Buy Or Don’t Buy

On Saturday night (or Sunday morning, as it was 1:50 a.m.), after the Phillies had won Game 3 of the World Series, I turned to my friend Colleen and wondered “Who’s pitching Game 4?” We both drew a blank. After an uncomfortable amount of time, she finally remembered. “Blanton.” My response: “Who the hell is [...]

Good news! Free entertainment is coming to a public transportation hub near you!

(look how boring… blech!)
This advertising craze will start on the 42nd Street-Times Square shuttle line and will be outside of the car and it will look like a 15 minute (really choppy but animated) advertisement. Clearly, New York is taking a tip from [...]

Both Burr Steers and Noah Baumbach have used Park Slope to define cold, alienating childhoods.
Early scenes from Igby Goes Down (young Ryan Philipe’s hair blinds!) follow Bill Pullman’s xter walking down tree’d streets with his two peacoated sons. The film goes on to Manhattan and DC to illustrate their parents’ two failed routes in raising [...]

When Buy Or Don’t Buy first started, some 12 internet years ago (which is about 2 months in IRL time) we wanted to introduce ourselves to the world, and make our friends jealous with a big party.  Time passed.  Our schedules got full.  Hurricanes came and went.  And after 107 articles, we are just now [...]

I realize it’s bold to completely dismiss an entire geographical area. Only Park Slope is not so much geographical, as it is a land mine, and not so much an area, as it is a suicide inducer. Here are (the starting) reasons that warrant the place (besides my hometown) worthy of such a diss:

Issue [...]

Ich habe excitement for TAKEOVER BAM tomorrow night. TAKEOVER is an adult lock-in at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. They play movies all night in the four theaters, with each theater having a different theme. This year: “Up All Night in 1985″ (kicking off with highlighted movie trailers from my birth year, seguing into the [...]

Apparently, there are these gentlemen who sit on a bench and hold up numbered signs (1-10) when women walk past. They are scoring them. That is hilarious. (Kinda weird, but mostly fun!)
Granted, if I was one of the women walking through Madison Square Park, I might have cried first, then thought it was funny. [...]

Is there any fail more epic than misspelled graffiti? You go to all the trouble of thinking up a memorable message, purchasing supplies and scouting suitable locations, and then halfway through you realize that the raspy-voiced pop singer is actually ‘Stewart.’ What can you do but try and finish strong and hope that no one [...]

So, if I have the story correct, I think the guy on the ground attempted to rob one of the baggy t-shirt dudes in this video with a tiny little razor as his weapon.  In the middle of the day.  In Brooklyn.
Everyone around was all “NO FUCK THAT” and ran to intervene.  They surrounded the [...]

Yeah, I see something! Seats!
Choo Choo! New trains are coming into town. And no one is going to be happy about it. At first there was a rise in subway fare with promises of more and new trains to reduce delays on subway platforms. Well, that nice little promise is turning out to be a [...]