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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.  Cut the cost of NYC parking for Broadway theater performances and other midtown events with discount parking coupons. 

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

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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 [...]

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Discount parking for Broadway shows and other events

It’s never easy to find street parking in NYC, especially  in Manhattan, and parking in NYC garages is expensive, especially in midtown.  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 they call Midtown West, which [...]

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Off-Broadway comedy bashes religious stereotypes, starring a singing rabbi

Shalom Dammit is a new comedy that bashes religious stereotypes, and you’ll be too busy laughing to feel the barbs directed at you and some of your closest friends.  Billed as a comedy with music, Shalom Dammit this stars the self-proclaimed Rabbi Sol Solomon, offering wit and wisdom on world religions, intolerance, Christianity, Arabs [...]

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See Phantom of the Opera sequel for $18

Love Never Dies is Andrew Lloyd Weber’s sequel to his mega-hit Broadway show Phantom of the Opera.  See the sequel before it makes its way to Broadway, in this special showing of a filmed live performance of the musical in Australia.  Love Never Dies is being screened nationwide one night only, in theaters in [...]

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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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Free ticket giveaway for Cirque Le Jazz

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages — see Cirque Le Jazz,  a family-friendly show of high-flying entertainment, for FREE if you win the two tickets NYC On the Cheap is giving away to the matinee performance on Saturday, February 25th.  See acrobats, singers, jugglers and clowns, up close and personal at the Theater [...]

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Circus on the cheap: see Cirque Le Jazz for $10-$15

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages — Cirque Le Jazz is a family-friendly show of high-flying entertainment.  See acrobats, singers, jugglers and clowns, up close and personal at the Theater for The New City on the Lower East Side.  Performances are Thursday, February 23rd to Saturday, February 25th at 8 PM, and [...]

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Free ticket giveaway for Cirque Le Jazz

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages — see Cirque Le Jazz,  a family-friendly show of high-flying entertainment, for FREE if you win the two tickets NYC On the Cheap is giving away to the matinee performance on Saturday, February 25th.  See acrobats, singers, jugglers and clowns, up close and personal at the Theater [...]

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3 places to avoid Super Bowl Sunday madness in NYC: events guide

It’s tough to get away from Super Bowl Sunday madness in New York City.  But there are plenty of things to do far from the roaring crowds cheering for Big Blue.   Here are three places –

Spend the afternoon with the giants of rock and roll.  The hit Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet is [...]

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Shakespeare on the Cheap: Midsummer Night’s Dream for $15

The play’s the thing, Shakespeare wrote.  And you can see a live performance of his Midsummer Night’s Dream in a cozy theater in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill.  Performances by members of the Truffle Theater Company are daily except Wednesdays, through Sunday, February 26th.  Performance times are 7:30 PM, with Sunday matinees at 3 PM, and [...]

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Off Broadway Week: BOGO tickets for hit shows through Feb. 12

BOGO on Off Broadway.  It’s the annual Off Broadway Week, which builds on the success of the annual Broadway Week BOGO ticket deal.  Buy two-for-one tickets to top Off-Broadway shows now, for performances through February 4, 2012.  Hit shows are as low as $26.50 each with the purchase of two tickets.  The list perennial [...]

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