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Photo by Andrés Nieto Porras Is it possible to see all of New York City on a budget? The Big Apple revolves around the extravagant, the finer things in life, which can be seen in the buildings themselves. So, amidst the fine dining, taxis, and expensive hotels, it might seem impossible to visit the city without going bankrupt. From cheap meals to a discounted bus tour of New York City, here are 15 ways you can save on your visit to this spectacular city. 1. Purchase a Tourist Pass If you plan on seeing every sight the city has to offer, then a tourist pass is the way to go. Traversing through the hustle and bustle of NYC can be tough for those who aren’t familiar to the area, making it nearly impossible to get to every destination. There are plenty of ways to see the bulk of Manhattan, but a discounted bus tour is the best way to get up close and personal with The Empire State Building , the Rockefeller Center, and more. You’ ll save money on taxi fare, save time by skipping the su...

CALIFORNIA — California is dotted with cottages and mansions, homes built beach -side or perched on a cliff. The mountain getaway shown above is in Idyllwild. You can drop $80 million on a gleaming home in Beverly Hills that is grander than hotels that most of us have stayed in, or your perfect home could be a suburban abode with party lights strung over the backyard patio. This week's California wow houses cater to varied tastes. Are you looking for a home with a swim-up bar? One's available in Pleasanton. How about a stage to perform karaoke, or to practice your TED Talk? Check out the home in Berkeley. If your dream home is only complete with a backyard art studio , look at the home in La Mesa. Beach houses are featured in Aptos, La Jolla and Palos Verdes ($40 million!). And Patch editors had a thing about staircases this week. We didn't plan it, but scroll through the photos below to unleash your inner Scarlett O'Hara. Exquisite Equestrian Estate With Koi Pond ...

Fans of best-selling crime novelist  Laura Lippman  will want to be sitting down for this announcement. Lippman’s next book, Sunburn ( William Morrow ), may come out in February 2018, but you can start reading it now. That’s right—Lippman, author of the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series , has exclusively shared the jaw-dropping cover of Sunburn for the very first time with  Parade , and she’s also giving us a sneak peek at the first few chapters. (Spoiler alert: We’re already hooked on Lippman’s newest characters, and you will be too.) When you’re done staring at the gorgeous cover, read on for an excerpt from  Sunburn . OneJune 11, 1995Belleville, Delaware It’s the sunburned shoulders that get him. Pink, peeling. The burn is two days old, he gauges. Earned on Friday, painful to the touch yesterday, today an itchy soreness that’s hard not to keep fingering, probing, as she’s doing right now in an absentminded way. The skin has started sloughing off, soon those narrow shoulders won ’t b...

With the usual mix of anticipation and apprehension, Kaitlyn Johnson is getting ready to go to her first summer camp. She's looking forward to meeting new friends and being able to ride horses, swim and host tea parties . She's also a little nervous and a little scared, like any 7-year-old facing her first sleepaway camp. But the wonder is that Kaitlyn is leaving the house for anything but a medical facility . Diagnosed with leukemia when she was 18 months old, her life has been consumed with cancer treatments, doctors' visits and hospital stays. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer among young children, accounting for a quarter of all cancer cases in kids, and it has no cure. For about 85% to 90% of children, the leukemia can, however, be effectively treated through chemotherapy. If it is not eliminated and comes back, it is, more often than not, fatal. Rounds of chemotherapy can buy patients time , but as the disease progresses, the periods of remissio...