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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 13, 2013?

27 free events take place on Sunday, October 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 October 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 October . 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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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 13, 2013

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc 24th Annual Autumn Crafts Festival
free events nyc An unparalleled citywide celebration of New York City’s extraordinary architecture and design
free events nyc New York Classical Players perform works by Mozart and Wagner
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Museums | Museum Open House


Take a tour of the authentically restored main sanctuary and learn about its architecture and history. The Museum offers a smorgasbord of activities, including tours, talks and family programming as part of openhousenewyork, America's largest architecture and design event. Talk with the Curators from noon to 1 pm. How do you make the story of a historic building come alive for visitors? Join Richard Rabinowitz, President of American History Workshop, Lauri Halderman, Senior Director of Exhibition Interpretation for the American Museum of Natural History, architect Ben Krackauer of Archimuse, and Museum Deputy Director Amy Stein-Milford as they discuss Museum interpretation and their work creating a new orientation center and exhibits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free

Conference | Verdi's Third Century: Italian Opera Today


9:30-11:00 • Round Table: Verdi and the (New) Media Participants to include Micaela Baranello (Princeton University) and Marion Lignana Rosenberg (New York) 11:30-12:30 • Round Table: The Publishing Industry: Books, Scores, Recordings for Verdi’s Third Century Participants to include David Foil (New York) and Marta Tonegutti (University of Chicago Press)
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
Free

Festival | 24th Annual Autumn Crafts Festival


Two hundred and fifty displays of quality American Craftsmanship were selected from approximately 1,200 applicants and are expected to again attract a huge audience of individual craft enthusiasts. The AUTUMN CRAFTS FESTIVAL is consistently recognized as the finest craft exposition in the New York metropolitan area.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. 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 amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Gallery Talk | Live Graffiti Art Demonstration


Two legendary street artists—both important figures of the graffiti movement of the 1970s and 1980s—will paint original murals in a live demonstration on the Museum’s Front Terrace. The event, celebrating the launch of the Museum’s new publication City as Canvas: New York Graffiti from the Martin Wong Collection (Skira Rizzoli, 2013), provides a special opportunity to observe these accomplished practitioners as they work through their creative process. Join in by sketching in your own graffiti blackbook (bring your own or use the ones provided).
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Pay-what-you-wish admission policy

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Festival | Historic House Festival


Celebrate the 6th annual Historic House Festival and Open House New York week­end, enjoy free admission and events in­cluding docent-led tours, scavenger hunts, and family art activities or dress up in colonial style costumes.
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Festival | An unparalleled citywide celebration of New York City’s extraordinary architecture and design


11th Annual Open House New York Weekend. From private residences and historic landmarks to rooftop farms and sustainable skyscrapers, OHNY Weekend offers you rare access and insight into hundreds of architecturally and culturally significant sites in all five boroughs. This annual weekend of urban exploration and architectural discovery also includes free talks; fun youth and family activities; and tours on foot, bicycle, and even by canoe. Join us in exploring and discovering the history, diversity and architecture of our city. Become inspired and enjoy your OHNY Weekend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Park Docent Tour


Join one of the Park's volunteer docents for a free, guided walking tour. Tours will cover the the topic of the park's design, history, and ecology. 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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12:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Robert Pruitt: Women


Enjoy an interactive and informative tour led by a knowledgeable museum educator. Robert Pruitt: Women includes nearly twenty large-scale conté drawings of black women. Combining elements of science fiction, hip-hop culture and comic-book graphics, each figure is at once politically charged, physically grounded and fantastic—a blend of willful self-determination and culturally conditioned myth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Film | André De Toth's Crime Wave (1954): Once a Criminal


Starring Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, and Phyllis Kirk. Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. 73 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Belvedere's Kingdom Tour


Take a walk around the landscapes dominated by historic Belvedere Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Route involves moderate inclines and a few stairs. 60 minutes.
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Williamsburg, Brooklyn Tour


It’s once abandoned waterfront is now is now filled with newly constructed condo towers and magnificent parks and stunning views of Manhattan. Known today as the hipster capital of the United States, Williamsburg is so much more than that, containing enclaves of Puerto Ricans, Polish, Italians, Dominicans and Hasidic Jews.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Il Giardino D'amore, a Baroque Orchestra: sacred and secular love songs.


Il Giardino D'amore features musicians from Poland, Italy, and Spain. The orchestra's program will focus on both sacred and secular love songs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | New York Classical Players perform works by Mozart and Wagner


Program: Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde Fung String Sinfonietta Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Stefan Jackiw, violin Mozart Adagio and Fugue Dongmin Kim, conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Suggested donation

Concert | Young Artists Concert


Sponsored with the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation, this annual series presents the prize winners of the biennial New York International Piano Competition. The first performer of the year will be Michael Brown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Jazz | Straight-Ahead Jazz and Free Improvisation


NY Jazz - Piano and Bass Alwin Tong, Piano Jean Morel, Bass Straight Ahead Jazz 4-6, Free Improvisation 6-7
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
No cover

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 & Boody Organ Builders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights at Sunset Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free

Concert | Rich Spotts, Organist


Rich Spotts is an organist from Doylestown, PA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Elena Sartori, Organist


Elena Sartori is an organist from Ravenna, Italy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Lines Of Authority by Robert Strozier


This series presents sit-down readings of new and revisited scripts, generally followed by a moderated dramaturgical discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

Performance | One-Man Show: Peter Michael Marino's Desperately Seeking the Exit


The international hit show returns to NYC for one night only. American playwright Peter Michael Marino wrote a huge musical based on the Madonna film "Desperately Seeking Susan" featuring the hit songs of BLONDIE. It opened on London’s West End…and closed a month later. WHOOPS! Here’s the crazy-true tale of how it all went down.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Robert Schumann

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Concert | Rock Concert at NYC's Renowned Jazz Club

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