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blogged my personal favorite bowl slop recipe, among other things
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The Groove guide to freeing yourself from food delivery
The new young broke need to learn some lessons from the seasoned old broke
https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-stop-ordering-delivery/
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Katie Drummond
10 days ago
We’re launching a pop-up newsletter to keep tabs on everything going on with ICE - including
@wired.com
reporting and essential coverage from other outlets, plus analysis to help you make sense of the chaos. Sign up here, first edition next week:
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Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus
As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.
https://www.wired.com/newsletter/ICE-in-focus
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Paul Hudrick
10 days ago
Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
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@davecolon.bsky.social
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If you tie your garbage to the Brooklyn Bridge you should be thrown off the bridge
I am not fucking around here.
https://nygroove.nyc/brooklyn-bridge-garbage-people/
11 days ago
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📣 Marketplace is hiring a temp newsletter writer for 3-4 months, starts at $40+/hr, remote friendly. don't sleep on it — we're only taking applications this week!
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13 days ago
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Tim Donnelly
18 days ago
you can start a tenants union today, it's probably a good time to do it! Here's a well-reported guide by
@vksmith.bsky.social
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Let the Pinnacle case be be your inspiration to start a tenants union
'People can just start a tenants association the same way you can start a book club.'
https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-start-a-tenants-union/
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having this mayoral administration in office is basically the tenant equivalent of having a friendly NLRB, it's a prime moment to organize
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Let the Pinnacle case be be your inspiration to start a tenants union
'People can just start a tenants association the same way you can start a book club.'
https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-start-a-tenants-union/
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
about 1 month ago
The other day I told someone that I was choosing to age with dignity. In an unrelated matter, check out my latest blog post
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Video: This what happens if you stay up all night before Inauguration Day
This is the story of being at the inauguration looking and feeling like you just crawled out of the sewer.
https://nygroove.nyc/video-this-what-happens-if-you-stay-up-all-night-before-inauguration-day/
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El Norte Recuerda
about 2 months ago
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994:
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Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
https://intertapes.net/
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of course eric adams used his last few hours in office to take one last whack at local journalists
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Will Mayor Mamdani uphold Eric Adams’ restrictive new press rules?
The proposed new rules came in just hours before the end of the Adams era
https://nygroove.nyc/nyc-press-pass-rules/
about 1 month ago
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crucial karaoke hound news
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BREAKING: Legendary Brooklyn Heights dive Montero is on the cusp of being sold
Brooklyn Heights’ legendary nautical dive bar Montero is set to change hands soon, with the Montero family planning to sell the drinkery to a pair of businessesmen who also own a string of nautical ba...
https://nygroove.nyc/breaking-legendary-brooklyn-heights-dive-montero-is-on-the-cusp-of-being-sold/
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
The premise of this WSJ article is incorrect. We can debate the effects of the 2019 laws on the rental market, but Pinnacle was a bad actor long before them. Their model for decades was to buy up RS properties and let them fall into disrepair to push tenants out.
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Opinion | The Rent-Control Slums of New York
Mayor Mamdani tries to stop a bankruptcy his new housing czar caused.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-york-housing-cea-weaver-rent-control-zohran-mamdani-1dff616a?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfxCRrYubtqAlwsOkC6kKbonpZy2eOFHpCXNAlqE-sBWorwP3qum0Dp7BZkQt0%3D&gaa_ts=695e86e9&gaa_sig=NMKnnV4M4cRu-dU910x4tKOAQQMMmapWcF-eHl7eVsy0hBgMXpniFpjyt1xzmA6nHDmkI4uvH14uMj-lqnSIhg%3D%3D
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about 1 month ago
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Tim Donnelly
about 1 month ago
Here's my obituary for the ability to buy time in New York City, which died today along with the MetroCard (includes a guest appearance by Shilpa Ray)
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'Time' is no longer for sale in New York City
RIP the add ‘value/add time’ meme, buried alongside the MetroCard
https://nygroove.nyc/add-value-add-time-metrocard/
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
about 1 month ago
3908 words on what to expect/look for during Zohran Mamdani’s first year. I wrote it all last night
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Everything you need to know about Zohran Mamdani's first year as mayor
The Zohran era is officially upon us — here's what to expect
https://nygroove.nyc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-zohran-mamdanis-first-year-as-mayor/
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Doug Gordon
about 1 month ago
"If Mamdani wants to make the bus fast, he has a lot of power to do something about it, because the Department of Transportation has control of the city’s streets and can put down bus lanes in plenty of places..."
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Everything you need to know about Zohran Mamdani's first year as mayor
The Zohran era is officially upon us — here's what to expect
https://nygroove.nyc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-zohran-mamdanis-first-year-as-mayor/
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I've come down with a classic case of Ken Burns mania
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New York’s Revolutionary War history is cooler than Boston and Philly’s, actually — here’s where to find it
A guide to what to do with yourself once you've finished the new Ken Burns
https://nygroove.nyc/nyc-revolutionary-war-history/
about 2 months ago
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I could not possibly love this slice of festive city history from
@jessjoseph.bsky.social
more
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How Christmas as we know it was invented by New York City immigrants
American Santa is a Native New Yorker and don't you forget it
https://nygroove.nyc/christmas-new-york-immigrants/
2 months ago
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the concept of gruns having a wellness publication and its editor’s “#1 Black Friday pick” being Gruns
2 months ago
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The New York Groove
3 months ago
New York Groove subscriber Zohran Mamdani has converted the president to socialism
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What an embarrassing time to be a New York City hater
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral race triumph puts the lie to New York City’s doubters and haters
https://nygroove.nyc/nyc-golden-age/
3 months ago
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The New York Groove
3 months ago
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@davecolon.bsky.social
bids good riddance to the worst rubbish imaginable
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Andrew Cuomo was the worst of us
Andrew Cuomo has cemented his legacy as a man who will do anything, say anything, hurt anyone, just to keep a grip on power.
https://nygroove.nyc/andrew-cuomo-was-the-worst-of-us/
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a story about the movie industry that's actually hopeful and not depressing? only in new york, baby
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Microcinemas are booming in New York City — here’s where to find them
The larger theater industry may be struggling, but small independents are having a moment
https://nygroove.nyc/10-microcinemas-nyc/
3 months ago
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take the quiz right now or someone will show up at your door and make you move to columbus
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Quiz: How much of a real New Yorker are you?
This quiz gets right to the heart of it: what makes someone a New Yorker or a filthy transplant
https://nygroove.nyc/real-new-yorker-quiz/
4 months ago
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The New York Groove
4 months ago
even below the ground, the rent is too damn high.
@timdonnelly.com
reports:
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Can you afford to die in New York City?
Being dead won’t save you from the city’s housing crisis
https://nygroove.nyc/funeral-costs-nyc/
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Cooper Lund
4 months ago
We’re having a great time
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@vksmith.bsky.social
@amidanruo.bsky.social
@ndhapple.bsky.social
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Here are some dive bars we miss
Let's remember some dives.
https://nygroove.nyc/here-are-some-dive-bars-we-miss/
4 months ago
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Tim Donnelly
4 months ago
Open House NY is coming up and tickets go up tomorrow so you better read
@vksmith.bsky.social
's guide if you want to be prepared to be nosy!
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The best things to see at Open House New York 2025
It's your annual chance to gain access to the city's coolest, usually-off-limits sites — for free
https://nygroove.nyc/open-house-new-york-2025-guide/
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it's the most wonderful time of the year (Open House New York season)
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The best things to see at Open House New York 2025
It's your annual chance to gain access to the city's coolest, usually-off-limits sites — for free
https://nygroove.nyc/open-house-new-york-2025-guide/
4 months ago
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excellent sharpie work everyone keep it up
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Photos: Everyone hates those AI subway ads as much as you
Friend dot com? More like Enemy dot com!!
https://nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
5 months ago
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lithobolos
5 months ago
We call ours Gorfield. We even gave him a bowtie. No matter how bad life is going for you at least you know you're doing better than him.
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incredible things happening on Facebook marketplace…..
5 months ago
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sorry for filling all of you with unreasonable hope that your favorite defunct dive bar might also someday come back
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Siberia, one of New York City’s scummiest dive bars, has reopened — again
The late '90s dive bar inside a subway station has found a new home inside a different subway station, two decades after shutting its doors.
https://nygroove.nyc/siberia-bar-reopening/
5 months ago
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)
5 months ago
Raleigh vs. Judge what is this a North Carolina gerrymandering lawsuit?
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The New York Groove
5 months ago
if your plan was to turn to sports to escape the endless onslaught of awful news, we've got bad news pal
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Mets fans balk at ICE ad onslaught during games
ICE recruitment ads have been all over the sports airwaves, shattering escapism
https://nygroove.nyc/mets-fans-balk-at-ice-ad-onslaught-during-games/
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big things happening in midtown 👍🏻
5 months ago
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The New York Groove
5 months ago
Sleeping With Other people came out 10 years ago today, and remains a criminally underrated entry in the NYC rom-com canon, plus a time capsule of the de Blasio-era city. plus, it contains what
@davecolon.bsky.social
considers the greatest rom-com line ever written:
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Happy 10th birthday Sleeping With Other People, an excellent little New York rom-com
An understated, modest movie that feels familiar as a city movie because its characters just live here, like you do.
https://nygroove.nyc/happy-10th-birthday-sleeping-with-other-people-an-excellent-little-new-york-rom-com/
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The New York Groove
5 months ago
one of the few actually good things to come out of the pandemic — curbside dining — is on life support, but it's not too late to turn things around
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New York destroyed outdoor dining. Curbside Restaurant Week is trying to save it
Help save outdoor dining, and get some cheap drinks doing it
https://nygroove.nyc/curbside-dining-week/
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The New York Groove
5 months ago
some ghouls are still trying to plunk this hideous casino down in the middle of coney island, you've still got time to tell 'em what you think,
@timdonnelly.com
reports:
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Your last chance to speak out against the Coney Island casino is coming up
After a summer of activism, the final public hearing is coming up next week
https://nygroove.nyc/coney-island-casino-fight/
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The New York Groove
5 months ago
Catch up on DREAM with
@vksmith.bsky.social
's story on how they created 'the ultimate guerilla hating campaign'
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Tim Donnelly
6 months ago
GrowNYC — which runs farmers markets all over the city — is shrinking and needs your help, because apparently healthy food is not part of the whole 'make america healthy again" idea.
@vksmith.bsky.social
reports:
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GrowNYC is shrinking and needs your help
Both local and federal budget cuts have come for one of the city's most reliable, affordable grocery options
https://nygroove.nyc/grownyc-is-shrinking-and-needs-your-help/
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Tim Donnelly
6 months ago
What if the grocery store was run like the library? I gathered up a few ideas on how Zohran Mamdani's city-owned grocery store proposal might actually work
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How to make a city-owned grocery store actually work
Can you imagine if a grocery store was run like the library?
https://nygroove.nyc/city-owned-grocery-store/
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Tim Donnelly
6 months ago
Stuff this in your bag of chips: it's Grocery Week in
@nygroove.nyc
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Issue No. 109: Grocery week! Trader Mamdani's? 🛒 + Save the greenmarkets 🥬
It's Grocery Week here at The Groove and that means we're packing your cart with two ripe, juicy articles about the way we shop for food and fondle produce in this city. This hits home for us because ...
https://nygroove.nyc/email/3c1c33bb-d60a-462f-b2ac-e711049539ad/
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bort
6 months ago
still cheaper than a bag of chips from whole foods. bam. next
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still thinking about the lady I passed in midtown earlier carrying a copy of codependent no more in one hand a vape in the other
6 months ago
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The New York Groove
6 months ago
extra extra!!! Brooklyn's most hideous, hated building made itself useful in a cool way this week! read all about it!!
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Watch Sauronhenge loom over Brooklyn
The all-seeing eye of Sauron took its place above Brooklyn this week, and we were there to see it
https://nygroove.nyc/sauronhenge-brooklyn/
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The New York Groove
6 months ago
Feeling rattled after the East Coast earthquakes this month? Still remembering the misinformation Eric Adams spewed during last year's quake? Fear not. Groove co-founder and Seattle native
@vksmith.bsky.social
put together a quick safety guide with some helpful tips:
nygroove.nyc/how-to-stay-...
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A West Coaster’s guide to New York City earthquake safety
The mayor is out here spouting misinformation, but The Groove has got you covered.
https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-stay-safe-in-an-earthquake-new-york-city/
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The New York Groove
6 months ago
according to our calculations this is going to be visible *tomorrow* August 12 at 6:29pm from the intersection of Vanderbilt and Dekalb — see you there? 👁️https://nygroove.nyc/eye-of-sauron-building-brooklyn/
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Sauronhenge is calling. Are you ready?
What if Brooklyn had its own uniquely evil solar phenomenon? Well good news, now we do!
https://nygroove.nyc/eye-of-sauron-building-brooklyn/
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Patrick George
6 months ago
"Some data centers could require more electricity than cities the size of Pittsburgh, Cleveland or New Orleans."
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As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a
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