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.
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 [...]
This discount deal is for the four Levis branded stores in Manhattan — 30% off for men, women and children, August 12, 2010 through August 15, 2010. The 30% off sale is just in time to stock up for the kids for back to school.
The Levis stores are at 536 Broadway in Soho, 1501 Broadway in [...]
This is a street fair with a French accent. Bastille Day celebrations commemorate the beginning of the French Revolution, which closely followed the American Revolution of July 4, 1776. Bastille Day in The Big Apple features French food, performances of French-style music, face painting for the kids, plus arts and crafts stalls with a French flair, [...]
Chris Gillespie is usually found playing jazz, Broadway show tunes and other favorites at the upscale Carlyle Hotel. On Thursday, May 6th, he joins Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder, Broadway musical star Kate Fisher, who performed the role of Cosette in Les Miserables, and others for a special charity fund-raiser for the tiny African nation of Burundi. The event is called Jazzical, and supports Village Health Works, a clinic in Burundi which has treated some 34,000 people since it opened less than three years ago. Jazzical is at 6 p.m. on May 6th at the DiCapo Opera Theatre, 184 E. 76th Street. There also will be a silent auction. It promises to be an inspiring and entertaining evening.
The clinic is the dream of Burundi native Deogratias Niyizonkiza, now an American citizen. Please read the next page for the inspiring story of Deo, the important health care clinic he built in Burundi, and how you can help.
The part of the Upper East Side known as Yorkville has a long and interesting history that includes its role in rescuing survivors of the worst accidents in New York City history. That would be the fire aboard the steamship General Slocum in 1904, in which some 1,000 people perished. A FREE lecture and exhibit on [...]
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 [...]
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 starts [...]
Lia Schorr is one of the leading day spas in The Big Apple, and for Valentine’s Day and through the end of March, the spa is offering up to half off treatments for men and women. A seaweed facial, regularly $130 is now $65. A hot stone massage with reflexology, regularly $145, is now $70. And a [...]