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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 17, 2014?

42 free events take place on Friday, October 17 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 17 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 17, 2014

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Conference | Justice in the Home: Domestic Work Past, Present, and Future


Research about domestic work, domestic workers, and domestic worker organizing is an abundant and growing field. The attention garnered by organizing efforts by and on behalf of domestic workers, both nationally and internationally, has served as a spur to scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Structured interchange between scholars and organizers has the potential to enrich the work of both groups, providing theoretical, historical, and empirical context to the work of organizers and providing scholars with an understanding of the priority issues that arise within the context of organizing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi Workshop


Increase physical balance, strength, and mental focus. Learn the ancient Chinese martial art with expert Alex Hing. No experience is necessary! Hing has practiced martial arts for over 30 years in San Francisco and New York City, including 10 years with Tai Chi grand master William C. C. Chen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


City Hall Park, Broadway, New York, NY, United States (map) DescriptionFree Tours by Foot is partnering with Visit New York Tours in offering a tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Central Park Photography Tour


Ready, set, shoot! Whether you possess a professional camera or an Iphone, join a Central Park Photography Tour like no other. Two professionals will guide you around Central Park’s most scenic spots. A licensed guide will explain all there’s to know about your surroundings. A gifted and talented photographer will educate you on how to make your trip memorable and improve your photography. These two-in-one tours are fun for all ages, camera type, and levels of photography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Pumpkin Carving Preview


Get into the Halloween spirit with a special preview of Pumpkin Carving Weekend. Watch Master Carver Ray Villafane get underway in transforming giant and unusual pumpkins into zombies and other unearthly creatures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Financial Planning Day


Classes: Life Planning Documents • Investments • Tax Planning• Retirement Planning • Healthcare Options & more… Counseling: Certified Financial Planners offer 30 minute private sessions. Database Demonstrations: Staff demonstrations of resources to assist you with your personal finances. Financial Fair: Financial information from organizations such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor and more…
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | In the Loop Knitting Circle


Get crafty for a cause at this monthly knitting and crochet gathering guided by fiber artist Ina Braun. Bring hooks and needles, yarn and patterns are provided. Completed pieces will be donated to Win, a non-profit organization that provides New York City’s homeless mothers and their children with the support services they need to transform their lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Monk at 97: Counting Down to 100


Characterized by his improvisational style and elaborate compositions, Thelonious Monk was a herald of bebop and a jazz innovator. This annual jazz music event counts down to Monk’s 100th birthday with a concert featuring renowned pianist Elio Villafranca and the James Weidman Trio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Gavin Hood's Ender's Game (2013): More Invading Aliens


Starring Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld. Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. 114 Minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Conference | Getting Out the Vote in France and in the U.S.


With: Donald P. Green (Columbia, Politics), Vincent Pons (Harvard, Business School), Frédéric Sawicki (Paris 1 - Sorbonne, Politics) and Julien Talpin (CNRS and Université de Lille 2, Politics).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Tim Burton's Oscar-Nominated Big Fish (2003): Father-Son Relationship


Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup. A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life. 125 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Workshop | Healthcare Coverage Workshop


Need Health Insurance? Want to learn more about Open Enrollment, Health Plan options, and tax credits? Think you are eligible for Medicaid or Medicaid "Spendown"? Need information on Medicare Savings Programs or Prescription help? Want to learn more about HIV Uninsured Care Programs? Then please join Single Stop for a free Healthcare Workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Twitter Basics


Learn about the online social network Twitter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | What's Coming with iOS 8 Workshop


Come learn about what's new with iOS 8. Including key features and changes to the world's most popular operating system for the iPhone and iPad.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Fiction Reading by Joshua Ferris and Mira Jacob


Joshua Ferris is the author of “Then We Came to the End,” winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a National Book Award finalist, “The Unnamed,” and his latest title, “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.” Mira Jacob’s debut novel, “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing,” was published by Random House in July of 2014.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 pm: Shilan Douglas - Folk spirituals 6:05 pm: Jake La Botz - Fringe roots 6:40 pm: Tuelo and Her Cousins - South African rock and blues
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Ōyama Enrico Isamu Letter's Letterscape: Mixed-Media Collages


A solo exhibition by Tokyo-born NYC-based artist Ōyama Enrico Isamu Letter. Ōyama re-addresses letters as media from different angle. Letterscape, which is a set of 2 collages made of mixed materials from Western and Eastern world, including various letters written in different time and location and sent to New York, and pages of an account book from Edo period with brush-written letters on Japanese paper, depicts a panorama of letters that multiply and overlay in its approximately 20-foot wide screen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: The Artist Is Not Present


A durational live installations in a storefront by Runn Shayo. 1 2 3 Shoot: a live freaky installation about things we do for fun like shoot people. Runn Shayo (b. 1974, Israel) is a Brooklyn-based conceptual, performance and video artist, an actor, a dancer, and a filmmaker. Recently selected for the IAP NYFA mentoring fellowship program. His solo works have been presented at venues including: Art Market Provincetown, Fleet Moves Festival, Vox Populi, Grizzly Grizzly, Mix Film Festival, Appearances Cape Cod, FLIC Festival, LOIKKA, Finland, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Monk at 97: Counting Down to 100


Characterized by his improvisational style and elaborate compositions, Thelonious Monk was a herald of bebop and a jazz innovator. This annual jazz music event counts down to Monk’s 100th birthday with a three-hour mini-marathon with Jazz House Kids, David Weiss Sextet, Renee Rosnes Quartet, and Grammy Award-winning Arturo O’Farrill Sextet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Amalgama: An Evening of Music and Dance


A meeting of two creative minds, Amalgama offers a collaboration between genres. Composer Pablo Mayor’s signature style combines urban jazz with folklore, focusing on the groove of the music, while dancer Daniel Fetecua brings a contemporary dance twist to the experience. The group presents modern choreography with original music, contemporary takes on traditional dance and traditional music, and improvisations in which dancers and musicians interact spontaneously.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Other | American Poets Prizes Ceremony and Reception


Celebrate the recipients of this year’s American Poets Prizes given by the Academy of American Poets. A public reception with the poets and presenters will follow the ceremony.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | College Production: The Skriker by Caryl Churchill


Two young women, one who is pregnant and one whose child has died, struggle to survive in modern London – a task made more difficult when they are haunted by the Skriker, an ancient and damaged spirit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Documentary: Scott Cervine's People vs. The State of Illusion (2014)


This movie explores the science and power of perception and imagination and the prison walls of habitual thought and behavior that we all create. It tells the story of Aaron Roberts, a single father who is arrested and tried on charges following an DWI incident that results in his arrest and in his daughter being sent to a state home. While there, an attorney learns of her plight and the story of her father, and decides to represent her in an innovative and surprising case against the State. 80 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Party | Listening Party: Total Body Conditioning


For Mika Tajima's Total Body Conditioning exhibit, Alvin Aronson collaborated with New Humans on Leisure Drill (Cardio Dub), the soundtrack playing throughout the gallery space, that triggers lighting temperature shifts. Drum machine pulses periodically surface out of watery, microsound-processed recordings of a Toyota factory assembly line in Japan. Aronson will perform an extended live version of the composition in the exhibition space. New Humans will present a new vocal text for the listening party performed over "hanging strings," an element of house music that becomes an auditory illusion–infinitely tensing and ascending without break.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


With performers Emily Epstein White (This Week In Blackness), Dave Lester (TV One’s "Who's Got Jokes with Bill Bellamy"), Lori Sommer (Red Tie Mafia Improv Troupe), Nimesh Patel (Comedy Central's "Up Next Talent Search")and Justin Morgan (Exec. Producer / Co-Creator of Kokomo).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Thomas R. Pryor reads from his memoir I Hate the Dallas Cowboys


The Yorkville-born author presents a funny, bittersweet portrait of his first 18 years - a love song to street life and his youth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Thomas R. Pryor signs copies of his memoir I Hate the Dallas Cowboys


In this funny and bittersweet portrait of Thomas Pryor's coming of age on the Upper East Side, we (re)visit a world that echoes The Wonder Years - just add taverns, subways and Checker cabs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | AXIOM performs works by Messiaen and Adams


Program: ADAMS Son of Chamber Symphony (2007) BIRTWISTLE 3 Settings of Celan (1989-94) MESSIAEN Oiseaux exotiques (1955-56) Regarded as "brilliant" (New York Times) and "superb" (Wall Street Journal) for its recent appearances in the 2014 NY Phil Biennial, AXIOM is dedicated to performing the masterworks of the 20th- and 21st-century repertoire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Theater | College Production: Starting Here, Starting Now


Program in Vocal Performance. Music by David Shire. Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | The Cranky Pants Comedy Hour


LINEUP: Michael Lawrence (Conan, Comedy Central) Jenny Zigrino (TBS' Funniest Wins) Shakir Standley (Last Comic Standing) Ray DeVito (MTV, Entertainment Tonight) Molly Austin (Emotistyle web series) Kris Tinkle (Sirius XM) Eli Sairs (Wildcats @ The Creek and The Cave)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Music of Dariusz Przybylski


Program: Red, Yellow, Red. Hommage à Mark Rothko for 8 string instruments, op. 73b (2012) Selections from Broch Lieder, op. 70 Orpheus and Euridice for piano, op. 20 (2005) Ergos for cello and piano, op. 65 (2010) Onyx for two flutes, op. 58 (2010) ......the rest is silence.... for two pianos and percussion, op. 23 (2005) Performed by the college’s gifted young student artists and distinguished faculty members.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | College Production: The Skriker by Caryl Churchill


Two young women, one who is pregnant and one whose child has died, struggle to survive in modern London – a task made more difficult when they are haunted by the Skriker, an ancient and damaged spirit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Concert | Digital Diaspora, Soul-Shaking Electro-Funk Outfit


Digital Diaspora mixes irresistible Afrobeat grooves — played on one-of-a-kind instruments like the freakaphone and gongo-tron — with impassioned, socially conscious lyrics. The result is an intoxicating, retro-futuristic sound that’s designed to both make you move and make you think.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 pm
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Concert | Post-Theatre Organ Recital


With: Christopher Creaghan (New York, N.Y.), organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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