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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 20, 2019?

21 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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21 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 20, 2019

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free events nyc Open House New York -- an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city
free events nyc Organ Recital: Performance By Renowned British Organist
free events nyc Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more
free events nyc Jazz Band: Baritone, Guitar and Bass
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Festival | Open House New York -- an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city


Every October, Open House New York Weekend unlocks the doors of New York's most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York. From historical to contemporary, residential to industrial, hundreds of sites across the five boroughs are open to visit, with tours, talks, performances, and other special events taking place over the course of OHNY Weekend. Through the unparalleled access that it enables, OHNY Weekend deepens our understanding of the importance of architecture and urban design to foster a more vibrant civic life, and helps catalyze a citywide conversation about how to build a better New York
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

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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Tour | Architecture Tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage


The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is an Open House New York participant this year, offering free architecture tours highlighting the campus’s notable features such as the Core Building designed by Pritzker-Prize winning architect Kevin Roche, and lauded environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy’s Garden of Stones. The tour will offer a unique architectural encounter with the Museum, engaging visitors to explore how concepts of public memory, Jewish architecture, and the history of the Holocaust converge in a single space. Start times: 11 AM, 12 PM, and 1:30 PM.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


A journey through the 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. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Park Walk | Narrows-to-Coney Island Walk


Walk along Narrows through various parks to Coney Island taking in beautiful views of the bay area along the Narrows. Rain cancels. Walk from subway station to pathway along the Narrows to Surf and Stillwell Ave and end by Nathan’s in Coney Island. Subway station at end of walk is across the street from Nathan’s. Bring lunch and water or purchase lunch at Caesar’s Bay Bazaar. Distance: 6-7 miles. Time: 4-5 hours. Rain cancels. Please call to confirm that walk is on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$3

Reading | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza: A Marathon Reading


With her groundbreaking work, first published in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) established the Mexican-American border as a metaphor for different types of transgressions—racial, sexual, social, and cultural. The work was radical not only because it was one of the first popular writings by a Chicana Feminist who also publicly claimed her lesbianism, but it was also new in form and language, switching between essay and poetry, English, Mexican, Spanish, and Indigenous dialects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Community Rowing


Village Community Boathouse provides free, no experience necessary Community Rowing on the Hudson River. After a brief orientation, participants will be split into crews with an experienced coxswain to steer the boat and a mixture of experienced and new rowers. The boats, Whitehall Gigs, are stable, traditional working boats for four rowers and a coxswain. Please note: Rows will last between one and three hours, dependent on weather, tides, and destination. Participants are expected to help launch, retrieve, and clean the boats each session. Community rowing is open to all, although some physical agility is required. The focus of the program is teamwork and recreation in a safe and respectful environment. Each participant must sign a waiver. Life jackets are provided. Expect to be out in the hot sun for several hours - bring water and sunscreen! Sundays, May 26-October 27, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Dance Lesson | Dance Sunday Community Classes


Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Sunday Community Classes are open and free of charge.  Sundays, September 29-December 8, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Discussion | SecuriTEA Time: Understanding Cyber Risks


Feel like we're in a bad episode of Black Mirror? Is Mr.Robot looking more like a documentary? Between the corporate, state, and civilian threats we face, talking about cybersecurity can be overwhelming and stir up a lot of difficult emotions. This social event from the CyPurr Collective hopes to provide a comfortable space to discuss these anxieties as well as current events in the digital world. Let's build up our digital-agency and form a critical understand the tech encroaching on our lives. All while enjoying delicious tea and snacks, of course.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Performance for One: Slippery Memory


Performance for One is a one-on-one performance event written and directed by Edward Einhorn, presented in 10-minute slots at venues across Manhattan. The performance is about memory, but even more so, it is about relationship between performer, audience member, and author. What is the responsibility of the audience member, and how is it felt differently when there is only one audience member? Who is the story teller, the author or the performer? What happens to a memory that two people share after one of those people is gone? Presented by Untitled Theater Company.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Artist Talk: Los Dioses de los Pochos


Anna Ortiz will discuss the motivations and inspirations behind her solo show Los Dioses de los Pochos, particularly with regard to her Mexican heritage. Light refreshments will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Performance | Storytelling: A Jury of Her Peers/Sometimes I Sing


Storyteller: Milbre Burch Appropriate for adults and youth 12 and older
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital


Organist Michael C. Bower has toured with the Choir of Men and Boys to sing at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Thomas Church, The White House, and the Cathedral Basilica of Ottawa. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:45 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital: Performance By Renowned British Organist


Organist David Briggs is regarded as one of the world's finest improvisors, and now works as a concert organist. Briggs is a composer of choral and organ music, and has also transcribed many orchestral works into versions for solo organ, as well as many of Pierre Cochereau's recorded improvisations. In 1983 he received the Countess of Munster Award to study Interpretation and Improvisation with Jean Langlais in Paris, with whom he furthered in his interest in the art of improvisation by his transcriptions of the recordings of the late Pierre Cochereau. Transcribing the remarkable improvisations from Cochereau's cassette recordings took eleven years. Briggs' subsequent performances and recordings of them earned him his initial acclaim. He was also the first British organist to win the Tournemire prize for improvisation at the St Albans International Organ Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:45 pm
Free

Classical Music | Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more


Phillip Dyson, piano. Program Brahms Rhapsody, op. 79 no. 2 Beethoven Appassionata Sonata, op. 57 Debussy Clair de Lune Jerome Kern/Mayerl Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cole Porter/Mayerl Anything Goes Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor, op. 64 no. 2 Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite Selection Erik Satie Je te veux Irving Berlin/Mayerl Cheek to Cheek Scott Joplin Pine Apple Rag George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue About the Musician Pianist Phillip Dyson has been described as "brilliant", with a "wonderfully dry, very British sense of humour (Gramophone). He has performed with many of the UK's finest symphony orchestras, including: the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, National Symphony. He has appeared at Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Reading | 2 West Virginia Writers Read


A reading and reception celebrating the winners of this year's Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Contest. Jonathan Bolt, the winning poet, and Lydia A. Cyrus, the winning fiction writer, both from West Virginia, where the contest was held, will read their worki. Introductions by poetry judge Patricia Spears Jones, and fiction judge Bryn Chancellor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Partial Eclipse: Collage, Chance, and Humor


Partial Eclipse is the product of a yearlong dialogue between Anton Ginzburg and Dasha Shishkin. Informed by Exquisite Corpse - the surrealist game merging disparate ideas and images to form unexpected wholes - the artist employ collage, chance, and humor to reveal unanticipated relationships between their artworks. Though using seemingly different formal vocabularies, the artists share many themes and interests, with an eye on traditions of Russian Futurists and avant-guard artists, writers, and musicians, including collectives of the 1920s and 1930s, such as the multidisciplinary OPOYAZ and OBERIU.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Gotham Writers Workshop: Fiction Writing


A free introductory Fiction Writing class. Iinstructor Seth Fried, author of The Municipalists, will teach. Gotham provides notebooks and pens, so just bring your creativity! Class is free, but space is limited.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou


A recently published book on queer re-genderings in Santería, Candomblé and Vodou. Author Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Band: Baritone, Guitar and Bass


Jazz baritone E.J. Decker performs from jazz through folk to '50s R&B and blues. From 2005 to 2014, E.J. brought together a revolving cast of more than 160 of NY's top jazz artists in the annual The September Concert: The Heart of Jazz for 9/11. Guitarist and singer Chris Bergson has established himself as "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music" (All Music Guide.) Chris has performed with Norah Jones and John Hammond, as well as jazz legends Annie Ross and drummer Al Foster (Miles Davis). Jazz bassist Hilliard Greene performs widely in recitals, nightclubs, concert halls (including Carnegie Hall), recording studios, radio and television throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, the West Indies and South America. Hilliard performed and recorded with Jimmy Scott for 20+ years and was his Musical Director from 1995 to 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free
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