Tag: New York

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:01:00 +0000

Marshmallows used to be made with sap from the root of the mallow plant.

If grackles are emptying out your bird feeder, stock it with safflower seeds because they don’t like them. Squirrels don’t like them either.

In 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells became the first policewoman in Los Angeles. By 1915, at least 16 other cities, including New York and Chicago, had also hired policewomen.

Zoom, ironically, ordered employees within 50 miles of an office to return twice weekly.

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:01:00 +0000

Marshmallows used to be made with sap from the root of the mallow plant.

If grackles are emptying out your bird feeder, stock it with safflower seeds because they don’t like them. Squirrels don’t like them either.

In 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells became the first policewoman in Los Angeles. By 1915, at least 16 other cities, including New York and Chicago, had also hired policewomen.

Zoom, ironically, ordered employees within 50 miles of an office to return twice weekly.

Touch Girl Apple Blossom Takes Long Island City

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:08:03 +0000

Touch Girl Apple Blossom Takes Long Island City

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:08:03 +0000

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Austin Film Festival Announces Christy as Opening Night Film

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Austin Film Festival Announces Christy as Opening Night Film

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Bring Back the Coffee Shop Tip Jar

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:00:33 +0000

Photo: Catherine McQueen/Getty Images

The other day, the company Square shared some interesting data with me: For the first time since 2015 (as far back as this data went), the average amount that customers tip at any of Square’s payment terminals and kiosks — and if you’ve bought anything in the past ten years, you know these terminals are everywhere — has dropped below 15 percent.

What Does MAGA Taste Like?

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:00:33 +0000

Photo: Hawkeye Johnson

“Where are all the red hats — am I going to run into Steve Bannon?” asked one of my guests as we peered around the room at Butterworth’s, the buzzy, much-publicized MAGA hangout up on Capitol Hill.

Zoe Dubno Enters a Fugue State When Eating Sauerkraut Soup

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:00:57 +0000

Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne

At the center of Zoe Dubno’s novel Happiness and Love is the New York literary scene — a scene that she, having grown up in the city, has seen many sides of.

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Her Soul-Food Restaurant Opened 11 Years Ago. The Lines Arrived This Summer.

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:28:56 +0000
Photo: Katie O
When Katie Owes opened her Brooklyn soul-food restaurant in 2014, “Tik Tok” was still just a Kesha song and her customers consisted mostly of family and church members.
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A24’s First Restaurant Is an Art-House Supper Club

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:50:00 +0000
Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux
The other week, chefs and longtime business partners Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr were sitting in a plush green banquette talking hockey — they are lifelong fans of the Rangers and the Canadiens, respectively — and steak dinners.
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He’s Opening a Gourmet Grocer in Tribeca. Maybe You’ve Heard?

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:00:14 +0000
Photo: brokebackcontessa
Tribeca’s newest gourmet grocer, Meadow Lane, has everything one of its neighbors might desire: Dog treats made from dehydrated bone broth. Hanger-steak breakfast burritos on Caramelo tortillas. A smoothie bar with a pre-patinaed bronze menu. Pacifying interiors of light wood and chocolate-brown tile.
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Kyp Malone Wants His Servers to Have a Good Time

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:49 +0000
Illustration: Adam Mazur
Before making his home in Williamsburg and later the East Village, Kyp Malone, an artist and musician best known as a guitarist and vocalist for TV on the Radio, grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. “We mostly ate Eastern European food just because that’s what was in the markets,” he said.
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