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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Reel Life
Watching cult favorite director Wong Kar Wai film “My Blueberry Nights,” — his first American movie — on the streets of Soho last week, got us thinking again about how different Movie New York is from real life New York. … Continue reading
Jackass Number Three
SOMEWHERE UP IN THE SKY WHERE LATE HUSBANDS BITTERLY WATCH EX WIVES WHOOPING IT UP, Dr. Nicholas Bartha must be wishing he were even deader. We remember him blowing up his brownstone last summer (killing himself in the process) in … Continue reading
Wet Dream
NEXT TIME YOU SEE A SAND HOG, one of the guys saving us from the worst environmental disaster in history, give him a big Recharger hug. Two water tunnels have been quenching us since 1917 and 1936, respectively, about 1.2 … Continue reading
Bollywood in New York
That was Bollywood heart throb, Saif Ali Khan along with comedian Javed Jaffrey on 42nd Street and 6th Avenue shooting their new film, Ta Rum Pum Pum. Because the doe-eyed Saif Ali Khan is box office dynamite in his native … Continue reading
Superbug Returns
According to an August 2004 “repeated surveillance” study done by The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), re-released this month, 85,386 people in New York City live with HIV, and the disease is on the rise in most New … Continue reading
Black and Puerto Rican Babies Die
The NYC Health Department reports that while infant mortality rates (IMR) decreased in New York City last year, from 6.1 infant deaths to 6.0 (per thousand), minorities still suffer. African-Americans mortality rates have dropped from 11.6 in 2004 to 9.7 … Continue reading
Geo, the man with the teeny-weeny guitar at Union Square
In his dog-eat-dog hurry to make a buck, Recharger sometimes forgets to stop and smell the music. The cool thing about Geo is his teeny weeny, um, guitar. Geovanni Suquillo, from Valle de Chillos, Ecuador, lives in Astoria, Queens and … Continue reading
Duh
Back in 1979, a mere pup, Recharger picked apples in Washington State’s Winatchee Valley, earning a whopping $8 per bin, about $60 per day for him and his partner. This he learned: NEARLY ALL THE PICKERS IN THE VALLEY ARE … Continue reading
Memo to self: Brooklyn is worthy
Bicycle + Willingness-to-get-lost = Joy Wedding? newborn? bar mitzva? — doesn’t matter. Recharger thanks them.
If Only We Could Spill A Starbuck On Our Lap
RECHARGER WANTS TO HUG THE QUEENS WOMAN suing Starbucks because they wouldn’t honor her free drink coupon. When Kelly Coakley, 23, took the coupon to one of the coffee empire’s outlets in Queen, she was told it was no longer … Continue reading