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more about #newyorkcity more comments → TedSez: I was in Manhattan for the first time in a while last week, and I have to admit that I was surprised how cheap the setup of the "car-free" area in Tim... more » ninety_nine: For every person on this thread that complains about any aspect of NY: please move. Now. Yesterday. If you are complaining from afield but still visit... more » Dictator for Life: I moved to Manhattan from North Carolina two months ago, and I still can't figure out why a lean cuisine here is $3.89 instead of 5 for $10 like they'... more » TorturedWriter: In theory, New York should be cheaper due to economies of scale (the more people here to share the burden, the cheaper is should be). But really, New ... more » Rumpelstilskin: Oh good god, people. Go read the diary of Philip Hone, early 19th century mayor of NYC. He detested the way the city changed during his lifetime. U... more » WillSmithsMom: You get what you pay for, etc., but New York is doing something right with all that scrilla. In Philly, for example, the wage and sales taxes are muc... more » BxgrlJeri: I have been questioning my staying here (Manhattan) for at least 2 years. Because of all the "mall" and "chain" stores, it's become like Anywhere USA... more » wholenuther: Are we complaining here that New York has gotten expensive and too safe or that the people who cleaned it up are leaving and scary NYC is coming back?... more » TheUptightMidwesterner: Ever since my folks moved to Florida, all I ever hear about is the serial goat rapist that is terrorizing the panhandle.I'd opt for NY is I could. #ne... more » BettyCrocker: Good. Get out. You won't like what you find when you get to Florida. Especially when your kid has to make you drive him 4 towns over to use a libra... more » Perhaps Not: Er, children don't give you cancer? more » kimsama: To all the smokers bitching that cigarettes are legal and should therefore be allowed in parks: alcohol is legal, but it's not allowed in parks. Ban... more » BBooms: Wow, it's amazing how puritanical most of you are. more » johnny_carsick: i cannot smoke them in the bar i cannot smoke then in my car i cannot smoke them in the park i cannot smoke them in the dark i cannot smoke them in th... more » Alexa Elizabeth Ann: When I can fart in public and have people inhale and claim, "Damn, that's good," I will support smoke in my face. more » -
#architecture
I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
Is it too bad to say that I would actually like to live in a post-Apocalypse New York? I mean one without flesh-eating zombies or people killing each other for a bag of rotten Cheetos. One like this: [Gizmodo] -
#exodus
Cleaner, Better NYC Only Fit for Tourists
Lisa van Dusen has been coming to New York City for a great many years and she did not care for its baseball bat-wielding desk clerks, cerulean shag carpeting and gag-inducing transport. More » -
#badideas
NYC Considering New Front in Smoking War
Alright. This has got to stop. After banning smoking in bars, New York City officials are now thinking of extending their totalitarian grip to public spaces. Will the madness never end? More » -
#campaigns
Bloomberg Promises Free Buses, To Be Driven By Magical Elves
Even though no one knows that there's anyone running against him, Mike Bloomberg's numbers are falling. So yesterday, in a campaign speech, he promised to make all the trains run on time. More » -
#airscareone
Scenes from Inside a Propaganda Disaster
The Pentagon has released a document dump of internal e-mails from its struggle to deal with the Air Force One flyover that freaked out Manhattan in April. You can smell the panic. More » -
#junegloom
The Year (Still) Without a Summer
Last week you scoffed with your sarcastic "boo hoos" and reminded us it's still technically spring when we said 2009 is shaping up to be The Year Without a Summer. Are those of you on the East Coast convinced yet? More » -
#infighting
New York City Rich Bravely Defend Themselves Against NYC Prep Kids
Everybody knows that NYC Prep show isn't real. That's what the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog proudly reminds us. See, real NYC preppers are nothing like the upcoming series. One of the schools even sent a letter saying as much.
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#updates
The two guys New York City married by mistake? That didn't last long.
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#weather
The Year Without a Summer
No, it's not you. The weather in New York City has been a foggy, soggy, cloudy, sunless slog through what is supposed to be a beautiful, joyous June. Blame it on fucking El Niño. More » -
#picoftheday
"What a Beautiful Church!"
[Military brides gather in Times Square to get married in an event cosponsored by the USO. Five couples were married on the island in the middle of the square, like for realsies; image via Getty] -
#deaths
Swine Flu Claims First Life in New York City
Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal at IS 238 in Jamaica Estates, Queens, has died of complications from the H1N1 virus, popularly known as the dreaded swine flu. More » -
#partygames
Let's Play NY Blog Media Bingo!
Surely you've seen those Bingo cards for hipsters, and Blipsters. I always wondered why there wasn't one for New York's Blog-media. Now there is! More » -
#picoftheday
The Bucolic Upper West Side
[An 1848 daguerreotype shows the Upper West Side of Manhattan, along Broadway. It's believed to be one of the oldest known photographs of New York City. Sotheby's is auctioning, for an expected $50,000-70,000.] More » -
#recaps
The City: Hell I Still Love You, New York
Our long regional nightmare is over. The City has ended. MTV's New York City-set Hills spin-off sputtered and died weeks ago, but they've finally hauled its carcass across the finish line. Let's dissect. More » -
#picoftheday
The Good Blackout
[New York City's lights are dimmed in 1943, to cut the city's energy costs during World War II. A strategy we could perhaps employ in these troubled economic times? Image: LIFE © Time Inc.]
