Yom Kippur is the most important Jewish holiday of the year. It is customary to fast for 25 hours over the duration of the holiday, a tradition that goes back thousands of years. In places…
The Vendy Awards food festival is a food truck competition where the hottest street food vendors in the City are pitted head-to-head in a ticket-holder taste off to determine the best the…
The Bronx Museum of the Arts opened a brand new cafe today called the XM Cafe, a play on the museums logo where the X in Bronx and M in museum intersect. Located on the main floor of the…
The Truffle is one of the most expensive things you can eat. With a price of about $2500 per pound and a shelf life of about 7 days, truffle dealers have to move a ton of product to wealthy…
There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately. Daytonian in Manhattan: ⇒ Violence,…
The City's Department of Consumer Affairs just released a cool interactive map allowing you to see where each of the 1,257 legal sidewalk cafés are in the City. According to the City, using…
Real estate search company Trulia recently published a great article about rent control and rent stabilization in the City. As part of the article, Trulia created these great infographics…
In the most recent episode of Shelf Life entitled Kinsey's Wasps, the American Museum of Natural History discusses how museums can use massive specimen collections to help scientists.…
The 25th Annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest took place this past Saturday, and hundreds of families participated in the contest while beachgoers and spectators came by to check it…
An interesting article just came to my attention from the Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog in which the origins of the phrase "New York Minute" are analyzed and found to have not…
