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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: February 2010
Is Mike Alaska the Champ?
Posted in Arts & Events, The City
Tagged mike alaska, percussionist, subway musician, union square
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Bellini
Until yesterday, the Bellini—a cocktail/nuclear device equal parts Champagne and peach juice—did not appeal to us. We’re more Jack on the rocks types. Then we swaggered into Cipriani at 55 Wall Street, whose owners have gained fame for refusing to … Continue reading
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Ace In The Hole
Because we are old, we half expected the doormen standing guard to the entrance of the Ace Hotel’s Lobby Bar, to grimly bar us. Located at 20 W. 29th Street, near the corner of Broadway, the space is casually hip, … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City
Tagged 29th Street, ace hotel, Breslin Bar, broadway., cheap dates, chelsea, hipsters, lobby bar, madison square, new york city hotels, wi-fi
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Better Than The Superbowl
Someday, we’ll wonder where we were on February 6, 2010, Super Sunday Eve, and we’ll look at this—the 14th Street exit from the 7th Avenue-Broadway IRT express—and feel a trillion times more than when we gaze on Picasso’s Guernica, or … Continue reading
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We just got back from Vietnam, a country so money-hungry, so capitalistic—Hanoi and Saigon—that we came away with two strong impressions: 1) Because the people are smart, can-do, petite, cheerful and in a charmingly-crazed sort of way, the place struck … Continue reading
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$300,000?
The beautiful thing about this country, no matter how un-chic you are, how empty your wallet, the stores on Madison Avenue still buzz you in. So we are walking past 940 Madison Avenue, a former Chase Manhattan bank, transformed by … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City
Tagged Bruce Hoeksema, fashion, jewelry, Madison Avenue, Mexican Opal, VBH
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