In this episode of Bodega Cats In Their Own Words, Oliver talks about the luxuries of bodega life, and how one Upper West Side lady saved him from the streets of Yonkers.
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He may be only 6 inches tall, but Gus the bodega cat is the King of Corona! Watch his video (including a dramatic reenactment of the time he escaped the bodega!) HERE.
Bodega Cats In Their Own Words playing in a bodega in Corona, Queens. Have you had your bodega cat fix today?
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24 New York City Pro Tips
“Pro Tip” – n. to distill important knowledge about a subject and share it with those new to said subject. (Urban Dictionary)
Here are two dozen pro tips about making it in the city. We hope.
#25 Find a dependable public bathroom, then NEVER TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT.
NYC’s Key to Clean Water: Upstate Real Estate
- Rain and snow falling across this land in the Catskills, 70 miles up the Hudson River, supply roughly 90% of New York City’s water.
- Combined, these patches of city-owned property would roughly equal the size of New York City minus Staten Island. NYC is buying even more land to block development and pollution, and to avoid building another filtration plant.
- In addition to city-owned land, half of the watershed is either state owned or privately owned and under forest, farm or conservation plans designed to protect water from pollution.
- That’s a chunk of wilderness the size of a 2100 square-foot 3-bedroom apartment near Union Square. So, in a sense, you do have a yard!
Have you ever wondered where NYC’s water comes from?
Our 25 Favorite New York City Instagrams of 2014
We love the New York City Instagram community, and regularly feature our favorite “Instagram of the day." Here are our favorite ‘grams of the year. They caught our eye, and our followers on Facebook and Twitter loved them, too.
Gay Marriage Has Made $259 Million for New York City
If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s figures that same-sex marriages brought in some $259 million in economic benefits to the city are correct—that means gay marriages earned the city around $30,000 per hour since they were legalized one year ago. Or put another way, that’s an extra $31 for each 8,245,000 New Yorkers.
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Life in the Middle: Neighborhoods at New York City’s $51,865 median household income
All this week, WNYC reporters are visiting neighborhoods – one in each borough – smack at the city’s median income: just $51,865 per household. We want to learn how it feels to live here on that sum, and how it feels to be middle class in New York City now.
Today Jim O'Grady reports from Grasmere, just south of The Staten Island Expressway.
Donald J. Trump has officially been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.