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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 20, 2013?

31 free events take place on Sunday, October 20 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 20 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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31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 20, 2013

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Fall Staten Island Greenbelt Hike
free events nyc Williamsburg, Brooklyn Tour
free events nyc Bach Suites in the Dark, a 'Concert Exhibition'
free events nyc Play Reading: Insomnia by Jonathan Kravets
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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
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Hike | Fall Staten Island Greenbelt Hike


4-5 miles, some ups and downs. Bring lunch and beverage. Rain cancels. Call to register and confirm walk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
$3 plus Metrocard...

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
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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
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Tour | Narrows-to-Coney Island Walk


Distance: 6-7 miles. Time: 4-5 hours. Walk from subway station to pathway along the Narrows to Surf and Stillwell Ave. and end by Nathan's in Coney Island. Subway station is across the street from Nathan's. Bring lunch and water or purchase lunch at Caesar's Bay Bazaar. Rain cancels. Must call or email to confirm that hike is on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$3

Festival | BeBrasil Pop-Up Festival


BeBrasil is a pop-up festival that will introduce Brazil’s innovations to the world by celebrating new creative products and services developed through inspiring and collaborative work. During the week of October 15-22, 2013, the creativity of Brazil will take over New York. The weeklong festival will bring together Brazil’s most creative professionals and innovative companies from the following sectors: Fashion, Architecture, Design, Food and Beverages, Plastics, Cosmetics, Film, Music, Aerospace and Technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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 | Seneca Village Tour


Seneca Village was Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that would become the Park. Tour covers the history of the village, the property owners, and what New York City was like at the time. Tour is approximately one hour.
   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
$6...

Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Things in Themselves: Artists in Residence 2012-13


Enjoy an interactive and informative tour led by a knowledgeable museum educator. Things in Themselves presents the work of Steffani Jemison (b. 1981), Jennifer Packer (b. 1984) and Cullen Washington Jr. (b. 1972), the 2012–13 artists in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Whether exploring fragile and delicate materials, developing a deeper understanding of painting or intuitively networking found materials and objects, the artists share a deep investment in the processes and techniques of making art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Natural Living Film Festival 2013: Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days


1:30–2:30 - Laughter Yoga Workshop; Light Refreshments 3:00 PM - Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days Morgan Spurlock, 90 min. - Diabetes is a major pandemic situation. This is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, uncooked food in order to reverse disease without pharmaceutical medication.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 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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Film | Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story (1955): Southern Justice


Starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. 100 min.
   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
2:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | 20th Century Music for Clarinet and Piano


Join clarinetist Joseph Fischetti and pianist Barbara Lee for an afternoon of music for clarinet and piano by 20th century composers Gerald Finzi, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Stanford and Malcolm Arnold.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Bach Suites in the Dark, a 'Concert Exhibition'


Cellist Augustin Maurs's Bach Suites in the Dark offers a unique approach to Bach’s Cello Suites. After of years of investigation, the Suites are removed from the concert hall and placed in an unilluminated space, in which the cellist repeatedly plays them over a period of ten days. Through the extended time frame and the elimination of any visual input, the listener and the playing musician are unified within the same visual and musical space. Originally conceived as studies, Bach’s Cello Suites are a series of dances written around 1720. Although unaccompanied, they are expansive polyphonic musical masterpieces, considered both the beginning and culmination of the cello repertoire. Uncertainty about the original creative intentions of the Suites invites perpetual debate and allows imaginative free reign for redefining the environment in which they are played. Bach Suites in the Dark removes the Suites from the concert hall explores their malleability and the notion of practice in which they are rooted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Mannes Orchestra performs works by Schumann, Messiaen and Shostakovich


Program Schumann's Songs and Fantasiestücke for piano Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous from La nativité du Seigneurs for organ Mennin's Five Piano Pieces Ligeti's Six Bagatelles for wind quintet Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
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3:00 pm
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Theater | Romantic Drama: The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood


A romantic drama about two middle-aged sisters in 1943 Harlem whose world is uprooted by the arrival of a handsome young boarder from the south. Directed by AUDELCO Award-winning Ajene D. Washington.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
$12 suggested donation...

Concert | Voices À La Carte perform Night Caps


Contemporary Opera Scenes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
$5

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: Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb


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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Reading | Bellevue Literary Review Poetry & Prose Reading


An evening of poetry and prose to celebrate the Fall issue. BLR publishes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon relationships to illness, health and healing. Readers: Katherine Lien Chariott, Susan Land, Tom Sleigh, Monica Wendel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Film | Andres Muschietti's Mama (2012): And You Thought Your Mother Was Bad


With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier. A supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night. 100 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Bach Vespers


Program: Johann Sebastian Bach Motet Komm, Jesu, Komm
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Victoria Sirota, Organist


Victoria Sirota is an organist from New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Works by Bach and Elgar


Program: Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata in E minor BWV 528 Edward Elgar Sonata in G major, Op.28 STEPHEN BUZARD, Assistant Organist, holds a Master of Music Degree from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University where he studied organ with Thomas Murray and improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:15 pm
Free

Film | 5th Annual Congo in Harlem Film and Event Series


Mabele Na Biso (Our Land), Petna Katondolo, 2013, 33 min. French and Swahili w/English subtitles. - 'Aid' and 'Independence' are terms that riddle the rhetoric of Western engagement with and imagination of Africa. But what is independence in our increasingly globalized world? Mabele Na Biso takes us on a journey through time and space to explore one region's commitment to autonomy and self-determination. Followed by post-screening discussion with filmmakers Petna Katondolo & Cherie Rivers, film subject Samuel Yagase and special guests TBA plus reception with live musical performances by Isaac Katalay and Lyke Mike.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Insomnia by Jonathan Kravets


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

Discussion | Roundtable Discussion on the Publication A-Z


With Cynthia Daignault, Mark Loiacono, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Alan Reid, Rory Solomon, and Elizabeth Spackman. A roundtable conversation about the ideas and topics of the A-Z – a publication conceived in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition, Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow? – with five of its six writers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Broadway | Broadway Show!

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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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