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Did you get the dreaded “Looks like you’ve had a Citi Bike out for a while…” email from Citi Bike?

At 2:30 AM in the morning, I received the “OH CRAP” automated email from Citi Bike customer service telling you that something is amiss. You may have seen this subject line: Looks like you’ve had that Citi Bike out for a while…

By stuart

September 7, 2015October 21, 2015

City

What is considered downtown in New York? And where is midtown and uptown?

As with any large metropolitan area, there are invisible boundaries known only to the denizens of that city. In Manhattan, there are downtown, midtown or uptown designations, but no official borders, so where does each start and end?

By stuart

August 31, 2015September 1, 2015

City

Cheap and tasty rice noodle rolls from Sun Hing Lung Co

Cheong fun is a dish associated with dim sum. It’s normally found side-by-side with some of the more popular dim sum dishes like har gow, sui mai and char su bao.

By stuart

August 30, 2015August 30, 2015

City Culture New York

The A, B, C and Ds of ALPHABET CITY (the “Not East Village” song”)

Two years ago when I first moved to New York, Avenues A, B, C and D were talked about as if they were apart of the East Village. And I happily went along not knowing better.

By stuart

August 28, 2015September 1, 2016

Shopping

Get a TodayTix discount with the following promo code: BIHLO

When it comes to Broadway tickets, “rush” tickets and Standing Room are great if you can get them, but you can sit in line for hours and walk away empty-handed.

By stuart

August 27, 2015August 29, 2015

City New York

Citi Bike confirms locations for the 80 new stations in Upper West Side and Upper East Side

After much discussion and community input (complaining, letter-sending and yelling), a plan has been agreed on for the approximately 80 new stations planned for the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of Manhattan.

By stuart

July 10, 2015September 18, 2016

City

How to choose the best Citi Bike at the docking station

Picking a Citi Bike is a crap shoot. Other than kicking the tires, there’s not much you can do to ensure you chose a good or bad bike until you actually start riding the bike.

By stuart

July 4, 2015October 21, 2015

City Travel

1,000 brand new, redesigned Citi Bikes hit the streets of New York City

Citi Bike released 1,000 of their redesigned bikes this week. I wasn’t aware of the new bikes, so when I first came across one, it was a surprise.

By stuart

July 3, 2015September 18, 2016

City

Babu Ji brings modern Indian food to East Village

In the former space that housed Spina jut three months ago, is now Babu Ji.

By stuart

June 11, 2015June 11, 2015

Basketball City Comic Books Culture Stuff

We could all learn a little about life from this “Brooklyn hustler”

In November 2014, The Atlantic posted a short video on Jazzoon, a Brooklyn man that followed his passions– sports memorabilia, music, and comic books –into a viable living.

By stuart

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015

Culture New York

Is Kennedy Fried Chicken on 14th street closed for good?

With each new bank branch and fast franchise that opened on East 14th the last two years, the Kennedy Fried Chicken outpost felt more and more out of place in the East Village.

By stuart

May 29, 2015August 17, 2015

Basketball City New York

Tompkins Square Park’s basketball courts closed for improvements and renovations

The nearest Citi Bike station to me is on East 10th and Avenue A, so I walk by the basketball courts at Tompkins Square Park all the time.

By Benjamin Rose

May 27, 2015February 23, 2017

Basketball New York

Is Finnerty’s the best bar to watch the Golden State Warriors in New York City?

Are you a Golden State Warrior’s fan living in New York City and looking for a bar to watch your team with other Bay Area fans?

By stuart

May 25, 2015June 15, 2022

City Tech

No Valets: How to crowdsource Citi Bike’s supply and demand problem

Last year, Citi Bike introduced a new valet service to maintain balance throughout the bike sharing system.

By stuart

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015

City New York

That one time when a subway performer and an angry stranger connected on a NYC subway platform

Anything can happen when a diverse set of people share common space as we do everyday in big cities across the country. A lot of these interactions happen on public transportation.

By stuart

March 13, 2015March 14, 2015

City Food

New York’s Cheap Eats #2: Halal Cart (Chicken & Rice for $5)

In a past post, I discussed the #1 cheap eat option in New York City: Pizza.

By stuart

March 10, 2015May 30, 2015

City New York

What happened to Bourbon Coffee on 14th Street? When did it close?

I am not sure what happened, but sometime between mid February and early March, Bourbon Coffee + Crust closed.

By stuart

March 7, 2015March 8, 2015

Food New York

New York’s Cheap Eats: The ubiquitous $1 pizza (or 99 cent pizza slice)

One thing that I was pleasantly surprised by when I moved to New York was the affordable food options in the city.

By Benjamin Rose

February 22, 2015February 23, 2017

City New York San Francisco

New York vs. San Francisco: No contest when it comes to the DMV

Here’s another point for New York City in the “San Francisco vs. New York” debate. The Department of Motor Vehicles in New York is approximately 5x better than San Francisco’s.

By stuart

January 8, 2015January 8, 2015

Food New York

Cheap and tasty dumplings at Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Restaurant

Though Flushing (the city), Prosperity, Lam Zhou, Xi’an Famous Foods and Vanessa’s get a lot of the ink when it comes to cheap, tasty dumplings in New York City, I’d have to insert Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine Restaurant into the conversation.

By stuart

January 2, 2015January 2, 2015

City New York San Francisco

New York vs. San Francisco: The population density between the two densest cities in the United States

Despite San Francisco being the second-densest city in the United States after New York – it always feels empty when compared to New York City.

By stuart

December 17, 2014September 24, 2015

Culture Race

Millions March vs. Santa Con: 2 events that couldn’t be more different

On any other year, New York would collectively roll our eyes and the media would skewer another aimless, zero-value SantaCon as it stumbled through the city.

By stuart

December 14, 2014December 14, 2014

City New York

Is the MTA adding entrances to the L Train at Avenue A?

For selfish reasons, I think there should be a TRAIN STATION at Avenue C or D, but I welcome the news that MTA is looking to extend the 1st Avenue entrance to the L train to Avenue A.

By stuart

December 12, 2014December 12, 2014

City

A table of the fastest, slowest, most-reliable and least-reliable buses in New York City

The Straphangers Campaign just released a survey of the city’s buses to determine the fastest, slowest, most-reliable and least-reliable buses in New York City.

By stuart

December 11, 2014December 11, 2014