Category: New York
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10 Things I Forgot I Owned, and Other Adventures in Moving
Lovely people of the internets, I have officially moved! This past Saturday I bid a bittersweet farewell to my beloved Bushwick, and I and my books made our way to the also lovely, but as of yet largely unexplored, Crown Heights. This whole process has been discombobulating and stressful in a zillion ways (bless your…
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A New Colossus: The Tenement Museum
The best thing about working in a museum is, of course, working around world-class art and important pieces of history. But the second best thing about working in a museum is that you get into other museums for free. An acknowledgment of our shared love of learning and our measly non-profit paychecks, this reciprocal admissions…
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Point A to Point B: Scout’s Commute
I often complain about my commute. While it’s easy to get into Manhattan from our neighborhood, getting to South Brooklyn, where I work, is a little more difficult — a complicated puzzle of buses and/or trains that usually ends up taking 45 minutes to an hour. I quickly learned that the most efficient way for…
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Drink Local: Craft Beer from Brooklyn and Queens
The hot, muggy summer weather that has recently descended on the city is perfect for spending some quality time with good friends and cold brews. Moving to New York exposed me to a whole new world of beer. With many craft breweries based right here in the city, I’m never more than a few feet…
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Friendship is Not Liking the Same Movies and Loving Each Other Anyway
Sometimes Zelda and I struggle with what to write about for these Friday posts. It’s hard to come up with something that’s relevant both to our lives and to the mission statement of our blog. I was struggling with this very problem this week, so Zelda suggested that I watch Frances Ha, and write something…
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Letters to July
This post was inspired by YouTuber Emily Diana Ruth’s series, “Letters to July.” You can watch this year’s series, as well as 2013 and 2014, on her channel. Dear July, I heard lots of other people were writing to you, so I thought I’d give it a go. I’ve never been the most reliable pen…
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Home Away From Home: The Way Station
We do a lot of things to try and combat our homesickness here in New York. Chiefly, we find places that make us feel a little less out of sorts, and a little more like we belong. As previously discussed, for me, that’s usually a bar. I’m one of those people who is good at…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Posts: Zelda’s Hood
We’ve written a lot of words on this here blog. But sometimes, a picture can say far more than any sentence, no matter how witty or elegantly crafted. I’m preparing to move at the moment — not away from New York, but my landlord’s decision to sell our current abode has compelled the roomie and…
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Bring on the Lovers, Liars, and Clowns
If it hasn’t been established thoroughly already, I am a nerd. It’s a badge I wear proudly, although that wasn’t always the case. Being a nerd is cool these days, and I couldn’t be happier about it, because it’s allowed me to learn about many things I never would have known about before. and living…
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Make It Work
If you’ve moved here from anywhere else, living in New York requires a lot of lifestyle concessions — more trips to the grocery since you can only take what you can carry on the subway, $15 G&T’s, schlepping laundry upwards of four blocks and up and down five stories in a quest to be clean…
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