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A free lesson for planning your big bike adventure

Our roving bike tour correspondent has been giving you ideas for plotting your own splishy, splashy summer cycling safaris around…

Wednesday linkage

Bottled water buyers are probably bigger suckers than cigarette buyers [Consumer Reports] More like Wal-Marty Markowitz, amiright amiright?? [NY Post]…

Aspiring scoops wanted for free journalism camp

While some of your kids' friends are camping this summer with future-MBAs or prep pre-pre-pre meds, you could instead send…

New site helps sniff out ‘The Bad Deal’

It's habit to spend the first 10 waking minutes of the day weeding our inbox of terrible "deals" from the…

Things that make us feel good: bustin’, happy hours

What are the greatest things to happen to NYC in the past 30 years? Your answers had better include 1)…

How to (legally!) open a fire hydrant in New York City

On days like today, with a heat advisory in effect, and humidity to make you want to kill a gallon…

Restaurant Weak! Sparse food deals in BK again

And just like that, it’s Restaurant Week season and Brooklyn gets the shaft yet again. Granted, we have Dine in…

Bar of the Week: A Strong Place for hearty drinkers

STRONG PLACE 270 Court St., between Butler and Douglass streets, Cobble Hill What It Is: Cobble Hill’s newest soccer/gastro pub and…

A caterer’s money-saving wedding tips

Skip the wedding cake and serve a cupcake tower instead says Chef Rossi of The Raging Skillet in her advice…

Giveaway! Rub elbows at the swanky Prospect Park party

Prospect Park keeps you fatted with a buffet of all-you-can-eat free summer goodness, from concerts to plays to all sorts…