Evelyn Kanter’s NYC Guidebook | 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] | |