The Best FREE Things to Do in NYC

Free things to do in NYC

Find events happening tomorrow in your neighborhood

Find fun free things to do

Post an Event

Wednesday April 23, 2025

Unknown

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

Umbra and Julia

All day

Free Exhibition at Umbra

Art
Free

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors LobbyManhattan

EXHIBITION DATES

9 am – 5 pm

NYSWA’s inaugural Centennial Exhibition Reflections on Progress A celebration of Legacy and Vision

The Interchurch CenterMorningside Heights

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

tot

11 am – noon

Walker’s Tiny Groovers

Ages: 4 and under
Family
Free
Music

Walker ParkStaten Island

KAYLL Popup Elizabeth StreetKAYLL Popup Elizabeth Street 2

11 am – 6 pm

KAYLL Pop Up Shop Opening!

Free
Markets

KAYLLSoho

Brooklyn Art Haus-the human layter 1×1

11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

3 pm

Earth Week: Repairing Clothes

Ages: 13 and up
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

67th Street Library

3:30 – 5 pm

Explore the Future of Farming with Aquaponics

Ages: 9 – 12
Environment
Family
Free

Idlewild ParkSpringfield Gardens

3:30 pm

Paint Party!

Ages: 3 – 12
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

Sedgwick LibraryBronx

Terrestrials Event

4:30 – 6 pm

“Terrestrials” Launch Party

Ages: 3 – 8
Family
Free

Old Stone House & Washington ParkBrooklyn

Business People in Group Meeting at Office Room.

5:30 – 7:30 pm

Facilitation Lab NYC: Practice with Jake Knapp and Noelle Pourrat

Free

Fabrik DumboBrooklyn

6 – 7:30 pm

World Literature & Arts Festival: Celebration of Sweetness with Malai Ice Cream

Seward Park LibraryManhattan

AprilisNationalPoetryMonth

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Greater Astoria Historical Society’s “April is National Poetry Month” Event (virtual)

Virtual

terplogo2-2_61ba72

7 – 8:15 pm

ASL-interpreted Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

East End TempleManhattan

Copy of One-Pager

7 – 8 pm

Medical Debt and America’s Broken Healthcare System and an Ecumenical Response

First Unitarian Congregational Society in BrooklynBrooklyn, NY

+ Export Events

More from Around NYC

cyclist

Cyclist fatally struck by FDNY truck in Middle Village: NYPD

Cade Cunningham dunk Game 2 Pistons Knicks

Knicks can’t find 4th-quarter magic again, drop Game 2 to Pistons

An Easter tribute to the late artist Keith Haring.

PHOTOS: LGBTQ visibility at NYC Easter Parade

NY: Stations of the Cross

Remembering Pope Francis: Bishop Brennan and Brooklyn Catholics honor late Pontiff