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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 4, 2014?

44 free events take place on Thursday, September 4 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 4 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 4, 2014

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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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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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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
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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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Workshop | Affordable Care Act Tax Provisions for Individuals and Families


The Affordable Care Act, or health care law, contains health insurance coverage and financial assistance options for individuals and families. The IRS administers the tax provisions included in the law. Attend this workshop for more information about the immediate and long term tax implications of providing affordable health care. What you need to know about the health care law? Q&A to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Tour | Experience Fort Jay: An Island Star


About 30 minutes. Fortify your mind! Tour one of the best examples of classic star-shaped fort design anywhere in the country, including the oldest structure on the island. Tours on the half hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Tour | Explore Castle Williams Tour


Explore Castle Williams and get some history in the round at the best-preserved circular fortification in the nation. Tours on the half hour. About 30 minutes long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Workshop | Board Game Social


Join an all-new weekly Game Social to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Board Game Social features games in their classic form with a board, special pieces and a little bit of competition. Try classics like Sorry, Clue, Monopoly, or Life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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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Gallery Talk | Exhibit Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Join a 45-minute docent-led tour of the ABC of It exhibition. Start times: 12:30pm, 2:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park: Frank Owens


Frank Owens has had a career in virtually all aspects of the music profession. His television credits include the First David Letterman Show in 1980 and It's Showtime at the Apollo. He has worked with an array of singers and received a gold record for his Rhythm Concept of Tony Orlando and Dawn's Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree.
   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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Middle Section


It is easy to forget that you are in a crowded city while walking through this spectacular park. This tour focuses on the middle of Central Park, seeing everything from a castle to the wild-looking Ramble. See an Ancient Egyptian obelisk and the place where Stuart Little raced his sailboat in the E.B. White children’s classic. Don’t forget to bring along your camera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Drawing Workshop


With Spring Studio.
   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 | King Vidor's Oscar Nominee Comrade X (1940): Out of the USSR


Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka. An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country. 104 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Hike | Hike through History


About 90 minutes. See the whole history of the island in one go. The most comprehensive program takes you to nearly every highlight in the historic district. Visitors should be prepared to stand for a full 90 minutes and walk a distance of about 1.5 miles.
   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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Workshop | Uncovering Your Family History: Using Handbooks to Develop Genealogy Research Plans


Genealogy handbooks are an oft-overlooked resource. This short course will present different types of handbooks and explain how to use them to improve the quality and depth of genealogy research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Other | Human Chess


Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at our Human Chess games, where chess becomes a embodied team sport. All levels welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Social Senses, a College Exhibition


An exhibition of photography, sculpture and prints by current students and recent alumni featuring works that critique contemporary culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Film | Got Clutter? Join the Library Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Art Shows: Heidi Kumao / Shirley Steele


Heidi Kumao - Three works about surviving physical confinement are each inspired by the experiences of individual women including: a college student living under an authoritarian government, a Japanese-American girl relocated to a WWII internment camp, and the artist herself-constrained for months in a clam shell back brace. Shirley Steele - In these mixed-media paintings, gestural paint strokes and computer animation combine to explore a central tension of the information age, the human/machine relationship. Paint and programming join in a playful and reflective dialogue between hand and computer, between the irrational and the rational.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights 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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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street


10th Street in the 1950s had become a center of the cities’ burgeoning arts community. The surrounding area formed a social hub of studios and artist run cooperative galleries where Abstract Expressionism ruled the day. The critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Although known for his early championing of the Abstract Expressionists, he befriended a younger generation of artists that reacted against the rhetoric of gestural abstraction, the leading style of Tenth Street. Chief among Sandler’s core were Ronald Bladen, Mark di Suvero, Lois Dodd, Al Held, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Philip Pearlstein and George Sugarman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Off the Wall / Fresco Painting


Artists in the exhibit: Nadia Ayari, Michael Biddle, Daniel Bozhkov, Christopher Carroll, Sean Glover, Elizabeth Mooney, Carrie Moyer, Gabriel Pionkowski, Barbara Sullivan. The exhibit presents a selection of contemporary artists who adhere to as well as push the limits of traditional fresco painting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Kira Peikoff discusses her book No Time to Die


The heart-pounding thriller focuses on: what if we found a cure for aging?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Johannes VanDerBeek's Early Hand


In his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Johannes VanDerBeek explores his interest in how the process of seeing and understanding is constantly evolving based on stages of human development. Following the birth of his daughter, VanDerBeek became fascinated with imagining how she was seeing the world without the pre-associations that language provides. In envisioning the frenzied mental landscape where things are experienced as phenomenon and how over time the perception of the external world is filled in with more specific information, the works in the show evoke different phases of resolution and visual representation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Melanie Daniel's Lotus Eaters


Artsy.net recommends this gallery as an emerging gallery to watch, highlighting Melanie Daniel's upcoming show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Downward dog under the trees with YogaWorks instructor Heather Seagraves, whose classes are spirited and dynamic, fun and strenghtening. Mats are provided by Athleta.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Tom Fruin's Color Study


An exhibition featuring new works by Brooklyn-based artist Tom Fruin. This exhibition marks the first time Fruin's sculptures, usually seen against the backdrop of the city, will appear in the gallery context here in New York. Within his work we find nocturnally radiant landmarks and city-specific artifacts that transform public space 24/7. Color Study initiates an ongoing conversation between the city and its occupants by examining the secret language of the overlooked through the lens of the iconic status inherent in the structures Fruin creates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Seven Solo Photography Shows


Featuring: Rita Baunok, Mike Cullen, Colin Delfosse, Ruth Formanek, Ellen Jacob, Jay Matusow, and Scot Surbeck.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ron Capps discusses his book Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years


Capps, the founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project, presents a work that is part military and diplomatic memoir, and part story of personal redemption and service after service. His story, and that of his recovery, is a sobering reminder of the cost of all wars, even those that appeared in the media and to the general public as mere sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Documentary: Blair Dorosh-Walther's Out in the Night (2014)


A documentary that tells the story of a group of young African American lesbian friends who are out, one hot August night in 2006, in the gay-friendly West Village in New York City. When a man on the street makes a sexual comment to them, they end up charged and convicted in the courts. 75 min. Screening followed by Q&A with Director Blair Dorosh-Walther, and film subjects Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson & Terrain Dandridge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Matthew Zapruder reads from his book Sun Bear


Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including "Come On All You Ghosts" (Copper Canyon 2010), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and, most recently, "Sun Bear" (Copper Canyon, 2014).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Nev Schulman reads from his book In Real Life: Love, Lies and Identity in the Digital Age


From the host of MTV's #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide for millenials about how to connect with people authentically in today's increasingly digital world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Tony Zinni reads from his book Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win or Lose off the Battlefield


Retired four-star general Tony Zinni analyzes the history of America's use of military action and a call for change in his latest book. Thursday September 04, 2014 7:00 PM
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Award-Winning French Comedy: Bertrand Tavernier's The French Minister (2013)


Winner of Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian Film Festival and Best Supporting Actor (Niels Arestrup) at the César Awards, this savvy comedy is the perfect denouement to the summer-long series of French cinema. 113 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Journey to the Stars


The Amateur Astronomers Association of NY will guide your eyes across the sky as you discover the wonders of the universe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Park Walk | The Dark Side of the High Line Tour


The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. Join a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free
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