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Jay-Z references Dumbo on his new album and gets his historic real estate values wrong

Lyrical artistry aside, Jay-Z's Dumbo real estate building appreciation estimations are a bit off.

Hannah Frishberg

Turn Prospect Park into your own pseudo-yacht club with free rowing every Saturday

The public is invited to go rowing, for free, on the Prospect Park Lake from noon to 4pm on Saturdays…

Hannah Frishberg

The subway is officially in a ‘state of emergency’, raven rips heart from pigeon (and more links)

The New York diner is dying, this pigeon is very dead, subway train derailments through history, razing of community garden…

Hannah Frishberg

Daptone Records to host ‘Super Soul Stoop Sale’ with free beer in Bushwick tomorrow

How many stoop sales have you been to that accept credit cards?

Hannah Frishberg

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The 20 best things to do this weekend, pre-Independence edition

Get pre-patriotic with pasties, drink to Canada's 150th birthday, dance it out in the daytime, and more ways to have…

Oriana Leckert

5 silver linings as our public transit infrastructure actively collapses around us

There's a bright side to everything, including the rapidly crumbling New York City subway system.

Hannah Frishberg

Sorry guys: The Kosciuszko Bridge isn’t actually going to be blown up, just taken apart

When an array of agencies reviewed the bridge's demolition process, it seems they were far more concerned with the environment's…

Hannah Frishberg

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s free pop-up pool will open for the season tomorrow

Nothing says New York summer like swimming in cool chlorinated waters adjacent to shipping containers at the heart of a…

Hannah Frishberg

If you run a business, pay for a dang premium music service already

Commercials are the bed bugs of capitalism and a terrible trend is letting them loose on unsuspecting New Yorkers: businesses…

Tim Donnelly