Posts Tagged ‘free activities’

All week long, all I have wanted to do was wake up Friday morning and surprise my two youngest with a visit to see Santaland in Macy’s Herald Square, an annual holiday tradition for us. I envisioned my boys jumping up and down for joy, except I didn’t realize that Friday’s Pizza Day in school [Continue]

Stuyvesant Square Community Alliance (SSCA) will be hosting their 2nd Annual Open Air Gallery event on Saturday, October 22nd (Raindate: Oct.23rd) from 12 Noon to 4pm at Stuyvesant Square Park (located on 2nd Avenue between and 15th & 17th Street – West Side Square). The day’s events include their local artists’ gallery exhibit with [Continue]

The HalloweeNYC Haunted Photo BOO-th One to five guests can pose in the booth, which will be stocked with costumes and props as well as feature various green screens depicting spooky Halloween and Syfy programming–related backgrounds. Visitors can take home a picture as a memento. When: Thursday, October 20 Time: 11am–7pm Location: Union [Continue]

Despite the rainy day today, Italian food company Barilla came out to help feed New Yorkers and others in need. Today was the first of the 4-day Meal for a Meal, where Barilla will hand out 20,000 free pasta dinner kits to New Yorkers at key transportation hubs around the city.  Today’s event launched in [Continue]

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It has been two years. Two years since we have been to Governor’s Island. I don’t know why. Maybe because the last time we went it was so pathetically crowded (it was the opening day for the season after all), that I lost interest in going back, despite the great time we had. It had [Continue]

New York City and the people I meet who love and breath it like I do, never, ever cease to amaze me. I love it. On one perfect Saturday morning, we headed over to Inwood Hill Park, which looked a lot different than it did since our last visit there, and is now showing all [Continue]

Ok, this isn’t entirely about Good Eats, but bare with me, it’s definitely good… When we think of honey, we think of the nutritional value of this natural product. I personally almost always think of the many spoons of honey and lemon juice my grandmother, mother and aunts would give me any time I showed [Continue]

Yay! Sing for Hope has brought back the Pop-Up Pianos to New York City! We love them. We never know where they will, um, pop-up, but when we see them we can’t help but be attracted to play them. This latest encounter was at Inwood Hill Park, after a wonderful nature walk and morning of [Continue]

A couple of years ago my family and I celebrated Loving Day here in NYC. We are excited to know that it will be coming back again this year, Loving Day NYC 2011 will take place on Sunday, June 12 (the 44th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision) at  their usual venue (Solar 1). [Continue]