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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 27, 2013?

37 free events take place on Sunday, October 27 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 27 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 27, 2013

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Walk: Three Lakes, Three Parks In Queens
free events nyc Broadway Bach Ensemble performs works by Vivaldi, Haydn, Rossini and Piazzolla
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Tour | Walk: Three Lakes, Three Parks In Queens


6 miles, moderate pace. Forest Hills to Flushing, through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Botanical Garden, Kissena Corridor and Kissena Park. Optional dim sum meal @ $10-$12 at end. Bring snack, water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:45 am
$3

Festival | 2nd Annual East Harlem Harvest Festival


Come celebrate East Harlem’s diverse history, culture, cuisine and community at the 2nd Annual East Harlem Harvest Festival. Activities include: 30+ Local food, retail and non-profit vendors; Beer tent featuring local brewery; Live Music and a DJ; A Children’s Zone featuring Face Painting, Pumpkin Painting, lawn games, crafts and more; Composting and Urban Farming workshops; NYRP and MillionTreesNY giveaway of 100 FREE trees starting at 10.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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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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Festival | Lower East Side Pickle Day


The sweet and sour anticipation is finally over! On October 27th from 12-5pm Lower East Side Pickle Day will be returning to the ‘hood to cover the street in brine-soaked goodness. Featuring the artist formerly known as cucumber, there will be a full city block full of world-renowned picklers, a home pickling contest (with celebrity judges), live music, two additional city blocks full of the best in LES food and fashion vendors, games and a Halloween Costume Contest for the kids.
   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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Hike | Rockefeller Preserve Hike


12 to 13 miles at a moderate pace. Walk from Philipse Manor through Sleepy Hollow Cemetery to the Rockefeller Preserve. Walk on former carriage roads alongside brooks and the Pocantico River. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Screamin' Green Halloween


Don your Halloween finest for this year’s eco-friendly celebration! Play old favorites like “Bobbin’ for Apples” and “Pin a Face on the Pumpkin,” create earth-friendly art projects, and join large-scale wandering puppets, in an experience designed and constructed by local artists and craftsmen. As always, enjoy organic and fair-trade sweets, and don’t forget to bring last year’s costume to exchange for a new one at the Costume Swap. The day culminates in a Ghost and Goblins Parade throughout Battery Park City, led by a rousing marching band, starting at 3pm.
   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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Tour | Historic Gravesend Walk


3 miles, easy walk. Colonial history, historic houses, old roads, optional early meal after walk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$3

Concert | Broadway Bach Ensemble performs works by Vivaldi, Haydn, Rossini and Piazzolla


Program: Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob. I:104, "London" Giaocchino Rossini Overture to “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” Antonio Vivaldi Autumn from "The Four Seasons" Ástor Piazzolla arr: Leonid Desyatnikov Autumn from "The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" Mike Tietz leads the orchestra and guest violinist Kinga Augustyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

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 | Lewis Allen's Illegal (1955): Lawyer's Destructive Guilt


Starring Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch and Hugh Marlowe. After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. 88 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Tavern and Its Green Tour


Discover the parade ground that became the Sheep Meadow and sheepfold that became a world famous restaurant, then explore the Children’s District and the Mall with its statues and majestic stand of American Elms. Route moderately flat. 60 minutes.
   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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Dance Performance | The Doors, a Dance Concert by the Sacred Dance Guild


Sacred dancers from across North America will join the Movement Choir in a dance concert featuring four doors (representing Love, Fear, Birth, and Death) opening in an order decided by the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Film | Anne Berrini's Ursula Mamlok: Movements (2013), a Documentary about the German Composer


A documentary about the Berlin-born composer Ursula Mamlok, who emigrated in the war years, studied and taught in the USA, and returned to Berlin in her 80s. 80 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Yoga for the Mind


How do we all begin to live more philosophically yet integrate the spiritual dimension of our being? Yoga for the Mind is an intensely fruitful and enriching philosophical supplement to the daily diet of existence that is accessible and speaks to anyone anywhere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Arias by Wagner, Brahms, Strauss, and Rossini


North Carolina native and regular soloist, the wonderful Mr. Sidney Outlaw, baritone, will perform selections by Wagner, Brahms, Strauss, Rossini, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Concert | Art Songs from Latin America


Works by Darwin Aquino, Modesta Bor, Alejandro Caturla, Carlos Chávez, Ramiro Cortés, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel M. Ponce, Antonio Valencia & Heitor Villa-Lobos. With: Anna Tonna, mezzo-soprano; Max Lifchitz, piano
   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
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Congolese Short Films Showcase


Three short fiction films by emerging Congolese directors from Kinsasha. In French, Lingala and Swahili w/ English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Omega Ensemble performs works by Debussy and Beethoven


PROGRAM: Ludwig van Beethoven 7 Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Anton Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor PERFORMERS: Siwoo Kim, violin; Molly Carr, viola; Brook Speltz, violoncello; Andrew Janss, violoncello; and Doris Konig, piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

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
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Performance | Storytelling: Ghosts in New York? You Bet!


Storytellers: Robin Bady, H.R Britton, and Regina Ress.
   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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Concert | 1 Hour, 2 Sisters, 300 Years of Music


With: Elizabeth and Natalie Fagan, sopranos Stuart Homan, guest tenor John Arida, piano The artists will perform a variety of works spanning a 300-time period, by a wide range of composers—from Haendel, Clara Schumann, and Debussy, to Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, and a new composition by Jay Gach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Bach Vespers


Program: Johann Sebastian Bach's Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 Bach's Lobet den Herrn, BWV 230 and organ works by J. S. Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude Featuring The Bach Choir & Players.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Theater | Eric Dufault's Year of the Rooster, a Dark Comedy about Cockfighting


A wildly dark comedy about the legends of cockfighting. Everyone mocks Gil Pepper: his clinging mother, his nubile young boss at McDonald's, and most of all, his great nemesis, rival cocker and local tycoon Dickie Thimble. But now with his new rooster, Odysseus Rex, a fearsome killing machine, Gil is experiencing things he's never felt in his life: hope, victory, revenge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Concert | Nancianne Parrella, Organist


Nancianne Parrella is an organist in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Works by Bach


Program: Johann Sebastian Bach Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 669, Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670, Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671, Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 672, Christe, aller Welt Troit, BWV 673, Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 674 Charles Tournemire Triple Choral (Sancta Trinitas), Op. 41 CHARLES M. KENNEDY, raised in Jonesborough, Tennessee, is the Associate Director of Music and Organist at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, where he has served since February 2007.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting & Sculpture: Scott Reeder's People Call Me Scott


A solo presentation of paintings and sculpture. This will be Reeder’s sixth solo exhibition in New York City, and his first with the gallery, which is also his largest exhibition in the city to date. Reeder has been creating work for over 15 years and the gallery is particularly honored to present this substantive exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Process-Oriented Hippies by Sarah Elisabeth Brown


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
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Concert | College Flute Recital


Flutist Daniel James plays the works of Henza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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