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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.

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Street Fair Schedule for NYC Labor Day Weekend

Street fairs and festivals are always free. What you buy from the food, crafts and housewares vendors is not. This is the schedule of Labor Day Weekend street fairs on Sunday and Monday:

Sunday, September 5

Broadway Festival,  on Broadway from 8th Street to 14th Street
The 26th Annual Brazilian Day Festival, on 6th Ave. from 42nd – 56th St. [...]

NYC Weekend Planner: Rosh Hashanah Crafts for Kids

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.

Weekend Planner: Double Feature at Haydn Planetarium

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.

Watch a preview video on the next page……….

Weekend Deal: Find your Ancestors Free on Ancestry

Spend Labor Day looking for your long lost relatives on Ancestry.com. Through Monday, September 6, Ancestry is offering free access to its huge and complete collection of immigration records. It could be a labor of love on Labor [...]

NYC on the Cheap Deal: NY Yankees Tickets Half Off

Take me out to the ballgame for half-price. Same day tickets to NY Yankees games at the new Yankee Stadium are up to 50% off off at a special NY Yankees ticket booth inside Modell’s sporting goods store at 1567 Broadway in Times Square. These are tickets provided by the NY Yankees — these are not [...]

Good Deal: Kids Eat Free at IHOP in August

Kids eat free at IHOP during August, with the purchase of an adult meal. Two adults, two kids eat free. This is a deal! Too bad there’s just one IHOP in the Big Apple — it’s at 2294 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. in Harlem. But this is a national chain, and the kids eat free [...]

Watch NY1 Report About Travel Guidebook Peaceful Places NYC

All this week, TV station NY1 is airing a segment about the calm, quiet, tranquil places in The Big Apple.

It’s Valarie D’Elia’s regular Travel With Val feature on TV1, this week focusing on my new NYC travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City: 139 Tranquil Sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

Long title, [...]

Free Museum Admission for Military and Families

Through Labor Day weekend 2010, active duty U.S. military and their families receive free admission to more than 700 museums throughout the United States, including more than one dozen in the Big Apple, thanks to a new program called Blue Star Museums. The list includes children’s museums, art museums and history museums, so take the kids. Museums are air [...]

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