FREE Statue of Liberty Scenic Harbor Tours

FREE Statue of Liberty Scenic Harbor Tours with the Ikea family card(free to apply for one http://info.ikea-usa.com/FAMILY/?src=ikea_web -scroll to the bottom to signup online):

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/brooklyn/activities

"FREE Statue of Liberty Scenic Harbor Tours!
Have you lived in New York City all your life and never seen the Statue of Liberty? IKEA Brooklyn wants to help. On June 17th, 30th and July 1st IKEA FAMILY members can view Lady Liberty for FREE!

Tours leave every 20 minutes from 1pm with the last tour departing at 6:20pm.

Tickets are available on the following tour days from 10am in the IKEA FAMILY hub next to the restaurant on the 2nd floor:

Sunday, June 17th
Saturday, June 30th
Sunday, July 1st

Worried about your shopping items? There's no need! IKEA Brooklyn will have secured "parking" for your shopping carts on the days of the tours so you can shop, go and come back and pick up your items!

All tours are on a first come, first served basis and space is limited according to availability. "

if you can't be in town for those dates, take the Staten Island Ferry- it's always free. You're not as close as the deal in the OP, but you're close enough for a free ride.

can't find the info, if there's a limit of ticket per member, ie if you have a family of 2, would my wife need her own ikea family member as well?

From my back pages…

A great cheap date was a few hours at Night Court (the real thing in NYC not the TV show based on the real thing in NYC) which could be very entertaining,
followed by a relaxing round trip on the Staten Island Ferry, which, on occasion, could be entertaining as well.

violentkoala said:   I live in SI. The ferry is always free and probably the best n cheapest date in NYC, other than a walk through central park.+1
I've taken many people on the staten island ferry on both weekdays and weekends and it's always free.
Staten Island and just walking around Times Square are the two best free things to do in NYC IMO

Back in 2000, a group of us where in NYC for the first time and saw the line for the ferry moving in. Trying to catch the ferry at the last minute, we thought it was the one that went to the Statue of Liberty. As we are getting close, we are all excited, taking pictures with the SoL behind us, and all of the sudden we keep going past it, we realized that something was not right. That's when someone told us that this was the Staten Island ferry.

Very embarrassing episode. At least I still have the pictures somewhere!