New York City has more of everything delicious you want than any other place on the planet, including cheap vacation deals, weekend get away discount packages, and lots of free things to do daily. We're here to help you take an inexpensive bite out of Big Apple restaurants, theater, museums, shopping and more. Your New York City tour guide is Evelyn Kanter, a lifelong New Yorker and journalist who has been writing about her hometown forever.
The Children’s Galleries for Jewish Culture is filed with interactive stations for children ages 5-12, where they can decode a new language while shopping at a supermarket, design a neighborhood and much more. There are special crafts activities and programs nearly every Sunday at 2 p.m. In September, those focus on Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Simchat Torah.
Sunday, Sept. 5th — Create pop-up Rosh Hashanah greeting cards; decorate and personalize a calendar for the new year; decorate honey jars using special markers.
See the next page for address and price information, and the rest of the September schedule.
Step inside the universe. See how it all began, in a double feature presentation every Friday night at the American Museum of Natural History. The shows are at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater. It is a new after-hours series to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The screening features the breathtaking Passport to the Universe, narrated by Tom Hanks, which takes viewers on an exhilarating flight through our universe, and The Search for Life: Are We Alone?, narrated by Harrison Ford, which explores a question that has always captivated the human imagination: does life exist beyond Earth?
Shows start at 7:30 and 8:30 pm every Friday and Saturday in the Hayden Planetarium. Admission is $15, $12 for Museum Members. Click here to purchase tickets.
Big Apple musicians shine on Labor Day at the FREE concert afternoon at Riverbank State Park. The list of performers includes saxophone virtuoso Teodross Avery, whose style blends jazz and hip hop, the rock band Girls on Top, and the Latin salsa/jazz band El Timbalero. The concert schedule also includes a performanc by the Becky Radway [...]
The word ‘anime’ is short for Japanese “animation.” This cartoon style has been around as early 1917 and exploded in popularity in Japan in the 1960s. Learn more about it, and find out how it is different from the such American animation styles of Disney, Pixar and Avatar at a free lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of [...]
The Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts museum is one of those lesser known hidden Big Apple gems. On Tuesday, August 31, enjoy the FREE opening of the fall exhibition of Japanese art, featuring pieces from hundreds of years of Japanese history. The display includes ceramics, paintings, sculptures, and beautiful shoji screens, including some items from what [...]
It’s the last two nights of free movies in Central Park. The theme of this year’s The Central Park Conservancy Film Festival is Big Apple icons — films that feature New York City as one os its stars. The movies are being shown in the area just north of Sheep Meadow, behind Mineral Springs, at mid-park and 69th Street. So enter the park at 72nd St from either Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. All screenings begin at 8:00 pm, rain or shine. Gates open at 6:30 pm, so bring a picnic. Guest DJs play sets until the movie begins. All movies close captioned.
New York City’s iconic skyline, buildings and neighborhoods take center stage at The Central Park Conservancy Film Festival, which brings free movies to the heart of Manhattan for five nights, Aug. 24-28. Each movie features iconic New York City locations and sights – from the Empire State Building in King Kong to the city’s subway in [...]
More than 100 National Parks that usually charge admission fees are free this weekend, August 14 and 15. It is the third and last fee free weekend of 2010, so get out there and enjoy.
There are one dozen National Parks in New York City. Some of them are free all the time, and most of them [...]
The Children’s Galleries for Jewish Culture is filed with interactive stations for children ages 5-12, where they can decode a new language while shopping at a supermarket, design a neighborhood and much more. There are special crafts activities and programs nearly every Sunday at 2 p.m. In September, those focus on Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Simchat Torah.
