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[VIDEO] Valentine's Day Gift Ideas from the Times Square Alliance

2019-02-12T15:30:00-05:00

Looking for last minute gifts or things to do this Valentine's Day? The Times Square Alliance has got your back, making this short video full of ideas in/near Times Square. Check it out!

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Data Visualization Shows All Valentine's Day Taxi Cab Trips in New York City

2018-02-15T11:00:00-05:00

Using data from Valentine's Day, 2014, redditor milamiso created this great data visualization showing all 459,837 Yellow Cab rides that happened that day in New York City. Each yellow dot is a pickup, and each blue dot is a drop-off.

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This Valentine's Day, Traverse The Brooklyn Chocolate Tasting Trail Map

2018-02-08T13:00:00-05:00

Depending on your relationship status, Valentine's Day can be a great holiday or a crappy one. Whichever way you feel about the day, we can all agree that chocolate is one of the better aspects of February 14th. What better way to celebrate the day—single or not—than by taking a tour down the Brooklyn Chocolate Trail Map! You can go self-guided through the 12 local chocolate makers in the borough, or even take a guided bus-tour through the A Slice of Brooklyn Chocolate Tour.

Embark on your own “chocolate hopping” adventure, fuhgettaboud Hershey’s, and hop on A Slice of Brooklyn’s Chocolate Tour while enjoying a bus ride through chocolate history! With this list of 12 local chocolatiers, factories, and tasting rooms – which all offer tours or tastings – you will have a great shot at revamping the “give your loved one chocolate for Valentine’s” gifting idea! From sweet and candied to raw and dark chocolates, Brooklyn’s got it all!

Check out the announcement page to learn more about the Brooklyn Chocolate Tasting Trail and its shops.

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The Perfect Way to Deal With Being Single on Valentine’s Day: Tipsy Painting Night on UWS

2017-02-14T13:00:00-05:00

Spend this Valentine's Day at the Firehouse Tavern on the Upper West Side, painting alongside a professional and learning "the art of mixing colors, blending and painting techniques." From 6:30pm to 9:00pm, it'll be easy to forget about the craziness of the day with a glass of wine in one hand and a paint brush in the other.

Get your tickets fast, as they are only sold online through Ticket Leap!

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Bushwick's Bootleg Bar Made Another Awesome Throwback Parody Commercial for Valentine’s Day

2017-02-14T12:00:00-05:00

Last March, Bushwick dive bar Bootleg Bar made a genius commercial which paid homage to 1980's style, low-budget ads. Now the bar is back with another made in similar vein by Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker Horatio Baltz, though this one parodies the 1-900 phone sex commercials that were aired late night in the 80s.

This year, director Horatio Baltz and bar owner Bobby Rich teamed up to show their take on Valentine's Day-- somewhere between Eraserhead and a phone sex commercial

If you are looking for love tonight, head down to Bootleg Bar.

$2.49 per minute / 10 minute minimum. Must be 18 or older J/K

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are the Best New York City Neighborhoods for Dating

2017-02-14T10:00:00-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day! Real-estate search site StreetEasy recently teamed up with dating app Hinge to create this infographic showing the best neighborhoods in New York City for dating. Here's how they compiled the data:

We looked at Hinge data among all NYC-based users in 2016, examining save rates (if users are interested in a person’s profile, they will “save” it, so a higher save rate indicates popularity or desirability; users who save more profiles are deemed “less picky” while users who save fewer profiles are deemed “pickier”), average full conversation count (or “chattiness”), and connection to phone number exchange rate (the rate at which users connect with each other versus the rate at which they exchange phone numbers, indicating a likelihood to meet outside the app).

Of the three boroughs analyzed, here are the top 5 neighborhoods in each:

MANHATTAN
- West Village
- Murray Hill
- Flatiron
- East Village
- Chelsea

BROOKLYN
- Williamsburg
- Brooklyn Heights
- Greenpoint
- Fort Greene
- East Williamsburg

QUEENS
- Astoria
- Hunter’s Point
- Long Island City
- Forest Hills
- Sunnyside

Check out the accompanying article for more insights.

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Meir Kalmanson Surprises Unsuspecting Couples With an Impromptu Valentine's Day Date

2016-02-15T17:03:24-05:00

Brooklyn filmmaker/actor/entertainer Meir Kalmanson has done quite a few stunts in the City, including dancing like crazy behind unsuspecting strangers, the subway dance party and high-fiving taxi hailing strangers.

In this latest Valentine's Day video, Kalmanson surprises a few couples with an instant Valentine's Day date.

I teamed up with Sharkk Speakers to set up an instant date filled with music, champagne, and chocolate for unexpected couples in NYC. Love is in the air!

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Single Woman Panhandles on the NYC Subway for a Valentine's Day Date

2016-02-14T09:35:19-05:00

In this video from Brooklyn-based sketch comedy collective WESTY, watch as actor comedian Jana Schmieding panhandles on the subway for a date for Valentine's Day.

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Cartoon Editor From The New Yorker Discusses Love and Valentine's Day in the Magazine

2016-02-13T12:30:02-05:00

The New Yorker recently published this video titled All You Need is Love in which cartoon editor Bob Mankoff shows off some of the magazine's comics that have featured love and Valentine's Day over the decades.

This week, Bob Mankoff discusses romantic cartoons just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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Comic Imagines Modern Romance Novels With Bushwick Themes

2016-02-12T13:13:04-05:00

Jeremy Nguyen is a cartoonist based in Bushwick and has lived in the area for the past three years. He writes and illustrates "Stranger Than Bushwick" for Bushwick Daily, and his illustrations have appeared on College Humor, Oyster Reviews, comiXology, and Comic Book Resources.

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