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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 23, 2013?

43 free events take place on Monday, September 23 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 September 23 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 September . 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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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, September 23, 2013

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free events nyc Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”
free events nyc Classic Italian Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
free events nyc Piano works by Liszt, Bartok, Chopin, Beethoven, and others
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Concert | Cher, Tireless Pop Diva


Since she first came on the scene in the 1960s as half of Sonny & Cher, the singer and actress has been up and down and everywhere in between. Her umpteenth album, Closer to the Truth, comes out in September. Attendees are advised to arrive early.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Workshop | Spring Into Yoga


Teachers trained in different styles will be giving classes throughout the afternoon, with the scenic park lake in the background. Please bring your own mat, as there will be none provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Catch and Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 am
Free

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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11:00 am
$6

Lecture | Challenges to Kosova's Democratization and European Integration


A lecture by Ramush Haradinaj.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Park Pétanque


Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Book Signing | Author Eddie Campbell signs copies of Days of Our Lives: Better Living with cast members from the soap


Cast members Kristian Alfonso, James Scott, Chandler Massey and Deirdre Hall join the author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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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12:00 pm
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Concert | Daryl Sherman, Internationally Renowned Waldorf-Astoria Pianist


Equally at home in the world of jazz and cabaret, singer/pianist Daryl Sherman is internationally acclaimed for a stellar 14-year run at the Waldorf-Astoria where she played Cole Porter's Steinway. Sherman has performed at The Algonquin's Oak Room, being touted "someone who fits the room like Derek Jeter fits the Yankees" (Village Voice).
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Northern Exposure: Revisit the 90s Comedy-Drama Series


Whether it's a snowy nude sprint down Main Street, the mysterious appearance of a long-lost relative, or the improbable death of yet another of Maggie's boyfriends, life's never dull in the remote hamlet of Cicely, Alaska. Colorful characters and quirky plots propelled Northern Exposure into the hearts of millions of viewers, earning the CBS "dramedy" series seven Emmy awards between its 1990 debut and its demise six seasons later.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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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2:00 pm
$6

Tour | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Calcutta: Two Years in the City


Lecturer Amit Chaudhuri is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He earned his PhD at Oxford University, and was Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge, and has been Visiting Professor at Columbia and the Freie University, Berlin. He is the author of five novels, including The Immortals (2009), and On Tagore: Reading the Poet Today (2012). His latest book, Calcutta: Two Years in the City will be published in Fall 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Moral Interventionism: The Gas Question & Syria


Evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, and the following push for humanitarian intervention, raise questions about the legitimacy and practicality of military intervention on moral grounds. This roundtable discussion addresses the issue of moral interventionism from the perspectives of political theory, international security, and the history of peacekeeping. Panelists: - Etienne Balibar, Visiting Professor of Philosophy - Jean L. Cohen, Professor of Political Science - Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs - Jean-Marie Guhenno, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs - Jack Snyder, Professor of International Relations Moderator: Victoria de Grazia, Professor of History
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they 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 something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Sunset Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park. Reservations Required RESERVE NOW
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | China/Brazil: Two Tales of a Growth Slowdown


Mr. Canuto previously served as the Banks Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction Network, a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, gender equality and analytic work for client countries. He also served as an Executive Director of the Board of the World Bank from 2004-2007. Outside of the Bank, he has held leadership positions at the Inter-American Development Bank where he was Vice President for Countries, and for the Government of Brazil where he was Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. He also has an extensive academic background, serving as Professor of Economics at the University of So Paulo and University of Campinas in Brazil.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Classic Italian Cinema: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (1970)


Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 - or so says his mistress, the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web. 97 min. In Italian with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | College Show: The Book Show 2013


An exhibition of book projects completed in spring 2013 by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Class of 2014.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Talk and Tour: RetroSpective


Join Ariele Elia for a guided tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Jutta Koether on Agnes Martin


Jutta Koether was born in 1958 in Cologne. During a career that has spanned more than twenty-five years, she has become a well-known painter, performance artist, musician, and critic. Koether has exhibited extensively at international venues, including Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland and Arnolfini, Bristol (2013); São Paulo Bienal, Brazil (2012); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Tate Modern, London (2012); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2011); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2009); and Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2007). Koether is a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfbK) in Hamburg. She lives in Berlin and New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Frederick Kaufman discusses his book Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food


A prominent food journalist follows the trail from Big Pizza to square tomatoes to exploding food prices to Wall Street, trying figure out why we can't all have healthy, delicious, affordable food.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Nonfiction Forum: Alysia Abbott


Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, Salon, Vogue, Psychology Today, and The Atlantic.com. She is a graduate of the New School's MFA program and was a contributing producer at WNYC Radio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Discussion | Picturing the Novel


A new tendency to include photographic illustrations in literary fiction prompts important questions about the cultural politics of literary and artistic spaces, whether on the printed page or the portable screen. Join Rachel Kushner, the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Telex from Cuba (2008) and The Flamethrowers (2013), as she addresses these topics in conversation with Charity Scribner, Andrew W. Mellon Resident Fellow at the Center for the Humanities. The conversation will be complemented by a screening of Kushner’s recent portfolio project for The Paris Review.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Transforming Fresh Kills, Staten Island


Stop by for a special panel discussion at the second in a series of three free talks about adaptive reuse projects and public open space around the world. Fresh Kills landfill, once the largest landfill in the world, is being transformed into Freshkills Park, one of New York City’s largest public parks. Hear James Corner, of James Corner Field Operations, and Eloise Hirsh, of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, discuss plans for public access to the area’s creeks, wetlands, meadows, and sweeping vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Composer John Zorn performs The Hermetic Organ


John Zorn returns to perform on the incredible Aeolian-Skinner organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Katherine Powers reads from her book Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life


Katherine Powers has edited the letters of her father, the celebrated author of the National Book-Award winning novel Morte D'Urban (1963), J.F. Powers, who explored the culture of postwar Midwestern Catholicism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium


The sixty-first meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will feature David Prudhomme. NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium is a weekly series for artist/writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. at which to present and critique current work. The symposium will examine new ideas for the distribution of print and electronic work that move beyond the existing models of publishing and advertising. Meetings will be facilitated by a rotating group of practitioners and guest speakers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano works by Liszt, Bartok, Chopin, Beethoven, and others


Since 1999, Mannes College has presented a yearlong music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts performed by Mannes' gifted young student artists, distinguished faculty members, and renowned guests and held at prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions. Each festival is an exploration of an individual composer, a musical group, a stylistic movement, or a historical period. The 2013 festival," Sounds of Change: Music in Transition" explores music written during transitional periods, from the baroque to the present. The program will include piano music of Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Bartok, Prokofiev, Satie, Debussy, and Kurtag.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Signing | Rock Hall of Famer Graham Nash signs copies of his book Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life


From Graham Nash — the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies — comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally reads from his book The Daughters of Mars


Booker Prize-winning Thomas Keneally will discuss his novel with Sheridan Hay. About The Daughters of Mars: From the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Alumni Soprano Recital


Yoko Kawase, soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | D'Ambrose Boyd & David Pearl Present Singers Space


Come to this jazz open mic, hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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