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 [...] 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 [...] Best spot to cheer NYC Marathon runners is Fifth Ave. and 110th St., as they enter Central Park for the finish line My vote for the best spot to watch and cheer the 43,000 runners in the 2011 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 6th, is where they enter Central Park [...] Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which means celebrating scary is a three-day weekend in NYC. Here are some FREE and cheap NYC events for Halloween 2011 — nothing more than $10 per person — plus, of course, whatever your costume and fake blood costs. These Halloween happenings are for adults only. Metropolis [...] Best spot to cheer NYC Marathon runners is Fifth Ave. and 110th St., as they enter Central Park for the finish line My vote for the best spot to watch and cheer the 43,000 runners in the 2011 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 6th, is where they enter Central Park [...] Start celebrating Halloween this weekend with scary, fun events and activities for the entire family that include a Moonlight Maze, visit to the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, and a nightmare Haunted House–
Moonlight Maze — The Amazing Maize Maze at the Queens County Farm Museum is open weekends through the end of October, and for one night — Saturday, October 15th — it is open for moonlight tours. Bring a flashlight, or a jack o’ lantern, and find your way home, or at least back to the entrance. The maze is open from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and until 9 p.m. for the Moonlight Maze. Tickets are $9 for adults, $5 for children age 4-11, and free for age three and under. There’s also a Pumpkin Patch open all weekend. Edgar Allan Poe Cottage — The famous writer and poet of such classic scary stuff as The Raven and the beautiful poem Annabel Lee — which he wrote here — spent his final years living in this Bronx farmhouse, when this part of the Bronx was farmland. Now, the Poe Cottage sits in a small park in the middle of the Grand Concourse. The white clapboard cottage is re-opening to the public for tours after a nearly two-year restoration, and includes a new Poe Park Visitor Center. , designed by Toshiko Mori. Be among the first to visit the reopened cottage with a free tour, beginning at 1pm, as part of the Historic House Trust Festival. Continue reading Halloween events, activities this weekend: some for kids, others for adults only Need a pancake fix? There already are more than a half-dozen iHop restaurants open in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx, and another is about to be added, in the Flatiron/Chelsea neighborhood. The operators of Limelight Marketplace, in the former church on Sixth Avenue and 20th Street — which became a hot nightclub and disco — [...] Eagles, knights in shining armor, a parade or a street fair? Life is all about choices. And as always, there are lots of free and dirt cheap activities for families in New York City on Sunday. The Raptor Fest brings hawks, falcons, owls and other birds of prey to Prospect Park for a special [...] Anybody who has a daughter, granddaughter or niece into the American Girl doll craze knows how addictive — and expensive — the dolls, clothing and accessories are. Save money and have fun with your own favorite American girl at a FREE Make-It-Take-It workshop at Michael’s craft shops this Saturday, September 24th, 10 a.m. to [...] Discover the gastronomic delights of Queens during Queens Restaurant Week, through Thursday, Sept. 22nd this week, and again next week, from Monday, September 26th through Thursday, September 29th. More than 100 Queens restaurants are participating, with three-course prix fixe dinners at $25, plus tax and tips. Some restaurants are including a free glass [...] Don’t throw away your old or broken cellphones, laptops, MP3 players, DVD players, etc. Recycle them, so the valuable parts can be re-used, and the dangerous parts don’t wind up in a landfill and leach poisons into our water supply. Why recycle? According to the E.P.A., electronic waste contributes 70% of the toxins found [...] There’s lots of free, frugal and dirt cheap things to do in New York City this weekend – Saturday – German-American Steuben Day Parade — Oompah bands, marchers in lederhosen and dirndls, floats and more, including the German-born stars of the IFC reality show “Whisker Wars”, riding in a Mercedes-Benz convertible. The 54th annual [...] | |