The 25 Best Free Things to Do in NYC This Fall

Avoiding your bank account statements will not change the pitiful amount waiting to mock you from the ATM. Hold your head with pride as you swipe that balance receipt 'cause in a city like New York, which never sleeps (on a good deal), it is possible to be a card carrying member of Broke Phi Broke and still ball out on a budget of nothing.

We found all the booty-popping, drinking, learning, and general merriment you can do in NYC for the sweet price of $0.00. And in a city where McDonalds don't have dollar menus (blasphemy) someone has to look out for you. Check out the 25 best free things to do in NYC this fall.

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Date: Wednesdays
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: 709 Lorimer St.
Perfect For When: It's time to stop yelling at Alex Trebek through the TV screen
Website: petescandystore.com

A pull from last year's list, we just couldn't let this one go. There is an opportunity to win a $75 dollar bar tab. Who gives that up? See how much you know in rounds of 20 questions and aim for that grand prize. You've done worse for free beer and you know it.

Date: Sunday - Saturday
Time: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: 2 Fulton St. (and other locations across the city)
Perfect For When: You're nostalgic for your childhood.
Website: imaginationplayground.com

Basically a giant playspace with ropes, bags, and blocks, the Imagination Playground challenges your creativity and demands you have fun. Please make sure you bring a child or you might get a free ride downtown.

Date: Saturdays
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Union Square
Perfect For When: You've used up every free trial for the gyms in a 10-block radius of your spot.
Website: sonyagenel.com

Lululemon, the athleticwear brand for when you didn't go to the gym but you want people to still think you work out, hosts free classes in Union Square on Saturday mornings. You officially have no excuse. Go get yo stretch on.

Date: Fridays and Saturdays
Time: Nights
Location: 30 Lafayette Ave.
Perfect For When: Your friends keep mentioning cool, new musicians you've never heard of and you want to make them feel un-hip.
Website: www.bam.org

Your hair is not in a giant, primary-colored coiff. You don't have Ray LaMontagne lyrics tattooed across your forearm and you listen to the In the Zone album unironically. But don't fear, BAMcafe is here to make you feel a little cooler. This bar/lounge offers some of the best perfomances of up-and-coming and established artists. With performances in rock, jazz, pop, and more, it'll help you get your groove back no matter how many times you hit repeat on "Toxic."

Date: Tuesdays
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: 191 Fifth Ave.
Perfect For When: The only thing brewing at your home is discontentment.
Website: bierkraft.com

Free beer. Free food. Start the countdown to Tuesday nights now.

Date: Everyday
Time: All day
Location: 20 W. 29th St.
Perfect For When: Your wifi isn't working.
Website: acehotel.com

No it's not a free hotel room, but it's close. Chill in the lobby of one of NYC's coolest hotels equipped with free wifi and working tables. Don't worry, no bellhops will be chasing you out.

Date: Sept. 14
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: The Children’s Park and Splaza in Midland Beach
Perfect For When: You can no longer deny that summer has come to an end.
Website: statenislandusa.com

Food vendors, fireworks, musical perfomances, and one special guest (we're banking on 2 Chainz). Come celebrate the end of another glorious summer season on Staten Island. Unitl next year.

Date: Oct. 26 - 27
Time: Starts at noon and goes through the night.
Location: Prospect Park
Perfect For When: The noises coming from the empty apartment next to yours weren't scary enough.
Website: prospectpark.org

This is your year. Your costume is the perfect mix of witty and sexy. All the Superman's, Nicki Minaj's, and witches will bow down to the epicness that is your clever Halloween ensemble. And when you're done forcing everyone to bask in the glory of your outfit, get a little scared by all the ghosts and ghouls running amok. And for the fainter of heart there is a carousel, zoo tour, and dance party.

Date: Sept. 13 - Jan. 4
Time: Tuesday - Friday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: The Museum at FIT, Seventh Ave,
Perfect For When: You missed Pride Fest this year.
Website: fitnyc.edu

After two years of research, exhibition curators Valerie Steele and Fred Dennis have collected over 100 outfits displaying the evolution of LGBT fashion over the past 300 years. This exhibition sheds light on fashion designers who have often gone overlooked due to their sexual orientation and offers a history lesson few know. Come to learn about fashion, progress, and equality.

Date: Oct. 14
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 5th Ave.
Perfect For When: You can't wait any longer for the Macy's Day Parade.
Website: columbuscitizensfd.org

Columbus pillaged and destroyed in the name of gold and glory. But this is America, so he still gets a national holiday. The parade features over 30,000 marchers, musical performances, and insane floats, and you might as well get some free entertainment out of Columbus' violence.

Date: Sept. 19 - 29
Time: Times vary per day
Location: Uplands of Pier 5
Perfect For When: You think you could of been the HONY guy.
Website: photovillenyc.org

Yeah, that black-and-white pic of your best friend's side profile got 115 likes on Instagram, but there are people who actually use cameras that aren't built into smart phones. Come see some of their incredible work and attend their lectures, workshops, and more. (There are also food trucks so your stomach will smile too.)

Date: Sept. 28
Time: All day
Location: Museums across the city
Perfect For When: You want to feel cultured.
Website: smithsonian.com/museumday

Get two free tickets to participating NYC musuems off the web. And then grab your friend, boo, or roommate who you swear is using your shampoo and learn something from those big buildings you've passed on the way to work for years.

Date: Wednesdays
Time: 7:45 p.m.
Location: Union Square
Perfect For When: You just watched Roll Bounce.
Website: weskateny.org

It's difficult to pretend New York City is any other place because it is constantly slapping you in the face with its individuality (read: stench of pee on the subway). But on Wednesdays you can pull on high-waisted shorts, your tightest crop top (ain't no shame in your game, men), and skate around Union Square like it's Venice Beach.

Date: Sept. 17
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park
Perfect For When: You and your friends want to fly high.
Website: brooklynbridgepark.org

According to park's website, kites can be found at your local dollar store. So collect your coins and head to the BK to watch the famous NY skyline decorated with high-flying colored kites.

Date: Saturdays through Nov. 24
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 90 Kent Ave. at N. 7 St.
Perfect For When: You're bored on a Saturday morning.
Website: brooklynflea.com

Technically, you have to drop some cash in order to get anything at this market, but just think of it as window shopping with no windows. Or go with friends and mooch off of their exotic food purchases.

Date: Fridays
Time: Evenings
Location: 11 W. 53rd St.
Perfect For When: Your desire for fine art is high but your checking account balance (or what you store in a shoe box) is low.
Website: moma.org

On Friday nights, the MoMA admission fee becomes pay what you wish. And on your broker days, that may be a dollar, a penny, or nothing. Time to murmur approvingly, or dissaprovingly, over art you think you could have made yourself.

Date: Tuesdays
Time: Evenings
Location: Between W. 29th and W. 30th Sts.
Perfect For When: It's date night.
Website: highline.com

A classic from last year's list and the perfect date night for the broke and in love. Check out the stars or check out your boo's booty, totally up to you.

Date: Mondays - Fridays
Time: 9:30 a.m - 8 p.m.
Location: 550 W. 21st St.
Perfect For When: You're looking for your next sugar daddy (or mama).
Website: christies.com

Sometimes it's nice to be close to wealth, even for a short time, just to feel like you're ballin'. Christie's Auction House gives you the perfect opportunity to daydream about your fat wallet and sick ride as you explore the room full of millionare-dollar works. Make sure you snap out of it before the bidding begins.

Date: Sept. 16 and 17
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Delacorte Theater
Perfect For When: Those sad days after So You Think You Can Dance's season finale.
Website: shakespeareinthepark.org

In honor of its 10th anniversary, Public Theater is hosting two free nights of dance this September. A diverse lineup of dance companies will be present, including a ballet troupe, forcing you to feel the sting of quitting ballet way back in kindergarten. You totally could've been on that stage.

Date: Sept. 29
Time: All day
Location: Hicks St. to 4th Ave.
Perfect For When: The only thing in your fridge is a note from your roommate telling you to stop eating their food.
Website: atlanticave.org

The largest NYC street festival equals an opportunity to test what it means to truly "be full." Other than international food vendors, there is shopping to be done, bouncy houses to leave kids in, and street performers to awkwardly two-step in front of. What more could you need?

Date: Sept. 12 - 22
Time: All day
Location: Little Italy
Perfect For When: A perfect stranger on the subway mentions your stomach's grumblings.
Website: sangennaro.org

Italian food for blocks. Blocks of pasta, pizza, and cannolis. There are also huge crowds roaming around, but the everpresent taste of tomato sauce in your mouth will make up for getting your foot stepped on multiple times a minute.

Date: Sept. 29
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Fort Tryon Park
Perfect For When: You're tired of re-watching Game of Thrones.
Website: nycgovparks.org

We all have that desire to watch humans hit, tackle, or push other humans. Why not spend the day doing exactly that at a jousting competition, and check out maidens in medieval dress. All for the unbeatable price of free.

Date: Check individual gallery information
Time: Check individual gallery information
Location: 20s streets btwn 10th and 11th Aves.
Perfect For When: You're taking an art history course and you start to think you know something (or you're running low on Moscato).
Website: westchelseaarts.com

Impress that girl at work with your interest in art. When you invite her to that super exclusive gallery opening Friday night she doesn't have to know that it's free and open to the public. And when you get bored of one gallery, or you want to find a gallery where you can make out in the bathroom, there are a few to check out in the area.

Date: Saturdays and Sundays
Time: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: 79 N. 11th St.
Perfect For When: You're too broke for two-buck Chuck.
Website: brooklynbrewery.com

Take a tour of one New York's breweries to see how beer is made, processed, and packaged. We know you only care about the part where it gets to your fridge but maybe it's time you learned something. No? Just come to drink then.

Date: Tuesdays until Oct. 1
Time: 10 p.m.
Location: 16 1st Ave.
Perfect For When: You want to pop, lock, and drop it.
Website: sutranyc.com

DJ Tony Touch on the 1's and 2's every Tuesday night mixing the best of hip-hop, house, and more. For all the dancehall queens, DJ Butta spins reggae on the lower floor. No one ever said no to a free night of twerking.