Financial District

05 Dec 2016

How To Work On Wall Street & Still Be a Good Person

By Mar-Li Pitcher  You show up at the office and are immediately pulled into a morning meeting filled with cult-like rituals, and subliminal messages disguised as “motivation”, all meant to brainwash you before working a 12+ hr day. Then you drag yourself home (after a pit stop at the bar)

Guest Writer 0
17 Nov 2011

Canstruction at the World Financial Center through Nov. 21st

The 19th annual Canstruction competition runs through November 21st at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. Each year, contestants construct displays using only cans of food. They are not allowed to damage the can or label so very little to no adhesive is used. The entrants this year include an

Steph Garcia - Freelance Frugal 0
09 Oct 2011

Revolution in the Air at O’Hara’s

Today marks the 22nd day of the Wall St. occupation and, going there for the first time last Sunday, my third thought after watching a girl get her bike sawed in half by the cops for standing on the sidewalk with it was, ‘Where is the local pub where people

Bobby Rich - Affordable Aficionado 0
28 Oct 2010

FREE Halloween Is Happening Night at Trinity Church Friday

Home to the ghosts of famous old people like Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, and Eliza Jumel–a prostitute who later became the richest woman in America and wife to Aaron Burr in a colonial-style “Pretty Woman”–The Trinity Church has been a resting place for our city’s finest since 1687 and

Jill S. 0
07 Jun 2010

Cheap Booze, Food, and Bras at Jeremy’s Ale House

How much is a quart? The answer is 32 ounces (thanks Google), but I’d like to officially tell the British ‘œFuck you’ for sticking us with a shitty system of measurement. That being said, Jeremy’s sells quarts of Busch beer for $5 a pop. That’s good shit (the deal not

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
20 Apr 2010

The Return of Stone Street

I don’t know too many people who hang out in the Financial District unless they work there or like to have their drinking subsidized by horny bankers. But amidst all the dirty money, high-rises, and the tourist-choked South Street Seaport, lies one of the oldest streets in New York, Stone

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0