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A Plebeian Visits NYC’s Most Expensive Neighborhood: A Tribeca Neighborhood Guide
Before you continue reading, I’ve got to admit something to you: this post’s title is a tad misleading. According to Property Shark, Hudson Yards is currently NYC’s most expensive neighborhood, with the median property sale price being $5.1 million. But I didn’t want to do a neighborhood guide on Hudson Yards because it doesn’t feel…
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How to Escape New York Without Leaving the City
This is point in the summer, for me at least, when the hot garbage smell and the humidity gets to me, and I tire of being in the city. But due to work obligations and the reluctance to subject myself to the reported chaos at the airports, I’m stuck here for now. But luckily for…
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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…
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How to Explore Inwood in a Day: An Inwood Neighborhood Guide
Inwood may be at the top of Manhattan island, but it’s rarely top of mind when people think of Manhattan neighborhoods. So why are we talking about Inwood on the blog today? Well, to be honest, it is partly because sometimes I want to be a little self-indulgent. I’ve lived in the neighborhood for over…
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Why Times Square is the BEST Place in NYC!
Times Square is often written off by NYC locals as a congested, technicolored tourist trap, but they couldn’t be more wrong! The video below will prove, once and for all, why Times Square is the absolute BEST place in New York City.
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35+ Fun Things To Do in Midtown East: A Neighborhood Guide
In my past few years as an independent, don’t-need-no-man, working woman, I’ve probably spent more time in Midtown East than I’ve spent in the neighborhoods where I actually reside. And in that time I’ve learned that Midtown East has a lot more to it than cold, glass skyscrapers full of self-important, yet disgruntled office workers.…
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A (Bad) Catholic’s Guide to NYC
It’s hard to think of NYC as a particularly religious city, let alone a Catholic one. But contrary to popular belief, plenty of New Yorkers worship the almighty God along with the almighty dollar, with Catholics making up the largest sect of the city’s religious folk. According to data from the Pew Research Center, 33…
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Are These New York Christmas Traditions Worth Your Time?
Not to sound like a Scrooge, but some things about Christmas in New York are overrated (Looking at you, Union Square Holiday Market). As your friendly but jaded New Yorker, it’s my civic duty to give you an honest evaluation of which New York Christmas traditions are worth your time. So if you’re wondering which…
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Shiloh’s Times Square Survival Guide: 10 Tips for Visiting Times Square
Despite me and countless other New Yorkers telling you that it’s not worth it and how there are a million other things in NYC that are better to do, you’re probably still going to go to the mother-of-all-tourist-traps, Times Square. But to tell you the truth, I don’t blame you; you should do it at…
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Times Square Beyond the Bright Lights: What to See When Your Done With the Tourist Traps
I went into this week really wanting to like Times Square. Broadway just reopened in NYC, so I figured that it would be the perfect time to see if I could have a Times Square experience that defied the typical New Yorker convention to avoid the area at all costs. Although I found some interesting…
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Three Books to Help You Make Sense of the Twin Towers, 9/11, and the Freedom Tower
It’s been 20 years since the day that changed New York City, the country, and even the world, but I still feel no closer to comprehending what happened on 9/11 than I could as a confused six-year-old wondering why our parents were picking us up from school so early in the day. As I was…
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The Best Places to Watch the Sunset in Each NYC Borough
You don’t have to be a heliologist to see how special sunsets are in New York City. It’s as though nature puts a pair of rose-colored glasses on you, reminding you of the magic of New York, rather than how gross, lonely, and expensive it can be. Whether you want to admire the sunset or…