Is $660 a month worth smelly neighbors and ID checks?
I was a pretty naive New York City transplant when I uprooted myself from sunny Florida to work in the…
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Thursday lunchtime linkage
Pick up your own god damn garbage [FiPS] Strikes work [Gawker] Barclays: Dumping money in a hole in the ground…
Meet The Defender: Brooklyn Brewery’s new super hero who brings free beer
What makes a hero? Bravery, nobility, self-sacrifice? No, don’t be stupid. The answer is a high BAC and an awesome…
The last bastion of peace and (relative) quiet is slowly eroding away
Of course when you're talking about the subway, you have to be pretty generous with the term "peace and quiet,"…
This Saturday, tour the city’s first bike-friendly business district
For all of you brokesters avoiding the Lower East Side because it's too expensive, Transportation Alternatives is sponsoring the first…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
Can a study-aid for firefighters put the city at risk? [NYO] Trash that was pulled from the creek now sails…
Plunder your hunger: Free donuts for pirates today
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, which is our second favorite jargon-based holiday right after The Feast of…
Jedis for Jesus to meet in Greenpoint
Our friends at Greenpointers spotted this flyer announcing that Greenpoint's The Episcopal Church of the Ascension is starting a series of "Our…
Snooty French food fest still has cheap seats available
Le Grand Fooding NY is coming to Brooklyn for the first time in its four-year history, and for foodies, this…
This new Brooklyn Surf Flea market sounds like a swell time
Sure, summer is officially ending on Friday, but the endless summer where surfers and other water loving creatures live burns…