The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, 2nd Edition: A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free! - Softcover

Rob Grader

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9780762730377: The Cheap Bastard's Guide to New York City, 2nd Edition: A Native New Yorker's Secrets of Living the Good Life--For Free!

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ISBN 10: 0762730374 ISBN 13: 9780762730377

Publisher: Globe Pequot, 2004

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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.

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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 even more great finds in this second edition:
How to gain free entrance to plays, concerts, museums, and television tapings Where to find free classes in anything from yoga to small business development How to land a low-cost apartment in a luxury building - without paying a broker's fee
Where to find half-price meals and free food, including coffee, sushi, and pub grub
How to get a free haircut, color treatment, or low-cost massage
When and where to find great furnishings in other people's trash
More concerts, more free food, more comedy, more theater, more, more, more. With The Cheap Bastard's Guide, anyone can celebrate life on the cheap!

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!

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