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Play Me a Song, Pop-Up Piano Man
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 20 June 2011
Sing for Hope, an organization dedicated to making sure art is available to everyone in New York City, is bringing the beats to the streets once again this year with Pop-Up Pianos. For two weeks, 88 public pianos throughout all boroughs will give New Yorkers a chance to see if they remember Chopsticks.
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New York City Theater Favorites for Kids
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 16 June 2011
If you’re headed to New York City this summer with your child-in-tow and want to take in some quality theater, we’ve got you covered. Billy Elliot Set against the backdrop of a coal miners’ strike that took place in Northern England in the mid-1980s during Margaret Thatcher’s reign, Billy Elliot is about a motherless young boy who wants to give up ...
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Northside Open Studios this Weekend
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 16 June 2011
If you haven’t heard of the Northside Music & Arts Festival already, or don’t ever go to Brooklyn (really?!) then you may have noticed plenty o’advertising for this massive weekend event.
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Free Bowling Happy Hour at Brooklyn Bowl This Summer
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 11 June 2011
FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! FREE BOWLING AND SHOES! Phew. Sorry. Just a little excited that bowling has finally returned to the cheap-ass entertainment activity I grew up loving it to be thanks to the fine folks at Brooklyn Bowl.
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Solo in the City: 7 free things to do in New York City
Blog: Solo Traveler - 11 June 2011
Interesting, I can find quiet in a big city like New York - or I can be energized.
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Good Coffee On The Borderlands At Barcey’s
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 6 June 2011
It’s easy to just think of New York as a series of subway stops. After all, you go underground, everything’s the same, then you’re somewhere else- no real way to connect the larger world. However, despite popular belief, Brooklyn and Queens share a lot of unceremonious borderland.
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Peter McManus Cafe, Classic for Reason
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 4 June 2011
After much thought during a recent long drive so boring that counting deer carcasses became an actual game, I have made an important realization that I feel I must–must!–share with the world RIGHT NOW: Peter McManus Cafe is my favorite pub in New York City. If you haven’t been there yet, go there today.
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Xi’an Famous Foods: It’s the Flavor that Matters
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 3 June 2011
I don’t know about you, but I’d travel to the far ends of the earth for great foods.
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Frolick Freely at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 2 June 2011
If you are a normal human being, from time to time you may find yourself in need of a break from the gum wad-laden concrete and non-stop honking of New York City’s streets. So. Much. Honking.
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Variety Cafe Lives Up To Name, With Some Cheapo Bonuses
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 1 June 2011
So you’re in midtown. Whoops. Perhaps you need some crazy diamonds, or you’re praying to some pagan god for discount Book of Mormon tickets, or you just took a wrong turn in Hell’s Kitchen. No matter what way you slice it, the homogeneity of the landscape is dulling to the senses.
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4 Things You Can Totally Live Without in NY
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 31 May 2011
When you lose your job, or you simply have to make some serious cuts in your current lifestyle to be able to continue to live or save up for something, it can be tough to think about what you’ll need to axe out of your life (like the lady in that photo!).
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Super Cheap Things To Do In This Summer Weather
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 28 May 2011
So after a long, snowy winter, summer like weather is finally upon us here in NYC. In the home of the $1,000 pizza, how is a cheapskate supposed to enjoy oneself? Here are a few suggestions for those of us who like to pay next to nothing to get our thrills.
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Beaner Bar: Not Your Average Cup of Joe
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 27 May 2011
We rarely talk about coffee shops on this site. Well except for here and here, because really, if you’re broke and enjoy coffee, you can usually just make it yourself or buy the cheap stuff from your local deli.
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Don’t Forget to Remember the International Bar
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 26 May 2011
I don’t remember the first time I went to the International Bar, and if you’re willing to spend $20 there I doubt you will either. Drinks, like the beer and shot combo, start as low as four bucks.
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Falling for Wall Street – Have You Been Here?
Blog: Vagobond.com - 26 May 2011
It doesn't much matter what particular -ism you subscribe to, there is just something sort of magical about Wall Street. this is especially true in the early morning hours before the hustle and shake of New York City really turns on. The neighborhood around the famous financial district has a strange sense of calm that you really wouldn't expect to find in the financial center of the the United States.
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Watch Movies on a Motherf#$*ing Boat at Intrepid’s FREE Movie Series
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 25 May 2011
The summer movie series is about as ubiquitous in NYC as the chicken bones that mysteriously litter our sidewalks. But! There is only one that is on a ship. And not just any ship, an effing WAR SHIP. How many times can you say you watched E.T. on a retired war ship, people?!
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Nod to Bob, and Carrie, Mary, Rose, Sarah, and Joanie, too
Blog: Music Road - 23 May 2011
Opening doors, changing the way listeners and fellow creators of song think about music, writing songs that are literal, mystical, poetic, political, and funny, and always leaving room for more than one way to take the words: those are several things Bob Dylan has done in five decades of his work as a musician. He’s marking a birthday this last week in May.
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The Library at Trump SoHo: Cozy Spot in Downtown NYC
Blog: Travelogged - 22 May 2011
When you hear the name Trump, you think combovers, “You’re fired!” and birth certificates. When you hear the name Trump SoHo hotel, you think glitz, glamor and over-the-top luxury. And indeed, you would not be disappointed, on all accounts. I mean in regards to the hotel. I’ve never met Donald Trump. But I did get [...]
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Smorgasburg: A Food Flea in Williamsburg
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 21 May 2011
As the name might suggest, Brooklyn Flea’s newest food venture Smorgasburg is both a “giant buffet” of food vendors, and taking place in Williamsburg. Riding the food-truck, artisanal food-crazy bandwagon, this sprawling outdoor market promises to be the one stop shop for all of New York’s foodies every Saturday this Spring and Summer.
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Sandwichian Rhapsody at Fredi
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 14 May 2011
“Can anybody fiiiiind meeeeee… a sandwiiiiich to looooooove?” This is the question Fredi, a sandwich bar tribute to Freddie Mercury, wants to answer with a big glammy “Yes.” Located near Union Square, I’m pumped to have a new place to nosh beyond free samples from Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.
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The Gluttonous Return of Madison Square Eats
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 7 May 2011
Just when I thought I might be able to fit into my summer clothes, the food orgy that is Madison Square Eats arrives in our fair city once again. It coos to us, “Hey there, pretty pants.
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Poppy’s Terminal: A Taste of Old School New York
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 6 May 2011
Poppy’s is a hidden classic. It’s the type of old school spot that reminds me of pre-Giuliani New York; it looks as if he forgot to send his gentrification goons to this gritty block. I get giddy when I find places this hot. A signed photo of Steve Buscemi looks down from its place nestled [...] Related posts:A Taste of Greece – San Francisco Greek Food Festival
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A Magical Margarita Tour of New York
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 5 May 2011
If red wine is the Meryl Streep of the drink list, then consider the Margarita your very own Tara Reid special. Do margaritas even get served at full price? If a happy hour doesn’t include margaritas, then did it even happen?
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Keg & Lantern: The Happiest Hour There Is
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 3 May 2011
Keg & Lantern was born a poor black child. Just kidding, sorry, I swear I’m not an asshole attempting to make a bad The Jerk joke (yes I am).
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Organic Burgers in New York City
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 3 May 2011
