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

Please visit Evelyn Kanter's other website/blog, www.Car-and-Travel.com

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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 [...]

Last Minute New Year's Eve Celebrations $50 or Less

There’s no reason to spend $150 or more for a champagne dinner in a fancy restaurant on New Year’s Eve when plenty of  places are offering open bars and nibbles for $50 or less per person.  Here are three affordable last minute suggestions from   New York Magazine  for partying your way into 2010: 

Bondi Road, Lower Manhattan,  has a three [...]

Celebrate Kwanzaa at African Burial Ground National Monument

New York City’s most public monument to its role in slavery in the 1700s and 1800s is the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan, where some 15,000 men, women and children were buried.  This is the place to honor them and celebrate Kwanzaa, the the weeklong holiday that begins on December 26 and commemorates African-American heritage and [...]

Mini Manhattan at the Skyscraper Museum

Mini Manhattan by model maker Michael Chesko

How long do you think it would take to make a wooden carving of Manhattan, in miniature?   Ask Michael Chesko, a model maker who lives in Arizona, who has donated two remarkable wood models of lower Manhattan and midtown to  The Skyscraper Museum, where they are on permanent exhibition.   Thousands of [...]

Lecture About New York City is a Green, Eco-Friendly City

New Yorker writer David Owen calls The Big Apple the greenest place in the United States. New York City residents use less electricity and generate greenhouse gases at a level far below the national average.  Thanks to our subway and bus system, New York City also ranks last among major cities in gasoline consumption, and we are first [...]

Uncork New York: Sip, Savor, Shop NY State Wines, Foods

Sip, sample and shop the best wine, cheese, and other food items produced in New York State, at City Winery on Sunday, December 6.  More than three dozen wineries in the Hudson Valley, Long Island and Finger Lakes wine-growing areas will be pouring.  Artisanal food producers include cheese, ice cream, and New York State’s famous big apples.  [...]