← All cities

Free things to do in New York

9 museums and landmarks in New York are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 42 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 13 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 8 places

  • American Folk Art Museum
    Lincoln Square 2
    We-Su 11:30-18:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Skyscraper Museum
    Battery Place 39
    We-Sa 12:00-18:00
  • Hamilton Grange National Memorial
    West 141st Street 414
  • MoMA PS1
  • Mmuseumm
    Cortlandt Alley 4
    Sa-Su 12:00-18:00 open "Museum" || 00:00-24:00 open "Viewing windows"
    Open on Sunday
  • Statue of Liberty Museum
  • Storefront for Art and Architecture
    Kenmare Street 97
    We-Sa 10:00-18:00
  • Pilecki Institute
    Greenwich Street 92
    Mo-Fr 12:00-18:00

Free landmarks — 1 place

  • Statue of Liberty

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • Central Park
    06:00-01:00
  • Madison Square Park
    Madison Avenue 11
    06:00-23:00
  • Battery Park
  • Prospect Park
  • Washington Square Park
  • Union Square Park
    Park Avenue South 201
  • Governors Island
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Tompkins Square Park
    Mo-Su 06:00-00:00
  • Bowling Green
  • Herald Square
    6th Avenue
  • FDR Four Freedoms State Park
    FDR Four Freedoms Park 1
    We-Mo 09:00-19:00; Tu off
  • Holcombe Rucker Park
  • Zuccotti Park
  • Grand Army Plaza
    Grand Army Plaza
  • Cadman Plaza Park
    06:00-25:00
  • Riverbank State Park
    Riverside Drive 679
    sunrise-sunset
  • John V. Lindsay East River Park
    FDR Drive
  • Marsha P. Johnson State Park
    Kent Avenue 90
    07:00-22:00
  • Riverside Park

Viewpoints — 15 places

  • One World Observatory
  • Vista Rock
  • Free Public Stargazing
    Tu dusk-19:00
  • Skate Circle
  • Edge
  • Top of the Rock
    Rockefeller Plaza 30
  • Great Hill
  • The Overlook
  • Kiesza - Hideaway
  • Granite Prospect
  • Summit Rock
  • Castle Point on Hudson
  • Quaker Hill
  • Kings Bluff
  • Laurel Hill

Beaches — 7 places

  • Pebble Beach
  • Newport Sand Beach
  • Maxwell Place Beach
  • Pier 4 Beach
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp
  • Hallet’s Cove
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff

Free things to do in other cities

Read the city guide →Halal restaurants in New York →