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.
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.
The Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts museum is one of those lesser known hidden Big Apple gems. On Tuesday, August 31, enjoy the FREE opening of the fall exhibition of Japanese art, featuring pieces from hundreds of years of Japanese history. The display includes ceramics, paintings, sculptures, and beautiful shoji screens, including some items from what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ripley’s describes its Believe it or Not exhibits as an “Odditorium”, but there’s nothing odd or strange about the discounts being offered for the month of May 2010. Use the coupon code VALPAK10 for discounts of $5 off the adult price and $4 off the kid price, for up to eight people at Ripley’s Timnes Square. Be [...]
Peaceful Places NYC travel guidebook by Evelyn Kanter for residents, visitors
It’s mine. Just published. Peaceful Places New York City is your guide to more than 100 of the most tranquil, serene spots in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Most of the sites mentioned are free, and each and every one of them 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 p.m., [...]
Cartoonist Charles Addams may be most famous for his Addams Family characters, including Morticia and Fester. They are part of the new exhibit “Charles Addams’s New York”, at the Museum of the City of New York, of course. But just part of the exhibit, which also features hundreds of Addams cartoons, many from covers and pages of the New Yorker [...]
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?
