New York

FREE Summer Meals for All Children In New York City
A Styrofoam tray has become an essential institution within the confines of the dirty and repulsive area of a public school we refer to as “the school cafeteria.” It is not a lunchroom as much as it is a passageway into unhealthy dieting and terrible eating habits. If memory serves

FREE Pilates Classes on the Hudson River
Wanna work on your beach bod, or at least get healthy and stuff? Well, you’re in luck– every Tuesday evening between now and the end of August, there will be FREE pilates classes in Riverside Park. Strengthen that core while taking in the beauty of the Hudson River, y’all. The

BA of the Week: Andrew Grey Johnson
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

A Broke-Ass Writer’s Guide to Greenpoint Coffee Shops
As a starving, malcontent, narcissistic New York City writer, you have one of two options: writing in your apartment or writing in someplace that is decidedly not your apartment. The former is a simple premise. If you’re having trouble with it, you might consider giving up writing in favor of

Good Meals For Starving People: Chili
Beans! Today is all about ’em. I know last week I wrote about sex and I am probably wrecking boners everywhere, but please hear me out. I’m going through this really weird time right now. I’m starting new projects and none of them pay for a couple more weeks. So I’m in-between

Macy’s FREE Fishing Clinics at Prospect Park
Fishing. There’s something most New Yorkers might not know how to do. Although this is mainly an event for children, I think adults unfamiliar with the art of fishing will benefit from these FREE fishing clinics taking place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Macy’s is sponsoring this FREE program, offering kids

FREE Guided By Voices show for CBGB Festival in Central Park
I hear you. You need music on Saturday afternoons. Otherwise your weekend would be a total bummer. You also can’t afford another cover charge because you’re broke and you need lunch money for when you go to that job that doesn’t pay you enough. Well never fear, Guided By Voices

Racontours Is Offering FREE New York City Walking Tours For Your Broke-Ass
I once pointed out that despite the fact that I’ve lived in New York all my life I had never been to the Empire State Building. That changed a few months ago, but it still didn’t shake this point—I barely know my own city. If I don’t know the details