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Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
The Grand Ofrenda at Times Square
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Cooper Hewitt Pay What You Wish hour
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Guggenheim Pay What You Wish hours
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Wednesdays at the Museum of the City of New York
Mornings@LIM: Enduring Hearts gallery visit
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Bronx Museum of the Arts (Always Free)
Grey Art Museum Late Wednesdays (NYU)
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (Suggested Donation)
Pay What You Wish evening at the Museum of Arts and Design
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Hispanic Society Museum & Library (Free Admission)
Public Gallery Tour
Asilah Oui: Free Films at Anthology Film Archives
Rally Reading Series at Pete's Candy Store (21+)
Native Voices Karenna: two short operas at Cooper Union's Great Hall
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Free Fridays at Poster House
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Friday late hours at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Free First Friday at the Noguchi Museum
Free First Friday: America in Motion
Whitney Free Friday Nights
Japan Society Gallery Free First Friday
Stop In and Sketch at the Hudson River Museum
Dead Pete's Society poetry open mic (21+)
Teen sculpture workshop: Arts and Activism
MoMA PS1 November Open House
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Queens Fiber Arts Festival
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
5th Annual Community Banquet
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way at Lefferts Historic House
Public Gallery Tour
Poets House: In Memoriam Stephen Dobyns
Before It's Gone: Archive to Survive book launch and panel
Fall Birding
Whitney Free Second Sunday
Native American Heritage Month: Lenape Folktales
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Docent led tours of the Historic Conference House Museum
Native American Heritage Month: Early Food Traditions at the Old Stone House
Second Sundays Free Open House at Pioneer Works
Art in Public Places 40th Anniversary Celebration
Historic New York: Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
Artist Talk with Cecile Chong and Alexander Zev
Second Sunday Castle Tours
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Conversations in Tusculum: Richard Nelson play at Cooper Union
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Bacon, Eggs & Toons: Free Animation Screening (21+)
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa photography artist talk at Cooper Union
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Structure, Status, and Strategy: Business Entities for Creatives
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Voices of 1776
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: New York's Brick & Terra Cotta Industries
Ongoing Museum Exhibit: Still Waters: Reflections of a Maritime Community
Public Gallery Tour
Chef Judy Joo book signing at Pearl River Mart Foods
Stitch & Chit-Ch(at) at the Long Island Museum
Neue Galerie free First Friday: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home, public exhibition opening
Hot Five Centennial Listening Session, Part 3
Poets House: Verge Books launch of The Tablets by Armand Schwerner
Community Archiving Day at Queens Museum
ArtAccess Museum Explorers for Children with Disabilities
ArtAccess Open Studio for Teens and Adults with Disabilities
Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials at Pioneer Works
Lifelong Studio Printmaking: First Session for Adults 55+
Sean Lally architecture lecture at Cooper Union
Comfy Classical at Dyckman Farmhouse
Stealing America: Free Virtual Lecture with Linford D. Fisher
In the Room: David Hume Kennerly at Cooper Union's Great Hall
Free Third Thursday Evening at the Jewish Museum
Wayzgoose Holiday Kick Off at the Seaport Museum
Free Adult Printmaking Workshop at Queens Museum
Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) Hanukkah menorah lightings
Neue Galerie free late-night admission
Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival
Pleasantville Public Menorah Lighting
Wave Hill Winter Solstice Wishes
BAM 41st Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your library is the best plan you forgot about.
A little Nyack. A new discovery.
🗽 Other places to go: Arts & culture
Ford Foundation atrium garden
📍 320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
A 12-story glass-walled indoor garden, with a free art gallery next to it.
● Closed now
Official site ↗Brookfield Place Winter Garden
📍 230 Vesey St, New York, NY 10281
A glass atrium with 16 palm trees overlooking the Hudson marina. Free to enter.
● Open 24/7
Official site ↗The Oculus (World Trade Center)
📍 185 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007
Calatrava's white-ribbed station hall. Free to walk through and look up.
● Closed now
Official site ↗NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
📍 476 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10018
The lions, the Rose Main Reading Room (public visiting hour Mon–Sat 10–11 AM) and free docent tours.
● Closed now
Official site ↗Mmuseumm
📍 4 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY 10013
A tiny museum of odd everyday objects in a former elevator shaft. Free; donations welcome.
○ Closed today
Official site ↗The Met: pay what you wish (NY State residents)
📍 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10028
NY State residents pay any amount (min.
● Closed now
Official site ↗MoMA: UNIQLO Friday Nights (free for NY State residents)
📍 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Free Friday nights for NY State residents. Reserve tickets ahead.
○ Closed today
Official site ↗The Morgan Library & Museum: free Fridays
📍 225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
J.P. Morgan's library (three tiers of books) is free on Friday evenings.
○ Closed today
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