Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 23, 2014?
31 free events take place on Sunday, November 23 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 November 23 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 November . 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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31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, November 23, 2014
Experience the coming of Fall in Central Park when it becomes a precious bird habitat and migration hot spot! Join experts from NYC Audubon Society and Conservancy Discovery Guides on this walk to learn how to spot our feathered neighbors and their foreign cousins as they make their trip across the globe. Binoculars can be borrowed from the Dana Discovery Center.
Ages 5+.
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded 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 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.
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.
Noted mosaic artist Haifa Bint-Kadi joins environmentalist Curt Collier to discuss the role of street art in furthering social and environmental justice and as a mechanism for expressing the wants and needs of a community. Bint-Kadi is the founder of Community Engagement Through the Arts, C.E.T.T.A., an initiative of Groundwork Hudson Valley that uses a community arts model and a grassroots approach in using art to address community needs. Together Collier and Bint-Kadi will address the impact and critique of street art from Banksy to neighborhood graffitist.
Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
An exciting multimedia presentation featuring rare film footage and archival recordings that explore the life, music, and extraordinary impact of the soprano whose fiery dramatic portrayals made her the most exciting opera singer of her time.
Walk over the bridge into Riverbank Park, where there are bathrooms and lunch (bring). Then walk south past Grant’s Tomb and make your way down to the Shore Path in Riverside Park, then walk south, possibly as far as 34th St. Some moderate ascents and descents. Several drop-off points available. Call if weather doubtful; hike may be cancelled for rain, snow, or excessive cold and wind.
Divided by continent, You Are Here represents one (idealized) orbit of the ISS. This planetary photo tour — surprising, playful, thought-provoking, and visually delightful — is also punctuated with fun, fascinating commentary on life in zero gravity by one of the world's most seasoned and accomplished astronauts.
Event space seating will open at 5:00 pm on 4th floor. Priority seating with book purchase is limited.
This show considers work in multiple media, focusing on the relationship of various genres and media to one another. Here, ephemeral sculptures are captured as photographs; letterpress prints invoke the aesthetics of video; performances are recorded as drawings; sound is captured in objects; and photographs are abstracted into paintings. Rather than privileging one medium over another, the exhibition looks at their interdependence and what happens when a work is understood through the context of a new medium.
Join Chelsea for sessions appropriate for all levels of fitness. Awesome Asana is a budding yoga project in Washington Heights developed by teacher Chelsea Best.
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.
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that, at its core, Steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and creating something original.
Starring: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, and Peter Lawford.
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
115 min.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
Born in Verona, Italy, Francesco Geminiani began the study of saxophone in his teenage years and soon became part of the jazz scene. Robert Bonisolo has been is private teacher since the beginning and in the meantime he attended the jazz course at the Conservatory in Verona and Lausanne, Switzerland. In Swiss he seriously started developing his sound, digging deep into music thanks to all the encounters and concerts he played with great musicians over there. Receiving the Zorzella prize in Italy, he finally moved to New York in 2012, where he expanded even more his musical boundaries.
The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
Program:
Dieterich Buxtehude Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun, BuxWV 51
Hieronymus Praetorius Ecce Dominus veniet á 8
Join the Grammy-nominated Bach Choir and Players for the opening of the 47th season of Bach Vespers as they welcome to the podium their new music director Donald Meineke. The one-hour program featuring one of the leading early music ensembles in the United States promises to be an exciting and enriching evening.
Program:
MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine
DOHNÁNYI Sextet in C Major, Op. 37
The exciting young musicians of Ensemble ACJW have been cited as "one of the strongest ensembles in the city" (New York Classical Review). Ensemble ACJW showcases its versatility and virtuosity in a program featuring Czech composer Martinů's whimsical La revue de cuisine and Hungarian master Dohnányi's colorfully scored Sextet in C Major.
In celebration of the restored Great Organ, the Cathedral presents a concert series following Sunday Evensong. This recital is free and open to the public.
With: Colin MacKnight, New York, NY.
The Organ Recital Series is free and open to the public. Today's recital is by Caroline Robinson of Rochester, NY. She perfroms works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, and Joseph Jongen.
The film series focuses on the places and people that Vaclav Havel knew from the influential Theatre on the Balustrade, where his theatrical career began, to his friendships with filmmakers of the Czech New Wave, and to his political ascendancy in Prague. Curated by Margaret Parsons, head of the film program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. All films are in Czech with English subtitles.
Dawn explores the awakening to our bodies through choreographer Adrienn Hód’s intimate dance experiment which seats the audience on stage, in daring proximity to the performers. Adults only.