Best Things to Do in New York For Free Including Times Square and Grand Central Station
By Bea Metcalfe

New York is a veritable jungle of high-power business men, long-legged models and sky-scraping buildings. If the phrase No such thing as a free lunch wasn’t first coined in New York then it’s certainly made itself at home in this notoriously pricey city since. But visitors who don’t arrive with an Onassis or Rockefeller sized wallet need fear not – here are a few of the best things to do in New York for free.

New York, New York, a wonderful town – or so the song goes… A town with a lot of famous sights to see and photograph, and it can be hard to choose the best things to do in New York, but some of then you can see for nix which helps! It’s hard to know which are the best things to do in New York – seeing the firework lights of Times Square, the Chrysler Building, with its entrance hall like a palace, the art deco high-life-New-York-style of the Empire State Building or Central Park with its two ice rinks, swimming pool and movie classic carriage rides? And you don’t have to start paying for any of these delights until you want something more than to have a look around, a picnic and to take some photos.

Seeing the Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Brooklyn Bridge, and other points on New York’s cinemascape skyline are also labelled some of the best things to do in New York. They may be architectural celebrity ‘B’ Listers by best things to do in New York standards, but they’re equally free to have a wander round or on, and Prospect Park is the pretty, welcoming little sister of Central. But one of the real stars of New York film and one of the best things to see in New York is Grand Central Station. One of the best things to do in New York is to meet under the Tiffany glass clock and absorb the true magic of traveling to this iconic city by romantic rail… millions of people come though here each week on some adventure or other, and in the past, and on the silver screen, the wonderfully vast main hall has nudged lovers and troops and all sorts along their ways.

If you think one of the best things to do in New York is to get hooked on this town’s history there’s no better place to find out about it than the New York Public Library. Here you’ve got free and democratic access to reams of knowledge – both within the 20 million books and online – yes they even do free internet access. Or for a real life history lesson one of the best things to do in New York is to turn to the farmers of Union Square Green Market – an open air farmer’s market downtown where around 150 farmers tout their wares – organic breads, cheeses, jams, meat, chocolate, all destined to be plated up in the city’s finest restaurants by the end of the day – and you’ll probably get a few free tasters too.

So as another song goes: it’s up to you New York, New York – meaning you don’t HAVE to pay the earth to see some of the best things in New York.

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