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Queens Night Market Returns for 2018

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NYC Foodie Alert: Eat your way around the world at the Queens International Night Market, styled on the popular outdoor night markets of Asia, with street food and entertainment. This night-time street fair returns April 21st for the 2018 season, every Saturday night, 6pm to Midnight, through October 27th. It's one of the best outdoor food festivals in New York, with more … [Read more...] about Queens Night Market Returns for 2018

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on April 9, 2018 | Updated April 9, 2018 Filed Under: Best of NYC · Cheap Eats · Queens Tagged With: #SeeYourCity· food festivals· itsinqueens· Queens Night Market

Ride MTA vintage trains for the holidays

Starting today and for four Sundays through December 18th, you can take a trip back in time on a vintage NYC subway train. The annual and popular MTA vintage trains return with historic R 1/9 cars that were in service between 1932 and 1977, and you can ride into the past with the swipe of a modern MetroCard fare. You might be old enough to remember light bulbs, woven wicker … [Read more...] about Ride MTA vintage trains for the holidays

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on November 27, 2016 | Updated December 24, 2016 Filed Under: Expired Tagged With: #SeeYourCity· NYCCheap· vintage trains

Top Tips: NYC Sightseeing Bus Tour

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One of the best ways for visitors to enjoy NYC is on a sightseeing bus tour. These tips will help you to make the most of your limited vacation time, and see the most of New York City in a convenient and affordable way: Take your sightseeing bus tour on a weekday Sightseeing tours on weekdays are less crowded than on weekends. It’s as simple as that. You are more … [Read more...] about Top Tips: NYC Sightseeing Bus Tour

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on September 30, 2016 | Updated December 30, 2016 Filed Under: NYC for Visitors Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

NYC free & cheap Labor Day Weekend

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There's a couple of dozen FREE and frugal things to do in NYC this three-day Labor Day weekend. That makes the NYCOTC free and cheap weekend list different from all the other "what to do" lists with expensive ideas, because we're here to help you enjoy NYC on the cheap with no apologies. Unless a price is noted, our NYC cheap weekend list is FREE. Unless otherwise noted, … [Read more...] about NYC free & cheap Labor Day Weekend

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on September 2, 2016 | Updated September 3, 2016 Filed Under: Brooklyn · Family Fun · Festivals · NYC Cheap Weekend · NYC Free Tagged With: #SeeYourCity· explore Brooklyn· FreeNYC· itsinqueens

Niblo’s Pleasure Garden 1865 style show

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Party like it's 1865  at Niblo's Pleasure Garden, with a Victorian circus, vaudeville show including fire eaters and contortionists, and a picnic, in Brooklyn. It's the annual old-fashioned extravaganza at Green-Wood Cemetery celebrating "permanent resident" William Niblo (1789–1878), the theatrical empresario whose Niblo's Garden was the Radio City Music Hall of its … [Read more...] about Niblo’s Pleasure Garden 1865 style show

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on June 18, 2016 | Updated January 28, 2021 Filed Under: Brooklyn · NYC Summer Calendar Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

NYC museum exhibits explore fashion

New York City has some of the best museums on the planet, and some of them are FREE.  Even if you ar not a fashionista or clotheshorse, these two current exhibits about what we wear and why are fascinating and fashionable. Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History - This is the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur. On … [Read more...] about NYC museum exhibits explore fashion

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on June 18, 2016 | Updated June 17, 2016 Filed Under: NYC Free · NYC Museums Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

Outrigger canoes race in NYC on Sat.

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Watch more than 500 athletes from Hawaii to Hong Kong race traditional outrigger canoes in the tricky waters of Lower Manhattan. It's one part of a FREE Polynesian festival that includes hula lessons and dance performances, lei making workshops, Polynesian music, NYC food trucks serving Hawaiian-style fare, and more. Hawaii comes to New York for the 20th annual Hawaiian … [Read more...] about Outrigger canoes race in NYC on Sat.

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on June 8, 2016 | Updated June 8, 2016 Filed Under: NYC Cheap Weekend · NYC Free Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

NYC visitor alert: horse carriage prices

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NYC visitor alert: it will now cost you nearly $100 for a standard 40 minute ride around Central Park.  Horse and carriage drivers just got their first price increase since 2010, just in time for the start of the peak NYC summer tourist season. Drivers can now charge $54.08 for the first 20 minutes of a ride, and $21.63 for every 10 minutes after. That's up from $50 for the … [Read more...] about NYC visitor alert: horse carriage prices

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on May 27, 2016 | Updated May 26, 2016 Filed Under: NYC for Visitors · Scam Alert Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

Queens Night Market returns for 2016

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NYC Foodie news: Eat your way around the world at the Queens Night Market, styled on the popular outdoor night markets of Asia, with street food and entertainment. This night-time street fair returns April 23rd for the 2016 season, every Saturday night through October 1st, in a new, larger location. More than 100 independent food and crafts vendors reflect the population of … [Read more...] about Queens Night Market returns for 2016

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on April 13, 2016 | Updated April 7, 2016 Filed Under: Best of NYC · Cheap Eats Tagged With: #SeeYourCity· itsinqueens

One World Observatory tickets

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Visit the top of the world. Get tickets for One World Observatory, on top of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, for a 360-degree panoramic views of New York City. The observatory is on levels 100, 101, and 102 of the One World Trade Center building. See the city's most iconic sites, including the Statue of Liberty to the South, Brooklyn … [Read more...] about One World Observatory tickets

Posted by Evelyn Kanter on December 8, 2015 | Updated April 25, 2016 Filed Under: Best of NYC · NYC Museums Tagged With: #SeeYourCity

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