How to Spend a Day in Lower Manhattan on a $20 Budget

Despite it continually making the list of most expensive cities in the world, you don't need to have much money to have a good time exploring NYC. Case in point: The other day, I left my apartment in Inwood determined to spend the whole day exploring Lower Manhattan without spending more than 20 dollars on…

The Weirdest Buildings of Lower Manhattan That You Need to See

Don't feel like reading? Press play and I'll read this post to you! Welcome to Manhattan, or as Kurt Vonnegut calls it, "Skyscraper National Park." He has a point: Manhattan is home to thousands of high-rise buildings in all shapes and sizes. Despite the island's relatively small land mass, it seems like architects flock here…

Evacuation Day Pole, Shiloh in the City, Bowling Green, Charging Bull

Before There was Thanksgiving, New Yorkers Celebrated This November Holiday

Allow me to take you back a few hundred years to the streets of New York, where anticipation and preparation were in the air, not for turkey and pumpkin pie, but for pole climbing and patriotic plays. For New Yorkers back then, this too was the beginning of the holiday season, but the holiday they…