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150 museums nationwide are free this weekend

More than 150 museums in the USA are free this weekend, the first weekend of the month — but only if you are the owner of a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit card.  The two companies are once again offering their “Museums on Us” program, which includes such top cultural destinations as [...]

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Kids Night on Broadway: free theater tickets for ages 6-18

Kids and teens age 6-18 can see a Broadway show for FREE during the annual Kids’ Night on Broadway, sponsored by The Broadway League.   Kids get a free ticket when accompanied by an adult paying full price, at participating Broadway shows February 5-9, 2012.  The event also includes great family-friendly restaurant and parking deals, a [...]

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Free discount Rx prescription card for NYC residents, tourists

Start the new year by saving as much as half off your prescription medicines with the FREE Big Apple Rx prescription discount card. This just may be the best cheap deal in NYC, since it’s open to everybody — it is not limited to low-income New Yorkers or the elderly, and there is [...]

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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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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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Get smart: One Day University with top college professors on Jan 21, 2012

Here’s how to save $45,000 in college tuition — attend the One Day University Sunday, January 21, 2012,  and learn from top professors from top colleges and universities including Cornell, Yale and Columbia.  Subjects include history, art, philosophy, and include such timely and thought-provoking topics as the changing nature of good and evil.   [...]

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A Real Night at the Museum

Kids get the opportunity to camp out overnight at the American Museum of Natural History, in the real version of the movie.  As the doors close and the lights dim, participants head out with flashlights in search of adventure, which could mean a face-to-face meeting with a 65-million-year-old T. rex in the Hall of Dinosaurs, or [...]

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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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150 museums nationwide are free this weekend

More than 150 museums in the USA are free this weekend, the first weekend of the month — but only if you are the owner of a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit card.  The two companies are once again offering their “Museums on Us” program, which includes such top cultural destinations as [...]

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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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Kids Night on Broadway: free theater tickets for ages 6-18

Kids and teens age 6-18 can see a Broadway show for FREE during the annual Kids’ Night on Broadway, sponsored by The Broadway League.   Kids get a free ticket when accompanied by an adult paying full price, at participating Broadway shows.   The next  Kids’ Night on Broadway 2012 takes place on February 5-9, 2012. [...]

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A Real Night at the Museum

Kids get the opportunity to camp out overnight at the American Museum of Natural History, in the real version of the movie.  As the doors close and the lights dim, participants head out with flashlights in search of adventure, which could mean a face-to-face meeting with a 65-million-year-old T. rex in the Hall of Dinosaurs, or [...]

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