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How To Decide Which MetroCard To Buy With The Recent Fare Hike
Behold, your new MetroCard math, and the truth about your 30-day MetroCard (it's really more like a 29.5 day MetroCard).
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
Video: How To Score A Seat On The Subway
This video takes you through a series of tips and techniques for sitting down on the subway.
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
Inside A Talent Show Featuring Lena Dunham, Carly Rae Jepsen & Other People Sad About Trump
Scenes from a TREMENDOUS talent show hosted by Jack Antonoff.
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
Butch Vig Talks Nirvana, 'Siamese Dream,' And Summers With David Lynch
A conversation with the producer of Nirvana's Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, and other '90s touchstones.
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Alex Tween
Food
Video: This Queens Ice Cream Parlor Will Bring You Back To 1960s NYC
There is a regular order of 40 lbs of bananas to make all those banana splits.
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Alex Tween
Food
Meet The Kings Of The Historic Lemon Ice King Of Corona
The secret recipe is so closely guarded that Gothamist was forbidden access to the production area.
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Alex Tween
Food
Watch This Beekeeper Tend To 50,000 Bees At His Apiary In Queens
He thinks his anti-bee neighbors ought to buzz off!
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Alex Tween
Food
Video: Meet the Legendary Dosa Man of Washington Square Park
Thiru Kumar is the most famous dosa man in the city.
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
Catching Up With Sandra Bernhard: On Trump, Citi Bike, And NYC Ambassador Taylor Swift
Sandra Bernhard discusses New York City's transformation since the 1980s, the Presidential candidates, the Mayor, and why Brooklyn terrifies her almost as much as Citi Bikes do.
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Alex Tween
Food
Video: Ridgewood Bakery Buttah Doesn't Need No Gimmicky Cronuts
In a world more and more dominated by frankenfoods, Buttah bakery's offerings are classic, minimal, and perfect.
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
Garbage's Shirley Manson Talks Kanye, Overnight Fame & NYC Being Too Expensive
"I would have moved there had I been able to afford it, but I didn't want to live in a tiny little apartment."
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Alex Tween
Arts & Entertainment
The Very Quotable Billy Joel Said Some Fun Things Last Night
"This is a Festival, where's the sausage and peppers? Not exactly San Gennaro."
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Alex Tween
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