Chicagoan turned New Yorker, Justine enjoys writing about the city as much as she loves living there! Find her people watching in the park or trying new restaurants—but she'll still take her deep dish!
Just as the MTA plans to update its subway system by replacing the MetroCard with OMNY, it will replace its diesel and CNG bus fleets with all electric ones! The MTA’s sustainable vision to introduce an all electr...
Each year, the NYC Health Department announces the top baby names of the year prior, and they just released 2022’s! For a sixth consecutive year, Liam remains the number one boy name in NYC. As for girls, Emma mai...
Though 2024 brings hope and an air of excitement, there’s still no hope for the MTA come the new year. The MTA recently announced that no subway trains will go to the Queensboro Plaza station on January weekends d...
If you’re cozying up for a Christmas movie marathon before the big day, you’re not alone! This year there’s one Christmas movie that seems to be on every New Yorker’s watch list, and that’s...
Readers in New York are privy to 200+ community-based library and literacy locations across the five boroughs. Through its three independent systems (New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Li...
The first phase of the East Midtown Waterfront Esplanade and East River Greenway Project has been completed along FDR Drive. Upon full completion of the larger Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, a continuous 32.5-mile loop...
Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum has been recreating the apartments and retelling the stories behind the immigrant families who once resided nearby or within its walls. And for the first time ever, the museum wil...
You may think the optimal time to catch the 50,000 lights twinkling on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is at night, but mix that in with the overflowing crowds and traffic spilling out onto Fifth Avenue and you...
The cold weather got you down? How about taking yourself on a pick-me up trip to Belize City on a direct flight for less than $200! Sounds to good to be true? Well, let’s just count it as a holiday miracle....
There’s simply no better place than NYC to get in the spirit of the season and as 2023 comes to a close, New York City is bustling with activities. From bar transformations, dazzling light displays, and all the ic...