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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 29, 2013?

40 free events take place on Sunday, September 29 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 29 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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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, September 29, 2013

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free events nyc 2013 Medieval Festival
free events nyc The DUMBO Arts Festival
free events nyc Organ Works by Dupré
free events nyc Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas
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Park Walk | Park Nature Walk


1 ½ to 2 miles. The park brings attention to its vital role in creating one of the scarcest resources in all of Manhattan—wildlife habitat! Learn about the Park’s wildlife by joining experienced naturalists on guided nature walks along the Park’s esplanade.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Conference | Urban Convergences


Following hard-won liberation struggles against various forms of colonialism, India, Brazil, and South Africa have now emerged as power players on the global stage. While their governments are imbued with the history and rhetoric of past left movements, these countries’ major cities are spaces of contestation, pitting the need for universal housing, water and electricity access and employment against the realities of global austerity in the neoliberal age. This tension is brought closer to home through mega events such as Brazil’s upcoming World Cup (2014) and Olympics (2016), as well as South Africa’s World Cup (2010) and India’s Commonwealth Games (2010). These events seek to transform urban centers of the Global South into cosmopolitan world cities, at the expense of retracting public spaces and services, displacing hundreds of thousands, and further marginalizing the urban poor. How do left governments in these countries address the contradiction of fighting for social justice in a neoliberal world? Urban Convergences will take this framework as an opening for a series of discussions on how activists, government actors, and academics are confronting these new realities for a vision of a socially just city in the 21st century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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
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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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Festival | Fête Paradiso, the World's First Festival of Vintage French Carnival Rides and Carousels


Fête Paradiso, the world's first festival of vintage French carnival rides and carousels, will make its American debut this summer. The rare, museum-quality collection, which includes a diverse array of attractions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as carousels, flying swings and a pipe organ, will be available for the public to ride and enjoy.
   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 | 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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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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Park Walk | Fort Tryon & Inwood Hill Parks Walk


3 miles, easy pace. A walk through Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Parks, possibly seeing the remains of an Indian settlement, an extremely large Gingko tree, an almost hidden stone arch resembling the one in Washington Sq. Park, and the only farm house left in Manhattan. Bring lunch/beverage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$3

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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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Conference | Ticket 2 Bollywood: Cinema Beyond Boundaries


An insider’s view of filmmaking in Bollywood and New York City. Over three days of panels, workshops and receptions, some of today’s hottest writers, directors, actors and composers recount lessons learned, discuss professional best practices and forecast changes for filmmaking globally. This being the centennial year of Indian film, panelists will reflect on the history and triumphs of Subcontinent cinema. Other highlights include a panel on practical advice from Western filmmaking professionals on production in New York City. Additional topics include screenwriting trends, coproduction opportunities and international film financing. Bringing together professionals from two of the world’s largest filmmaking communities, the event is also a networking opportunity for aspiring and established talent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Festival | 2013 Medieval Festival


There will be authentic medieval music, magic, mime, theater as well as jugglers and jesters and a spectacular joust between knights on horseback.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:30 am
Free

Park Walk | Belvedere's Kingdom Tour


Take a walk around the landscapes dominated by historic Belvedere Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Route involves moderate inclines and a few stairs. 60 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Other | Open Studios


Visit with visual and performing artists who have been working on the Island since March.
   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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Festival | The DUMBO Arts Festival


The DUMBO Arts Festival is a feast for the senses that attracts 200,000 visitors over 3 days with the participation of over 500 artists from a variety of disciplines, 100 studios, 50 galleries and stages and 100 programming partners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
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Dance Performance | 2013 Dumbo Dance Festival


A 3-day dance extravaganza! Presenting 116 companies with over 450 performing artists from throughout the United States, South America, Italy, Canada, Korea, Japan and Germany. A multi-disciplinary celebration of dance, this year’s festival features the freshest & most original dancemakers. Audiences will be able to enjoy up to 8 different companies every hour!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | DUMBO, Brooklyn Tour


Explore Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass neighborhood while enjoying the yearly Art Under the Bridge Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Shining Island: Celebrating 50 Years of the Literary Colloquium Berlin


A weekend of public panel discussions celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. This series of conversations between authors and translators will cover a range of topics including the relationship between New York and Berlin as literary cities, literature in the age of technology and surveillance, literary residencies and institutions, and the changing role of the United States in Berlin over the past 50 years from the perspective of writers who have spent time in the city, including Marcel Beyer, Aris Fioretos, Rivka Galchen, Durs Grünbein, Christian Hawkey, Felicitas Hoppe, Karen Russell, Charles Simic, and Uljana Wolf. 1:00pm, Sunday Papers: Reflections on Poetry and Life 2:15pm, What's with Literary Institutions? Shining Islands and Ivory Towers 3:30pm, "Im technischen Zeitalter:" Literature, Technology, and Big Data
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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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. Class Schedule: 1:00-2:00pm 2:30-3:30pm 4:00-5:00pm 5:30-6:30pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Festival | Community Day


An afternoon of free festivities — live music, a barbecue, raffles and more. Listen to jazz bassist Ben Allison and his trio, enjoy refreshments and prizes, learn more about the Settlement, and meet Executive Director David Garza and other members of the staff.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Author Reading | Craig Steven Wilder discusses his book Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities


The New York Times’ Brent Staples moderates a discussion amongst a distinguished group of panelists on American History Professor Craig Steven Wilder’s new book. The acclaimed author chronicles the untold story of how the African slave trade generated the wealth that raised many of America’s most prestigious institutions – from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, and Williams College.
   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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Film | John Cromwell's The Racket (1951): Urban Crime Drama


Starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan. As a national crime syndicate reaches its tentacles into a big city's political machine, it faces opposition on two fronts: an incorruptible cop trying to clean up the streets and an old-school local mobster who likes to settle scores with gunplay. 88 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | The French Cookin’ Blues Band


This well-known band plays authentic Blues from the Delta to Chicago and New York, to Texas and Louisiana.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | See the Park in Progress with a Behind-the-Scenes Hard Hat Tour


A sneak peak of the construction of the 30 acres of new park and public spaces at the center of the Island. This tour takes visitors through the park construction site. Space on the tours is limited and is available on a first-come, first served basis. Hardhats and vests will be provided and closed-toe footwear is required. Children over the age of 7 are welcome on tours.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Royal Philharmonic Society in New York City: The Society Speaks


The Royal Philharmonic Society's Executive Director Rosemary Johnson and Projects Coordinator Tom Hutchinson talk with Joel Sachs about the role of the Royal Philharmonic Society and commissioning new music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

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 | Organ Works by Dupré


Concert organist Stephen Hamilton, Minister of Music Emeritus at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan, will present an organ concert. Hamilton’s program will feature the organ music of the great French organist and composer Marcel Dupré, who was organist at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris for over forty years. Hamilton concertizes throughout the United States and Europe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Royal Philharmonic Society’s Bicentenary Concert


Program: CARSON COOMAN (U.S.) Flax-Golden Tales, for storyteller and chamber orchestra (2013) (world premiere) with text by Erin Morgenstern JUDITH WEIR (U.K.) I give you the end of a golden string (2011-13) (U.S. premiere) MAGNUS LINDBERG (Finland) Red House (2013) (U.S. premiere) With the New Juilliard Ensemble; Joel Sachs, conductor. Preceded at 4 PM by a discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Dancing | VolvoTango: Outdoor Dancing


The wooden surface out on the Pier is of an exceptionally good quality. A broad healed dance shoe works fine. In damp conditions a smooth soled rubber shoe is fine and some even like to dance barefoot. The dance area is at the end of the pier under a large tent that both serves as an umbrella and a sound horn. Because of this protection and because of the polishing that regular VolvoTango events give it, the wood is silky smooth and because it's not laid on concrete, the wood is soft, there is almost a sprung-like feel to the floor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Works by Bach, Franck & Dupré


Program: Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 Norman Cocker Tuba Tune César Franck Six Pièces Op.20: Priere Marcel Dupré Prelude and Fugue in B major, Op.7 No.1 JON JOHNSON currently serves as the Associate Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, Tennessee.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights at Sunset Tour


Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Can Computers Replace Mathematicians?


For several decades, people have attempted to write computer programs that can solve mathematical problems. Despite these efforts, there are still problems that human mathematicians find very easy, but which cannot be solved by even the best computer programs. Join Fields Medalist Sir Timothy Gowers as he discusses why this occurs and describes recent work that may change this situation, and may even, within a few decades, put mathematical researchers out of a job.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Why Not Us? 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 | Ryan Beatty, California Singing Sensation


Ryan Beatty has built a worldwide following with over 30 million YouTube views and outstanding live performances. Catch Ryan at this special event as he performs tracks from his second EP, Ryan Beatty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas


Program: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, op. 109, 110, and 111 Since 1999, the school has presented a yearlong music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts performed by 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | Beethoven, Puccini, Mendelssohn: Works for the Stage


Program: Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess Puccini Sì, mi chiamano Mimì from La bohème Beethoven Coriolan Overture Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture An orchestra of New York's finest freelance musicians will perform a program of music written for the opera and theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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