Living Without Credit

Picture this: I’m 18, going to college, living 3,000 miles away from home. I stop in at a music store and fiddle around with one of the keyboards there. It’s nice. I strike up a conversation with one of the salespeople. He’s nice. He asks if I’d like to buy the keyboard I’m ...

Open House Picks: Apartments

Clinton Hill 93 Lexington Avenue Loft Co-op Anne Peabody Sunday 1-3 $1,500,000 GMAP Brooklyn Heights 75 Livingston Street, #6C 2 BR Co-op Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $1,075,000 GMAP Park Slope 478 3rd Street, #4L 3 BR Co-op Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3 $979,000 GMAP Williamsburg 450 Manhattan Avenue, #5A 2 ...

This Holiday Season, Watch Out For Gout [Diseases]

Does the bedsheet touching the top of your foot feel like a hot prod? The season of overeating is almost upon us, and, Dr. Rock Positano warns in his HuffPo blog today, if you don't limit your gravy intake, you're asking for trouble in the form of a burning, swollen toe. We're talking about gout, also ...

College Humor threw a party last night, but ... [Trouble In Paradise]

College Humor threw a party last night, but we weren't invited! Tear. However, a spy informs us that theee hot couple of the moment, subway stalker Patrick Moberg and BlackBook intern Camille Hayton, were in attendance. Though they ducked out early! "They didn't look really happy. In fact he was kind ...

Williamsburg Indie Clothes Shopping [New York]

Shopping in Williamsburg, like shopping in most Brooklyn 'hoods, is an exercise in exploration, excavation, urban spelunking. In a neighborhood like this, known for growing its cool in the darkest corners of urban decay (your condemned parking garage is our mini mall), the best clothing stores aren't ...

84 Front Street Retail Space Rumors

The 84 Front Street building retail space sits un-leased. There are two prime spaces on Front Street between Washington Street and Adams Street. A reader wrote in: …I was walking by 84 Front street and saw some construction going on in the store front space. After talking to the doorman in ...

Where the Deals Are

As housing prices remain strong in Manhattan, the suburbs are seeing them decline, especially in areas that have the longest commutes to the city.

How much an iPhone will really cost you

Look at this fascinating quote from this week’s Time Magazine: “…as of last week, the income segment with the highest percentage of visitors to the iPhone site was 18 to 24 years of age, earning less than $30,000 per year.” For decades, personal-finance “experts” have ...

13 stunning differences in how men and women think about money

Digg this! Thanks to the 35+ comments on the last post, Rob from BankSwitcher (”Switching banks is hard…we make it easier”) was kind enough to re-analyze the data from my survey on gender and money (n=1,167). Below, you’ll see red highlighting around areas where there are dramatic ...

The ultimate no-brainer way to boost savings

Companies will soon have more reason to do something fairly simple that could boost their workers' retirement income from 401(k)s by 50 percent or more - and workers won't have to do anything but stay out of the way.

Mattel Apologizes to China for Recalls

In the extraordinary apology, Mattel took the blame for design flaws and said it had recalled more lead-tainted toys than justified.

Three Jewelry Designers from London Fashion Week

Walking around the accessories section of the London Fashion Week show over the last few days, a noticeable trend of delicate jewelery caught our attention. With long chains, floating butterflies, intricately wrought wood and metal, beautiful combinations of materials and ethereal detailing, each ...

Walentas Gets Dunk'd, Money Raised at Dumbo Fight Night

On a night that celebrated the booming neighborhood's range of cultural options while raising money to restore its historic belgian brick streets (as well as some infrastructure work below them), several of the neighborhoods biggest developers climbed into the dunk tank and let the preservationists ...

Headline Of The Day: "The ponies abandoned by British children ...

"The ponies abandoned by British children and sent to France as horse meat" [Daily Mail (U.K.)]

New York's Best Burgers

Oh hamburger, that all-American meal of the (strictly Christian) gods. If this summer found you stuck in the city instead of on the beach, singeing your eyebrows over a barbecue grill, don't give up. For every restaurant in New York City, there's another burger worth trying. We have our own first-round ...

Our Celebrities: Dress Julia Allison

Julia Allison needs your help! The newly single Star Editor-at-Large IMs: "I think I need Gawker's help!!!!!! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TOP LAST YEAR'S HALLOWEEN COSTUME. So i think you should do a poll! Like, "What should Julia be for Halloween?" Although potentially that could just lead to commenters ...

The Nine Circles of Times Square Hell

Abandon all hope ye who enter here. More than any other attraction the shining beacon of Times Square represents New York's own nine circles of hell. What was once a respectable collection of hookers, porn theaters, and danger has given way to gawking tourists pointing cameras and camcorders at huge ...

Openings: Latest & Greatest

Southern Hospitality: Justin Timberlake's gastro venture hit NYC's Upper East Side last week and features Memphis style cuisine largely and lovingly pilfered from his Grandmother's recipe collection. Johnny Utah's: Mechanical bull meet midtown Manhattan. In all its Wild Wild West glory, Johnny Utah's ...

Eater Tastings: Billyburg Biergarten & Liquor License Feuds

This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) Plywood Report: In Williamsburg, the retractable roof venue that is to be called Radegast Hall & Biergarten is coming along nicely (renderings, above). Meantime, on Roosevelt Island, widespread rejoicing over the opening ...

NY Times Cityroom Prompts 215 Plymouth Stop Work Order

 (Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times) The NY Times Cityroom blog reported that the owner of 215 Plymouth Street building were trying to get a step ahead of regulation by doing facade work before the historic district is formally established by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The ...