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Free admission to Queens, Brooklyn Botanical Garden

May 11th is National Public Gardens Day, and you can visit public gardens throughout the USA for FREE on Friday to celebrate, including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Queens Botanic Garden in NYC.  Click here to download the free coupon for entry — which is good for an entire group of friends or family.  [...]

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Drive smarter: ZipCar reduced rate membership deal

ZipCar membership dealDrive smarter — and cheaper — with a special ZipCar membership deal in NYC and other major citiesfrom Gilt City. Through Saturday May 12th, get a  special one-year membership for just $30, without the normal application fee.  You also get a $30 driving credit for pay-as-you-go access to ZipCar’s fleet of fuel efficient cars.  Or, you can opt for a $100 membership deal, which includes $150 worth of driving credit.  Zipcar membership includes FREE gas. Here’s what this deal from Gilt City gives you –

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Discount parking for Broadway shows, events

It’s never easy to find street parking in NYC, especially  in Manhattan, and parking in NYC garages is expensive, especially in midtown, especially on Wednesday matinee day.  Cut the cost of NYC parking for Broadway theater performances and other midtown events with discount parking coupons. 

Icon Parking has several locations  in the area [...]

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Free wine tastings at Puro Chile in Soho

Chile makes some of the best wines on the planet. My own personal favorite Chile wine is Carmenere, a deep red wine grape grown almost exclusively in Chile, which I discovered on a too-short visit to Chile a couple of years ago. You can get FREE tastings of Carmenere and other great reds and [...]

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Free chocolate chip cookies Wed. in Flatiron

The DoubleTree hotel chain is kicking off its new national promotion of customer service with a FREE event in Flatiron Plaza, giving passersby free fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies and a chance to recharge electronic devices at the “power bar”.  The freebie is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 9th.  The promotion is called “Little Things [...]

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NYC free and cheap Sunday street fairs

New York City’s Upper West Side is busy with street fairs this weekend. They are close enough to one another that you can cover more than one.  Free to wander, cheap — as in inexpensive — items to purchase, all from local artists and vendors.

Saturday and Sunday — The Crafts on Columbus art [...]

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Free Tony Awards films: see stars

See Tony Award performers FREE in a special film series celebrating Broadway and Off-Broadway. For the second year, the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards is sponsoring the free screenings as part of the excitement leading up to the Tony Awards telecast, on Sunday, June 10th. This year’s series features three Broadway-inspired films, a panel [...]

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Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic June 2nd: new location is Liberty State Park, NJ

The Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic returns to New York City the first Saturday in June, for one of the most highly-anticipated social events of the season, attracting a fashionable and international crowd. Unlike previous years, when it was held on Governors Island, the June 2, 2012 event is at Liberty [...]

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Harlem Jazz Shrines festival free, cheap events

The annual Harlem Jazz Shrines festival honors the legacy of the great musicians of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s who put jazz and Harlem on the international music map.   The 2012 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival is May 7-13, with most events $10 or less, and many events are FREE.  There are daily events, at [...]

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Free all-day music festival at Symphony Space

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 [...]

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Sample sale: Hickey Freeman, Bobby Jones menswear

Hickey Freeman and Bobby Jones tailored men’s suits, pants, jackets, sportswear and accessories including ties and belts are up to 80% off retail at this special sample sale and clearance sale,  Sunday, May 6th through Thursday, May 10th.  The sale is at Soiffer Haskin, 317 West 33rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue.  Hours [...]

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NYC weekend: special tours of historic places

Forty historic NYC places are free to visit this weekend, in a special Open House event sponsored by the Partners in Preservation program.  The to-do list includes special tours of the Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Public Library, a twilight tour of Woodlawn Cemetery, even the opportunity to pose for photos at Federal Hall with a [...]

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