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That Time a Wheat Field Grew in Downtown New York

The 1980s was a weird time to be in New York. Punk was flourishing, but so was crime. There was Basquiat and Keith Haring. The creative energy was non-stop, but tumultuous, and living conditions were gritty and hard for many. But in 1982, one artist’s knee-jerk reaction to that reality was breathtakingly simple: in the face of…

12 Places in New York To Celebrate New Year’s Eve Like A Local

For most of 2018, it’s been all about New York City at Messy Nessy Chic, as we gear up for the release of our second book in 2019, Don’t be a Tourist in New York. So when it comes to making plans for New Year’s Eve in the Big Apple– we got this! Using our…

The Grumpy Comic Book King of Queens, New York

“The kids can’t read anymore, they’re a bunch of morons, so what are you gonna do?” And that pretty much sums up the legend that is Joe Leisner, the no-bullsh*t owner of Comic Book Heaven, formerly located in Sunnyside, Queens NY. Let’s meet him…

The Castaway Collector of Brooklyn

In Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York lives a man in an apartment with many things. Chong Gon Byun is his name and he arrived in New York City from Korea 25 years ago. Your initial thoughts on Byun might be that he is an obsessive vintage gatherer, a flea market bargain hunter, a hoarder. But a closer…

My Brooklyn Bronco B&B

It’s a (concrete) jungle out there when it comes to finding the perfect place to rest your head at the end of an action-packed day in New York City. Are you going to choose from the long list of twenty-story plaza hotels where every room is identical, or are you in search of something unique and off-beat? What I’m…

There’s an Incredible Collection of Classic Cars Hiding Away in a Brooklyn Garage

When you think of serious classic car collections, you picture vast, well-lit storage facilities on wealthy estates, not something that resembles an old-fashioned local mechanic shop, hidden away behind unmarked metal shutters in a dog-eared industrial neighbourhood in Brooklyn. But that’s what makes Lenny’s collection so much more special… There’s a few things that are unexpected about Lenny’s Garage. For one, Lenny Shiller himself…
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