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Cider Week in New York City
It’s hard cider that gets its own week of celebration for the first time this year in New York. Restaurants and bars in the city and in the Hudson Valley will be featuring local ciders on their menus. There will be events every day of the week throughout the city with a focus on either cider or apples in general, so even if you don’t drink, you can still tuck into some apple pie or other apple-based goodness.
Best of NY: The Creamiest, Thickest, Most Delicious Milkshakes
Who’s got the best milkshakes in New York? Our friends at The Daily News recently polled their online readers to try to find the very best. Click through to see the results, with some fantastic suggestions we’re excited to try. Where do you go in town for the perfect shake?
Jim Henson's Fantastic World
Opening this Saturday, July 16th, this exhibit celebrates the internationally known creative genius Jim Henson, whose work encompassed film, television, and puppetry. The exhibition features over 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, and props, all of which illustrate Henson’s boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments.
Fifteen iconic puppets, including Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, and Bert and Ernie, are on view, along with photographs of Henson and his collaborators at work and excerpts from his early projects and experimental films.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria
NYC's Best Joints To BYOB
Restaurants that offer BYOB are a great way to save some cash and still have a boozy good time. One of our favorites is definitely Panna II, with the crazy lights and if it’s your birthday, the insane song they’ll sing to you. Check out this slideshow of BYOB restaurants put together by Gothamist.
NYC's Nine Inadvisable Yet Ever Tempting Food Challenges
Listen up Man vs. Foodfans, competitive eaters, and masochists of all kinds. Surprisingly enough, New York City offers a slew of food challenges like the ones they show on those Discovery Channel specials and Food Network bits. Eat something so big, so hot, or so fast that it’s inadvisable to your heath and get unending glory—or a t-shirt. Try them if you’re feeling adventurous and report back about your mission. And of course, please share additional food challenges unlisted here. (via Eater)
Beer Gardens Bloom Around the City
THERE is no drinking forum more compatible with summer than the beer garden. Until recently, New Yorkers wanting to raise a stein in dappled sunshine had one choice: Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria, Queens, which turns 100 this year.
But in the last year or so, beer gardens have sprouted across the city. This wave coincided roughly with the outbreak of modern speakeasies. Both of them appeal to a populace seeking authentic, backward-glancing drinking traditions. Otherwise the two trends couldn’t be more different. Speakeasies, small, dark coves hidden behind nameless doors, tell of exclusivity, while beer gardens are proudly populist bastions of communal seating. And with wallets being battered daily, ease of entry and easily met tabs give beer gardens the edge among the thirsty.
An Affordable Apartment for One
Looking for a studio in a section of New York that had the same leafy feel as Brooklyn Heights, but would be less of a drain on the wallet. (Read more @ NYT.com)
How About Some 4th of July Specials?
Try getting a leg-up on the crushing mobs below at rooftop bar Press Lounge, eschewing the view for rare suds at The Vanderbilt, or taking things into your own hands with a picnic box from Landmarc Time Warner. Get ready folks, because it is undeniably party time.
