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  • Get Your Lobster Roll On!

    The past few years have been the era of the lobster roll. This classic in New England and Maine is all the rage in NYC with seafood shacks propping up all around town. Here are a few notable places to try out next time you have a crustacean craving.

  • Kumquat Cupcakery Classes

    This is a guest post from CakeSpy. I don't know about you, but even though I'm not in NYC, I am nonethless absolutely inspired by these cupcakes and the concepts of these upcoming classes put on by Kumquat Cupcakery. Perhaps you, too, will be inspired by the flavor combinations--or if you're in NYC…

  • Hey spring!

    Played hooky yesterday: met a friend for weekday dimsum in Flushing, drove through sheets of rain to Long Island wineries and the coast. We were thinking of taking a ferry to Connecticut, but forgot to disable our New York collars. Still here, I'll make it uptown for an update by end-of-week: read…

  • NYC and Roadtrip Part 1

    As I write this I am sitting at a table in the apartment of my friends' brother, in Queens, New York City. We've been here since yesterday afternoon, after driving from a place in mid-Pennsylvania where Brad and I camped out in the van. It's been a decently interesting trip, although parts have been…

  • TD Bank 5 Boro Bike Tour 2012!

    This year due to the insistence of my friends, I participated in the TD Bank NYC 5 Boro Bike Tour! 40 Miles of biking from Battery Park in lower Manhattan through Central Park, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and across the Verrazano bridge ending in Staten Island. The streets of NYC got closed down fo…

  • My Return to the City!

    I have exciting news! I will be attending New York Law School beginning this coming August, and thus moving back to New York City! I am absolutely overjoyed to be returning to Manhattan, especially since I will be living downtown and won't have to commute to and from the Bronx. But have no fear, Ful…

  • Bacon Bakery Opening in NYC!

    This is a guest post from CakeSpy. File under "wow, it's finally happened": a bacon themed bakery is opening. In New York City. As I learned from the New York Daily News, Books of Wonder, the Chelsea bookstore that bills itself as the "largest and oldest children's bookstore and the city's leading…

  • HS for Environmental Studies

    Also, I learned from the tenth graders that by age 30, "you should've made something of yourself". Here when I'm not out there: readingnyc.tumblr.com + pinterest.com/melkehjerter

  • Hi, tumbleweeds

    readingnyc.tumblr.com pinterest.com/melkehjerter/the-wide-wide-world/ I read a lot. It doesn't make me any smarter. I dislike organized groups (ugh book clubs!) and the layout of Goodreads, but you can check above to follow along with some of what I'm reading.

  • Top 5 Food Trucks I Want to Try

    Food Trucks have become one of the hottest trends over the years because it's efficient, it's outdoorsy, and it's innovative. I must admit, I really haven't experienced a whole lot of food from food trucks except for your average Halal food carts and Wafels & Dinges is probably the only food t…