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How the Mast Brothers fooled the world into paying $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate. [Quartz] A 30,000-square-foot bowling and karaoke amusement complex is coming to Bushwick. [Gothamist] Hess Triangle, the city’s smallest piece of real estate, gets the cartoon treatment. [New Yorker] The ridiculous amount it would take to buy all the items in […]

As the closing of the Four Seasons approaches, five regulars remember the iconic landmarked restaurant. [Grub Street] What will replace the hipster? Will it be yuccies, cutesters, or maybe health goths? [Vice] Traveling through Grand Central on the 25th? Hidden bar the Campbell Apartment will be open on Christmas for the first time. [Gothamist] Architect […]

How to celebrate the Winter Solstice like a real New York Wiccan. [DNAinfo] This Saturday there’s a SantaCon for dogs in the East Village. Hopefully the canines will keep the drunken antics to a minimum. [EV Grieve] There’s a room in Chinatown filled with hundreds of big red balloons, and you can play in it […]

This Japanese room spray will make your home smell like a cat’s head. [Bored Panda] Gift Wrap My Face lets you wrap all your holiday gifts in selfies. [Racked] Apartment “quirks” that only a New Yorker would understand. [Thrillist] Starting next month, the Brooklyn Museum will offer free admission on Thursdays. [DNAinfo] The city’s slowest […]

Brooklyn now has a liquid nitrogen ice cream shop. [Brooklyn Based] Salt and pepper shakers, copper mugs, even entire place settings — these are the most stolen items from NYC restaurants. [NYP] How deaf-blind audience members are experiencing the revival of “Spring Awakening.” [WSJ] An engineer told the MTA that there’s a “moderate risk” of […]

IDNYC cardholders will get additional perks this year, like annual memberships for the Guggenheim, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Opera. [amNY] Getting to know NYC’s Christmas tree vendors. [Thrillist] How the “New Yawk” accent is playing into the presidential race. [Daily Intelligencer] This fake hand will let you take sneaky naps at work. [Design You Trust] The ghosts of […]

Local architect and photographer Joseph Lee Sweeney created “The Doors of Brooklyn” in 2004. To mark the one-year anniversary of his passing, you can buy a crowd-sourced version of the poster with 31 doors from Instagram. [Brownstoner] Fly around the world in a Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter, or Luke’s X Wing with Star […]

Inside the Christmas wonderland that is Rolf’s German Restaurant, where they spend $60,000 a year on holiday decorations. [Business Insider] The most nauseating Brooklyn-branded products on Etsy. [DNAinfo] This balloon furniture won’t pop when you sit on it. [Mental Floss] FAO Schwarz, Market Diner, Trash Bar, Tribeca Cinemas–these are just some of the NYC spots that […]

Go backstage with the Rockettes. [Racked] The newly released LEGO skyline collection includes the Flatiron Building, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, One World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. [Gothamist] A hidden bolt in Central Park dates back to the early 19th century when John Randel Jr. was plotting the NYC street grid. [Business Insider] Don’t […]

The Whitney Museum invites guests to take selfies. [NYP] “A bunch of Tisch grads are trying to make it in the big, bad world of acting in New York City. How are they not all famous actors yet? It’s been like two years.” A satirical roundup of web series. [New Yorker] The founder of SantaCon said the […]

A new food delivery app will donate a portion of proceeds to City Harvest through the month of December with the goal of feeding 100,000 hungry city children. [NYDN] Here’s a guide to experiencing NYC’s largest holiday light display in Dyker Heights. [Gothamist] How Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Creamery landed Disney’s limited edition “Star Wars” ice cream. […]

A new rooftop exhaust system hints that 190 Bowery may be getting a restaurant and/or nightlife tenant. [Bowery Boogie] People living in zip codes with the highest median incomes (Tribeca, Upper East Side) have the highest loan balances. [Curbed] Know of a spot to buy a Christmas tree? Add it to this interactive map! [DNAinfo] […]

After moving from its namesake home to East Third Street last year following a rent hike, the beloved St. Mark’s Bookshop is once again struggling to make ends meet. [EV Grieve] Times Square tops the list of most Instagrammed places in the world. It’s followed by the Eiffel Tower, London’s Tower Bridge, Moscow’s Red Square, and […]

You can now pay to “park” your dog thanks to these sidewalk dog kennels popping up in Brooklyn. [NYP] Meet the fleet of historic ships docked in Brooklyn. [CityLab] The FDR Drive’s first repaving in 50 years is complete. [NYT] Pringles (yes, the potato chips) have released a trio of candle scents — Pigs in Blankets, […]

New Jersey wants to put the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on their new quarter, to be issued in 2017. [Gothamist] $5 thongs and revitalizing juices are just a couple of the items available at a new “walk of shame” kiosk in the Union Square subway station. [DNAinfo] Can you identify these cities by […]

Celebrate the Festival of Lights with an after-hours tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue where you’ll learn about architecture and hidden history and enjoy a wine reception. [Untapped] Someone left free, homemade scarves in Tompkins Square Park. [EV Grieve] Chain restaurants must start adding sodium warning labels to their menus beginning tomorrow. [DNAinfo] Ride a 1930s […]

Here’s what 200 calories of your favorite Thanksgiving foods looks like. [Business Insider] Though Macy’s is emerging from a four-year, $400 million renovation, shoppers can still ride the store’s historic wooden escalators. [NYT] Nine things you didn’t know about Frank Gehry. [Fast Co. Design] The strange history of New York’s Thanksgiving ragamuffins. [Ephemeral NY] You can […]

The New York Compost Box Project takes newspaper boxes around the city and transforms them into compost drop-off sites. [Inhabitat] Located in Borough Park, Masbia is the only Kosher soup kitchen in the city. [Tablet] These candles melt away like glaciers to symbolize climate change. [CityLab] For New Yorkers who don’t want to speak to anyone, […]

Governor Cuomo vetoed a bill that would’ve given New Yorkers two free MetroCard transfers. He says it would have cost the city an extra $40 million a year. [Gothamist] Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel will be open on New Year’s Day for the first time. [amNY] Join photographers James and Karla Murray, who document the disappearing […]