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Get ready for clogged roads and airports. AAA predicts more than 45 million of us will be on the move over Memorial Day weekend, the largest number in 20 years, and more than one million more than last year. Not surprisingly, nearly everybody will be traveling by car – more than 39 million of us – also an increase of one million compared with last year, and also a record.
Epic Pass for the 2025/26 ski and snowboard season is on sale now at the lowest price of the year, and include free passes for friends and family. Prices increase on May 26, and you lose the free passes.
Avoid the tourist traps and suburban mall chains and get native NYC vibe and flavor, along with value for your restaurant dollar, at these local choices, where celebrity-spotting is included on the menu.
There are great meal deals and new menu items at national restaurant and fast food chains every week, to help you stretch your strained budget. The best of what’s new includes the return of Chicken & Waffles at KFC, three-course meal for $14.99 at Outback Steakhouse, FREE burgers at Shake Shack, $6.99 footlongs at Subway,
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Every year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation tells us which treasured sites are most in danger, because of damage by hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, or simply old age. These endangered sites can be a single building or an entire downtown area, and include examples of how communities are taking the lead to preserve and find
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Things have to be really bad when an airline advises flying into or out of one of its major hubs, and offers free flight changes to another airport. But that’s exactly what United has done with the ongoing melt-down at Newark Airport. United Airlines has slashed more than thirty daily flights at Newark Airport, due
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It’s a spring thing. April showers bring May flowers. And potholes. Here’s how to avoid pothole damage to your vehicle, which can cost repair bills from an average $300 to more than $1,000.
The best and and most popular lat night TV shows are taped in NYC, and tickets are FREE for all the shows. Here’s how to get them to be in the audience. All the shows have similar rules about attendance, including to prevent the FREE tickets from being sold, and to prevent fights on the
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Reminder that the final deadline to have a Real ID for air travel and entry to federal buildings is May 7, 2025. A compliant Real ID will be required by anybody 18 or older to board a plane, enter a federal building or a military base, even a nuclear power plant. Here’s what you need to know to travel.
United Airlines is slashing more than thirty daily flights from Newark Airport, due to a combination of FAA staffing shortages and one of the airport’s three runways out of service for repaving. Newark is a main hub for United, so it is utter chaos, with some passengers stranded by cancelled flights and others delayed for
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