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via AP:
“Sections of Broadway from 47th to 42nd streets and 35th to 33rd streets have been closed to cars in a city effort to reduce traffic and pollution and cut down on pedestrian accidents.
A movie will be shown on a giant screen and street performers are expected to help celebrate the newly created pedestrian mall [...]

Julia and Sly sat outside the United Avalon theaters and asked Tammy to hold up her dress and shoes she bought for MORP. The name might have been backwards, to prevent middle schoolers from drinking, but everything else about Friday’s dance was definitely forwards: girls asking the guys to dance, new clothes, new weather, new [...]

You know how sometimes you’re cold hard chllin in Red Hook, and you’re kinda drunk but you know the general direction you need to walk to get back towards civilization?  Well we were almost to that point tonight when we stumbled upon an empty bus.  This was no ordinary empty bus, it was an empty [...]

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I really thought New York has become a haven of cleanliness and safety. Only a few months ago, I thought the subways would become amusement parks! But I was wrong, oh so wrong. Besides Brooklyn reverting to it’s 1970-1980’s alter-ego, Crooklyn, the subways are also losing their safe appeal (if there ever was one).
Now, it’s [...]

Selling more tickets than you actually have available is common practice for the airline industry, because usually not everybody shows up. (Although I was thisclose to being stranded alone in Amsterdam one day last March because for once, everybody did.) It kind of sucks, but sometimes you can get a free upgrade to [...]

I can’t seem to get my head around this one. So I’m asking for a little help. There are pros and cons and an opt in system. So what’s the stitch?

I’m going to take this opportunity to send a little love out to the other 500,000 or so inhabitants of the place I currently call home, Washington D.C.  Washingtonians are not really known for being awesome.  The city was famously described by JFK as possessing “Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”  (Burn!)  It also gets shit [...]

Things I would order at Cappuccino & Tattoo:
1) cappuccino (0:19)
2) americano (8:12)
3) bronxian betty boop (9:30)
4) service! (9:31)
5) an oral history, perchance a dream? (11:45)
6) triple macchiato(!) (31:08)
7) a pumpkin (for autumn) (41:08)

A website called inSpot has created a handful of aesthetic lil’ eCards that anonymously impend your doom after you allow Outlook to download graphics.

For some reason, the site is broken up into cities, and different cities have differently designed cards. And for another bizarre reason, San Francisco’s are more masculine. My mind is being blown [...]