of his world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculptures by N. Dash


Dash has always made automatic sculptures out of small pieces of cloth. They are handled until the fibers fray, stain and degrade. What’s left are dirty wads of hugging threads that indirectly document the artist’s everyday, lived experience. Through constant touch and exchange between fingers and fabric, a certain bodily intelligence is indexed, a range of imprinted thought and feeling encrypted. The degraded vestiges are then further translated into an image, arranged in quick succession and photographed. Despite the sculpture’s physical absence, it is precisely only through the image that it reaches its perceptible sculptural form, albeit, only by captured emulsions. These images have been included in a number of Dash’s previous exhibitions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | #BlackLivesMatter, DREAMers and More: New York Activism Today


A spirited conversation taking stock of activism in New York today. Guests at this relaunch event are invited to explore newly launched features in Activist New York, an ongoing exhibition including: an original documentary film; a new section on nuclear disarmament activism; updated interactives; and original interviews with current activists. In addition to offering a first look at the newly redesigned exhibition, New York Activism Today features a panel of prominent activists, authors, and filmmakers like Dante Barry, Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, Immigrant Rights Activist Angy Rivera, Mark Engler, Co-author of This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century, and documentary filmmaker Robin Blotnick. The ensemble of experts and activists will discuss in depth the ways in which the city is continuing to grapple with issues of racial justice as well as immigrants’ and workers’ rights in fresh and unique ways, while still upholding the city’s long-standing tradition of social activism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Democracy and Distrust


Join the NY Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities for a conversation on race, inequality and civic trust as part of the Democracy In Dialogue series. Moderated by Shani Jamila from The Urban Justic Center and featuring: Christopher Lebron, Yale University Michael Lynch, University of Connecticut Deva Woodly, The New School
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Lincoln Center Local: Performances on Film, Featuring Rosanne Cash and Others


Rosanne Cash: Singer-songwriter, author and musical royalty, Rosanne Cash’s songs crystallize sweeping ideas – history, the American south, the meaning of home – into elegant tales that draw on everything from rockabilly to the blues, from the sounds of Appalachia to rootsy pop. The Lone Bellow: With tight harmonies and driving anthems, critics’ darlings The Lone Bellow thrive on the cusp of classic country and indie rock. Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale: Nashville go-to-guy Buddy Miller and fellow singer-songwriter and elder roots music statesman Jim Lauderdale restlessly, seamlessly mix bluegrass, blues, rock, and folk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Photography and the Politics of Representation


Black American photographers have long turned to their art as immediate political rifts affect their communities, creating work that challenges dominant visual narratives in the media that is often produced by outsiders. The photographers on this panel cross a historical divide. Some have been active since the 1960s, while others became active more recently.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Science Fiction Book Discussion Group


Black Tide Rising (Book 1) by John Ringo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Best Online Editors Panel


Join literary matchmaker Susan Shapiro in conversation with editors of top online magazines and newspaper sections to discuss how to publish your writing online. With Katherine Goldstein (Vanity Fair), Nicholas Thompson (NewYorker.com), Kera Bolonik (Dame), Peter Catapano (New York Times), Kai Wright (The Nation), and Rob Spillman (Tin House).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The German Refugee Crisis: Europe's Isolated Leader


Chancellor Merkel's refugee policy has left Germany increasingly isolated in Europe, emboldened the far right at home and led to questions about her own political future. Is her "We can do this" approach failing? Speaker Ali Aslan is a seasoned television presenter and journalist. He has worked for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV, where he hosted the international talk show “Quadriga“.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | A Discussion of the Book Hill by Jean Giono


A celebration of the publication of Jean Giono’s Hill in a new English translation by Paul Eprile, sponsored by New York Review Books and featuring Edmund White, the esteemed novelist and social critic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Amara Lakhous reads from his book The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea


A fun and farcical novel, this new "whodunit" about life in multicultural Italy will delight fans of Lakhous' earlier bestseller, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, and readers of novels such as The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Camille Perri reads from her book The Assistants


This wry and astute debut novel from Camille Perri tells the story a young Manhattanite whose embezzlement scam turns her into an unlikely advocate for the leagues of over-educated and underpaid assistants across the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Carlotta Corradi's Revolution (2015)


Followed by a screening of the documentary about the previous edition (2015) featuring Miriam Toews, Edna O'Brien, Judith Thurman, Teju Cole, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Galassi, Anthony Appiah, and Louise Erdrich.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Eileen Myles reads from her book I Must Be Living Twice


Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from The PSA; as well as being named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Reinhard Heydrich Assassination


An exhibit in honor of the 74th anniversary of the Czechoslovakia anti-Nazi resistance movement Operation Anthropoid.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Lecrae Moore discusses his book Unashamed


Grammy Award-winning artist Lecrae talks about his new memoir.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class with Keith Aleo


Keith Aleo is currently the Director of Percussion at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, encompassing the Arts Camp, Percussion Institute, Adult Band Camp and the Interlochen Arts Academy. He is also an Educational/Orchestral Consultant for the Avedis Zildjian Company. He was recently on the percussion faculty at the Boston Conservatory, the University of CT, and the University of Rhode Island.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Open Mike | Super Storytellers


No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York's best established and emerging authors and storytellers. This month's theme is MOM: Stories about the one without whom you wouldn't be.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | The Waking Life of Winsor McCay, Legendary Comics Artist


An in-depth look at lesser-known comics by legendary artist Winsor McCay. Kirsten McKinney will discuss the importance that Winsor McCay’s work for adults, specifically A Pilgrim’s Progress by Mister Bunion, plays in the oeuvre of this celebrated artist. Revered as an innovator in both comics and animation, McCay’s New York Evening Telegram comics are often overlooked but were filled with social commentary and telling personal references, shedding light on the man behind the legend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | The Tin Ring: A Drama of Holocaust Survival


The Tin Ring, adapted and performed by Jane Arnfield, and adapted and directed by Mike Alfreds, is a dramatization of Holocaust survival based on the autobiography by Zdenka Fantlová. Questions and answers with Arnfield, Alfreds, and producer Tony Harrington will follow the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recital: Indian Music Ensemble


The Indian Music Ensemble will perform repertoire from a variety of Indian music styles and genres, including popular music and the classical traditions of North India (Hindustani music) and South India (Karnatak music). Special attention is paid to the principles of raga and tala as well as improvisational techniques and approaches that have been of great interest to jazz musicians for decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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