The theme for the past couple of weeks has been “Don’t hole yourself up in your house just because it’s cold outside!” (Can you really blame me for harping on this? This is New York City, after all.) But if you do insist on hiding away all day, consider spending the day at the New…
Continue reading ➞ 7 of NYC’s Cutest, Coziest New York Public Library Branches
Daylight Savings Time or not, now that the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer, ‘tis the season to curl up under the covers and stream movies til our eyes bleed. NOT! While nothing’s wrong with the occasional steaming binge, longer nights mean that it’s time to embrace NYC’s nightlife! My clubbing days…
Continue reading ➞ What to Do in New York at Night (for Non-Partiers)
This week I crossed off the first item on my Fall Bucket List: I visited Green-Wood Cemetery. Was it creepy? At times. Would I do it again? Definitely. First of all, why spend the day in Green-Wood Cemetery? Isn’t that disrespectful? Actually, no. Spending the day in Green-Wood is a NYC tradition which dates back…
Continue reading ➞ Spending the Day at Green-Wood Cemetery: A Surprising NYC Fall Must-Do
With the chill in the air, it’s finally beginning to feel like autumn in NYC! It’s tempting to take one long look at the leaves changing colors and then huddle in my room for the next six months but there’s so much more to autumn than that. So in the spirit of having one last…
Continue reading ➞ How to Make the Most of Fall: An NYC Fall Bucket List
Let me start off by saying that museums are cultural institutions that are worthy of our money. But this is New York and for some of us, after rent and MetroCards, there isn’t a lot of money to go around. Does that mean that going to museums can’t be a poor man’s pastime? Not at…
Continue reading ➞ Free Museums in NYC: The Best Things in Life are Free.99
Don’t get me wrong: the Brooklyn Museum is one of our city’s finest cultural institutions and it deserves all the renown it has acclaimed, but in a borough as big as Brooklyn we’d be doing ourselves a disservice if we didn’t explore all the other museums that have their own unique perspectives on this borough’s…
Continue reading ➞ 9 Museums in Brooklyn that AREN’T the Brooklyn Museum
