Tim Donnelly
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NYC's biggest indoor skateboarding park in Brooklyn is free
Beatrice Domond was trying to land a trick, but it was taking a few tries. Not to land the trick, of course — the 25-year-old p𒊎ro skater ꦰhas been called...
Where to watch Super Bowl 2020 in NYC ꧟
෴ A bar for every football fan in alꦅl five boroughs.
Broadway's 'Jagged Little Pill' is reuniting Alanis Morissette fans as adults
In 1995, Alanis Morissette’s 🍬“Jagged Little Pill” topped Jennifer De Lucia’s Christmas list. As soon as she unwrapped the album, the 13-year-old played it over and over, losing herself in...
Meet the New Y🍨orkers choosing to live on its flood-ಞprone coasts
Seven years after Hurricane Sandy, city dwellers are still making real-estate bets on the Rockaways, South Brooklyn and Staten Island -- to mixed succes⭕s.
Check out these hid✅den Brooklyn treasures and eclec𒊎tic oddities
Brooklynite💎s love to flex the oft-cited stat about the borough’s power: if it were its own city, it would be the fourth largest in the country. Really it feels like...
Oktobe✨rfest 2019: 8 of the best places to celebrate in NYC
Alessandro Iorlano traveled all the way from Las Vegas to the Manhattan waterfront last weekend, fully loaded for Oktoberfest. He had a bachelor pa💞rty’s worth of bros in tow, all...
Urꦯban farms are sprouting up all 🥂over NYC
September has hit New York, and that means the air is getting cooler, the subways are get♋ting slightly less sweaty and we can all resume arguing whether🐟 pumpkin-flavored things are...
𒉰 Dog day delights: The best NYC events to close out summer 2019
Don💖’t let the haters fool you: Did you know that only earlier this week we hit the mathematical midpoint of summer? Yeah, it might feel like the dog days are...
Fight knight: These Coney Island 🔜battles are the bloody, bruising real deal
A crowd gathers as two figures in full armor draw their swords. The o🥀ne they call the Magic Knight reels back his weapon and smashes his foe’s helmet, metal pinging...
Millennials turn to 'co-living,' sacrificing privacy for perks
Across from Kimberly Chexnayder’s bed (which folds💫 out from the wall) and above her flat-screen TV (which came with her small but sparkling new apartment), she’s posted a slightly faded...
How to av🔴oid the crowds at these NYC hotspots
Ready to plow through your NYC summer bucket list? Get in line. Sweaty masses are swarming the city’s buzziest attractions, f🏅rom watering holes to art shows to ferry rides. Still...
ﷺ Crumbling beach icon gets n🍨ew life in Queens
An old art deco gem has risen again at Jacob Rii𒁏s Park in Queens. Constructed in 1932, the historic Bathhouse Beach Pavilion had long ago fallen into disrepair. Now, after...
NYC factory transformed into bocce, taco a🍌nd sunbathing oasis
♐ The sugar may be gone, but the views are sweeter than ever. One of New York City’s most iconic industrial relics has been turned into the Big Apple’s newest green...
Get out of the city with NYC's best hiking clubs
When a hiking group called the Sundanceཧ Outdoor Adventure Society was founded in 1980, the world was a much less tolerant place for members of the LGBT community. If you... ꦿ
🌜 Where toꦏ watch the Super Bowl in NYC
Forcing New Yorkers to choose between rooting for the New England Patriots or the Philadelphia Eagles is like making us choose between a sewer rat and a super rat. There's𝔉...
How tಞo channel your inner winter Olympian around NYC
The world’s top cold-weather athletes will dazzle, break records and earn medals at the Winter 🔯Olympics in South Korea starting Feb. 9. But if you can’t wait, you can create...
The crazy real estate bo🐻om taking over Flatbush Avenue 𒅌
When Jessi Arrington and Creight꧟on Mershon moved from Dumbo to Prospect Lefferts Gardens this year, the couple weighed two big trade-offs. They cou⛄ld rent a bigger, older walkup in the...
🐼 Mini world landmarks are taking over Times Square
The “crossroads of the woꦬrld” is about to get a whole lot more world to cross. “Gulliver’s Gate” is bringing the entire planet to 44th Street. The 49,000-square-foot extravaganza being...
I turn gꦛiant b𝔉locks of ice into magical wonderlands
Shintaro Okamoto likes to say that not everyone in Anchorage, Alaska, where he grew up, plays with ice. But he did, and it went way beyond bein♛g a diversion. He...
🐟 Virtual reality is ta💫king over NYC
No, you’re not dreaming. In the era of virtual reality, you can zip through space, survive zombie-infested streets or bust a ghost —🦩 a𝓀ll while wide awake. It might feel...