Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. One free way to visit over 1,000 cultural spaces nationwide. If you are a SNAP EBT recipient, then you should be aware of Museums For All, a program that allows free general admission to a metric ton of cultural spaces all over every one of …
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Exploring Museums On Us
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. You might have free access to hundreds of cultural spaces and not even know it. This is not a sponsored post, but if you are a Bank of America cardholder, then you likely have access to their Museums On Us event, which takes place …
Exploring IDNYC
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. How to get membership to places for free in NYC. If you live in New York City, you are eligible to receive a citywide identification card, called IDNYC, free of charge – regardless of your immigration status. This card then unlocks a metric ton of …
Exploring Madison Square Park
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The birth(park) of Shake Shack. It's true: Madison Square Park, next to the Flatiron Building in Midtown Manhattan, is the birthplace of the fast casual mega-chain Shake Shack. It is also home to a number of interesting representations of New York history that deserve some …
Exploring Culture Pass
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. How to get into places for free in NYC. If you live, work, attend school, or pay property taxes in New York State is eligible to receive library cards free of charge at the Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, and New York Public Library. …
Exploring Greenacre Park
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. 3 waterfalls, 1 park - all in Midtown. If you know, you know: this park is the best place to seek refuge from the hustle and bustle of the eastern side of Midtown Manhattan. Whether you're conducting a business meeting, catching up with old friends, …
Exploring Greeley Square Park
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Free fries and football! And by "football," of course, I mean "soccer." On December 2 from 9am to 5pm, come to Greeley Square Park at the entrance to Manhattan's Koreatown for free unlimited fries and other freebies to celebrate South Korea playing Portugal in this …
Exploring Prospect Park (Part 2)
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. My long-awaited return to Prospect Park. Although I enjoyed stopping by Brooklyn's much-noted Prospect Park in the spring, it was a rainy, dreary day. I promised commenters that I would return, and here I am! If you had your doubts, this park definitely lives up …
Exploring Roy Wilkins Park
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Can this park stop floods? Roy Wilkins Park in Queens is home to a number of efforts to use green infrastructure to limit the ability of floods to wreck havoc in the area. These efforts are typically unintrusive and often make use of preexisting entities …
Exploring Union Square Park (Part 3)
Video available on Facebook Reels, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Take a sip of NYC here. Fun fact: one of the oldest, still-standing public drinking fountains can be found in Union Square Park. That's just one of many nods to history that can be found within the park. Even though this is my third …