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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 1, 2013
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour
This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the ... more >> 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!
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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 ... more >> 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.
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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 ... more >> 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.
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Tour | Cathedral Tour
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ... more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
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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 ... more >> 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., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
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Park Walk | Tavern and Its Green Tour
Discover the parade ground that became the Sheep Meadow and sheepfold that became a world famous restaurant, ... more >> then explore the Children’s District and the Mall with its statues and majestic stand of American Elms. Route moderately flat. 60 minutes.
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ... more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
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12:30 pm
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Author Reading | Barbara Garson reads from her book Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession
In her latest book, Barbara Garson shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. In praise of ... more >> her book, George Packer of the New Yorker described her as "an appealing voice: wry, modest, realistic. She's like a sympathetic but slightly critical friend, ready with a hug and unable not to give advice." Her most famous work, MacBird!, a 1966 counterculture political parody of Macbeth was a runaway hit and one of the most controversial plays of the 1960s. Her many awards include an OBIE, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation Grant.
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Tour | Cathedral Tour
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history ... more >> of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
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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 ... more >> Hamilton Customs House.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Central Park Photography Tour
Ready, set, shoot! Whether you possess a professional camera or an Iphone, join a Central Park Photography ... more >> Tour like no other. Two professionals will guide you around Central Park’s most scenic spots. A licensed guide will explain all there’s to know about your surroundings. A gifted and talented photographer will educate you on how to make your trip memorable and improve your photography. These two-in-one tours are fun for all ages, camera type, and levels of photography.
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Tour | Greenwich Village Tour
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ... more >> 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.
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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, ... more >> 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.
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Film | Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (2012): Shakespeare Updated
With Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz.
A sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy ... more >> about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
109 Minutes.
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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 ... more >> Hamilton Customs House.
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3:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Dexter Booth reads from his book Scratching the Ghost
Dexter Booth’s manuscript won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book. With introductory ... more >> readings by honorable mentions Cherene M. Sherrard and Saeed Jones.
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Lecture | Digital India: An Entrepreneur’s View
A lecture by Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rediff.com, India’s earliest ... more >> and most successful web enterprise, combing news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management and has an undergraduate Physics degree. He serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Internet Proliferation and Governance of the Government of India. He is the author of a best selling book on India’s Internet revolution, called The Wave Rider and also has a widely admired blog.
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Film | Maria Iliou's Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City (2012): Documentary on a Greek City's Fate
What was Smyrna like in the early 20th century? How did the Greeks live at the side of the other communities? ... more >> What was so unique about this cosmopolitan port of the Mediterranean which even today, 90 years after the Destruction, still has the power to conjure up memories of the joie-de-vivre, the good years but also the laments over the Destruction that came so suddenly in September 1922?
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Film | Nishtha Jain's Gulabi Gang: Women's Rights in Rural India
A documentary following the Gulabi Gang, a group of rural Indian women fighting for the rights of women ... more >> and the Dalit minority. A discussion with filmmaker Nishtha Jain follows the screening.
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Concert | Feral Matt Foster, Roots Musician
Feral Matt Foster is a blues and roots musician from New York City who hosts Roots & Ruckus, a weekly ... more >> Roots music variety show Wednesday nights at Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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5:30 pm
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Park 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, ... more >> 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.
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Liam Gillick / Louise Lawler
Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. Solo exhibitions include The Wood Way, Whitechapel Gallery, ... more >> London, 2002; A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, 2005 and the retrospective project Three Perspectives and a short scenario, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunstverein, München and the MCA, Chicago, 2008-2010.
Louise Lawler (born 1947) is a U.S. artist and photographer. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler's work has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculpture in a gallery being viewed by spectators.
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Opening Reception | César, fundamental contribution to the evolution of modern sculpture
Historical Survey Devoted to French Artist Baldaccini.
César Baldaccini (1921– 1998), the celebrated ... more >> French artist known everywhere simply as ‘César', is the founding member in 1960 of the Nouveaux Réalistes group that paralleled the emergence of American Pop Art and included Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Christo, Martial Raysse, and Arman, among others. The exhibition comprises two-dozen works spanning his career and suggests his fundamental contribution to the evolution of modern sculpture through a radical rethinking of classicism and bold experiments with new materials.
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Forum | Competetiveness and International Integration of Italian Firms: An Assessment after the Great Recession
Presentation of a Report by CER (Centro Europa Ricerche).
Speakers:
Lelio Iapadre, Associate Prof. ... more >> of Economics at University of L’Aquila and CER Chief Trade Economist
Paolo Guerrieri, Member of CER Scientific Committee , Prof. of Economics at Rome University La Sapienza and Member of the Budget Committee of the Italian Senate
Gian Luca Clementi, Associate Professor of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business
Giuseppe Ricotta, CFA – FRM, Vice President, Lazard
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Symposium | Ingeborg Bachmann: one of the most influential postwar writers in the German language
Bachmann’s Borders: A Commemorative Symposium
October 17, 2013, marked the 40th anniversary of ... more >> the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann’s untimely death in 1973 at the age of 47. During her lifetime, Bachmann, born in 1926, was already widely regarded as one of the most influential postwar writers in the German language. She catapulted to early fame when the leading German news magazine Der Spiegel featured her on its cover in 1954, hailing her poetry as a “stenograph of its time.” Today, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize—among the most prestigious awards for Germanophone writers—marks Bachmann’s continued importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
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Opening Reception | Installation: Skylar Fein's Lincoln's Bedroom
Skylar Fein will present an installation, Lincoln’s Bedroom, challenging the depiction of historical ... more >> American
figures. The installation will be a recreation of the Joshua
Speed-Abraham Lincoln bedroom, which the two young men shared in Springfield, Illinois.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Reinhard Mucha's Hidden Tracks, Recent Work by the German Artist
The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show in New York in thirteen years, continues to reveal Mucha ... more >> as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Throughout Mucha’s artistic production of the past four decades run themes of collective identity, memory, nationalism, the psychology of architecture and power, the museum as the locus for the creation of history, and the merging of industrial, historical and political landscapes. His complex work penetrates several dualities: connectivity and isolation, temporality and permanence, intimate narrative and national history, progress and stasis.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ted Michael reads from his book Starry-Eyed: 16 Stories That Steal the Spotlight
Ted Michael will read from a collection of short stories that features personal anecdotes from performers ... more >> who have gone through the sometimes brutal coming-of-age process in their rise to the top.
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Carolyn Quinn reads from her book Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
Join us for an evening of scandal and intrigue by Carolyn Quinn as she discusses and signs her new book.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Chris Hadfield discusses his book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination and Being Prepared for Anything
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in ... more >> space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst-and enjoy every moment of it.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Gary Younge discusses his book The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Fifty years ... more >> later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement. It continues to be heralded as a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.
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Film | D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus' The War Room (1993): Oscar-Nominated Documentary on Making Bill Clinton President
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of ... more >> strategists who guided him to the White House-and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants-especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a savvy, youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning. Fleet-footed and entertaining, The War Room is a vivid document of a political moment whose truths ("It's the economy, stupid!") still ring in our ears.
93 min. Includes a Q&A with directors D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission
$10 suggested admission
Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour
New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native ... more >> tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
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Performance | Nat Towsen's Downtown Variety Hour
With: Joe Garden (The Onion co-founder); Anthony Atamanuik (30 Rock); Bridgid Ryan (Hello Giggles); Downtown ... more >> History.
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Concert | The Music of Lowell Liebermann
Program:
Lowell Liebermann Chamber Concerto, op. 28, String Quartet No. 4, op. 103, Piano Sonata No. ... more >> 3, op. 82, Piano Quintet, op. 34
This concert features performances of the music of Lowell Liebermann by the Orion String Quartet; Faculty: Lucie Robert, violin and Pavlina Dokovska, piano; and students.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Cyrus Beroukhim, Violin
Violinist Cyrus Beroukhim's luxurious sound and innate eloquence consistently draw in audiences around ... more >> the world. Equally adept as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, he has appeared at major venues including the Theaterplatz and Paul Klee Zentrum in Bern, Novell Hall in Taipei, Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, Kravis center in Palm Beach, The Barns at Wolf Trap in Washington D.C., Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and various halls throughout Germany, Luxembourg, Japan, and Israel.
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Concert | Music by Composers Representing Five Countries: Israel, Italy, Korea, Poland, and Puerto Rico
Program:
Sukhi Kang’s The Myth (2008)
Stefano Gervasoni’s Froward (2011, first performance outside ... more >> Europe)
Betty Olivero’s Zimaar II (2009) with soprano Raquel González
Grazyna Bacewicz’s Incrustations for Horn and Chamber Ensemble (1965, first performance outside Europe)
Roberto Sierra’s Concierto da Cámara (2008)
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Performance | Performance Art: Legacy Russell & Clifford Owens' The Kiss
Performance artists Legacy Russell and Clifford Owens mark the debut of a newfound creative intimacy ... more >> with this one-night-only performance of The Kiss. This new work examines the construct of “the kiss” as a mechanism of performative action. Russell and Owens map out the geography of the dancehall and the physicality of pursuit in the search for real connection within the artificial construct of the club.
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Performance | Performance Art: Legacy Russell & Clifford Owens' The Kiss
A one-night only event by performance artists Legacy Russell and Clifford Owens. The Kiss marks the debut ... more >> of a newfound creative intimacy between these two compelling New York-based artists. Bridging dance and performance, it condenses a full evening's worth of motion into 45 minutes.
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Dance Performance | Student Choreographers' Showcase
These showings are opportunities for students - from both the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs ... more >> - to perform and choreograph. Supervised by experienced faculty, these showings are comprised entirely of student choreographers and serve as a means through which students experiment with different aesthetics, styles, and concepts of dance.
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Concert | Voices À La Carte: Oh, What a Lovely War!
Based on an idea of Charles Chilton.
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Concert | The Irrepressibles, a 10-Piece Art-Pop Orchestra
British composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Jamie McDermott presides over this 10-piece art-pop ... more >> orchestra that fuses elements of cabaret, synth pop, and contemporary classical—all united by McDermott’s haunting falsetto. Having recently composed music for the acclaimed new opera War Sum Up, the Irrepressibles bring their own burlesque-meets-electronica spectacular to the stage.
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