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.
It’s the last two nights of free movies in Central Park. The theme of this year’s The Central Park Conservancy Film Festival is Big Apple icons — films that feature New York City as one os its stars. The movies are being shown in the area just north of Sheep Meadow, behind Mineral Springs, at mid-park and 69th Street. So enter the park at 72nd St from either Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. All screenings begin at 8:00 pm, rain or shine. Gates open at 6:30 pm, so bring a picnic. Guest DJs play sets until the movie begins. All movies close captioned.
The Disney Pixar Toy Story 3, with Buzz Lightyear and the team, is a family favorite movie. If your kids have been clammoring for Toy Story toys, you should enter the Disney Pixar Toy Story 3 Sweepstakes, sponsored in conjunction with L’Oreal Kids. The Grand Prize is a$2,000 shopping spree in New York City. Other prizes [...]
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
Make my day! Make several of them, with some of the best movies ever made. The Clint Eastwood Film Festival starts today at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Between July 9 and July 27 there are westerns and police dramas, of course, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Follow the footsteps of Robin Hood in this contest for a free trip to Nottingham and Sherwood Forest. Of course, the contest promotes the new blockbuster film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe as the famous outlaw and Cate Blanchett as his lady Marian. The contest is sponsored by Visit Britain, American Airlines and Holiday Inn. [...]
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford in "All the President's Men", 1976
The Hollywood version of news and the newspaper business ranges from screwball comedies to serious films that document real headlines. The entire range — from the craziness of the 1928 “The Front Page” to the insider look at the scandal that brought down the Nixon White House in [...]
It’s the last two nights of free movies in Central Park. The theme of this year’s The Central Park Conservancy Film Festival is Big Apple icons — films that feature New York City as one os its stars. The movies are being shown in the area just north of Sheep Meadow, behind Mineral Springs, at mid-park and 69th Street. So enter the park at 72nd St from either Fifth Avenue or Central Park West. All screenings begin at 8:00 pm, rain or shine. Gates open at 6:30 pm, so bring a picnic. Guest DJs play sets until the movie begins. All movies close captioned.
