Nearly 50-years-old, La Caridad 78 is a small restaurant on the Upper West Side which serves up one of the City's best Cuban-Chinese fusion menu. The unique combination of flavors and cultures has an interesting history of immigration and diversity. Learn more about it, and see what's on the menu in this video from Eater's Dining on a Dime series with host Lucas Peterson.

Dining on a Dime’s return to New York City (you did watch the original NYC season, right?) rolls along with a visit to the Upper West Side, and one of the city’s most singular dining traditions: The Cuban-Chinese restaurant. This week, host Lucas Peterson heads to La Caridad, which has served the neighborhood for decades, specializing in both Cuban and Chinese cuisine -- and sometimes a mixture of the two.

New York City has multiple public transportation options including subways, buses, ferries, public bikes, etc... that, for the most part, are an affordable and quick way to get around the City. Regular modes of transportation aren't for everybody though, and this New Yorker created his own unique way to commute in NYC: a homemade "Tall Bike." To make something like this, you would need some accurate jointing equipment.

The subway isn't the only way New Yorkers commute in New York City. Some take cabs, some walk and some ride bikes. But Paul doesn't ride a regular bike. He rides a tall bike. […] Paul's bike is five and half feet tall. He towers above cars, and has to stabilize himself on garbage cans and stop lights. Paul claims, surprisingly that he's never fallen off of his bike. He built his tall bike out of two bikes welded together in his basement.

Check it out in this short video from our friends at Time Out New York.

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City is an interesting new book from New York Times and Harper's comic illustrator Julia Wertz that is part history, part comedy, and part picture book.

In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

The book was just released this week, and is already a #1 New Release in the Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels section on Amazon. Pick up your copy for just $22 before they sell out!