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Free tastings of Brooklyn-made beer, spirits

Sample Brooklyn-made beer and other grown-up beverages at a FREE “Drink Local” event on Friday, February 24th.  The Waterfront Wines & Spirits shop is pouring tastings of their Brooklyn-made vodka, gin and wine. The tastings are free, but you are encouraged to buy full full bottles, especially because proceeds from sales during the [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

The app version of NYC on the Cheap has just been updated and 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 [...]

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Central Park on ice: watch master carvers create frozen sculptures

Free family event: It’s called the Ice Festival @ Tavern, which is the new name for the building that used to be Tavern on the Green, the iconic Central Park restaurant that’s gone but not forgotten.  On Saturday, February 11th, watch master carvers from Okamoto Studio turn huge blocks of ice into Central Park [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

Launched last year as NYC Free and Frugal, the app version of NYC on the Cheap has been renamed NYC on the Cheap.

Download it now from the iTunes store, and get hundreds of places for cheap eats, stores where you’ll never pay retail, museums that are always free, and lots [...]

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Free Friday family arts & crafts workshop in Central Park

Eco-themed themed crafts are the focus of the FREE Friday family arts & crafts workshop in Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center.  The program is 3 PM to 4:30 PM, designed for children 12 and under, and also designed for mom, dad or another caretaker to participate in creating a family arts & [...]

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NYC free weekend: familly crafts project at Studio Museum of Harlem, National Parks entry

Celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at Studio Museum of Harlem, which is FREE on Sundays, including the crafts project for kids and the grown-ups who bring them.  Make a collage with The Laundromat Project.  The program is called the “I Have A Dream” project.  The program is 1 PM to 4 [...]

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Free entry to U.S. National Parks this weekend

Entry to U.S. National Parks is free for the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, January 14-16, 2012.    Take advantage by visiting the National Parks in New York City and nearby, including the Statue of Liberty National Monument,  Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace at 28 East 30th St., Gateway National Park in Brooklyn and Queens, and [...]

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NYC MulchFest this weekend to recycle holiday trees

The annual NYC MulchFest encourages you to chip in your Christmas tree for a good cause  Bring your holiday tree to one of more than 50 locations this weekend to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings in NYC parks across the city.  The MulchFest — which you could call “treecycling’ — is [...]

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Free Friday family arts & crafts workshop in Central Park

Eco-themed themed crafts are the focus of the FREE Friday family arts & crafts workshop in Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center.  The program is 3 PM to 4:30 PM, designed for children 12 and under, and also designed for mom, dad or another caretaker to participate in creating a family arts & [...]

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NYC Mulchfest 2012: chip in and recycle your Xmas trees

Recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips that will nourish trees and plants on NYC streets, gardens and parks. It’s the annual NYC Mulchfest, and you can chip in on Saturday and Sunday, January 7 and 8, 2012, with tree drop-offs starting on January 2nd.  Join the New York City Department of Parks & [...]

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Sleep Cheap: NYC hotel deal includes passes for ice skating, shopping

Sleep cheap in midtown Manhattan with a special holiday deal from the newly-renovated Affinia Manhattan.  The Miracle on 31st Street holiday getaway package starts at $179 per night and includes VIP line-cutting access to the free ice skating rink at Bryant Park, plus two free skate rentals, bag check and hot chocolate, a 10% [...]

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Free ice skating show and tree lighting at Riverbank State Park

Add this to the list of Christmas tree lighting ceremonies this week — Riverbank State Park, Saturday, December 10th at 4 p.m.  The ceremonies include a free ice skating show performed by the Ice Theater of New York.  They’ll be skating to music including  “Carol of the Bells”, “Blue Christmas”, “Let It Snow”, “Baby [...]

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