This is not a big deal. You’re just going to walk up to the counter and ask for one general admission ticket, and when the cashier asks for payment, you just hand them the dollar bill. Nothing bad is going to happen...
How To Shamelessly Pay-What-You-Wish at NYC Museums
Spending the Day at Green-Wood Cemetery: A Surprising NYC Fall Must-Do
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…
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The Top Things to Do in NYC Every Fall: An NYC Fall Bucket List
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 apartment for the next six months but there’s so much more to autumn than that. So in the spirit of having one last…
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A Native New Yorker Reads “Ask a Native New Yorker”
I’m not the target audience for Jake Dobkin’s new book “Ask a Native New Yorker.” As a fellow New York City native I’m probably the last type of person Dobkin would want to have picked up his book, as born-and-bred New Yorkers tend to viciously nitpick through advice anyone else offers about surviving in this…
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What Exists at the Ends of NYC Subway Lines? Check Out This Subway Adventure Guide!
There are mainly three ways New Yorkers think about the stops at the end of a subway line:1. As a blessing, because you can always get a seat when you board the train2. As a curse, because you have to endure every. single. stop. before the train gets to yours, or3. They don't think of…
Free Museums in NYC: The Best Things in Life are Free.99
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…
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9 of the Best Museums in Brooklyn that AREN’T the Brooklyn Museum
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 best museums in Brooklyn that have their own unique perspectives…
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The Problem with NYC Museums: My Experience at Night at the Museums
Maybe it’s the nerd in me, but I’m always hype when Night at the Museums rolls around. No, I’m not talking about the Ben Stiller movie, although I wouldn’t pass it up if it were showing on tv; this particular Night at the Museums I’m talking about is the one night of the year when…
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