Somewhere in New York I’m Going to Kick Myself for Telling People About Because Then It Will Become Impossible to Go To

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Barney Greengrass on the Upper West Side Diners are a magical blip in dietary reality where it becomes seemingly fine to eat things that 1) have been demonized by every diet known to man 2) you would never cook yourself, partially out of shame and partially out of (albeit fleeting) self-respect 3) your body can't handle like it once … [Read more...]

RealEstateSnacks

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Digestible Real Estate News 1. Think of New York rents like the temperatures ushered in by climate change: They may be hot now but they’re only likely to get hotter. Manhattan prices have hit a record high for seven straight months: the median rent reached $5,000 for the first time ever. Record demand has propelled those gains as … [Read more...]

This Month’s Google Deep Dive

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Five Facts I’ve Forced Upon Strangers at Bars Against Their Will This Month I firmly stand by that we were much more interesting when we were children. While our vocabulary was unsophisticated and attention span severely strained, on a daily basis we were flooded with a monstrous amount of information and spent our evenings pouring over … [Read more...]

What’s Rick Lawton Been up to?

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Being the Stereotypical Man Yeti Marketing Is Targeting As someone who feels passionately about luxury handbags, it is wildly frustrating when men openly sneer at the thought of spending money on a purse, sometimes going as far as admonishing the purchase of a bag from a top fashion house. I've been fruitlessly searching for a relatable token … [Read more...]

Your Healthy Dose of New York History

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The Fabulous Story of New York Gilded Age Catty Drama and the Costume Ball to Crown the Social Queen Growing up, we're told there are idiosyncrasies to look out for in others that should give you pause. For example: people who are rude to waiters, hate animals, litter, refer to you as "bro", don't also consider rotisserie chicken one of God's … [Read more...]