NYC Weekend Freebie Roundup 1/5 - 1/7
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First weekend in January! Lots of museum activities & let’s see if we get some snow this weekend!
MULTI
Manhattan
🏛️ Bank of America Museums on Us free museums for cardholders Sat + Sun like Intrepid, MoMA, Met
✨ Field of Light at Freedom Plaza Fri & Sat
🎈 Hudson Yards Shine Bright holiday display thru Sun
✨ Saks Fifth Avenue Light Show every 10 min Fri 5-10pm
🌈 Brookfield Place Luminaries holiday light display thru Sat
⛸️ Bryant Park winter village (& free ice skating if you BYO-skates!)
🚊 Holiday Train Show in Grand Central
FRIDAY
Manhattan
🐪Three Kings Day Parade at El Museo del Barrio: Head to El Barrio (East Harlem) for the 47th Annual Three Kings Day Parade and Celebration featuring camels, floats, live music, and more
🏛️ MoMA First Friday - free admission for NYers 4-8pm
🖼️ Poster House First Friday free all day til 9pm (119 W 23rd)
🏛️ Neue Galerie First Friday 5-8p (1048 Fifth Ave)
🇯🇵 Japan Society First Friday free admission 4-7p (333 E 47th St)
☕️ Coffee Tasting at Counter Culture Coffee 10a-11a (376 Broome St)
Queens
🧆 Shah’s Halal Food free platters in Sunnyside 2-4pm (42-02A Greenpoint Ave)
🖼️ Noguchi Museum First Friday pay what you wish (9-01 33rd Rd, LIC)
Brooklyn
🎨 Crown Heights Art Stroll 4-9p at Calabar Gallery & many more (708 Franklin Avenue)
SATURDAY
Manhattan
🎉3 Kings Day with The Clemente, Teatro Sea and Essex Market: parade around Delancey + Suffolk, ceremony, toy giveaway 3-6p
🎨 Art on the Ave free painting 1-4p (33 Maiden Lane)
Brooklyn
🧬 BioBAT Artspace immersive art exhibition 12-5pm (Brooklyn Army Terminal)
🎵 Its Showtime Free FLEXN + LITEFEET dance class 3-5p (Herbert Von King Center, 670 Lafayette Ave)
🍵Winter Tea in Prospect Park: Enjoy an afternoon of a short nature walk through Prospect Park, followed by tea, music and a multilingual poetry performance
🏀New Year Family Day at Fort Hamilton Rec Center (January 6): Test out classes/programs at Fort Hamilton Recreation Center for one day for FREE, including art, dance, fitness, games, and sports
Bronx
🖌️ Michael Richards: Are You Down? at Bronx Museum (January 6): Celebrate the closing weekend of this exhibition with a film screening, discussion, and walkthrough (1040 Grand Concourse)
SUNDAY
Manhattan
📚Free college Sundays at The Morgan Library 10:30a-5p for students w/ ID (225 Madison Ave)
Brooklyn
♻️ Grow NYC Stop N Swap Event 12-3p Boro Park (4912 14th Ave)