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Tagged with art, green, long island city, museum
What: Earth Day Volunteering
Where: Socrates Sculpture Park
When: Friday, April 18, 9:00 am–2:00 pm
Why: Socrates said, "Let him that would move the world first move himself." We’ve all tried to make ...
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Tagged with car, pennsylvania, poconos, port authority, resort, skiing, weekend getaway, winter
Zooming north on the train after work, I feel like a kid again, giddy with nose-pressed-to-window anticipation. I am traveling towards the Rago family's country bungalow on Lake Naomi, away ...
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Tagged with concerts, hoboken, music, new jersey, rock and roll
What: Steel Train headlines in New Jersey
Where: Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken
Why: High-energy performances and hunky rockers. The best band you probably never heard of: New Jersey’s very ...
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Tagged with beer, brewery, brooklyn, green, nightlife, williamsburg
At first, I took the train from Westchester to the Bedford Avenue stop to see for myself that a wind-generated environmentally friendly brewery did exist in Brooklyn. What I saw ...
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Tagged with brooklyn, concert, Matisyahu, music, reggae
What: Matisyahu’s 2nd Annual Festival of Light Celebration
Where: Warsaw, located inside the Polish National Home, in Greenpoint/Williamsburg
Why: Matisyahu - the famous jammin' Jew reggae star - is ...
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Tagged with bronx, bronx zoo, family fun, holiday lights
What: The Bronx Zoo’s Holiday Lights
Why: This is a New York holiday favorite. The park’s winding pathways will be glowing with more than half a million twinkling lights ...
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Tagged with ferry, halloween, haunted house, staten island
What: Trapped in Purgatory
Why: Trapped in Purgatory is a re-creation of Dante’s nine circles of hell where tortured souls are doomed to live out their afterlife in limbo. ...
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Tagged with barneys, central valley, designer brands, mall, outlet, shopping
Living in one of the fashion capitals of the world has numbed many of us to the idea of shopping outside of New York City. Until now, New Yorkers have ...
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Tagged with andy warhol, architecture, art, design, gallery, hudson, metro north, museum
If art, architecture, landscape, and travel are a few of your favorite things, you might consider taking a trip to the Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries in New York’s Hudson Valley. ...
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