The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City: A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free - Softcover

Grader, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762723521 ISBN 13: 9780762723522

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr, 2002

Synopsis

No place offers more for free than New York City - but only if you know where to find it. Luckily for everyone, "The Cheap Bastard" has found it all and shares his secrets in this witty, exhaustively researched guide. From the obvious to the obscure, the sophisticated to the sophomoric, this book catalogs the endless free opportunities available in the Big Apple, surprising visitors and natives alike. With attitude and humor, author Rob Grader, a born-and-bred New Yorker, reveals the following: how to gain free entrance to plays, concerts, museums, and television tapings; where to find free classes in anything from belly dancing to wine appreciation; how to land a low-cost apartment in a luxury building - without paying a broker's fee; where to find free food, including happy hours, free gourmet samples, and half-price meals; how to get a free haircut or highlights at a leading salon; when and where to find great furnishings in other people's trash. With the Cheap Bastard as a friend and guide, anyone can celebrate life on the cheap! (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 204 pages, illustrations, charts)

About this title

About the Author:

Native New Yorker Rob Grader is a writer and producer for public radio and television and is an actor on stage and TV. A graduate of the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, he has performed at regional theaters throughout the country, on popular dramas, sitcoms, and soaps, and in national commercials. He lives in New York City--in a spacious upper West Side apartment for which he pays ridiculously low rent!

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Back home in New York, I watched the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit one evening for free (and legally!). After the show, I stopped by a favorite haunt of mine to get a little snack (free, thank you), and made it home to my spacious Upper West Side apartment (for which I pay $521 a month in rent and found without paying any broker's fee). As I sat relaxing in my leather easy chair (free, too!) and thinking about my yoga class the next morning (you guessed it, free), it dawned on me--I am one cheap bastard. I also understood that I have a mission in life to figure out how I can get or do practically anything I want without paying one red cent, and usually on the up and up. And I felt compelled to share this--my life's work--with the world. So I humbly offer to you The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0762723521
• ISBN 13: 9780762723522
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287