Free activity is a phrase that will turn heads in the city. Â Free summer movies in the park, free wine and beer at a gallery opening and a personal favorite, free kayaking. If you are in the mood for an outdoor activity, the Downtown Boathouse and Manhattan Community […]
Myers of Keswick is “your traditional British grocery store in New York City” according to the tagline on the company website and they really are just that. Â If you are in need of clotted cream, malt vinegar, any number of Heinz bean products or simply a cold soda such as R. Whites lemonade then Myers has you covered. Â The store also carries a variety of meat pies, Scotch eggs as well as pork and sausages.
New York City restaurant week occurs twice a year; once in the late winter/early spring and a second time during late summer. Â Due to the popularity of these events, each restaurant week runs approximately three weeks which definitely helps with getting reservations.
Getting a free haircut and color in New York City sounds impossible, right? Not so. If you’re willing to act as a ‘hair model’ for a stylist-in-training, you can get high quality services at brand name salons including Aveda, Bumble & Bumble and Cutler. Each salon has its own rules for who can participate in the ‘hair model’ program (for example, some want curly hair, some want colored hair) and how much it costs (at many, the customer pays absolutely nothing, and at others, there is a small charge.)
By Seth Fera-Schanes We are expanding our summer drink menu with two different versions of cherry lemonade. Â Both recipes are non-alcoholic, but if you wanted to add a little rum we won’t tell anyone. Â Each recipe calls for fresh cherries which are in season right now. Â These drinks […]
By Seth Fera-Schanes Take the 2/3 subway line out to Brooklyn for an afternoon visit to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Â Located next the the Brooklyn Museum, you can make this a two for one trip or just decide to focus on gardens. The botanical garden is over 100 […]
By Seth Fera-Schanes The burden of friendship hits nearly every recent New York City transplant. Â People from all over the world want to visit the city because it is a capital of culture, finance and food. Â It is the most populated city in the United States. Â It is […]
By Seth Fera-Schanes An enigma among New York City neighborhoods,  Vinegar Hill is a small area of Brooklyn nestled between D.U.M.B.O and the Brooklyn Naval Yard.  Stand on a corner and face one direction and you are met with cobblestone streets and seemingly abandoned houses that could be straight […]
If you had 80,000 LEGO bricks at your disposal, what would you do with them? Corporate lawyer turned artist Nathan Sawaya used his to build a 19-foot long dinosaur that’s currently on display with dozens of his LEGO sculptures at Discovery Times Square, an exhibition center on West 44th Street. The dinosaur is one of the largest sculptures he’s ever made.
By Seth Fera-Schanes The summer cocktail recipe list grows (by 3 fantastic new drinks this time.) Â We were looking for ways to incorporate the freshest summer ingredients into one of summer’s longest standing traditions; drinking outside on a lazy weekend afternoon. The first recipe is a Watermelon Champagne […]
