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Fort Tilden/Breezy Point

rockaways feel like this faraway corner of the city that shouldn't exist, real border land vibes. this part especially feels very secluded and has a great view of the water or the city depending where you face. also double rec biking there via Flatbust/Marine Pkwy bridge, it has a pedestrian walkway!

@royallmonarch

Feb 28, 2024

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City island via pelham Bay park

What if Cape Cod but somehow in the Bronx? Walk from the end of the 6 line through the park and across a bridge to maybe the most idiosyncratic place within city limits. You’ll find one main drag with dead ends into the Sound on either side. Real community feel and people do live there year round, but most of the businesses are seasonal seafood joints. Ideally wait for opening season and grab fried lobster tails and an $8 pina colada at Johnny’s.

@tortitude

Feb 28, 2024

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city of dreams

Manhattan (Mostly LES + some extras) - Dim Sum GoGo - my gf‘s friend‘s new bar Sake Bar Asoko - Forget Me Not for a chill dimes square fries and a martini asshole meal - live music at Heaven Can Wait, Arlene’s, Mercury Lounge, Berlin Under A, Bowery Ballroom - drunk karaoke at Winnie’s - Roxy Cinema for a movie night - Bk Bridge park at night for a view and ice cream if you’re a tourist or just nostalgic - The Whitney museum and a walk by the water / more gallery hopping - Lovers of Today bar for a date or late night move - Orchard Express Tailor for your tailoring needs - The Met & Central Park is a trek but worth doing on a nice late spring day Brooklyn (I live in crow heights) - Bk museum and Botanic Garden day (i did a whole post on this) - Super Power or Bearded Lady (sister tiki bars) to get wasted - live music at Baby’s All Right, Gold Sounds, Alphaville, Trans-Pecos - a chic dinner & incredible food at Olea, Aita, Saraghina Cafe, Colonia Verde, LaRina, Sisters, Bunna Cafe - Turtles All The Way Down or Do or Dive for dive bars - Fan Fan Doughnuts - Greenberg Bagels or Lula Bagels - Island Pops ice cream - Nana Ramen, Ichiran Ramen - bars for dates: The Narrows, Doris, Hartley‘s, Bar Laika, Bar Velo, Pokito, Lunatico - Fort Greene Park on a nice day - Drive to Highland Park for nature & to feel like you are not in the city - Red Hook day (wineries, breweries, + Steve’s Key Lime Pie) - Rockaway beach - dirty chai ($$$$) from Cotton Bean or Marcy & Myrtle that’s all for now

@rlyblonde

Sep 16, 2024

Top Recs from @meetka

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Lifetime’s Intimate Portraits

If I’m ever at all anxious, I put YouTube on my TV and watch an amazingly comforting series called Intimate Portraits, which focuses on one woman in Hollywood per episode. The subjects are usually from the Golden Age of Hollywood up until about the 80’s or 90’s. The usually English female narrators talk so slowly and precisely about Bacall’s depression or Garland’s divorces, it weirdly makes me feel so relaxed and distracted. My favorite episode is on Lauren Bacall, and once you watch one, you can’t stop!

@meetka

Jun 9, 2022

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Radio Alarm Clocks

Since teenagehood I always used my iPhone’s alarms, those horrible sounds to abruptly wake me from sleep and comfort. Now I use a radio alarm clock I got from Sharper Image that slowly gets louder over the course of 2 minutes to whatever station I desire! This makes waking up easier, and slower, less abrupt. You also can get lost in the radio, weekends are for the classical station and weekdays are for NPR. I wake up at 7 or 7:30am and lay in bed for a bit listening to the news and stories, not immediately looking at my phone, which now charges out of reach from my bed, which I also recommend! You can get them at Best Buy for like $20.

@meetka

Jun 9, 2022

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Siri Hustvedt

I read most of Hustvedt’s work when I was in Berlin and Paris in 2019. She writes so beautifully about neurology and illness, neurotypical anomalies, but in a greatly poetic yet digestible way. I suggest one starts with Living, Thinking, Looking (2012).

@meetka

Jun 9, 2022