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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One Day University on Sunday, Mar. 7

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.  [...]

Free Heart Screenings at NYU

February is American Heart Month, a good time to make sure your heart is healthy.  NYU is sponsoring a FREE Heart Health Fair, with screenings, lectures and other information on heart healthy eating, heart healthy exercise and fitness, risk factors to be aware of, and more, including giveaways and door prizes.  The Heart Health Fair [...]

Learn to Speak Spanish

Learn to speak Spanish in small classes with professional instructors, at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute.  You’ll be learning in an elegant and historic landmark East Side townhouse with native Spanish speakers who are native speakers.  A nine-week course begins Tuesday, Feb. 16th for all levels, and there is a three-week cram course, three days per week, that [...]

Income Tax Help for Self-Employed

If you are a non-incorporated freelancer or otherwise self-employed who receives 1099 tax forms, you will benefit from a tax seminar on how find your way around the federal income tax 1040 and Schedule C  forms.   The seminar is taught by a CPA, and answers such questions as how much to set aside for estimated taxes, and what [...]

Free Seminar on Business Marketing

Are you a small business owner?  Or want to be?  Then you’ll need to market your business through email.  Learn how to master email marketing at a free seminar sponsored by New York Enterprise Report magazine on the best email marketing practices for small business owners. You’ll learn about how to drive repeat sales, bost referrals and turning prospects [...]

Free Yoga Classes on Sat. Jan 23

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 [...]

College Fairs to Jump Start Your Life

Get smart!  Two Big Apple colleges are having open house events today, January 12th,  to help you jump start your current job or career or help you get a start on a new one.

The open house at  Touro College Graduate School of Technology begins at  6:30 p.m.  Be sure to ask about 100% tuition grant from the New [...]

Free Italian Food and Wine Classes

Free Italian cooking classes, video workshops and food and wine tastings are being offered at the Big Apple’s Culinary Institute, on Wednesday and  January 13 and January 14. The event is being sponsored by the makers of Grana Padano cheese, that wonderful, robust cheese equally good grated over pasta and just nibbled with a piece of good Italian [...]