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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The financial landscape has changed enormously in the last few years of economic upheaval, and there a lot new to know before you can retire. MetLife is offering a FREE financial planning lecture for Boomers. It’s being given by two of their financial planning experts, including one who is a Certified Financial Planner. The free program is [...]
Free Music Friday is a new series at the American Folk Art Museum. The first performance is A Musical Tribute to Broadway, featuring both classic and contemporary favorites, plus behind-the-scenes stories from actors and singers who have appeared in shows including Phantom of the Opera; Wicked, Mamma Mia, West Side Story, The Producers and Shrek.
The FREE performance is 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 [...]
Go back to college for the day on Sunday, March 7, for the annual One Day University program. There are lectures on music, art, history, the environment, and more, delivered by top professors from top universities and colleges, including Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. And best of all, there’s no homework and no exams. Just learning. [...]
A new Off-Broadway show titled “Daddy” features CSI’s Gerald McCullough in the starring role. The play is about two close friends who examine their lives and their twenty year long relationship when one of them falls for a younger man. The play has a limited run, through February 13, at the TBG Arts Center, 213 West 36th Street. Performances are at 8 [...]
Love basketball? The New York Knicks have just put a block of tickets on sale at 55% off for two upcoming games, and you get a free Knicks T-shirt. There are a limited number of seats in the 300 Level and Mezzanine at Madison Square Garden are now just $20, instead of $44.50, for the Wednesday, Feb. 3 game against [...]
Sundays at Six is a series of FREE performances by the Workshop Theater Company. These are readings by professional actors and actors of plays that are still works-in-progress, in a small, intimate theater. The actors sit on folding chairs, sometimes getting up and moving around to enhance their characters. There is no scenery, but there is a short discussion session [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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