New York City has a bad budget rep. What with astronomical rents, hundred-dollar dinners, and Broadway show tickets that cost what some people earn in a week, it's small wonder people associate New York with wallet drain. But associations can change. There's a lot to do and enjoy in New York for free. 
 Christopher Sulavik did the legwork to make the city's wealth of freebies accessible to all, listing more than 600 items in 41 categories. In NYC for Free he tells when the Guggenheim Museum hosts "Pay What You Wish Night," when the Whitney waives its entrance fee, and lists a bunch of lesser-known museums that don't charge at all, such as the Jewish Museum, the American Numismatic Society, the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, and the Kurdish Library and Museum. He lists venues for free films, free dance performances, free comedy clubs, free music (classical, jazz, rock, and folk), free health services, free meditation, free lectures, and free literary events. He covers free children's entertainment centers (in the form of environmental centers, castles, museums, and day care), free adult entertainment (in the form of piano bars without cover charges, and happy hours with tons of gratis appetizers), and loads of public places to walk and hang out, from beaches and parks to gardens and cemeteries. 
 It's good fun to clink champagne flutes at the Ritz, but it's also nice to have the option of soaking up some of New York's energy and culture without losing one's shirt in the process.--Stephanie Gold

NYC for Free

Travel

Sulavik, Stephen B.

Sulavic, Christopher C.

Sulavik, Christopher

Church, Emily R.

Specialty Travel

Tatra Pr

Sulavik, Christopher C.

Ned's Journal, written by mother and daughter co-authors Fan and Elizabeth Brown, combines poetry and journal writing to tell the ups and downs of the life of Ned, a typical, All-American ten year-old. The book includes Ned's entries chronicling his life's intricacies such as dealing with Thor, the school bully, and coping with his kid sister Elizabeth, whose soccer prowess surpasses his own. Ned's Journal also introduces the fundamentals of writing poetry: Ned describes his first brush with Haiku, and learns that alliteration has nothing to do with littering. Ned's Journal is written for boys -- as well as girls -- ages four to 12.

Ned's Journal: The Big and Small Life Adventures of Ned

Children's Books

BROWN, ELIZABETH

Brown, Fan

Literature & Fiction

First published in 1928, Macdonald's Scotland's Gift is arguably the most important book ever written on American golf. Macdonald elegantly chronicles how golf grew from being a little-known Scottish oddity with a mere handful of American courses in 1890 and spread like wild fire to some 4,000 courses by 1927.

Scotland's Gift: How America Discovered Golf

Sports & Outdoors

Macdonald, Charles Blair

Golf

Based on his award-winning series of Esquire magazine articles on his own survival of colon cancer, the author shows how a person diagnosed with cancer stops becoming a patient and starts becoming a survivor. Above all, it offers advice on the healing of scars, both physical and emotional, how to leave cancer behind, and how to move confidently forward.

The Colon Cancer Survivors' Guide: Living Stronger, Longer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pesmen, Curtis

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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