new York insider tips
for the budget
Free Activities in New York
If you want to see New York City without spending a lot of money, you can do so. Many of the sights are free. From the Brooklyn Bridge to the High Line to Central Park. You won't get bored.
You can even go to museums or zoos for free at certain times, or you can pay as much as you want. But be careful, the conditions, times and reservation options vary so much from museum to museum that it's best to find out for yourself on the respective museum's homepage. And always make sure to read carefully whether Pay-What-You-Wish prices also apply to visitors or only to locals.
I would like to make two recommendations here: It is definitely worth going to the Whitney Museum of American Art on a Friday. Tickets must be reserved online.
Whitney Museum on Friday: Here is the link to the pay-what-you-wish ticket reservation
And also the
Morgan Library offers free admission on Friday evenings: Link to free
ticket reservation
Free Sightseeing
Seeing New York is inexpensive. A Metro Card and you're in. If you like to travel on foot, there is no shortage of corners and places worth discovering. If you would like to take a nearly free New York city tour, there is a huge selection of New York tours at Free Tours by Foot. You pay a tip - but of course this should correspond to the US conditions.
There is also the Big Apple GreeterThese are New Yorkers who show their city from a completely different perspective. Big Apple Greeters are not tour guides and don't want to be paid. They take you to the places that shape their everyday lives, that they know and love.
Cheap Eating in NYC
Ka thing of impossibility
If you go to a restaurant in New York, you have to expect high prices. That's true most of the time, but not everywhere at lunchtime. Many restaurants offer a small selection of menus at a set price of 11 to 25 USD. It's best to stick to the water tab and tip well. The lunch specials, as these menus are called, are even cheaper in Brooklyn than in Manhattan.
For further New York Insider Tips for Cheap Dining Click here for the corresponding blog post.
The thing with the tip
If you do not buy your food from a food truck or a snack stand, you still have to pay tax and tip (20% plus) on the stated price.
Make sure you look at the bill to see if the tip (shown as a gratuity) has already been included. Then you don't need to add anything to it, unless you are extremely impressed with the service.
Many self-serviceIn restaurants, when paying by credit card, a fairly high tip amount is suggested directly on the display. You don't have to pay it like that: Among these suggestions, there is always the option of adjusting the tip or omitting it altogether if you don't use a table.
Saving on concerts and musicals
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Verbilligte Broadway TicketsListenelement 2New York City is rightly equated with Broadway and its musicals. No other city in the world has as many musical productions as New York. But how do you get affordable tickets for these productions? The traditional answer is the TKTS box office in Times Square or Lincoln Center. This still exists and offers discounted tickets every day - including online. There are now other good ways to get a ticket. "TodayTix", which you can download as an app, has all the information you need about current musicals, ticket offers, the chance to win cheap tickets in a lottery and, of course, the option to buy tickets in the regular way.
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Broadway RouletteListenelement 3If you like surprises, you can buy cheap tickets at Broadway Roulette. Here you can be sure that anyone who takes part will be allocated the number of tickets they choose for 49-59 USD plus tax. However, you will not know which musical it will be until the day of the performance.
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OFF-Broadway und OFF-OFF BroadwayListenelement 4The OFF-Broadway theaters are smaller theaters that cannot invest as much money in their productions. No commercialism, but an intimate setting and actors and musicians that you can actually watch perform. The prices are adapted to the smaller setting. Add a list item with relevant information for website visitors. This could be, for example, the specialties of employees, product features or services offered.
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Free concerts in the Lincoln Center AtriumOn Thursday evenings, free concerts are held in the Atrium at Lincoln Center, and the renowned Juilliard School of Music also regularly offers free performances.
And here we go back to the general
This link leads to the New York tours from TreffpunktNewYork