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Y'all, I can't believe it. We found pizza that's only $1.50. I feel like eating pizza this cheap. Are you just asking for food poisoning? Oh snap. There's a coffee deal for $1, you guys. That is not good. Oh my god. We entered the subway on the wrong side. And this is not a platform where we can get over. I think we just potentially wasted $3. It's all adding up so fast. I cannot believe we got a beer, a shot, and a juicy hot wiener all for $5. Got to bless New York.
Well, good morning, adventures. Good morning. And welcome to New York City. So, it probably wouldn't surprise you to learn that New York City ranks among the most expensive cities in the entire USA. But we thought we'd put that to the test and see if we can survive in the city on just $25 a day. What made us land on $25 a day? Well, we looked it up and the average meal in New York costs between $30 and $60. So, we thought, let's be super unrealistic and shoot even lower than that and do 25 for all three meals. Is that what we're doing? You know, when you say it, it sounds pretty much impossible. This is going to be pretty tough cuz y'all know that we are addicted to ice lattes and those can cost up to $8 a pop in this city.
That's fine. I'll just get three and that'll be my meals for the day. So, that's the plan, y'all. We each have $25 and we are going to see how far it can take us and see if we can have like an authentic tourist day here in New York City. Two adventurers, $25 a piece. One of the most expensive cities in the world. Let's go. Did you almost run into a guy right there? Yeah, I did. Whoopsie. I wouldn't be a proper tourist if I didn't run into one New Yorker, right? Okay, now let's go. Well, before we can actually get out and start exploring the city, we have to eat. And the goal is to find something
cheap, somewhat delicious, and filling is probably the most important thing. Is that possible? I don't know. These prices are scaring me a little bit. Did you see the chicken hot dog on that cart was $2? Yeah, sure. Maybe we should just stick with that. No, I do have a sneaky hot dog plan for later. It's a little more expensive, but you get more. You'll see. But for now, we just got to solve breakfast. Oh, we found a lunch special for 10 bucks. Probably still a little too pricey for us, though. Y'all, there is a super cool like balcony thing up on that building. Like, look how far it goes out.
Okay, I looked it up and figured it out. It's called Edge NYC. It's $50 to go up there. So, uh, cool our money, hang out up there all day. Yeah, let's scrap the whole video just so we can go up there. Maybe on a different day in New York City. Yeah, not today. So, we found a delicious looking brunch spot, which is normally where we would go. Our beloved ice latte is $650. And it looks like the cheapest thing on the menu is toast for $13, which is like half of our budget. So, fancy brunch is not in the car. It's for today.
Maybe tomorrow. Okay, let's run out of line before they see us. Okay. All right. So, we were walking around. We spotted a huge crowd. We saw a bunch of people enjoying delicious New York bagels and we decided we want that. Turns out you can get a plain bagel with plain cream cheese for 450. Plus, according to themselves, they are the number one rated bagel in Manhattan. All right, Liberty Bagels. Let's see what you got. Well, this is easily the most crowded bagel shop I've ever been into. Look how many people are behind me. That's just half the people that are in here. That was a wild experience, man. Jeez.
Breakfast is served. And this is what a $4.50 breakfast in New York looks like. So, you could have done plain multigrain everything. Maybe even a cinnamon raisin in there. I went with a salt bagel. There's a lot of salt on there. Uh, and plain cream cheese. And it's lightly toasted, so it's nice and warm. These are hand rolled, boiled New York bagels. That's what I'm talking about. That's a New York bite. Oh, perfect. There's just so much in my mouth right now. It's just breakfast perfection, y'all. It's nice and a little hard on the outside, but so fluffy and doughy on the inside. The cream cheese is super savory and delicious. Maybe a little too much salt on the salt bagel, but
knock some of that off if you need it. All right, I'm happy. This is a pretty crazy operation here. You guys have seen the place is absolutely packed. Behind the counter, all the workers, there's like five or six of them in a row just going nuts, assembling bagel sandwiches as fast as they possibly can. It's like a beautifully orchestrated delicious chain. They also have rainbow bagels, which is what they're famous for. We can't afford rainbow bagels today. Not today. Maybe tomorrow. All right. So, our bagels cost us $4.81. So, we got a little over 20 bucks left for the rest of the day. Maybe we can do it. Maybe we can't. I don't know.
Onward. Oh, you're going that way. I guess we're going that way. All right. What have we here? 99 cent discount store. Huh. What do you think, Eric? really wants to get a souvenir. So, I guess should we go in? Well, if it's more than 99, I can't afford it. So, it's this or nothing. Okay, let's go check it out. I guess they should call this the $9.99 store. What do you think? Yeah, I don't know that I've seen a single thing that is 99. Wait a minute. We found it. Should we go home with two rolls of New York toilet paper?
Not the souvenir I had in mind, but at least it's useful. Okay, we found a bin for $1.50 each. They are souvenirs. This is what I'm going for, you guys. A little New York bottle opener. Can I afford this? I don't know, but I am not getting one. I'm too nervous. So, if I don't have money for the subway at the end of the day, you're just going to leave me. Yeah, you can live in New York. I mean, you got the sign and everything now. Guess we should probably tell you guys what the heck we're doing in New York City. We are actually going to be taking a quick little stop over to a resort
down in Jamaica cuz we've never visited Jamaica. But the layover was here in New York. Eric's cousin lives here. And so we decided to turn it into a little bit of a layover and get out and see the sights. And we actually thought it was going to be kind of warm in New York. We were dead wrong. So that's why we are bundled up like crazy today. It's really cold, you guys. There's a freeze warning tonight and everything, but at least the sun is shining. So, I know I'm not going to get a craft latte today. Um, but we've been looking around and we can't even find a cup of just black coffee for less than a couple bucks. And so, I did some research and I found out this place, they have $3 coffees. And if you download the app,
you can get a $3 specialty coffee. Yeah, it's like a special promotion. You have to have the app and then three bucks for an actual espresso drink. So, it looks like you also have to order from the app. Rezy a hot coffee. It's cold out here. I'm going to skip my iced drink and just get a cappuccino. Well, things were going so well until I went to pay. Apparently, you have to preload and the smallest amount you can do is $10. The old bait and switch, man. Oh, man. I was so excited. All right, so crap coffee from a street cart. Freaking yeah. Okay, I caved. We were walking around trying to find cheap coffee and then we wandered into the Chelsea market. There
was a coffee shop and I'm just so cold and so tired, you guys. So, believe it or not, this is what $4.90 gets you in New York. Notice there's only one of them because I wasn't about to waste all that money. No, I'm going to go get coffee from a street vendor. This is a macchiato, so it has a little bit of milk in there, but a lot of espresso. I've been trying to do the math and I think I can still get lunch and dinner and a couple subway rides out of today. So, worth it.
We're just walking through the Chelsea Market. And this is pretty freaking sweet. Obviously, everything is way too expensive for what we're doing today. So, we just have to look at everything. We can't actually buy anything. This is making me rethink things. You think instead of a cheap day in New York, we should just do a Chelsea food guide and eat all the best things in here? It's tempting. like no budget whatsoever. Yeah, just eat until we explode. Yeah, let's just like call it quits right now, right?
No, we're too deep in now. Dang it. All right, let the cheap times roll. Well, we stumbled on to one of the coolest and most importantly free things to do in New York. Yeah, this is the Highline, which is a mile and a half long park through the city that is on an elevated old railway path. So that's what this is right here. This bridge right here, this platform, everything. I guess this is where the rail used to go, right through the center. How cool is that? See the tracks up there? It's so neat that instead of just demolishing it, they repurposed it. Pretty smart. And now you get cool views. You're up out of the traffic, no lights, no bikes trying to smash you. Right over here, you can
see uh part of the former rail line. So, it went through right there. And I assume there was more tracks over there. That is so cool that they repurposed this. And I bet everyone who lives along this route is so happy that there's no longer a train barreling through here. Just us and our cameras. Is that you barreling through? I'm barreling through. Well, go barrel through. We got stuff to do. It's lunchtime and I have found the perfect place for us. This little gnarly hole-in-the-wall pizza, Dwayne, that is the definition of a hole in the wall. Wow. So, when I was looking, there's actually a chain in this city called 99 Cent
Pizza, but in the past year or so, they have all upped their prices to $1.50. I think there are still a few locations that still stick with the 99 cents where they get horrible reviews. And I want a decent slice of pizza. This, however, gets like a 4.5, 4.6. Yeah, it sure as heck does not look like it from the outside, but all right, two brothers pizza it is. All right, two people, two brothers, less than two bucks. I'm hungry, y'all. I was really wondering where you were going with that one. Let's eat. Oh, okay. Bikers see. Yeah, they always get the right away in the city.
They're coming in hot. I mean we are trying to jaywalk though. So Oh yeah. Actually looks way better than I was thinking it would for the price. Come on. So this is what $1.50 pizza looks like in New York. I don't know what I was expecting. I mean a lot worse than this. I guess this looks pretty freaking good to me. It's fairly big. Yeah. But I splurged and went with the $3 option which has pepperoni. Kind of a ripoff though, actually. Double the price for pepperoni. But I just really wanted pepperoni. I mean, we're getting the authentic experience, like an
authentic slice of New York style pizza. Oh, yeah. Is that pepperoni? Unfortunately, I'm not going to say it's good. Oh, really? It's really hot. It's very uh chewy. Does not have a lot of flavor. The cheese is kind of like plasticky. I'm trying to be quiet because I feel bad sitting right outside of the plate and dissing on the pizza. I mean, for the price though, it's perfect. But I saw the guy making the pizza in there, and it's a legit process. He's kneading the dough. He rolls it out just like you'd see at any pizza place, puts the sauce on there, puts some cheese on there, and
then slides it right into the oven. And the key is he does it very, very fast. And I'm assuming the ingredients are very low quality. But hey, $150. Can't beat that. Already, I can tell it tastes or feels like a sponge. Styr. Yeah, a sponge. That's exactly what this crust feels like. Okay. All right. Down the hatch. So confirmed. It does have all the components of pizza, but not good pizza. It does not It's It's not going to win any award, y'all.
Not the pizza we wanted, but the pizza we needed. We desperately needed pizza. Cheers. Just touching pizza tips. I quit it. Get away from me. You guys were just like a block down from the pizza place. Check it out. There's this bakery. And look what we found. $1 coffee but with purchase of a baked good. If it's like under three bucks, that's a good deal. Are you about to get like the best deal in the land right now? Yes, I am. Let's go. Oh, yeah. Cheapest thing here. Whatever this is for $2.69. And most importantly, comes with a dollar coffee.
Is this the Can I get this with the coffee? Is that the dollar coffee? Yeah, perfect. Bet you're feeling pretty jealous right now. I'm getting a pastry with my coffee and I paid way less than you. I know. I was overzealous and I was tired and cranky and I should have been more patient. I am winning. I guess I should probably taste it before I get too excited. Huh? That is not good. Oh my god. Okay, back on top, baby. Yours was a lot better. Shoot. That tastes like dirty brown water. It might have cost me a dollar, but uh it was easily the worst cup of coffee I've ever had in my entire life.
You guys, I somehow managed to get more or less to the bottom of this cup of coffee. And uh thank god it's done. One thing we were really worried about today is getting around the city because it is very large and we wanted to make sure we saw a lot. But every time you take a subway ride, it's three bucks. Now that's going to add up real fast. Luckily, we already had our little omni card, so we have loaded it. I think we should only have to take two trains today. So six bucks a piece. We have already walked uh five and a half miles, but the next thing we want to do, which is free, is at the very southern tip of Manhattan. So, subway, here we come.
All right, hold your card. I'm going to do a little thing. Well, I just realized we entered the subway on the wrong side, and this is not a platform where we can get over. So, I think we just potentially wasted $3. Dang. It's all adding up so fast. I blame you. I was distracted by your crappy coffee. So, the plan is to go beg this lady to give us our money back. I don't know. I'm sure that'll work. If you go over there, you're going to have to pay again. There's nobody there. So, if you don't want to pay again, you can go back in there. You go one stop, 14th Street, Union Square, which is the next stop, and you just cross over for
free. Okay. Want to go back in? Yeah. Is that okay? Just go right there. I'll buzz you in. Okay. Thank you so much. We're saved. We did get the charge reversed. So instead, we're going to go up one step, then cross over, then go back down. It's fine. Oh, baby, we just found a free meal. That's pretty good. Yeah. How much would I actually have to pay you to eat that? Yeah, you'd have to pay me. Yeah, exactly. We have seen these little guys in every station we've been in. I don't know if we've ever noticed those before. I don't know if they're new.
Yeah, it's a nice little touch. It's a fun little Easter egg to look out for. That's right. We are taking the free Staten Island ferry. We are going to go see that Statue of Liberty. And you don't got to pay a dime for this. Not a single dime. That's awesome. You know, I think we did this maybe 10ish years ago when we first started the channel. Maybe don't go and watch that video. Just come along right now with us and pretend like that never happened. So, we told you guys we wanted to have like a classic tourist day. But the problem is any activity that you want to do is like $15 or more or way more than that probably and that's not going to work for us and
museums seem really boring right now. So, we're not going to do that either. So, that's why this just seemed like the perfect thing. We get to get out on the water, hopefully not freeze to death, and don't pay a dime. I don't even know what we're running for, but everyone's running, so I'm assuming it's to get seats. I guess this is one of the side effects of being free. Everyone and their mom is boarding this ferry right now. On the plus side, this ferry is freaking huge. So, I think we'll have plenty of room for everybody. Yeah, it looked like there were a lot of people, but I'm thinking there might not actually be.
Everyone's still running on though. I don't know why, y'all. They have power and it works. Yes. Which is extra good because I'm going to need all of my battery to get us back home cuz I have no idea where we are or where we're going. Well, we've set sail and as expected, the views are freaking incredible. You get these amazing views of Manhattan as you're leaving. And then, of course, the Statue of Liberty appears off in the distance in all its majesty. That Statue of Liberty is a lot smaller in real life, huh? Every time I see it, I'm like, it's this big. It looks like a toy.
I know. I'm going to go ahead and say this ferry is worth every penny. What do you like? I didn't know what you were about to say and I like it. I thought of that when I was out there filming. It's worth every penny. Now, where are we going? Staten Island. And then you just stay on here and go back. Do we get Sure, whatever. Well, anything we would do in Staten Island is going to cost us money we don't have. So, this is it. Back to the city it is. That kind of scared me.
Scared me. And just like that, we're back to Manhattan. We had an adventure out on the high seas. We went to an island. We saw the Statue of Liberty. All for free. All in under an hour, too. Yeah. In under an hour. Beautiful. We are ticking things off. And now, is it dinner time? Absolutely it is. If we can afford it. Yeah. We'll see. cuz we're running low on funds. It's uh my calculations say we should have like $5ish left. It's going to be great.
Most important element of having a cheap day in NYC. Bring your own bottle of water. Yeah. I was getting a little nervous. We had like two swigs left in there. Yeah. This is the first fillup station we've seen. Very least got some water now. Water. Well, it is officially 5:00. I don't have a watch on. I don't know why I did that. I don't know either. Stupid. Here, you can uh borrow my watch. Yeah, it's officially 5:00. But that means we are in the mood for a cocktail or a whiskey or something. And cheap cocktails in this town are very, very difficult to come by. But we managed to
find somewhere where we can get a whiskey drink for $0. And that is here at Tcoas. We went to the Tokovas in Austin and found out they have a bar there. And I happen to have Tokova's boots on that are in desperate need of a shoe shine. And I think they should do that for free here. Let's go get some whiskey and get shined up, y'all. All right, cocktails acquired. Oh my god. We're just waiting around for the shoe shine. Wow. It's a nice place, isn't it? This is This was such a good idea, my love. Yeah. And y'all, my boots are so freaking dirty. They are just in need of a touchup badly.
I don't think we've we haven't had them professionally done since you got them. I've never had a shoe shine. I've never had shoes to be shine. All right. Well, on the cheapest day in the land, I did not expect to be getting one of the fanciest uh things done to you. I see. I think they get where you're going with it. Not a fancy day, but ending in a fancy way. And I rhymed it. See, if only you had said that at first.
Man, you guys, all this walking, my neck is so sore. Ah. Oh, man. Just needed a good crack. Maybe another one. Is that supposed to be funny? It is funny. Oh, okay. Everybody laughs every time I do it. Everybody. Are you guys all laughing right now? They're laughing in my mind. That's a deep one. Now you guys are all going to do that. It's a really good trick. Who gave this man whiskey? Oh, yeah. That's why this is happening. It's all clear now.
Night has fallen in New York City and we're hungry. But we're not just hungry, we're also thirsty. I'm going to want I think another whiskey, a beer, and dinner. I think I have about seven bucks left and you have a little over five. Can we do it? Seems impossible. Oh, how foolish and naive you are. Because it is possible because we have come to Rudy's and he is going to take care of us, my good sir. We are allegedly going to get a beer, a shot, and a hot dog for five bucks. I'm very skeptical. Lead the way, Rudy. Did you just trip on that? No. The shot and a beer. Two. Can we get the hot dogs, too?
You guys, I cannot believe we got a beer, a shot, and a juicy hot wiener. All for $5. God bless New York. I'm having flashbacks to the bagel deli this morning, y'all. That was chaos up in there. But luckily, they have a whole seating area in the back. It's a bit more chill, I think, cuz the game's on, so people are watching that. If you're wondering why she's like glowing and strobing, that's why. But you guys, it's real. I can't believe it. One beer, one shot of whiskey, a hot dog, all for 5 USC. And they are cash only. They have an ATM though.
It's such a weird thing. You walk into the bar and it is just packed to the brim. It looks like a normal bar except you'll notice that there are hot wieners rolling in the back there. Wieners. We got wieners here. They're known for their like beer and shot cocktail special things. Yeah. And I believe this is actually their own beer. It's some like the Rudy's blonde. Oh, so that's how they can afford it because they probably make it on the cheap. Make it down in the basement. And then of course these are the cheapest possible quality dogs that you could possibly imagine probably. But they're piping hot. They
give you ketchup and mustard from a cart. It would probably be a little bit bigger and better maybe. But I cannot complain. And I believe that you get a hot dog with every purchase you make. So you could leave with a lot of wiener inside of you. I knew you were gonna say something like that. I mean, you got to, right? World's cheapest wiener. I mean, this one was free, right? I mean, technically free. Yeah. Get after it. Mhm. I'm getting it. Down the hatch. I got to say better than the pizza for sure.
Yeah. Mhm. Well, that's good cuz this is way cheaper than the pizza. So come here, get the shot, get the beer, and get the free wiener. All right, it is time to tally everything. So I had the bagel, the coffee, slice of cheese, pizza, two Subway rides, and then the beer shot and hot dog. And then I'm adding on a dollar tip for that. I think I came in under. Eric, on the other hand, it might be close. He had the bagel, the souvenir, the pizza, two subway rides, the $4 coffee and pastry debacle, your beer, your shot, and your hot dog. Oh man, it looks like your grand total was 2531. Somebody busted.
But you know, New York's been kind to me today. I'll be kind to you and I'll give you that 31 cents. A thanks, Dolph. Yeah. So now I'm at 2352 near 25 even. All right, nailed it. That deserves a shot of beer. And we already ate the hot dogs. We did. They were actually delicious. Best meal of the day for sure. This has been a very unhealthy day. I'm realizing to eat cheap in this city. It is not healthy. It's all meat and cheese and bread. But for one day, we're going to act like it's vacation. Worth it.
Yes. But we did eat some like classic New York fair. We had the bagel and then of course we had a classic slice of New York pizza that might not have been the best. I managed to get an awesome little souvenir that I will be using. We did a couple little free activities that we peppered in there and if we had more time we would have tried to find more of those. But it was hard enough just hoofing it around the city trying to find food to eat because we didn't want to spend too much money on the subway. That's what really killed us. I know. So we have officially gone about walked about 8 miles today you guys of about 20,000 steps. So, so we burned off all of these calories at least.
I'm still hungry, though. I know. We're going to have to eat again after this. I know. If we make it till midnight. Exactly. It resets. Perfect. All right. But we are actually headed to Jamaica next, y'all. We are staying at kind of a fancy resort. I'm very excited cuz today was not very fancy at all. But bring on the beach, the sunshine, the cocktails by the pool. That will also be way cheaper than this because it's all inclusive. It's anifor. Oh, baby. All right, I think that's enough of that.
All right, we'll do that off camera. Yeah. Goodbye, adventures. We'll see you on the road. Yes.
