The New York Transit Museum Delivers High Times on a Low Budget

Brooklyn boasts of many things in terms of amenities and attractions, with cultural standpoints like BAM, Mark Morris dance company, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum.  And then there’s one of the most interesting museums we’ve ever hit up in all of the five boroughs — the New York Transit Museum – inside of the now-defunct train station at Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn. Read more

Decorating on a Dime: 1 HR. W/ BILL Helps Design Divas on a Budget

Decorating an apartment in NYC can be a money-sucking black hole when you factor in not only the cost of the furniture, but the cost of transporting it and having it delivered to your sixth-floor walkup — only to discover that it doesn’t quite match the paint job and juts a quarter of an inch out into the walkway. Read more

Learn About Hybrid Cars and Fuel Cell Technology at the Ongoing SciCafe Series

We’re all about promoting the geeky, and since geek is the new chic, those pasttimes once deemed “socially unacceptable” have become the norm and are popping up everywhere.  Tis the case for the continuing science lecture series at the American Museum of Natural History, SciCafe. Read more

Four Amazing and Money Saving iPhone Apps!

Furnish Your Apartment for Less Than Your Rent

After moving to NYC, I wrongly assumed that finding a space to live was the hard part. Playing the part of the interior designer would be all fun and games. In my haze of naivety, I imagined my apartment mimicking a Crate and Barrel ad after a few days work. Read more

Best Week Ever: 6 Budget Bars and Events

This is a guest post by Katharine Ricci of  NYC Recession Diary – a daily digest of budget and free events in the NYC area.  You can find Katherine religiously researching every open bar in the city and generally just being fabulous on a budget.  Follow her daily musings on bargains on Twitter at @ricebird. Read more

Monthly Mashup: Budget Blogger Edition

We haven’t busted out a Monthly Mashup in a hot minute, and since we also haven’t been providing much new content on the site as of late (and we sincerely apologize for our slackerness), we’re going to throw up some of our favorite linkage from our favorite budget NYC bloggers.  Be on the lookout in the upcoming weeks for more heapings of original content — we promise.  And maybe a Tweetup too.

16 Strategies for Saving Money When Eating Out - The guys over at Coupon Sherpa have some pretty solid tips on how to save money when you’re eating out.  Most of us have tried these all out at some point, but you may have never done the “secret shopping” bit. I did once, and it was like being a CIA operative — only you don’t get a tranq gun and it’s not as cool.

Brooklyn Massages for Less Than $50 - Our friends over at Brokelyn have dug deep to find the cheapest massages in the BK.  Not surprisingly, they’re mostly those small Asian joints with the awesome signage that offer back and foot rubs, along with some reflexology.  But for some treatments as low as $25 for an hour — who cares?

Buy a Drink, Get a Pizza - The beer/pizza phenomon has been covered quite a few times in NYC, but if you’re a newbie here and you’re not aware of the calorie-inducing sobriety awesomeness that is free pizza with the purchase of a beer, you can read about 89th and Broke’s review of Manhattan’s seemingly favorite:  Crocodile Lounge.

Why You Can’t Stick With a Budget - WiseBread writer, Stacy Johnson, explains why you still suck at creating and sticking with a budget.  And she’s dead on.  She covers some smart ideas about being financially flexible, not depriving yourself, and why goals play an important role in the whole process.

Why You Should Sell Yourself Short - The ladies over at RecessionWire give us the lowdown on how to go about pitching yourself in today’s social media crazed climate.  They tell you how to perfect the 30-second elevator pitch for the Twittersphere — the aptly named Twesume.  (And yes, it makes me wince a little when I say that)

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5 Easy Steps to Opening up a Bank Account in NYC

Once you’ve moved in to your NYC apartment and are working your way up the corporate ladder (as someone’s assistant), you have to make sure you have a plan for all that new, hard earned cash — because Bismarck Neighborhood Bank doesn’t have a branch in NYC. Read more

8 Money Saving Tips for Grocery Shopping in NYC

So you’ve moved into your new apartment, shelled out a few bucks for some Ikea staples, and realized that your place doesn’t come with a stocked fridge. Its time to head out into the nippy weather and hit up the local neighborhood grocery store.  Read more

5 Cheap Ways to Spend New Year’s Eve in NYC

As most of us already know, New Years Eve in NYC can be a stress inducing, pocket draining event that can force even the most levelheaded of New Yorkers to flip out at the sight of 600 glittery eye-glassed visitors packed into a Q train car at 3am.  So to ease up on at least one thing that you can control (expensive events), we’ve rounded up five free and cheap events all over NYC where you can ring in the new year with some cash still in your pocket. Read more

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