Take a Bite

New York City has more of everything than any other place on the planet, including deals, discounts and freebies. We're here to help you take an inexpensive bite out of Big Apple restaurants, theater, museums, shopping and more. Your guide is Evelyn Kanter, a lifelong New Yorker and journalist who has been writing about her hometown forever. Email us at info@thebigappleonthecheap.com

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Free Heart Screenings at NYU

February is American Heart Month, a good time to make sure your heart is healthy.  NYU is sponsoring a FREE Heart Health Fair, with screenings, lectures and other information on heart healthy eating, heart healthy exercise and fitness, risk factors to be aware of, and more, including giveaways and door prizes.  The Heart Health Fair [...]

NYC Restaurant Week Begins Jan. 25

It’s enough to make you hungry.  The Big Apple’s famous NYC Restaurant Week begins Monday, Jan. 25, and luckily for us, runs for two weeks, not one, through Sunday, Feb. 7.  It’s a spectacular opportunity to have a three-course lunch in 266 of the city’s best restaurants for $24.07 or dinner for $35.00.  Plus beverages and tips, of [...]

Free Yoga Classes on Sat. Jan 23

It’s called Yoga Day USA, and there are FREE yoga classes all over the United States, including right here in the Big Apple, on Saturday, Jan. 23.  The free yoga day is sponsored by the national Yoga Alliance, whose  mantra is ‘find upward bliss with downward dog’.   The two New York City yoga studios offering [...]

Johnny Rockets Contest for Seven-Night Cruise

Stop in at a  Johnny Rockets for a chance to win a seven-night cruise on Royal Caribbean.  The nationwide burger and shakes chain and the cruise ship line have partnered for a ”Cruise In and Win!” promotion.  Even if you don’t win one of the five grand prize cruises, you can pick up coupons for the [...]

Free holiday display of miniature trains in Grand Central Terminal

The Holiday Train Show is now open at the The New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand Central Terminal.  These are classic, vintage Lionel Trains which run on eight separate loops of track through a 34-foot long miniature New York City scene. The vintage trains are  from the museum’s collection, and will please kids [...]

East side bistro offers traditional Thanksgiving dinner for $29.95

The charming French bistro Sel & Poivre is offering traditional Thanksgiving dinner, with all the fixings, for $29.95.  The restaurant is well-known known on the East Side for serving affordable food in an atmosphere that will transport you to Paris and make you forget you are four blocks from Bloomingdale’s.  Sel & Poivre also offers a [...]

New, affordable budget hotel in Times Square

Houseguests are great, but sometimes it’s better that your friends or loved ones stay elsewhere.  The newest hotel in the Big Appple is also one of the most affordable, and it’s smack in the middle of the Times Square.  The Hotel at Times Square   is all fresh and shiny and new from a multi-million dollar renovation to [...]