Surviving a $10 technical-school teeth cleaning
Here's a question you might not have bothered asking: What's even cheaper than a teeth-cleaning from our third-year dental student…
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Can I save money by switching to a no-contract cell provider?
Each week or so, our Dear Penny column investigates the answers to reader questions about saving money in Brooklyn. Send…
Prospect Park West author in touch with her inner cheapskate
By now you've heard all about Amy Sohn's devil-wears-mom-jeans satire Prospect Park West, which is kicking up controversy among the…
Brokelyn guide to High Holiday tix
As many of Brooklyn's "once-a-year Jews" are well aware, full-price tickets for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can easily cost…
Should I use a debt-relief company to get me out of hock?
Each week or so, our Dear Penny column investigates the answers to reader questions about saving money in Brooklyn. This…
From our readers: great local tailors
This question seems to come up all the time, so it's no surprise that it popped up in our Dear…
How to avoid hand-me-down bedbugs
Earlier this week, when we wrote about couch surfing, a wary reader—the Flatbush Gardener, as it happens—commented with one word: 'bedbugs."…
Our $1 tuna-fish lunch at an NYC cooling center
Today's the first day this year that the city has opened its cooling centers, the specially designated air-conditioned havens where…
Where to go for a great curly cut in Brooklyn?
Reader Dina is looking for a Park Slope or Prospect Heights alternative to Devachan—the curlcentric salon in SoHo. "I have…
Where can I get decent cash (or some groovy new outfits) for my old clothing?
Each week (or thereabouts), our Dear Penny column investigates the answers to reader questions about saving money in Brooklyn. This…