If you ask Rob Shamlian, one of the Lower East Side 's most voracious entrepreneurs, he'll immediately expound on the problems in the neighborhood.
"I'm done with the Lower East Side," Shamlian says. "I've had enough."
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So you’ve been outside all day, checking out your very favorite performers and swigging cheap beer out of a plastic cup. You’re tipsy, dehydrated and on the verge of heatstroke. Life is rough! And you’re hungry! Have no fear, sweet friend— we’ve got all your food needs covered.
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Dipsomaniacal doomsayers might find it hard to believe that anything good can happen bar-wise. But this month in Park Slope they would be wrong, because Freddy’s is coming back to life Feb. 4.
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Which do you like better, Coke or Pepsi?
You may be surprised by the answer.
The Pepsi Challenge TV commercials from the ’70s and ’80s featured people blind-tasting Pepsi or Coke. Not surprisingly, people chose Pepsi. Yet Coke continued to outsell Pepsi.
In 2003, neuroscientist Read Montague decided to repeat the Pepsi Challenge with subjects lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, which tracks changes in blood flow related to neural activity in the brain.
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Feeling repentant about how my perpetually broke self (along with my perpetually broke boyfriend) manages to spend such a pretty penny going out, I recently set out on a quest for the barfly’s Holy Grail: The $1 beer. I’m happy to report that I found New York offers a surprising number of options to quench your boozy thirst on the cheap. Here’s a selection of spots for each day of the week.
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Before it even properly launched, K! Pizzacone became a legend. A to-go box from the restaurant’s opening day sold for $56 on eBay, and one man from Charlottesville, Va., was so enamored with the idea of the pizzacone that he took a bus to New York during a category-5 blizzard, just to get a taste. “It was delicious,” he wrote in a blog post, which was merely signed “Alex.” But Alex’s excitement for K! Pizzacone isn’t unusual. On opening day last month the tiny, day-glow take-out joint was packed with the hungry, the curious and, of course, the food bloggers.
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WHEN IT COMES to feeding time, there are basically two types of New Yorkers. The first type shows up at The Minetta Tavern on a Friday night, deliriously happy to have scored a reservation, oblivious to the glares and the stares from the...
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Union Square Whole Foods, 2:08 p.m. on a Thursday The Food Broker, age 34 This guy didn’t give his name because he was shopping during work hours and was afraid he’d get in trouble at work. He shops night by night exclusively at either Whole Foods or Fairway. Being a broker for Amy’s frozen foods line, he told us that sales over the last two years have been rising, which he attributes to people staying in to eat—but still being busy.
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