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The NY Auto Show is now open with 1,000+ shiny new cars and trucks to drool over and wish about. But while you can’t drive the show cars, you can get behind the wheel of some true droolers and vroomers including supercars named Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Maserati. Drive or passenger on a [...]
Get ready for the largest annual pillow fight in NYC. This year, the 5th Annual Pillow Fight is Saturday, April 7th, in Washington Square Park. It’s FREE, of course. Soft pillows only — and not feather pillows, which make a wind-blown mess that’s impossible to clean up. The swinging event starts at 3 p.m. [...]
Spend the holiday weekend with a blockbuster movie for $2. Blockbuster Express has a new pricing structure: new releases are $2 for the first night, and have an in-stock guarantee. Even new releases categorized as Hot Movies — the ones Blockbuster gets before Redbox or Netflix — are just $3 for the first night, [...]
The flowers and trees are in full bloom, and it’s time to get outdoors in NYC and enjoy spring and all the free and cheap events and activities. Here are a half dozen ways to take a bite out of the Big Apple without taking a bite out of your wallet –
Coney Island [...]
Get a FREE Game of Thrones symbol permanently tattooed on the body part of your choice — with some exceptions — today, Friday, March 30th, in Soho. The first 50 fans who arrive at the Wooster Street Social Club between 8 a.m. and noon can select the markings of one of the five houses: [...]
Karaoke Killed the Cat is a long-running FREE Friday night comedy and music event at Brooklyn’s Union Hall that will make believers — and maybe even participants — out of those who never thought they’d like karaoke. It’s hosted by the frenzied duo calling themselves Chris Goldteeth and Lord Easy, who may have more [...]
AMC Mad Men Season 5 Cast Photo
The long awaited new season of AMC’s mega-hit Mad Men returns Sunday, March 25th, and the proper way to watch it may be with an old-fashioned cocktail in hand, like the ones consumed on the show, set in the two-martinis-for-lunch Sixties. Click here for the AMC [...]
Brooklyn-based kindie rocker Suzi Shelton gives a FREE family-friendly performance on Sunday, March 25th showcasing tunes from her latest release “Tomboy in a Princess Dress“, written with her seven-year-old daughter in mind. Suzi Shelton will be joined by guitarist Greg Mayo, bass and trombone player Albert Elias, and the Shelton children. The free performance [...]
For the first time in more than a decade, The Beatles iconic Yellow Submarine animated film is being shown in a NYC movie theater. See Pepperland with its psychodelic fun and Bluish people, and hear all the great tunes from the Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band at the Walter Reade Theater on Sunday, [...]
iPhone/iPad/iTouch app
The app version of NYC on the Cheap has just been updated and re-released on the iTunes Store. The new 1.3 version contains more NYC cheap eats, more listings about NYC history, neighborhoods and how to get around, and more links to the Twitter and Facebook pages of the restaurants, museums [...]
New Jersey Motorsports Park is holding a FREE open house on Sunday, March 11th. This is your chance to enjoy a racetrack experience without an admission fee, with lots of free events. Free hotlaps around the track in cars, on motorcycles, monster trucks and bikes. Free karting for the kids, free kids’ activity zone, [...]
The Berenstain Bears are a perennial kid-pleaser, even more pleasing when the characters jump off the book pages and onto the theater stage. Take the kids to see Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Sister Bear and Brother Bear live, in a kid-friendly theater a few blocks from Lincoln Center. These live performances are based on [...]
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