Cheap$kate: FREE events in NYC this weekend

'Donnie Darko' with FREE Two Boots pizza
It's a mad world out there when you can score a FREE movie and FREE pizza to boot - or should we say Two Boots? Stop by Tompkins Square Park Thursday evening for a screening of "Donnie Darko," part of the Free Films in Tompkins series, and snag some FREE pizza from Two Boots, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Dinner and a movie, all for FREE? Count us in! Gates open at 6 p.m. and the screening starts at sundown. (Thursday, 6 p.m., FREE, Tompkins Square Park, btwn Avenues A and B and E. Seventh and E. 10th sts., filmsintompkins2012.com)

Exhibit

Getting Around: How Transportation Shapes the City
How does your family get around the Big Apple? Grab the kids and check out all the transportation happening on this walking tour. After that, work together to design a transportation master plan for the future of the city. (Saturday, 1-3 p.m., FREE but reservations required, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave., 917-492-3395, mcny.org)