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New York City’s largest-ever Summer Streets program is currently underway, and for the first time ever Grand Central Terminal is participating!

Across three Saturdays in August beginning this weekend–Saturday, August 3, 10, and 17–Grand Central Terminal will turn into “THE GRAND LAWN” for New Yorkers and visitors to enjoy.

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THE GRAND LAWN will be the ultimate outdoor oasis complete with free lawn games, delicious food, and refreshing beverages. Participating Grand Central Terminal retailers include:

• Magnolia Bakery
• Doughnut Plant
• Joey Bats
• Murray’s Cheese
• Dirty Taco
• and more!

And the best part: no cars are allowed! It will instead become a vibrant atmosphere with activities for all ages to enjoy, providing the perfect opportunity for visitos to play, refuel, and savor the flavors of Grand Central Terminal.

You know where to find us this weekend!

40th Street and Park Avenue

Saturday, August 3, 10, & 17

7 am – 3 pm

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You know fall is not too far away when you start hearing conversations about Saturday Night Live and how to snag tickets to one of the most famous New York-based late night shows.

This upcoming season in particular will prove to be super exciting: SNL turns 50 years old, so we can imagine that there will be a few special episodes to mark the important anniversary.

Not many know that passes to the program are actually completely free, although you’ll have to enter a lottery to secure them.

The raffle is now officially open for entries through the end of the month, so set some time aside to input all of your information before SNL comes back on air on September 28.

How can I get tickets to Saturday Night Live?

The primary way to snag tickets to Saturday Night Live involves an email lottery that prospective audience members have to register for in August. Lottery submissions will stay open until August 31 at 11:59pm.

To submit a ticket request, you need to send an email to SNLtickets@nbcuni.com in which you will include your full name, email address and the reason why you want to be part of the studio audience.

Keep in mind that each household is only permitted a single ticket request and that you cannot choose the date of the show you would like to attend. Also, entering the lottery does not guarantee you a pass. If your entry gets selected, you will receive two tickets to a specific show that will be randomly selected.

How much do Saturday Night Live tickets cost?

SNL tickets are completely free!

Are there standby tickets to Saturday Night Live?

If your ticket request was not chosen or you forgot to send your information in on time, you still have a shot to attend a taping: standby tickets are available every week.

To request a standby ticket, you’re going to want to follow this reservation link, which goes live at 10am on the Thursday before every show day. You’ll have the option to request up to four standby tickets for either the 8pm rehearsal or the 11:30pm show. Make sure to include your full name, email address and number of people in your party using that link.

You’ll receive an email if your reservation can be accommodated. 

If you do snag the passes, remember that your entire party has to check in at the standby line on site between 6 to 7pm on the Friday before the show with a photo ID in hand.

Here is the hard part: once there, you are going to have to stay on line until midnight when standby cards will be given out.

Although they sound fancy, the passes still don’t guarantee you admission: you’ll know you got lucky once you actually sit down inside the studio.

What are the requirements to attend a Saturday Night Live taping?

Tickets are not the only requirement to attend an SNL taping. Guests, in fact, must all be 16 years or older (whether accompanied by an adult or not) and everyone must present a valid photo ID upon arrival.

Can’t seem to get your hands on any sort of ticket? Opt for a behind-the-scenes tour at NBC Studios instead!

* This article was originally published here

New York City’s premier immersive theatrical experience, Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, will close this fall after 13 lucky years in Chelsea. But a new show is rising to take its place: Life and Trust, all-new offering set in the Gilded Age. As in Sleep No More, masked and silent audience members choose their own paths through a specially designed multifloor complex—this time, a bank building in the Financial District.

Life and Trust doesn’t officially open until tonight, but the production is giving Time Out readers an exclusive glimpse inside the vault of this one-of-a-kind adventure. 

Dozens of performers perform narratives loosely inspired by real New York City history as well as literary sources like the Faust legend and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Teddy Bergman directs the show, which is written by Jon Ronson and features scenic design Gabriel Hainer Evansohn and costumes by Emilio Sosa.

Enjoy this quick peek at the elaborate world Life and Trust. You can buy tickets here.

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Oh the price we pay for smelly streets, terrible traffic and sweltering subways…

According to a new Cost of Living Index from Numbeo, NYC is the third most expensive city in the entire world! So expensive, that the entire freaking study used NYC as a baseline. What we mean by that is all of the indices were relative to NYC’s baseline index of 100%.

Numbeo took a look at six specific indexes: cost of living index, rent index, groceries index, restaurants index, cost of living plus rent index, local purchasing power.

So for example, if the rent index for a random city in the ranking was 140%, that means that the city’s rent would be 40% more expensive than NYC’s. If a city’s groceries index was 70%, then that city’s groceries would be 30% less expensive than the groceries in NYC.

In order to collect all of the data, Numbeo utilized both user-generated input and manual information collection from various governmental institutions, supermarket websites and so on.

But forget about the methodology, I’m sure everyone’s wondering who beat us out for second and first. Both second and first place hail from the same country of Switzerland with Geneva taking the title of the most expensive city in the world, and Zurich not far behind in second place. The United States dominates the rest of the top five with San Francisco in fourth and Boston in fifth.

Geneva’s highest indexes were cost of living (101.7), groceries (111.4), and restaurant price (101.5). But what really set it ahead in the ranking was Geneva’s sheer local purchasing power (152.2). Again, to clarify, that means the people making the average salary of a Geneva resident can purchase 52.2% more goods and services than those making the average salary in NYC.

Interestingly enough, both Geneva and Zurich have a lower rent index than NYC. So though Geneva is the most expensive city in the world, rent is still 40.4% less expensive than NYC rent.

You can explore the full ranking here.

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