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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 18, 2022?

24 free events take place on Sunday, September 18 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 18 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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24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, September 18, 2022

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Historic Flatiron District Walking Tour
free events nyc Fiestas Patrias: A Chilean Independence Day Celebration
free events nyc Love is a Place: A Poet's Walk of Greenwich Village
free events nyc String Quartets by Beethoven and More
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Birdwatching | Early Bird Walk


Explore Brooklyn’s largest park. Egrets, herons, terns, and waterfowl stop by in the park’s waterways and salt marshes, while warblers, vireos, tanagers, and other songbirds take refuge in the park’s wooded areas.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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
Free

Fair | Flea Market: Art, Jewelry, Antiques and More


Shop for vintage clothing, furniture, collectibles, antiques, jewelry, art, handicrafts, and more. Every Sat and Sun 10 am - 5 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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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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Workshop | Tai Chi Class


Fitness in the garden.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Yoga in the Garden


Bring your own mat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust: Exhibition Discussion (in-person and online)


Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust is a powerful photography exhibition showcasing 75 large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors taken by famed photographer Martin Schoeller. Stripped of artifice, Schoeller's photographs portray the beauty, humanity, and resilience of those who survived and grew old in the face of antisemitism -- while imagining those who were never given the chance. The portraits are accompanied by a biography of and message from each sitter, as well as video footage documenting the artist's photographic process. This will be the first exhibition of the profound series in a major U.S. museum. This is a conversation with Schoeller and Sara Softness, the Museum's Curator of Special Projects. They will discuss what inspired him to create this moving instillation. The exhibition will be on view before and after the discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | A Celebration of Indie Rock


A two-day celebration of independent music, merchandise, and workshops lands in the center of New York City, co-hosted by indie pioneers, Rough Trade. Featuring a thoughtfully curated lineup of artists, a band merchandise market, hands-on music-making workshops, plus favorites of the food and drink scenes - indieplaza is accessible, inclusive and free for all New Yorkers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Park Walk | Fall Migration Celebration


Enjoy the annual celebration of all the creatures that migrate through and pass by Battery Park City. The day features art making, birdwatching and a nature walk with The Bee Conservancy - plus a live presentation of Recycled Sounds from world renowned percussionist Dende Macedo, who invites participants to make instruments out of found materials and perform with him. The Bee Conservancy's founder, Master Beekeeper and Chief Melittologist Guillermo Fernandez will lead a nature walk and discusses native bees -- including mason, leafcutter, carpenter, and bumble bees -- and their habitats right inside of Battery Park City. TBC will also provide bee specimens, kids activities, and community science opportunities throughout the event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Tour | Historic Flatiron District Walking Tour


Join a professional guide 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. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Concert | Queen Elizabeth II Celebration of Life


Join a celebration of life of Queen Elizabeth II. Choral Eucharist features music written for Elizabeth II (for her wedding, her coronation, and other events). It is followed by a drinks reception in the courtyard garden. Face-coverings should be worn indoors but are optional outdoors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | African Film Festival Family Day Celebration


A high-ly antic-i-pat-ed day of enjoy-ment. Fun-seek-ing indi-vid-u-als of all ages are welcome at an enchant-i-ng day of free activ-i-ties includ-ing sto-ry-telling, dou-ble-dutch, dance and drum work-shops led by world-renowned instruc-tors, arts and crafts and a selec-tion of short films, all cel-e-brat-ing Africa and the diaspora. Free pro-grams include: Nee-dle Arts Workshop Afro'-Dance Class Select-ed Short Films Afro-Brazil-ian Dance Class Sto-ry-telling & Dou-ble Dutch Sene-galese Sabar Dance Class Guinean Dance Class and more
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Festival | Fiestas Patrias: A Chilean Independence Day Celebration


This Fiestas Patrias celebration will include flag raising and traditional Chilean food, dance, and music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Birdwatching | Raptor Fest


Raptor Fest is back! Experience the thrill of viewing New York's premier predators live and up close. This event showcases many birds of prey, also known as raptors, that are found throughout New York City and beyond, including eagles, falcons, owls, hawks, and more. The family-friendly event will include education/activity tables stations along with live birds of prey performing aerial feats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Screening | Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve (online)


In the face of unfathomable horror, fleeting moments of bravery and generosity remind us of our capacity for courage and compassion, even under the most harrowing of circumstances. Seventy-seven years after the Holocaust, a new animated trilogy from Humanity in Action brings three such histories to life. The three films in the series - Voices in the Void, Two Trees in Jerusalem, and My Father's War - are first-hand testimonials from the time of the Holocaust that seek to safeguard stories and lessons learned during one of humanity's darkest chapters and to demonstrate their relevance to the present. Followed by a discussion with Judith Goldstein, Founder and Executive Director of Humanity in Action, and Peter and David Hein, protagonists of My Father's War.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost


The Instant Shakespeare Company presents a reading of Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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City Walk | Love is a Place: A Poet's Walk of Greenwich Village


e.e. cummings wrote that "love is a place." Perhaps he meant 4 Patchin Place, in Greenwich Village, where he lived from 1924-1962. Cummings was certainly not the only poet to live in Greenwich Village, and not even the only poet to live on Patchin Place. In this walking tour of Greenwich Village with historian Lucie Levine, we'll visit the homes and haunts of well over a century of poets who called the neighborhood home. Along the way we'll meet symbolists and modernists, 19th century salon hostesses and 20th century raconteurs, pulitzer prize winners and prophets, feminist luminaries and queer pioneers whose words enriched, and even defined, American life. Tour Leader Lucie Levine is a writer, historian and New York City tour guide. She founded the historical tour and event company Archive on Parade, and has offered tours and lectures on New York City history in collaboration with, The New School, CUNY, NYU Langone, The American Institute of Architects, The Municipal Art Society, The Historic Districts Council, The New York Public Library, The 92nd Street Y, Village Preservation, The New York Preservation Archive Project and Landmark West.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

City Walk | Queer History Walk


A walking tour that explores the queer histories of the neighborhood surrounding the museum. This walk will bring visitors to select sites to reflect on the changing nature of queer community as it formed along the New York waterfront. Visit the former sites of bars, clubs, and public spaces and consider the intersection between artistic and sexual experimentation that occurred alongside the piers of the West Side. The walk will culminate with a look at Day's End (2021) by David Hammons, a new permanent public artwork that sketches the shape of the former Pier 52 building and references a work by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark from 1975. The layered history of Hammons's work serves as a model for how the queer history of the city remains a defining presence in the ever-changing landscape of the neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Tide Deck Tour


Explore the Tide Deck, a rocky tidal marsh located on the western end of a pier in the park. Learn more about this special environment and the animals that inhabit the 400-acre Estuarine Sanctuary. Start times: 3pm, 3:30pm, 4pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry in the Garden


Poets read on the theme of legacy.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer's Life


Producer Julian Schlossberg shares stories from his six-decade show-business career, from his time working with Mike Nichols and Woody Allen to his upcoming television series, Witnesses to the 20th Century. Pulling from his memoir, Try Not to Hold It Against Me, Schlossberg will also cover the founding of Castle Hill Productions, one of the largest independent film distributors in the world, as well as his time producing over 60 movies, TV specials, and award-winning stage plays. Schlossberg will be joined by comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and Tony Award-winning actress Elaine May, as well as actor Tony Roberts, who is best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen in films including Annie Hall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Classical Music | String Quartets by Beethoven and More


Momenta Quartet Program: Julian Carrillo: String Quartet No. 11 (1962) Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 9 (1988) for violin and recorded electronic sounds David Glaser: String Quartet No. 5, in memoriam Mario Davidovsky (2022) Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in f minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" (1810) Momenta Quartet has premiered over 150 works, collaborated with over 200 living composers and was praised by The New York Times for its "diligence, curiosity and excellence." In the words of The New Yorker's Alex Ross, "few American players assume Haydn's idiom with such ease."
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Tour | Tour a Historic Synagogue on Its 135th Anniversary


135 years ago this month, you would have seen thousands of excited Lower East Side residents streaming through the doors of this synagogue for the first time, spilling out onto the street, thrilled by this meaningful new addition to the neighborhood. Docent-led tours will be available at 11:00am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, and 3:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 pm
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