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.
Make my day! Make several of them, with some of the best movies ever made. The Clint Eastwood Film Festival starts today at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Between July 9 and July 27 there are westerns and police dramas, of course, [...]
There are bargains galore on a brand new daily deal website BuyWithMe.com. You never know what you’ll find, since the deals change daily, and are specific to The Big Apple. The deal might be a restaurant or session with a personal trainer today, a clothing boutique or theater tickets tomorrow. Whatever it is, the discounts are [...]
Dust off those dance shoes and take them to Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center for the annual outdoor music and dance festival called Midsummer Night Swing. A different international band or orchestra plays four nights a week for your listening and dancing pleasure. Mostly dancing. The temporary dance floor is crowded with couples swing dancing and [...]
Free party celebrating release of FELA! cast recording
Celebrate the release of the Broadway show cast recording of FELA! at a free event in Brooklyn. The party is being hosted by FELA! stars Sahr Ngaujah and Kevin Mambo, with performances by the show’s drummer Tony Allen, plus Baba Ola Jagun. It’s all happening Monday, June 7th, [...]
There’s a full schedule of free concerts in Central Park all summer, featuring such top pop, R&B and rap stars as Miley Cyrus, Black Eyed Peas and Mary J. Blige. It’s the annual SummerStage series, and it starts on Tuesday, June first with the New York Pops Orchestra, the only independent professional orchestra in the U. [...]
Chris Gillespie is usually found playing jazz, Broadway show tunes and other favorites at the upscale Carlyle Hotel. On Thursday, May 6th, he joins Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder, Broadway musical star Kate Fisher, who performed the role of Cosette in Les Miserables, and others for a special charity fund-raiser for the tiny African nation of Burundi. The event is called Jazzical, and supports Village Health Works, a clinic in Burundi which has treated some 34,000 people since it opened less than three years ago. Jazzical is at 6 p.m. on May 6th at the DiCapo Opera Theatre, 184 E. 76th Street. There also will be a silent auction. It promises to be an inspiring and entertaining evening.
The clinic is the dream of Burundi native Deogratias Niyizonkiza, now an American citizen. Please read the next page for the inspiring story of Deo, the important health care clinic he built in Burundi, and how you can help.
Peaceful Places NYC travel guidebook by Evelyn Kanter for residents, visitors
It’s mine. Just published. Peaceful Places New York City is your guide to more than 100 of the most tranquil, serene spots in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Most of the sites mentioned are free, and each and every one of them is [...]
Spend an evening dancing to the music of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley and the Comets, Chubby Checker and other 50s and 60s favorites, at Iguana Swings. The DJs play a rotating mix of music for Lindy, West Coast Swing, Shag, and even a Cha Cha or two. It’s great fun and great exercise, and even if both of your feet [...]