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NYC daily deals: Zabar’s on UWS, Brooklyn Baby World, a Village pub crawl

Have we been ignoring local stores and restaurants because of the many national deals and discounts?  Maybe.  So let’s correct that immediately by featuring these NYC merchants with best buys  –

Zabar’s, Upper West Side — the legendary gourmet food shop and cookware store  is offering what I think is its first ever voucher [...]

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TGIFriday’s $5 gift card giveaway + daily prizes, through Dec. 25

T.G.I. Friday’s is giving away $5 Bonus Bite cards plus additional holiday prizes, through December 25, 2011.  Through Christmas Day, buy a $25 TGIF Gift Card and get the $5 Bonus Bite card free.  Also, through Christmas, whenever you eat at Fridays, your check will contain a special code to win daily and weekly [...]

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See Mikhail Baryshnikov free at the New York Public Library

You won’t meet legendary dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov live and in person, but see him in photos, video footage and more, including personal letters from other legends of film and dance and culture including Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Fred Astaire.  This FREE exhibit is at the New York Public Library for [...]

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Gridlock alert: Justin Bieber, President Obama in Midtown this evening

Justin Bieber performing a free concert in Rockefeller Plaza and President Obama a few blocks away at the New York Sheraton at a fund-raiser at around the same time  tonight — means super-gridlock for midtown Manhattan.  There will be frozen zones, roped off zones, and shoulder-to-shoulder can’t move zones. Teen idol Justin Bieber is [...]

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NYC Peaceful Places in the NY Times

Drum roll please.

The app version of my NYC guidebook Peaceful Places in NYC has been featured in the NYTimes, in the App City column by Josh Brustein.  Here’s part of his great review –

TRANQUILLITY Peace and quiet are not New York’s strongest suits. But Peaceful Places New York City, an app adapted [...]

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JetBlue one-day airfare sale today: fares from $44, hotel packages from $99

If you can get away next week, jump on this one-day airfare and hotel sale from JetBlue.  Fares as low as $44 for travel only from Tuesday, December 6 to Monday, December 12, 2011, three-night hotel deals  from $99.  Sample fares between JFK and Boston or Burlington, Vermont are $44, Washington, DC is $54, [...]

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Luxurious Frette bed, bath, table linens up to 80% off through Thursday

In all the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, let’s not forget this biggie — With threadcounts up to 1,000 and fine embroidery trim, Frette more than lives up to its reputation as the world’s leading provider of fine linens to homes and luxury hotels, and Frette towels and table linens are [...]

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Power up: batteries on sale for holiday toys, electronics

Just about everything these days runs on batteries, and just in time for all the new toys and other gadgets being unwrapped on Christmas morning, there are sales on the all-important AA and AAA batteries we need and use the most.  Since not all toys, wireless computer keyboards and cameras are packaged with batteries, [...]

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See Mad Women comedy/drama on stage for $18

Acclaimed performance artist John Fleck takes us on a hair-raising roller coaster ride in a solo show as a pair of MAD WOMEN: Judy Garland and his own mother. Buckle up and hold on tight as they twist, wind & sing their way through the cultural mindset of the late 1960′s. In this psychological [...]

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Give free $10 Restaurant.com eGift Cards + 80% off gift certificates

Through Christmas Day, you can send free $10 eGift Cards from Restaurant.com to up to 40 different people each a day.  2011 is the fourth year of the popular Feed it Forward program, to give to people who might otherwise not be on your gift list, or to give them something extra — [...]

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The Makeup Show: luxury cosmetics discounts this weekend

Normally, cosmetic and skin care brands such as Dermalogica, Jemina Jackson and Kevyn Aucoin are available only at high-end spas or from a red carpet make-up artist.  This weekend, you can buy these brands and more at steep discount, plus get free samples.  The Makeup Show this weekend also includes seminars with celebrity make-up [...]

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Cyber Monday deals: $50 for $75 worth of gift cards + two movie tickets, racetrack experience.

The deals for Cyber Monday just keep coming.  This one may be the most useful since it is three gifts in one — spend $50 and get two movie tickets, a  $50 Restaurant.com gift card and a $25 Sears or Lowe’s gift card, to share or keep for yourself.  Here’s the link.  That deal [...]

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