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Broke-Ass Confessions: I Like Williamsburg
I write about Williamsburg a lot and that’s because I live here. I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary, in fact. But I’ll admit it. I was kind of hatin’ on my own neighborhood for a while. When you’re not snobby about music and could care less about owning a
Let’s Get Wet: Broke-Ass Water Activities
If you’re a fellow cube dweller by day, you’re lucky enough to enjoy free air conditioning for approximately eight hours Monday through Friday while the rest of the city – namely tourists who don’t believe in deodorant – slog around the streets, coated in their own sweat, and clog the
Broke-Ass Octophiles: Cheap and in Love with the ’80s
What exactly is the correlation between being broke and being obsessed with/nostalgic for/stuck in the ’80s? I know it’s not just me. Go to any hipster neighborhood (Williamsburg, etc.), try to picture everyone without their iPhones, and voila, you could very well be in 1984. Is it because hipsters are
FREE: Bike Home From Work Party TONIGHT w/ RSVP
It’s Bike-to-Work Day in New York City! There will be plenty of traffic in those bike lanes today and also a handful of fueling stations handing out FREE Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee, Vita Coco and breakfast from KIND and Cabot. And who do we have to thank for this? We
Faking It: Looking Rich When You’re Not
I have a past of being continuously screwed over. I’m pretty sure my leech of an ex-boyfriend who still manages to interfere with my present-day life is why I have this pipe dream of being swept off my feet by a wealthy B-list celebrity or a rich finance dude. Until
FREE Fitness in NYC: Now Shameless!
Quick quiz for my ladies: Your idea of working out most resembles: A) Fergie in – what else – her “Fergalicious” music video B) Hannah jogging – er, attempting to jog – in Girls C) Kristin Wiig and Maya Rudolph’s characters in “Bridesmaids” You probably answered “C” because you’re reading
Hey Broke-Asses: Win a $100 Gift Card to Levi’s!
I’ve been wearing Levi’s for as long as I can remember. Not only do they make my butt look good but they last for-fucking-ever. Like seriously, there’s a good chance that one year, I wore the same pair everyday…I swear I washed them a few times. Anyways, considering that me