NYC is offering financial help for small businesses losing money because of Covid-19. Small businesses with fewer than five employees can get a grant to cover 40% of payroll costs for two months to help retain employees. Those are the mom-and-pop stores which remain the lifeblood of NYC. Businesses with between six and 100 employees can apply for zero interest loans of up to $75,000 to … [Read more...]
Celebrating All Things Green in New York City
NYC celebrates our great green city all 365 days a year, not just on St. Patrick's Day. Even though the great green St. Patrick's Day Parade has been cancelled this year due to Coronavirus, you can still enjoy what's green in in NYC. Despite what Kermit the Frog says, it's easy to be green in NYC, because green is everywhere, in NYC parks and gardens, neighborhood and street names, on the … [Read more...]
NYC Update: Restaurants Closed
The Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic has prompted many of us to skip the pleasure known as going out to eat. NYC Mayor de Blasio has ordered restaurants and bars to shut down except for take-out and delivery. With business down substantially all over town even before the shut down order, a growing list of NYC restaurants announced they were closing their doors entirely. The list … [Read more...]
NYC Parks Named for Women
Celebrate Women's History Month in March by visiting the NYC parks, gardens, playgrounds and even a reservoir named for important New York City women and for other important women in history. There's at least one park in each NYC borough named for a woman who changed NYC, even the world. These impressive women include two First Ladies, a Revolutionary War heroine, an Olympic swimming … [Read more...]
NYC Free Museum Admission This Weekend
Take advantage of FREE museum admission on the first full weekend of each month and on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each month. Add these "firsts" to add to your monthly NYC "to do" list, and enjoy FREE museum admission this first full weekend of the new month in New York City. FREE admission year-round at these NYC museums FREE museum admission with NYC library … [Read more...]
NYC Free: IRS Tax Prep and Filing at NYPL
April 15th will be here before you know it. Once again in 2020, you can get FREE assistance with filing your taxes through April 15th at The New York Public Library (NYPL) neighborhood branches throughout Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island, from AARP volunteers certified by the IRS. The FREE tax prep service is open to anybody, whether or not you are 50+ and eligible for AARP … [Read more...]
NYC Coffee & Tea Festival Discount Tickets
NYC Ticket Deals: Whether you drink them hot or iced, with sugar or cream, if coffee and/or tea are your daily essentials, sip and sample at the 15th Annual NYC Coffee & Tea Festival. We have discount tickets that are half off the walk-up price of $30-$35 admission. The annual festival offers two days of tastes and seminars the weekend of March 21/22, 2020, with more than 100 exhibitors … [Read more...]
NYC Free: Reusable Shopping Bags Giveaway
In case you haven't heard, starting March 1, 2020, New York State is banning the use of single-use plastic bags. That includes here in NYC, where the Dept. of Sanitation is giving away 100,000 reusable shopping bags. It's an effort to reduce litter on city streets and in state rivers, lakes and streams. If you are like me, you already have a collection of plastic bags you can re-use … [Read more...]
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