While we doubt that we’re being given “inside information” as our source purports, the new ‘Delicious Discounts‘ program for Manhattan restaurants doesn’t seem half bad. The service aggregates over a thousand Manhattan (and soon Brooklyn) restaurants, searchable by proximity to your address. Each time you try a new restaurant—and we don’t yet know how Delicious Discounts can tell if it’s new to you—you “automatically receive 20-25% off your first order from that restaurant,” says our ‘source.’
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Renters Speak: The Cockroaches of Central Park
By 1.19.06
Despite the great response we got from our request for bad rental experiences, we can’t get enough horror stories about awful living situations—especially ones in New York.
Manhattan Shopping Alert: A. P. C. Winter Collection Sale
By 12.12.05
It’s not until January 5th, but if we didn’t post it now, we’d sure to forget it. All women’s, men’s, children’s, and whatever’s clothes and accessories will be 30 to 50 percent off. They’re leaving Soho, though, and are moving to Tribeca. Stay sharp.
Manhattan Shopping Alert: Bliss Blowout Sale; Update: Bliss Smells Like Flouride
By 12.8.05
Tony spa Bliss is clearing out lots of stock today through Saturday. We’d suggest arriving today, on your lunch break, with a knife.
Starbucks’ Unionized Square
By 11.26.05
Baristas at the Starbucks in Union Square have made a bold move for headline writers everywhere, joining two other Manhattan stores in the ‘Starbucks Union.’ A division of the Industrial Workers of the World—The Fightin’ IU 600—the employees surrounded their store manager (a full-time employee) and demanded that they be allowed to serve high-quality coffee that didn’t taste like powered roofing shingle. Or maybe a guaranteed 30-hour work week and health care benefits. One of those.
