Enter to win this Staycation in Lower Manhattan, including two nights at a luxury hotel, dinner at a top restaurant, and $200 to spend at local shops, so you can start 2019 with a relaxing and luxurious break. The NYC Staycation is sponsored by the Downtown Alliance, but you don't have to be a New Yorker to enter the sweepstakes. Here’s what one lucky winner will get: Check in to the … [Read more...]
Free admission to South Street Seaport Museum
The South Street Seaport Museum celebrates its' 50th anniversary this weekend with FREE admission to the museum and historic ships, and FREE family-friendly music and activities. It's the start of a year of events at the original East River port which helped build New York into one of the world's most important cities. The birthday party is Saturday, April 29, 2017 from 11am to 5pm, and … [Read more...]
Lobster dinner special at Carmine’s UWS every Monday and Tuesday
Crustacean alert: The Italian Clambake is now at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, every Monday and Tuesday year-round. Here's the deal -- two 1 lb. lobsters, six backed clams, 12 mussels, salad or pasta, plus potatoes and polenta, for $50 for two people, up $5 from spring. Carmine's is at Broadway and 90th Street. Note -- this lobster deal is not available at the Carmine's in the … [Read more...]
NY Public Libary waives fines on overdue books for kids and teens
Kids and teens age eighteen and less are getting amnesty from overdue books, CDs and DVDs -- and the late fines that go with them -- from the New York Public Library. This special amnesty program is through Halloween, October 31st. No tricks -- and a treat for the more than 140,000 NYC school kids who cannot borrow books, CDs or DVDs from the New York Public Library because they have more than … [Read more...]
Monday menus: burger and two beers for $10 in World Trade Center area
Biddy Early's Pub is one of those old-fashioned Irish bars that seem to be vanishing from New York City, with dark wood paneling and the slightly tangy aroma of decades of spilled beer. There's a daily happy hour that starts at 2 p.m., with $2.50 beers and $3.50 well drinks, and beer pong games popular both with the World Trade Center construction workers and the local office worker crowd. The … [Read more...]
Monday menus: Lobster dinner specials at Carmine’s, Ulysses Folkhouse
Crustacean alert: Carmines on the Upper West Side and Ulysses Folkhouse in the Wall St. Area have weekly lobster dinner specials. Here's the deal -- Carmine's calls it an Italian Clambake, and it's $45 for two people -- two 1 lb. lobsters, six backed clams, 12 mussels, salad or pasta, plus potatoes and polenta. Carmine's is at Broadway and 90th Street. Note -- this lobster deal is not … [Read more...]
9/11 anniversary event: free lecture on role of WTC photos, video
The images of the destruction of the World Trade Center are seared into our collective memory. What's the story of the people in those mages, and the photographers and videographers who took them? David Friend was Life Magazine's director of photography, and the author of the photo book Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11. He's giving a FREE illustrated talk on … [Read more...]
9/11 anniversary events: free lecture on role of WTC in NYC history
Tuesday, August 30th -- Best-selling author Eric Darton talks about the role of Lower Manhattan in New York City, from Colonial times through the construction of the World Trade Center. It's a FREE author lecture at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NYPL on Tuesday, August 30th. His cultural history of Lower Manahttan and the WTC is "Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade … [Read more...]
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