Free Things to Do This Summer

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 5, 2023

One of the great things about New York City is that you'll never run out of things to do free of charge. We'll round up some of the best options coming up in the months ahead, from watching French film in a local park to catching a bilingual Shakespeare production touring all five boroughs, with WNYC arts and culture editor Steve Smith. He wrote about this recently in Gothamist. 

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