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    January 13, 2012

    Get Your At-Home Cocaine Test at the Williamsburg Duane Reade

    via @J_Brukman​File this under "good to know." Should you be wandering about Williamsburg on your way to your appointment to pee in a cup and get approval for your new job with the CIA, or for your court appointed biweekly drug test, and experiencing qualms that you may not pass it, you can st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Grimy Back Alleys Are the Hot New Real Estate Get in New York City

    Nick Carr explores a modern-day conundrum in his recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, "Our Typecast Metropolis." You see, Hollywood considers New York City a sort of permanently 70s-era New York City, full of twists and dark turns and grit and danger and grime. Unfortunately, today's New York Ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    NYC's Five Best Bargain-Basement Chain Stores

    ​Shopping is even more fun when it's dirt-cheap, and when you're sure no one you know will be there to catch you hunting for bargains. Here are the five best department chains that appeal to my budgetary needs and kitsch taste.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    The O.B. Tampons Shortage: A Story of Loss and Longing

    ​Tampons. They are important to ladies. We won't go into the details here, but suffice it to say, they're personal. Intimate, even. So when o.b. nonapplicator tampons disappeared from the shelves of our local Duane Reades, something of a Seinfeld: The Sponge Episode was born. Except maybe born ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2010

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the 'New Front Line' of Gentrification, According to England

    Via​Our friends on the other side of the pond have discovered a little neighborhood called Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, and today in the Guardian, deem it "perhaps the national capital for young 'hipsters' trying to beat back the commercialism and standardisation that defines much of American da ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    December 20, 2005

    What's a Muff?

    Drunken holiday shopping with Clarence the angel

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    Video: Shop Local, Live Longer

    In 'Twilight Becomes Night,' a filmmaker watches New York loses its mom-and-pop shops—and a piece of its soul

  • NYC Life

    August 9, 2005

    Close-Up on the West Village

    In 'Twilight Becomes Night,' a filmmaker watches New York loses its mom-and-pop shops—and a piece of its soul

  • NYC Life

    May 24, 2005

    Feminist Fashion, or Dressing Like a Hyena in a Petticoat

    In 'Twilight Becomes Night,' a filmmaker watches New York loses its mom-and-pop shops—and a piece of its soul

  • NYC Life

    May 11, 2004

    On the Waterfront

    A new flea at the Seaport, and other downtown shopping adventures

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