#257

4 Feb 12

Super Bowl 'excitement'...
NYC goes Giants crazy in the run up to the big match. Also iCrime, and lamenting record stores

 

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#256

28 Jan 12

Football & possoms...
Why they have both affected the city! Also my Beatles reunion and where beards are now OK...

 

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#255

21 Jan 12

Chinese New Year!
Another clutch of tracks from the 80's and 80's to bring in the Chinese year of the Dragon!

 

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#254

14 Jan 12

The safer city...
New stats on why it's safer to be a New Yorker. Plus fake baking, and the cheetah controversy!

 

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#253

7 Jan 12

Broadway losses...
Gloomy year for theater in 2011. Plus priciest apartment, Grammy silliness, & million $ taxi!

 

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#252

31 Dec 11

New Year's Eve Special!
A feel-good selection of tracks from the 70's, 80's and 80's to fit the NY Eve party spirit!

 

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#251

25 Dec 11

Christmas Day turkeys!
Two hours of turkeys stuffed with quirky and bizarre Xmas tracks! (OK, and a few gems too)

 

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#250

24 Dec 11

Christmas Eve...
Christmas classics and some surprisingly good new tracks for the season too. 100% festive!

 

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#249

17 Dec 11

Christmas surprises...
Good and bad retail news, preparations and aspirations for Xmas, walking over Niagara Falls!

 

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#248

10 Dec 11

Advancing Christmas...
Also busking issues, haiku traffic signs, Idol Vs. The X Factor, & the real cost of Christmas!

 

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#247

3 Dec 11

Black Friday / Cyber Monday...
Post Thanksgiving splurges! Plus Spiderman balances, 'Occupy' song, Gaga's chocolate shoe

 

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#246

26 Nov 11

Thanksgiving...
Biggest holiday of the year! Also the power of laughter, returning NYers, digital Salvation Army!

 

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#245

19 Nov 11

Fall changes...
My perspective on Zuccotti Park protests, plus controversial Happy Hour, Batman on the bridge!

 

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#244

12 Nov 11

It's Christmas...
Does it arrive earlier each year? Plus carriage controversy, grief in the skies, & city seasonality

 

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#243

5 Nov 11

The crazy storm...
It came out of the blue last weekend. Also the NYC marathon, birthdays, celebrating corduroy!

 

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#242

29 Oct 11

Halloween!
What it means for the Big Apple, plus trashing the subway, fortune telling, and more pumpkins!

 

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#241

22 Oct 11

The fall feel...
Plus getting lost in a maze, celebrating London Bridge, pricy parking, and fighting bill shockers!

 

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#240

15 Oct 11

NYC update!
Why Halloween has already struck, restoring a meadow, TV casualties, & Gaga's festive grotto!

 

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#239

8 Oct 11

The New Times Square...
Plus the city's biggest ever park (and where it is), a UN land swap, & naked in San Francisco!

 

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#238

1 Oct 11

Wetter than ever...
This year is one of the wettest ever! Plus Fall TV review, subway talk, & living postage stamps!

 

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#237

24 Sep 11

Fall strikes back...
Also fewer smokers in the city, the well traveled cat, sharing a bike, & celebrating parking meters

 

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#236

17 Sep 11

Anniversaries and tennis...
How the city marked 9-11 ten years on, plus recycling tennis balls, and green markets!

 

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#235

10 Sep 11

9-11 ten years on...
The city remembers what happened 10 years ago this weekend, and how it changed the world.

 

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#234

3 Sep 11

After the hurricane...
Natural devastation in the area, but NYC dodges the bullet. Details plus the other Big Apple news

 

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#233

27 Aug 11

Earthquakes & hurricanes...
Also topless in Manhattan, record TV production, and the bizarre NY earthquake...

 

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#232

20 Aug 11

Talking trash...
Yes, the new garbage controversy. Plus Lady Liberty revamp, drunken puppies, & Madchester!

 

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#231

13 Aug 11

Summer Streets...
Also a knitting protest, renting out a garden, talking about sex, & where Chinatown is. Or not.

 

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#230

6 Aug 11

Big Apple update...
Grading hot-dog carts, Scrabble St remembered, Xin Hua at Times Sq, & leaning tower of pizza!

 

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#229

30 Jul 11

Seasonal summer...
Plus 'Back To School' creep, naked cycling, 3D ballet, and how MTA changed to MTR...

 

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#228

23 Jul 11

The heat is on...
A baked Big Apple, with temps up to 37C. Also the wedding lottery, skinny NYC, Darth binned.

 

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#227

16 Jul 11

Live in Hong Kong!
All New York artists and bands on this special live edition of NCNY in HK!

 

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#226

9 Jul 11

Post Independence Day...
Sustainable boardwalk issues, the taxing sales tax, signs for tourists, plus a 4th report.

 

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#225

2 Jul 11

4th July weekend!
So lots of BBQs and fireworks! Plus the electic bike curse, smoking smackdown, & tennis balls!

 

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#224

25 Jun 11

Officially summer...
Plus the Brooklyn postcard mystery, men about town, TV multi-tasking, subway announcemnts!

 

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#223

18 Jun 11

Peas, Spiderman, & sunscreen...
Also new tourist statistics for NYC, free wi-fi in parks, award-winning dog, & 4 seasons in 1 day

 

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#222

11 Jun 11

Hotter still...
It got hotter. So news on the solar-powered bikini, polar bear grief, and falcon sackings...

 

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#221

4 Jun 11

Hot hot heat!
The summer hits (early), plus fewer TVs, English signage issues, Manhattanenge, and... sharks!

 

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#220

28 May 11

Memorial Day...
Also no end to the world, ebooks v paper, rites of spring (dead bodies), disabled disagreements

 

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#219

21 May 11

NYC update...
Spiderman returns (sort of), diplomatic parking, TV failures, the social city, & only one Brooklyn!

 

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#218

14 May 11

Welcome quiet...
Plus eyes on the hawk, snakes vs. peacocks, smoking countdown, & subway Shakespeare!

 

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#217

7 May 11

Double celebration...
Events in Pakistan this week & Mexico in 1862 cause for celebration. Plus NY food & taxi news!

 

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#216

30 Apr 11

Spring has sprung...
Fines for fakery, fewer cruise fumes, iCrime on the subway, & equal opportunity speed eating!

 

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#215

23 Apr 11

Happy Easter!
Biker Williams, does 929 = 212, recycling music, taxi protection, and licking Lady Liberty!

 

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#214

16 Apr 11

Buying the ESB...
Also Satan's Manhattan address, local men in black, Concorde for sale, and why Mia is good...

 

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#213

9 Apr 11

Bronx Zoo snake update...
Plus over-legislating health, renaming the bridge, library scavenging, and how come the dog did it!

 

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#212

2 Apr 11

Disaster area: Brooklyn...
Also the NY pillow fight, moving a clock is news, snakes alive, and Mayor Bloomberg in tights...

 

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#211

26 Mar 11

City streets hit 200...
Plus the f-bomb dominates Billboard, giving up light, and how to pay parking tickets online!

 

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#210

19 Mar 11

Hamster journalism...
As the NY Times reaches new highs. Also iTime, memory champs, and Idol for opera!

 

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#209

12 Mar 11

OMD-fest...
A review of the OMD gig, golden Monopoly, tennis for the rich, space shuttle competition!

 

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#208

5 Mar 11

Oscars, spam, and rowing...
What taxi medallions are about, overdone frock changes, & mystery in the East Village!

 

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#207

26 Feb 11

Post Presidents...
Also the problem of potholes, swanky Waldorf, calorie counting, & biggest apple in the apple.

 

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#206

19 Feb 11

Grammys & gaffs...
Plus eagles, cockroaches, and opera in 3D. Oh, and how to buy the Staten Island Ferry...

 

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#205

12 Feb 11

Pre-Valentines...
Also a Super Bowl p.s, an Empire Stare race, snow parking rules, and the pruple visitor...

 

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#204

5 Feb 11

Groundhog day...
What it means for NY, also the Super Bowl preamble, more rollercoasters, and censuses.

 

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#203

29 Jan 11

Winter continues...
Plus average taxi trips, meditation in the museum, racy skins, & second hand cigars...

 

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#202

22 Jan 11

The slushfest...
Post snow, is the slush. Super. Plus Beatles on ululele, spidey still out, smelling your lover!!

 

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#201

15 Jan 11

More snow - again...
Plus new iPhone battle, Cleopatra needled, no pants update, Dracula dead, underwater wind!

 

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