Lost your keys? Locked out of Your Home? With KeyMe you can get an Affordable...
Have you ever come home super late at night to your (non-doorman) NYC apartment and realized that somewhere along the way you seem to have misplaced your keys? And your realize that you never got...
View ArticleStreet Charge, AT&T’s Nifty New Solar-powered Phone-charging Stations, Pop up...
Phone battery dead (again)? Need a quick 10% (or more) to send those texts/read those emails/browse those tumblrs? This summer, if you’re in one of a dozen NYC parks located in all five boroughs, the...
View ArticleCiti Bike at Six Weeks: My Take on America’s Largest, Busiest Bike Share
I am a Founding Member of NYC’s massively ambitious and, so far, hugely successful bike share program, which basically just means that I plunked down my $95 for an annual membership the first day it...
View ArticleBlack Tree Bring their Signature Farm-fresh Monster Sandwiches to the Lower...
Last summer(ish) in Brooklyn, a fresh and inventive sandwich shop sprouted in the back of a popular Franklin Avenue cocktail bar, The Crown Inn. Called Black Tree and run by Brooklynites Sandy Hall and...
View ArticleMasterpieces of Everyday New York, at Parsons
If you were to pick one object that embodies life here in New York City, what would it be? Not monuments like the Empire State Building surely, or Yankee Stadium, Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn...
View ArticleFinding Peace and Quiet in an Increasingly Noisy New York City
At first glance it seemed like one of those silly, obvious-trend pieces for which the New York Times has become increasingly famous. Basically: New York City is loud (and the NY Times is ON IT). But...
View ArticleMeet Lilac, a Beautiful Rusty Old Lighthouse Tender Floating off Pier 25 in...
If you think it sounds cool and interesting to roam around and explore a rusty old ship from the early 1930s well, you’d be right. It IS fun and interesting, as I discovered for the first time last...
View ArticleAverage NYC Rents are at an All Time High… But is it Still Better than Buying?
A milestone was passed in the second quarter of this year, but it’s not a happy one for New York City rental apartment seekers: the average rent in this great, glorious city of ours surpassed the...
View ArticleFuture Plans for Governors Island
I’m a big fan of Governors Island, that 172-acre park that sits just a quick, free ferry ride away from downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn’s Pier 6. For most of my life (and for more than 150 years before...
View Article5 Tips for NYC Apartment Hunting in the Fall
Summer in NYC is traditionally the busiest time of year for renting apartments. Starting in May, new college graduates from across the country, job offers in hand, flood the city, along with a...
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