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Category: getting around

Get on a boat: Here are eight ways to get on the water this summer for under $50

Maybe one of your #summergoals this year is to be on boats more. What's not to love about a boat?…

L train shutdown PSA: You know buses work too, right?

Somehow, even though it's not actually happening until 2018, the coming L train shutdown remains the buzziest topic in the borough. And just…

10 ways to get around the city that don’t involve complaining about Uber

It's almost laughable that Uber's recent strike is garnering such widespread support, considering how frequently their service comes under fire. It was…

Dollar vans beat the bus, even when the driver has an emotional breakdown

Recently, while already late to work, I opted to take a dollar van instead of a bus. It means paying…

Now you can check L train arrivals on your smartphone

As if L Train riders weren't spoiled enough already, with their consistently low wait times (at least, compared to those…

How’s the Citi Bike experience as an actual bike?

So we've had Citi Bike for a little over a month, and we've seen people call it a communist/Muslim plot…

According to Yelp Wordmap, nowhere in BK is cheap

If you work in food service, you know that Yelp can be a ton of BS. Foodier-than-thou reviewers blaming servers…

Take a self-guided Brookyn hip-hop tour, thanks to Fuse

Brooklyn has a long and proud hip-hop tradition, everyone knows that. But aside from downloading buying Notorious B.I.G. albums and…

There’s free wifi in the subway, here’s where you can find it

If you're one of the schlubs like me who has to take the train into Midtown for work, then you…

A hail of a ride: A BK dollar van map

Brooklynites are a hardy and intuitive bunch who aren’t afraid to jump on an MTA bus, unlike our cousins to the…