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Our week of free is in full swing! Each day, we're keeping you in the loop about the best free events in NYC and giving you exclusive offers at some of our favorite spots around the city. Yesterday, we even gave out 150,000 copies of our upcoming issue for free.
But just in case we haven't convinced you that enjoying this city can come at zero cost, we're letting notable New Yorkers tell you about their favorite free things to do each day. Today: Brooklyn writer Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling Magicians series (the third of which, The Magician's Land, came out in August), and book critic at Time magazine. Here's what he has to say:
Hands down my favorite free thing in New York City is the main reading room at the New York Public Library. Go ahead: scoff. If you're scoffing, you haven't been there. Massively arched, its air spiced with that distinct smell that comes from thousands of leather-bound books, equipped with its own unique hush -- you can feel yourself surrounded by the phantoms of thousands of people who came here to consult weird esoteric volumes and then write amazing things. Don't leave without checking out the steampunk pneumatic system they use to send queries to the stacks.