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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 27, 2015?

41 free events take place on Tuesday, 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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Performance | 9-5 by Ernesto Pujol: A Site-Specific Performance


Ernesto Pujol pays homage to all office workers in this site-specific performance. Eleven performers, dressed in white, silently write all day about the people they see, creating a literature of pedestrian life in the city. This event takes place Monday Oct. 26, Tuesday Oct. 27 and Wednesday Oct. 28.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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! This tour takes place Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
   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


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. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Federal Hall National Memorial Guided Tour


Ranger-guided tours are available to the public during operating hours. Times: 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM. This tour is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from September through December 30.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar. This event recurs every Tuesday.
   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. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Bartok and Prokofiev


Program: BARTÓK: Piano Sonata, Sz.80 PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14 With: Pianist Misuzu Tanaka.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Impugning Impunity: ALBA's Human Rights Documentary Film Festival


Now in its fifth year, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives' (ALBA) documentary film festival creates a community-wide dialogue about justice, equality, and humanity through the presentation of documentaries on human rights issues, post-screening Q/A sessions with the film directors, and community talk-backs with human rights advocates and activists. This year's lineup features 21 films from 12 countries which tackle themes such as migration, incarceration, historical memory and social change. The festival takes place Monday October 26, Tuesday October 27 and Wednesday October 28.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
$5 per film

Talk | From Impairment to Participation: Mind the Gap


With Prof. Mary Boyle, Montclair State University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Concert | Czech Film: Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988)


A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. 86 min. Also: Curious Alice (1968) 11 min. Animated short. - This is an education film for public school children, about drugs, narcotics, psychedelics, alcohol, amphetamines, and barbiturates abuse in the context of the Alice In Wonderland story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Lecture | Casinos as Industry and Metaphor: A Qualitative Study of Declining Job Quality


Deborah M. Figart, Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Ellen Mutari, Professor of Economics, both of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, located just outside of Atlantic City, will give a presentation based on their newly released book Just One More Hand: Life in the Casino Economy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Film | Lee Toland Krieger's The Age of Adaline (2015): Immortal Woman


Stars: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford. A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into. 109 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Franck Vogel's The Bishnois, Ecologists Since the 15th Century


This documentary film will be screened and followed by a Q&A with French photographer-writer-director Franck Vogel, joined in conversation by Ruth DeFries, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at the Earth Institute.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Eating in Public: A Public Art Project by Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma


Join Gaye Chan (Professor of Art, University of Hawai’i) and Nandita Sharma (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai’i) as they discuss their public art project EATING IN PUBLIC, founded in Hawai’i in 2003. They implement systems of free autonomous exchange outside of state and capitalist regimes in order to reclaim the commons and to relearn how to be commoners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Ensemble Signal performs works by contemporary composers


Program: Clemens Gädenstatter moved by (2012/2013) U.S. premiere Brad Lubman Solo for cimbalom (2013) György Kurtág Hommage à Berényi Ferenc (1997) and Un brin de bruyère à Witold (1994) Oliver Knussen Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke, Op. 23 (1988) Helmut Lachenmann Guero (1969) The artists of Ensemble Signal share their musical inspirations with this program of solo works. Powerhouse violinist Olivia De Prato gives the U.S. premiere of a piece by Clemens Gädenstatter, a rising talent from Austria, where De Prato studied. Nicholas Tolle shares his love of the cimbalom with two pieces by György Kurtág, whose compositions first inspired Tolle to learn the complex Hungarian instrument. Tolle will also perform a piece written for him by Signal’s Co-Artistic Director, Brad Lubman, alongside a work for solo soprano by one of Lubman’s own mentors, Oliver Knussen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Greg Grandin discusses his book Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman


“Greg Grandin’s brilliant account of Kissinger strips Kissinger’s vaunted realism to the bone, revealing a skeleton of romantic American exceptionalism and a loving embrace of the will to power for power’s sake.” - Marilyn Young
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Italian Cinema: Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders (2014)


A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. 110 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Tuesday Organ Recital


With: David Broome (Huntington, N.Y.) These recitals occur every Tuesday, Oct. 6, Oct. 13, Oct. 20, and Oct. 27.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Czech Film: Daniel Blaufuks's As If


As If is a film on the Czech city of Terezín. The work was conceived from the start for the large projection screen and was edited from different sources, so constructing a specific narrative and chronological structure, which intercalates these alternate layers. These are made of truth and fiction, of so-called document and of historical fake, of romanticized drama, and of newsreels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Doogie Horner discusses his book Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren't Aware Of


This illustrated lecture is an original and funny new take on cats. Discover what it is about cats that so obsesses and delights us—their impenetrable personalities, their self-contained quirkiness, the aura of mystery that makes it seem as if they are always up to something that they do not want us to know.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Writing for Children Forum


With Fall 2015 MFA Workshop instructors Ann Hood and Sarah Weeks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Venegas and Venegas: 2 Mexican Photographers


Venegas and Venegas is an exhibition of Mexican photographers Yvonne Venegas and Jose Luis Venegas. Yvonne Venegas's first solo show in New York, the exhibition will include a selection from three of her projects that deal with class, aspiration, and the rituals and lifestyles of upper income communities in Tijuana and San Pedro, Monterrey. Juxtaposed with this work will be 1970's photographs from the archive of her father, Jose Luis Venegas, a wedding and event photographer in Tijuana.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Matthew Sontheimer


Matthew Sontheimer will discuss his drawings: the role text and images play in his works, and his continued exploration of “conversational drawings.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Brazilian Rhythm Master Class


With: Graziela Bortz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Kat Brown, Greer Dworman, Victoria Tricoche Experiments in Dance takes place every Tuesday from October 13 to 27, 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jill Bialosky discusses her novel The Prize


Talented, successful, blessed with a loving wife and daughter, Edward Darby has everything a man should hope for. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Kate Gavino discusses her book Last Night's Reading


Kate Gavino hosts the launch of her illustrated book based on her popular blog, with special guests Jazmine Hughes, Julia Fierro, Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, and Lev Grossman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Maira Kalman discusses her book Beloved Dog


With humor and intelligence, artist and author Maira Kalman gives voice to the dogs she adores, illuminating that they are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend unconditional love.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Stacey Goergen and Amanda Benchley discuss their book Artists Living with Art


Artists Living with Art invites readers into the homes and personal art collections of some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists, including Cindy Sherman, Helen and Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Glenn Ligon, and Pat Steir.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Stacy Schiff discusses her book The Witches of Salem: 1692


The Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Cleopatra has made a career of researching and bringing to life, fascinating women of history. Her latest delves into the character and characters of the Salem With Trials - which led to the death of 19 people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Open Mike | Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam and Open Mike


Hosted by Vittoria Repetto, the jam has showcased the famous, the infamous, the unknown for over a decade. Come out and deliver (up to) 8 minutes of your poetry, prose, songs and spoken word.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you. This tour takes place Tuesdays at 7:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Altruism, Ethics, and the Global Economy


With Matthieu Ricard and Jeffrey Sachs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Bachauer Piano Recital


The Bachauer Competition awards young artists free tuition scholarships. Radio station WQXR continues its tradition of broadcasting the recital as part of its McGraw-Hill Financial Young Artists Showcase series hosted by Robert Sherman, now in its 38th season. During the broadcast, the recipient of the Robert Sherman Award will be announced, which carries a $10,000 grant supporting ongoing projects in music education and community outreach. WQXR will broadcast this concert on a later date to be announced. Tristan Teo and Yun Wei, pianists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | The Triumph of Orson Welles


As you celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Orson Welles’ birth, you will look at scenes from Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Too Much Johnson, Chimes at Midnight, F Is for Fake, and other films that reveal his complete mastery of the art of filmmaking. Hosted by Professor Krin Gabbard, professor of Comparative Literature and English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Viola Faculty Recital: Shmuel Katz


A native of Israel, Shmuel Katz began his violin studies at age 8 and picked up the viola at age 13, he maintains a performing career on both instruments. He graduated with honors from the Tel-Aviv Conservatory in 1992 and then served as first violinist of the Israeli army string quartet and a concertmaster of the Israeli army chamber orchestra as a part of the Outstanding Musicians Program of the Israel Defense Forces. He served as a concertmaster and soloist with the Young Israel Philharmonic, the Israel Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts Symphony.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Workshop | Stargazing in the Park


You don't have to leave New York City to see the stars. Gaze at the stars, planets, and moon through the high-powered telescopes of the Amateur Astronomers Association, and chat with the experts about the sights you see.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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