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New York City Attractions With Student Discounts

Rated one of the top-30 most expensive cities in the world by Businessweek, New York City isn't exactly easy on the pocketbook. Visitors to Manhattan will find that hotels and restaurants are costly, not to mention the additional expenses for the obligatory tours, Broadway shows and attractions that make a trip to the Big Apple complete. But there are ways to tackle "the city that never sleeps" without coming up broke---especially if you're a student.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Lincoln Center offers students discounts to the ballet.
  
  Starving students should grab their student IDs and head directly to Lincoln Center for discounted--and sometimes free--performances. As the largest performing arts center in the world, Lincoln Center features music, opera, dance, film, and theatre performances. Students enjoy 50 percent off Chamber Music Society concerts, free concerts at the Julliard School, and discount tickets to Film Society events, jazz shows, operas and ballets.
  
  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  
  70 Lincoln Center Plaza
  
  New York City, NY 10023
  
  212-875-5000
  
  lincolncenter.org
Broadway Student Rush Tickets
- Rush to the box office in the morning for discount student tickets to Broadway shows.
  
  Students who don't mind standing in line at a theater box office as soon as it opens should opt for student rush tickets. On the morning of a show, students come armed with their student IDs and cups of coffee to snag seats at the hottest shows on Broadway. It's not unheard of to get front row seats for $20 this way, while the general public pays hundreds more.
  
  Broadway.com & Theatre Direct International
  
  729 Seventh Ave., 6th Floor
  
  New York, NY 10019
  
  212-541-8457
  
  broadway.com
Museums
- Students can enrich their education with a visit to a New York museum.
  
  Some of New York City's most well-known museums let students in at discounted rates. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which offers student tickets for $10, includes more than 2 million works of art---some of it 5,000 years old. For dinosaur bones and other scientific collections, try the American Museum of Natural History for a student price of $12. The Museum of Modern Art charges a student admission of $12.
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  1000 Fifth Ave,
  
  New York, NY 10028
  
  212-535-7710
  
  metmuseum.org
  
  American Museum of Natural History
  
  Central Park West at 79th Street
  
  New York, NY, 10024-5192
  
  212-769-5100
  
  amnh.org
  
  Museum of Modern Art
  
  11 W. 53rd St
  
  New York, NY
  
  212-708-9400
  
  moma.org