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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 8, 2015?

34 free events take place on Sunday, November 8 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 8 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, November 8, 2015

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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 | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


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. This tour takes places Sundays and Mondays at 10am and Wednesdays at 4pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Middle Section


This tour focuses on the middle of Central Park, starting in front of the beautiful American Museum of Natural History. From there enter the park and explore, seeing everything from a castle to the wild-looking Ramble. See an Ancient Egyptian obelisk and the place where Stuart Little raced his sailboat in the E.B. White children’s classic. Don’t forget to bring along your camera. There will be many wonderful photo opportunities throughout. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


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. This tour takes place Sundays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


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. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


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. This tour repeats every Sunday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Historic Orchard Street Tour


Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times. This tour repeats every Sunday through December 27.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | Sustainable Development and America's Future


Every nation, including the United States, has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide global cooperation until 2030. Americans still know little about these new global goals. Yet the SDGs could be a powerful moral and political approach for the US to reinvigorate the American Dream. They can help our country to address and overcome our massive interconnected crises of inequality, unemployment, environmental degradation, and declining trust Speaker Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and Winner of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Park Walk | Waterfront Walk: Guided Park Tour


Join docents on a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, the park's sustainable design, and how the park came to life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Dance Day: Limón Class


Take a free open-level Limón class with faculty member Becky Brown. This is an excellent opportunity to experience Limón for the first time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:50 am
Free

Festival | Buy the Book Fair


An official event of New York Print Week organized by the International Fine Print Dealers Association in conjunction with the Annual IFPDA Print Fair, Buy the Book Fair features print and the artist's book, with exhibitors from around the country and the world in an intimate gallery setting. This fair takes place Friday November 6, Saturday November 7, and Sunday November 8.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Lower East CIDER Festival


This festival will showcase Cider Week NYC cider makers and apple growers from the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Long Island and NYC. They will be pouring samples alongside restaurants like Wassail, Huertas, Northern Spy, Back Forty, and Misson Cantina, serving cider-friendly dishes like basque sausage, oysters and grilled cheese to highlight the pairing qualities of cider.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Tour | Chinatown/Little Italy-'Ethnic Contrasts' Tour


Highlights: The MOCA, Italian-American Museum, Statue of Confucius, Old Police Headquarters and an 18th century Jewish Sephardic Cemetery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: On and On: Art Without End


The exhibition features works that have no beginning, no middle and no end. Among the many accomplished artists featured in the show are the built-environmentalist Allan Wexler, New York Times photographer Stephen Mallon, the St. Louis collaborative Work/Play, Harvard artist-in-residence Kim Bernard and recent Lumen Prize winner Anne Morgan Spalter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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, 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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | New York Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | North Woods Tour


View tumbling cascades, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools in the "Manhattan Adirondacks." Route involves many hills and stairs. 75 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


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. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | William K. Howard's Evelyn Prentice (1934): Blackmailed Cheater


Starring Myrna Loy, William Powell, and Rosalind Russell. The neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder. 80 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Grieg Debussy


Pianist Ida Beckett (b. 2002) is currently a student of Ms. Adelaide Roberts, who not only teaches at The Juilliard School and at Fordham University but also continues to perform. Ida, who formerly attended The School for Strings in Manhattan, has been a participant in the Adam Gyorgy Castle Academy (for piano studies) in Pomáz, Hungary, the past three summers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recitals


3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Samuel Aden Brooks, trombone 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Freshman Vocal Recital
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Sylvia Marcinko Chai, Organist


Sylvia Marcinko Chai is from Tampa, Florida.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Jazz | Parlor Jazz with Marjorie Eliot


Every Sunday afternoon, writer, performer and impresario Marjorie Eliot hosts in her apartment Parlor Jazz — a free, two-hour concert that for nearly two decades has attracted musicians, jazz lovers and interested passerby. A central figure in helping preserve and continue Sugar Hill's lustrous jazz legacy, Marjorie Eliot is the founder of Parlor Entertainment, an all-star jazz collective that plays concerts citywide.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Concert | New York Piano Society 2015 Sunday Musical


A delightful program including works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and more performed by our outstanding NYPS pianists who are professionals in fields other than music. Featuring NYPS Young Guest Artist, Yeri Roh. A South Korean-born violinist, Yeri has won numerous prestigious competitions and performs internationally. Also presenting Maria Damore, soprano, with NYPS pianist Lou Dalaveris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


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 and Boody Organ Builders. The Organ Meditation takes place every Sunday from Sept. 13, 2015 to May 29, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Women in Translation


Some of the most dynamic and exciting voices in European literature today are those of women – yet there is a significant gender gap when it comes to publishing literature in translation. Join Naja Marie Aidt, Josefine Klougart, and Bettina Suleiman, as they talk to PEN Translation Committee Co-Chair Margaret S. Carson about their writing, as well as the challenges and opportunities women authors face in Europe. Special guest Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester, and editor of Three Percent will give an inside look at the picture in the United States, and how publishers can help address the imbalance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opera | Erwartung: A Street Opera by Arnold Schönberg


Robin Rhode will perform Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg's atonal opera Erwartung (Expectation), transforming it to reflect the experiences of women who have been separated interminably from their husbands by the migrant labor system, political exile, activism and/or imprisonment. This performance takes place November 7 and 8.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach Vespers


Program: JS Bach Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64 JS Bach O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, BWV 118 Bach Vespers happens Sundays November 1, 8 and 15th.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Cantus, 'the Premier Men's Vocal Ensemble'


Hailed as "the premier men's vocal ensemble in the United States" (Fanfare), Cantus is known worldwide for its engaging performances of music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Singing with "exalting finesse" and "expressive power" (The Washington Post), the ensemble works together to reach new levels of artistic excellence and innovation through its performances, recordings, and active commissioning of new works for men's voices.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | The Alighieri Duo performs works by Mozart, Brahms


Alighieri Duo: Candace Chien, piano Nicholas Pappone, violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Recital Series


The Organ Recital Series is free and open to the public and occur most Sundays from September through May. Today's recital is by Silvius von Kessel (Zephyr Cove, Nev.).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Author Reading | Wojciech Jagielski reads from his book Burning the Grass: At the Heart of Change in South Africa, 1990-2011


Wojciech Jagielski is a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independent daily, where he has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century and is a permanent observer of developments in Afghanistan. He is the author of A Good Place to Die, the result of several years of travel to the Caucasus in the era of the Soviet Union’s collapse and of the emergence of new independent states; Praying for Rain, the bestseller chronicling Afghan regimes; and The Night Wanderers, a book about child soldiers from Northern Uganda.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Mexican Documentary: Roberto Olivares and Jonathan Amith's Silvestre Pantaleón (2012)


Told with a lyrical combination of lingering imagery and ethnographic detail, Silvestre Pantaleon follows the protagonist as he struggles to pay for a curing ceremony and provide for his family. 65 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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