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Free Concert of Sri Chinmoy Songs of the Soul

Evelyn Kanter — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:50:15 +0000

You don’t have to be a devotee or follower of Sri Chinmoy to find serenity and tranquility in his music. There are FREE performances of his Songs of the Soul at the Skirball Center of the Performing Arts at NYU on Sunday, August 29. The concerts are at 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., and are a [...]

NYC on the Cheap: Free Katy Perry Concert

Evelyn Kanter — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:43:16 +0000

Friday, August 27 is the last of the FREE Friday concerts in Rockefeller Center. And this one will be a biggie. A free concert by pop superstar Katy Perry is sure to bring out the crowds.

The concert is sponsored by Toyota and the NBC Today Show, live in Rockefeller Plaza from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Get [...]

NYC on the Cheap Reminder: Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks

Evelyn Kanter — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:30:04 +0000

A reminder that Starbucks is now offering free one-click Wi-Fi at all its company-owned stores in the United States, including The Big Apple. The FREE Wi-Fi deal is only at company stores, not at Starbucks shops that are franchises. Here’s what is different from the current Starbucks Wi-Fi deal:

Free – no Starbucks Card required One-Click – no username [...]

Deals: Annual Spa Week Discounts at NYC Spas

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:12:29 +0000

Spa week is October 11-17 with participating spas nationwide offering spectacular discounts, including here The Big Apple. Start planning now for your Spa Week discount massage, facial or mani pedi — for yourself or a friend via spa gift cards that never expire. Aah, spa. Most definitely.

Click here to find a Spa Week participating spa in [...]

Sample Sale: Jodi Arnold Spring Summer Collection

Evelyn Kanter — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:34:43 +0000

Sample Sale:

Fashionable dresses and separates by upscale designer Jodi Arnold are on sale this week at up to 80% off. The designs include florals and prints, in lightweight fabrics. Spend $300 and you’ll receive a free t-shirt (regularly $35) as a gift. The sample sale is Tuesday through Sunday. Hours our 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. [...]

Free Street Fairs this Weekend

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:37:47 +0000

Check out a new Big Apple neighborhood this weekend at one of the half dozen street fairs around town. Street fairs and festivals are always FREE, but they always wind up costing something, because you always find something interesting to buy from the craftspeople and food vendors.

Saturday, July 17

East Side Summer Festival, Lexington Ave. between 42nd [...]

Free Friday Movies for Kids Outdoors at Pier 46

Evelyn Kanter — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:20:07 +0000

Every Friday all summer, there are free outdoor movies for kids at Hudson River Park, Pier 46. You already missed the classic Wizard of Oz last week. Don’t miss these great, fun family films showing the rest of July.

July 16th — Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs July 23rd — The Great Muppet Caper July 30th — Monsters vs. Aliens

The movies [...]

Free New York Philharmonic Concerts This Week

Evelyn Kanter — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:38:47 +0000

The Lincoln Center Concerts in the Parks is a summertime tradition in The Big Apple. This is a busy week of free outdoor concerts by the world famous New York Philharmonic. Grab a blanket, a picnic basket and your family or friends to hear the world’s best music in the world’s best parks in the world’s [...]

Free Friday Movies for Kids in Hudson River Park

Evelyn Kanter — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:28:28 +0000

Fridays are for kids at the free River Flicks program in Hudson River Park. Here’s the July schedule:

July 9th — The Wizard of Oz, the classic musical about Dorothy (Judy Garland) , The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) and The Tin Man heading off to see the Wizard, and the Wicked Witch of [...]

Free Concerts by Monaco Boys Choir

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:49:18 +0000

The Monaco Boys Choir will be performing later this year at the royal wedding of Monaco Prince Albert, son of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier. Before then, you can enjoy them for FREE at two concerts in New York City. The boys are performing a combination of sacred music and Big Apple patriotic favorites in honor [...]

Join Britain’s Prince Harry on Governors Island

Evelyn Kanter — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:31:56 +0000

Britain’s Prince Harry is in New York City this weekend. He’s playing polo on Governors Island on Sunday, June, 27th. It’s the third annual Veuve Cliquot Polo Classic, a fund-raiser for the American Friends of Sentebale, a charity which he founded with the prince of Lesotho to support at-risk children in the tiny African nation. Prince Harry led [...]

Peaceful Places NYC is Read of the Week on Tripatini

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:30:19 +0000

My new travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City, is featured at the Read of the Week on the website Tripatini, a social network for those of us who love to travel.

Thanks to the editors at Tripatini for acknowledging the book, which can be purchased online through the Tripatini website and from Amazon. Peaceful Places New [...]

Summer Movies are $1 at AMC Theaters in NYC on Tuesdays

Evelyn Kanter — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:00:27 +0000

Shrek 3, other movies are $1 at AMC theaters

See movies for just $1 at AMC theaters in NYC from mid-June to mid-August. It’s a special AMC summer promotion aimed at kids and the adults who take them to the movies. The cheap seats are Tuesdays only, and only at 10 a.m., beginning June 15th, [...]

NYPD Ticket Blitz for Texting While Driving

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:50:05 +0000

The New York City Police Department is launching a summer driving ticket blitz this week for drivers who talk or text while driving, The 24-hour NYPD crackdown is Tuesday, June 22, and will be in all be in all five Big Apple boroughs. Using a hand-held cellphone while driving is against the law in New [...]

Mother’s Day Brunch Cruise on Hudson

Evelyn Kanter — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:58:08 +0000

Celebrate Mother’s Day on the Hudson River with cool breezes, cool jazz, chilled champagne and beautiful views of the Big Apple. It’s all aboard the annual Mother’s Day Brunch Cruise in New York Harbor on the 125 foot John James Audobon. It’s a three-hour cruise that will both spoil and honor Mom with free-flowing champagne, mimosas and bellinis, live [...]

Musical Instruments on Sale

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:00:08 +0000

Christie’s is having an auction of fine musical instruments, including a rare 400-year-old viola from Brescia, Italy. You might not have the $250,000 expected purchase price, but you can look — and that’s free. Instruments are on view April 24th to 27th. Christie’s in the Big Apple is at 20 Rockefeller Plaza. [...]

Earth Day Celebrations in NYC

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:09:18 +0000

Grand Central Terminal is home base for the 40th Anniversary celebration of Earth Day in New York. Earth Day New York kicks off April 19th with a week of activities that include events both inside and outside the historic train station. Here is some of what is planned:

a six-day indoor EarthFair in the terminal’s at Vanderbilt Hall, April 19th [...]

Lecture on Genocide Around Globe

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:43:49 +0000

What can we do about the on-going atrocities of genocide around the globe? How should we respond as individuals, as nations, and as human beings? Those are just some of the questions being addressed at a lecture entitled “Genocide and Activism”, on Tuesday, April 20th, at the Center for Jewish History. The program is at 6:30 [...]

NYC Restaurant Week Begins Jan. 25

Evelyn Kanter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:30:46 +0000

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 course. [...]

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

Evelyn Kanter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:18:32 +0000

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 hour [...]

Celebrate Kwanzaa at African Burial Ground National Monument

Evelyn Kanter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:18:52 +0000

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 culture.

There [...]

Mini Manhattan at the Skyscraper Museum

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:10:29 +0000

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 hours [...]

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

Evelyn Kanter — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:28:24 +0000

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 in [...]

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

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:25:05 +0000

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. And [...]