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Now, let's get you caught up on some of our top content you may have missed:
🚶♀️The best way to walk the entire length of Manhattan
Team Groove has some pro tips for your tip-to-toe Manhattan walk.
🦪 Whatever happened to $1 oysters?
Rising prices have killed many $1 oyster happy hours, but we mapped out a few deals
👀 Sauronhenge is calling. Are you ready?
What if Brooklyn had its own uniquely evil solar phenomenon? Well good news, now we do!
🇮🇹 Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus
🗺️ Put down your phone and start a history night at a dive bar
History Night was cooked up in part as a way to get people into a bar, but it has grown into so much more.
⚡️ What’s the real reason your ConEd bills have been skyrocketing?
Winter used to be a reprieve from high ConEd bills, but not any more
💰 How to scare your freelance boss into finally paying up
A breakdown on how New York's landmark Freelance Isn't Free has been working in its first few years, and how you can use it to scare the money you rightfully deserve from even the most withholding of bosses.
🏥 Where you can still get Narcan for free (instead of over-the-counter for $44.99)
For something health experts want every person to have, Narcan can be surprisingly hard to get your hands on. Or in some cases, surprisingly hard to keep your hands on. We ran down where you can still get the life-saving anti-overdose medication for free.
🥡 Is Too Good To Go too good to be true?
The new food-saving app is winning fans all over the city. But is it actually helping reduce food waste and lower costs, or is it just monetizing dumpster diving?
🚲 Get on the bike bus: A new movement is changing how kids get to school, and you can help
We did a ridealong with the Bergen Bike Bus, and put together a rundown on what it takes to start your own bike bus at your kid's school. Plus, find out how to grab your own bike and join up with one to make sure these cycling shorties make it to school safely.
🍕 How to unionize your pizza shop
Since news first broke of Barboncino workers’ unanimous vote in favor of forming a union, other workers in the city’s famously brutal service industry have taken notice, and made moves to form union shops of their own.
🐈⬛ How you can help the cat crisis in NYC
The city's shelter and street cat population has been surging since the pandemic. Shelters are overrun, but you can help in lots of ways.
🍹How to-go drinks managed to flop in New York City
After the pandemic, the city's to-go drinks program was supposed to stick around, but it faded away with a whimper. We looked at how it was supposed to work, and why it never really took hold.
🌳 How to get off the internet
Our running Get Off the Internet series highlights all the fun and invigorating ways people are getting back into the real work, from New York Liberty watch parties and bars with old-school jukeboxes to becoming a tree steward or joining a community garden.
🎉 Stay tuned for NYG events!
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