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Last Minute Gifts: Dynamic Books For Young People

Thursday, December 20th, 2012
by on Reading Around

There are some wonderful books for young people this season. Some are classics, and some are just plain good reading. What they have in common

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Blaze2A

Van Cortlandt Manor is the BLAZE to be…

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
by on Living Around

Mix a stunning estate with dramatic architecture and about 5,000 hand cut and lit pumpkins, and you have the fanstastical Halloween treat known as the

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3-Rita & laughing gull

Rita McMahon and The Wild Bird Fund

Monday, March 19th, 2012
by on Living Around

I’m sitting in a cozy, art, and oriental carpet filled Upper West Side apartment with perhaps twenty birds in various sized cat carriers, several free

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Color Bees

A Spelling Bee – How the Literary World Fundraises

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
by on Living Around

A woman around this town knows how to get into an event to which she is ticketless. If the options of (1) going as the

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Downtown-Boathouse

Downtown Boathouse Kayaking

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
by on Living Around

When summer reigns in New York City, it becomes challenging to find shelter from all that humidity and heat. One option is to stay indoors,

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jimmy-roses

Sunday Night Social in the City:
Outdoor Rooftops and Parties High and Low

Friday, July 1st, 2011
by on Dining Around

Sunday nights in the city are the supreme. In the summer, what could be better than a casual or decked out Sunday night on a

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yoga

Five Boroughs of Free Summer Fitness

Sunday, June 19th, 2011
by on Living Around

This is your summer to parade a beach body and it’s easier than ever with the seasonal spike in free exercise programs in New York.

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Cloister-Tree

The Cloisters—Medieval Tranquility on a Hill

Friday, June 17th, 2011
by on Playing Around

From a distance, The Cloisters resembles the mysterious, medieval marvel it was intended to resemble. Opened in 1938, this architectural wonder, a branch of the

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