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Free & Cheap NYC Cinco de Mayo Events
Teachable Cinco de Mayo 2016 with Free Open Bar
All-You-Can-Eat Taco Bar & $5 Drinks
Cinco de Mayo 2016 at Mad Dog & Beans + Huge Giveaways ($2,000 vacation!)
Blockheads Cinco de Mayo 2016—$5 Margaritas + Free Chips & Salsa (As Always)
Cinco de Mayhem 2016 at Roberta's + Drink Specials & Mariachi Band
Cinco de Mayo 2016 Party with Bull Riding & Mariachi Band + Cheap Tacos & Drinks
Cinco De Mayo 2016 Tequila vs. Everybody Rooftop Party + $5 Drinks
Cinco de Mayo 2016 Party at Gran Electrica + Happy Hour Specials & Gorgeous Backyard
DIY Margaritas for Cinco de Mayo 2016 at The Bennett
Free Cinco de Mayo 2016 Pub Crawl
All My Single Friends NYC: Cinco De Mayihaveyournumba 2016
Horchata Cinco de Mayo 2016 Happy Hour with $5 Drinks & Snacks
Cinco de Mayo 2016 Brunch at Chavela's
More Events Today
Bronx Week 2016 (Through Sunday, May 15)
Frieze New York 2016 Art Fair (Through Sunday, May 8)
NADA New York 2016 Art Fair (Through Sunday, May 8)
BBG 2016 Plant Sale + Free Talks & Workshops
'Kill Bill' Lecture Series (Thursdays Through May 12)
Women Entrepreneurs Networking Event
Free Performances from 'Waitress' on Broadway
'The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe'
Caribbean Brooklyn: Cuisine and Culture Tour with the Museum of Food & Drink
Extremely Rare Screening of Pialat’s 'Graduate First'
May the Fifth Be With You at This Light Saber Class
Questlove Presents: 'Purple Rain' Screening & 1985 Live Show with Full Concert Sound
American Museum of Natural History Special Event: From the Big Bang to the Multiverse and Beyond
Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment' (One of Nifty's Fav Films)
DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk + Projections on the Manhattan Bridge
Free Jack Daniel's + Low Cut Connie / Yonatan Gat
See free & cheap NYC events for tomorrow, Friday, May 6 (more added later today).
Ending Today
Ongoing
See more ongoing & upcoming NYC events
'Pixar: The Design of Story' (Through Sunday, August 7)
Alex Katz at the Met (Through Sunday, June 26)
'Denim: Fashion's Final Frontier' (Through Saturday, May 7)
Celebrate the Chinese Lunar Year of the Monkey at the Met (Through Sunday, July 24)
'harlem is…A State of Mind' (Through Thursday, June 30)
'SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS' Sensual Camping Ground at MoSex (Through Spring 2016)
'New York New Design' (Through Saturday, May 28)
Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial 2016 (Through Sunday, August 21)
Edvard Munch & Expressionism at Neue Galerie (Through Monday, June 13)
The Whitney Opens Its Floor Plan for Amazing Views & Innovative Works (Through Saturday, May 14)
Two Huge Orchid Sculptures by Isa Genzken Rise Over Central Park (Through Sunday, August 21)
'Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900' (Through Friday, May 27)
'In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11' (Through Sunday, June 12)
Imagine a Peaceful World at Yoko Ono's 3/11 Installation (Through Sunday, June 12)
Free NYC Party Cruises (Through Thursday, June 30)
Staten Island Unlimited 2016 Photography Triennial (Through Wednesday, August 31)
'Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition' (Through Wednesday, June 1)
See Alison O'Daniel's Immersive Installation at Knockdown Center (Through Sunday, May 8)
'Flavor: Making It and Faking It' at the Museum of Food & Drink (Through Tuesday, May 31)
'Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk' (Through Sunday, July 31)
Free Bryant Park Birding Tours (Through Thursday, May 19)
'Black & White Perspectives: Works on Paper' (Through Sunday, May 8)
'Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection' (Through Sunday, June 12)
Free NYC Happy Hour Cruises (Through Thursday, June 30)
Hello Kitty Merch Exhibit (Through Saturday, May 14)
'Wanderlust' on the High Line Explores Journeys We Make (Through March 2017)
18 Boombox Sculptures Transform Brooklyn Museum (Through Sunday, August 14)
Commedia dell'Arte-Style 'Cinderella' (Through Saturday, June 25)
'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' at Brooklyn Museum (Through Sunday, September 18)
Be in the Studio Audience of MTV's 'Joking Off'
Free Weekday Piano Concerts in Bryant Park
Mad. Sq. Eats 2016 (Through Friday, May 27)
NYCxDesign 2016 (Through Tuesday, May 17)
'GRRRL GERMS: A Visual History of Riot Grrrl' Film Series (Through Saturday, May 8)
'Labor of Love: 100 Years of Movie Dates' Film Series at BAM
Syndicated Sci-Fi Movie Week (Through Sunday, May 8)
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