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It’s all about bikes for three days, starting today, at Bike Expo New York, at Pier 36. This is a FREE event, sponsored by Eastern Mountain Sports, with displays by bike manufacturers, accessories, live-performances, hands-on programming, exercise classes, bike gear giveaways and of course, free bicycle classes for kids and grown-ups. You can also [...]
Saturday, May 5th is a double special day — it’s both Cinco de Mayo and Kentucky Derby day. So what will it be for you — Margaritas or Mint Juleps? Tequlia or bourbon? Here are some great NYC bars to help you decide, courtesy of amNewYork free newspaper –
Margaritas –
Los Feliz, 109 [...]
There’s FREE music performances all day Saturday, May 5th at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side. It’s the theater’s annual spring Wall-to-Wall festival, this year celebrating Gertrude Stein’s Paris. Performances start at 11 a.m., and until 11 p.m. There also are readings of some of Stein’s works and other authors interspersed between the [...]
MexFest at the Seaport is a gathering of the best Mexican taco trucks, to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. It’s on Saturday, May 5th — Cinco de Mayo – at the South Street Seaport, from noon to 7 p.m. In addition to trucks serving all kinds of Mexican and other food favorites, MexFest includes free [...]
Giant puppets are on the march along the High Line at dusk this week, part of the performance art installation for the PEN literary festival. The Processional Arts Workshop (PAW) created the puppets, some of which are designed to resemble animated books. The FREE mobile exhibit is called Ex Libris, and besides entertaining us [...]
Everybody has an opinion, and during this special theater weekend, you can let the playrights know exactly what you think about their work, and even vote on the best of the evening’s short plays. It’s the 18th Annual 15 Minute Play Festival. It’s fast, it’s fun, and it’s co-produced by American Globe and Turnip [...]
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo family style, with a FREE crafts project to make popular Mexican tissue paper flowers together, at the New York Public Library. The program is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5th, which is Cinco de Mayo. The family crafts program is at the main branch of the NYPL [...]
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo on the cheap with this pub crawl deal that gives you half off or more the usual drink specials. This year’s Cinco de Mayo also just happens to be the same day as the Kentucky Derby, so you’ll have to chose between Margaritas and mint juleps. This Groupon deal is [...]
The first major NYC street fair of 2012 also marks the end of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. The film festival closes its 11th edition with a FREE all-day street fair on Saturday, April 28th. The Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair is from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., on Greenwich Street, between Chambers and Hubert Streets [...]
Join NYC on the Cheap’s Evelyn Kanter today at Eco-Chic Boutique, a special event celebrating Earth Day and Earth Week in New York City. Eco-Chic Boutique is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. this evening, Thursday, April 19, at Kimpton’s The Muse New York hotel. I’m joining a group of local eco-minded working moms who are designers and producers of must-have organic skin care and food products, and accessories and jewelry fashioned from organic and recycled materials. I’ll be autographing my book, Peaceful Places NYC, the most comprehensive NYC guidebook about the best quiet, tranquil and eco-friendly places in all five boroughs. Eco-Chic Boutique has a suggested donation of $15, which benefits the New York Restoration Project. That’s the a non-profit organization founded by another working mom, entertainment superstar Bette Midler, dedicated to transforming open spaces in under-served parts of NYC to create a greener, more sustainable, more livable city. The Muse Hotel is at 130 West 46th St. Participating designers and producers at Eco-Chic Boutique include: …read more…
Attend a FREE screening and panel discussion of the new Ron Howard film “When You Find Me”, on Sunday, April 22nd. It’s part of the Tribeca Talk series of the Tribeca Film Festival. The production is the first Hollywood film inspired by a photo contest. The discussion panel after the screening includes filmmakers Petter [...]
More than 200 green, eco-smart, eco-chic and eco-friendly products and services and organic foods and skincare products are on display this weekend at the annual Green Festival at the Javits Convention Center. Earth Day is Sunday, April 22nd, so this is the perfect weekend for a green showcase to inspire you to help the [...]
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