Nifty Places: Franklin Pizza, Home of the Garlic Knot Sandwich
Perhaps saying I eat less garbage than I used to is a lie I tell myself. Perhaps before I was more of a willing participant, and now garbage simply foists itself upon me. Perhaps this thing is real, or maybe it is just a mirage that manifests in the veritable octagon of shame that constitutes [...]
Nifty Places: Ba Xuyen
It’s been brutally hot outside. The sun has seemingly turned evil, hurtling towards the earth with extreme prejudice like a day-glow answer to the moon from Majora’s Mask. But I kind of like New York in high heat, if only because most everyone must eventually succumb to the sweat-drenched futility of it all. As a [...]
Nifty Places: No Name Bar
It’s usually a good thing if a bar you like starts serving passable food. It certainly makes nights out easier to manage, allowing lazy people like myself to stay in one place while indulging in all sorts of bacchanalia. I’ve grown to like No Name Bar (597 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY) in the recent warmer [...]
Nifty Places: PSC Cafeteria – Fantastic Polish Food in Greenpoint
Of the Polish restaurants where I’ve eaten, each has at least one distinguishing characteristic. Karczma, with its Epcot-Poland vibe, has spaciousness. Lomzynianka offers novel (to some) intimacy and also a novel (to all) BYOB policy. Krolewskie Jadlo has knights! (Okay, and probably the most expansive menu. They carry some gamier meat dishes and their inclusion [...]
Nifty Places: De Luxe ($1 Sustainably Sourced Coffee)
BYO mug and mention “smdlr” or “small, medium, large” for $1 sustainably sourced coffee through April 30th, 2012 (details below). Thanks to De Luxe for offering this special deal to Nifty NYC & smdlr readers! Got any spare change? Four Quarters? Ten Dimes? Perhaps a mixture of dimes, nickels and quarters? Summing up any of [...]
Nifty Places: Gimme! Coffee (Free Sustainably Sourced Coffee Tastings on Sundays)
Give Me Coffee. Exclamation Point. Down a street called Roebling, recessed behind a coffee front so named Gimme! Coffee (107 Roebling St., Brooklyn), is an unassuming room and coffee cove. There, every Sunday at 3pm – you and all the friends you know can freely enter to taste a flight of sustainably sourced coffees. At [...]
Nifty Places: Trade School
Last year, more than 800 students enrolled in classes offered over the course of 35 days at Trade School, a community-supported, non-traditional learning environment where students barter for instruction. Back by popular demand, the school’s second semester classes will be held from February 2nd through April 17th, 2011 in an old elementary school on Prince [...]
