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NYC Free and Frugal iPhone iPad iTouch app

NYC Free and Frugal $1.99 app from iTunes store

It may be the best $1.99 bargain on the planet.  NYC Free and Frugal is the newest app for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch, just pubished and avialable for download on the iTunes store.

NYC Free and Frugal information on more than 100 cheap [...]

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Watch NY1 Report About Travel Guidebook Peaceful Places NYC

All this week, TV station NY1 is airing a segment about the calm, quiet, tranquil places in The Big Apple.

It’s Valarie D’Elia’s regular Travel With Val feature on TV1, this week focusing on my new NYC travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City: 139 Tranquil Sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and [...]

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NYC on the Cheap Reminder: Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks

A reminder that Starbucks is now offering free one-click Wi-Fi at all its company-owned stores in the United States, including The Big Apple. The FREE Wi-Fi deal is only at company stores, not at Starbucks shops that are franchises.  Here’s what is different from the current Starbucks Wi-Fi deal:

Free – no Starbucks Card required [...]

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Free New York Philharmonic Concerts This Week

The Lincoln Center Concerts in the Parks is a summertime tradition in The Big Apple.  This is a busy week of free outdoor concerts by the world famous New York Philharmonic. Grab a blanket, a picnic basket and your family or friends to hear the world’s best music in the world’s best parks in [...]

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Join Britain's Prince Harry on Governors Island

Britain’s Prince Harry is in New York City this weekend.  He’s playing polo on Governors Island on Sunday, June, 27th.  It’s the third annual Veuve Cliquot Polo Classic,  a fund-raiser for the American Friends of Sentebale, a charity which he founded with the prince of Lesotho to support at-risk children in the tiny African nation.  Prince [...]

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Peaceful Places NYC is Read of the Week on Tripatini

My new travel guidebook, Peaceful Places New York City, is featured at the Read of the Week on the website Tripatini, a social network for those of us who love to travel.

Thanks to the editors at Tripatini for acknowledging the book, which can be purchased online through the Tripatini website and from [...]

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Summer Movies are $1 at AMC Theaters in NYC on Tuesdays

Shrek 3, other movies are $1 at AMC theaters

See movies for just $1 at AMC theaters in NYC from mid-June to mid-August.  It’s a special AMC summer promotion aimed at kids and the adults who take them to the movies.  The cheap seats are Tuesdays only, and only at 10 a.m., [...]

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NYPD Ticket Blitz for Texting While Driving

The New York City Police Department is launching a summer driving ticket blitz this week for drivers who talk or text while driving,   The 24-hour NYPD crackdown is Tuesday, June 22, and will be in all be in all five Big Apple boroughs.  Using a hand-held cellphone while driving is against the law [...]

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Celebrate Fleet Week 2010 in NYC

Celebrate Fleet Week 2010 NYC May 26 to June 2

Fleet Week in New York City begins today, Wednesday, May 26th with the largest parade of the year, as dozens of U.S. Navy ships sail up the Hudson River.  There are Fleet Week 2010 events every day through Wednesday, June 2nd,  including the opportunity to [...]

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Dolls and Teddy Bears are Invited to a Party

Of course your children have a favorite doll or teddy bear.  Take them all to the special holiday Doll and Teddy Bear Party at Historic Richmondtown on Staten Island.  The party is 1:30 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 30th, in front of the Victorian Christmas Tree.  Reservations are required, the cost is $8 per child.  Adults [...]

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Newest Apple store opens by Lincoln Center

Newest Apple Store, 67th and Broadway, Manhattan

The Big Apple’s newest Apple store  is now open for business, at 67th and Broadway, across the street from Lincoln Center.  The Upper West Side location is open daily, seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Telephone number is (212) 209-3400.  This the fourth Apple store [...]

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