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44 free events take place on Monday, November 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 November 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 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 13, 2017
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.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
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.
A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. We then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.
Stars: Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Ryan Simpkins. After the town takes away their daughter's college scholarship, a couple start an illegal casino in their friend's house to make back the money. 88 min.
Exercise your mind with the New York Times crossword puzzle. Start with the easiest of the week (Monday) or try your luck with the most difficult (Sunday). Collaborate with fellow participants or work on your own.
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
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.
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.
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.
Stars: Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock. A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer. 113 min.
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.
Philosopher Kai Kresse presents his work on Islamic cultures along the Kenyan Coast reflecting on contexts of radicalization and insecurity in the East African region followed by a conversation with Kwani Associate Editor Ngala Chome.
As an actress and biologist, Kelly Rypkema has straddled the worlds of both creative endeavor and hard science, two fields which have profoundly influenced how she approaches her work as cirector of a nature center in Trenton, New Jersey. In this talk, Kelly will explain how she weaves together these seemingly disparate fields of practice to help her audience make more meaningful connections with nature, using tools in song, video, art, and the written word.
Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became.
The idea that women become raving lunatics when their hormones fluctuate is firmly entrenched in American culture—images of hormone-crazed women are prominent on TV and in movies, books, and magazines—but a thorough examination of the evidence overwhelmingly tells us otherwise. This book will confront the pervasive myth that women are at the mercy of their reproductive hormones, and illustrate how the perpetuation of this stereotype harms women.
With: Sol Aramendi, Alexandra Bell, Natalie Bookchin, Andrea Bowers, Nancy Chunn, Adinah Dancyger and Mykki Blanco, Nona Faustine, Ramiro Gomez and David Feldman, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Shaun Leonardo, Esperanza Mayobre, Loren Madsen, Richard Mosse, Not An Alternative, Jenny Polak, Bayeté Ross Smith, Michael Sharkey, Dustina Sherbine, Unlimited, Ltd., Kamau Ware and Carey Young
Program: Leonard Bernstein: I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kids Songs (1943). Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1941-42). The Library teams up with The New York Philharmonic Archives and Music from Copland House to present a sonic portrait of Leonard Bernstein’s spirited first years in New York City. In 1940, after graduating from Harvard and the Curtis Institute of Music, Bernstein moved to Manhattan, where he hung around with Stella Adler and Marlon Brando, and accompanied Judy Holiday in Greenwich Village night clubs. By 1943, he was conducting The New York Philharmonic. Just one year later he had created the Broadway sensation On the Town with Jerome Robbins, Adolph Green, and Betty Comden. This is a multifaceted celebration of young talent in an exhilarating city. Follow Bernstein’s hand marked conductor’s score, while listening to an archival recording of his Philharmonic debut; hear recitations of Bernstein letters and diaries, plus Comden and Green comedy sketches; and enjoy live performances.
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.
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac. Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner. 125 min.
Speakers: - Prof. Michelle DePass, Dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy - Carl Anthony, Architect, Author and Urban / Suburban / Regional Design Strategist, Co-Founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project - Prof. Mia White, Faculty
Steven Stoll is an associate professor of history at Fordham University and the author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. His writing has appeared in Harper's, Lapham's Quarterly, and The New Haven Review.
The life of radio personality and celebrity blogger Vivian 'Gossip Viv' Billings was never easy. As a mother of two at the age of sixteen, she dealt with the harsh realities of an abusive relationship, and a boyfriend uninterested in helping raise their children. With great personal strength, she eventually left him behind and began a new life with her children.
Speaker John Krinsky teaches political science at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He holds a doctorate in sociology and a master's in urban planning from Columbia University, and is on the editorial boards of Social Movement Studies and the online urban affairs journal, Metropolitics.
During this public seminar, Mexican writer and reporter Alma Guillermoprieto will explore the relationship between memory and dance. Alma Guillermoprieto, a Mexican writer and reporter, danced from an early age in Mexico and in New York. Her fellowship project is a memoir of those years—of Art with a capital A, the glamour of 1960s bohemian Mexico, a painful adolescence, and the dance that pulled her forward, so often against her will.
The story of a woman who grows up queer and Chicana—and takes no prisoners. Part true crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean chronicles Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending experimentation and biting humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning potential tragedy into comedy. For all its humor and innovation, Mean makes the impact of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia all too clear.
A free, public lecture on William H. Page's extraordinary 19th century color typography. Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith will talk about Page, their own experience printing and designing with chromatic wood type, and the 21st century letterpress and wood type resurgence--including new technologies.
Was it the wife? Was it the sexy stranger? Passion and revenge boil over in 1831. Some things never change. 29th Street Playwrights Collective presents a staged reading of Robin Rice's play.
5 authors whose work examines the personal tolls of war from a number of perspectives will discuss depicting the “enemy” with sympathy; capturing the experiences of refugees; how current affairs affect fiction, and how one writes critically about war. With David Abrams (Brave Deeds), Helen Benedict (Sand Queen; Wolf Season), Cara Hoffman (Be Safe I Love You), Matt Gallagher (Youngblood), and Dalia Sofer (The Septembers of Shiraz).
Marzouki demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States to become an American religion in a double sense―first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith.
Steven Cohen provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century, surveying policies and projects already under way in cities around the world and pointing to more ways progress can be made.
Tadeusz Dabrowski's second American collection of poems has just been published by Zephyr Press. His poetry explores the constant struggle with uncertainty, the contrasts between religion and love, and between the deadly serious and the humorous by playing with form. Nominated for the NIKE prize in 2010, translated into approximately twenty languages, Dabrowski is one of the most celebrated contemporary Polish poets.
Martha Redbone fuses Native American soul, Piedmont blues, and Appalachian folk to create a stirring and unique style of music. Memories of growing up in Clinch Mountain, Virginia, and Harlan County, Kentucky—where she embraced her Cherokee and Choctaw roots—inspired “Americana’s next superstar” (The Village Voice). Her soulful vocals have drawn listeners to the heart of American roots music, and inspired Living Colour’s legendary guitarist Vernon Reid to exclaim, “Martha’s voice itself is the sound of the dreams of hills and rivers.”
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the excessive eighties in New York and Hollywood.
For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom. Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater.
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church. Featuring: Rachel Bernsen + Kyoko Kitamura Courtney J. Cook Nia Love Canan Yücel Pekiçten
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway.
Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.