ice cream

04 Sep 2010

Parked: FREE Food Truck Festival at Governor’s Island

As much as I love retreating to Governor’s Island during the summer, I must say their food situation over there is pretty shaky. Last time I went, my travel buddy ordered a gyro from the lone Greek food truck that substituted tzatziki or “white sauce” for drippy ranch dressing. It

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21 Aug 2010

Shhh… there’s a Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory in Greenpoint, too

The lines at Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory in Dumbo are almost as famous as the ice cream itself… but it’s totally worth it, right? Like, it’s gotta be… why else would people decide that standing outside for over an hour for something that’s available on almost every other street corner

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31 Jul 2010

Broke-Ass Porn: El Paletero

Once a week we present Broke-Ass Porn. It’s visually stimulating material for the financially impaired. If this shit doesn’t get you going, you’re not as broke as you thought.

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21 May 2010

$1 Ice Cream Cones at Three Twins on Saturday!

There’s nothing better than ice cream.  Wait, I take that back.  There’s nothing better than organic ice cream.  You know, good for the earth and the animals and all that shit.  BUT wait again.  There’s nothing better than CHEAP, organic ice cream.  Good thing Three Twins is turning one this

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28 Apr 2010

$.31 Scoops Tonight at Baskin Robbins!

Baskin Robbins was my family’s go-to for ice cream when I was a kid.  I was so into it that I only learned a year ago that “Jamoca Almond Fudge” is not a universal flavor like chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, but a copyrighted Baskin Robbins concoction.  When I moved to

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05 Apr 2010

Gone Tippin’!

Remember in the 90’s when coffee became a Thing? It was a tumultuous time in the culture: the heyday of Ross and Rachel, of the musical RENT! of Raising Awareness About Everything and flat-ironing the living shit out of your hair. It was also when s going to a “coffeehouse”

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18 Aug 2009

FREE Beverages, Cake and Ice Cream at Four Barrel

I remember hearing about this at some point over the weekend during some late night Jameson induced talkathon.  I clearly forgot about it afterwards but luckily a regular reader named Kate just dropped me the 411. Ha!  Remember pagers and all the little codes we used like 411 and 143

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24 Jul 2009

FREE Ice Cream at Three Twins

A few weeks ago my girlfriend sent me a text about this event and my lazy ass just got to posting it today.  The first thing I thought when I saw her text was, “My readers will love FREE ice cream.  I can already tell they’re twisted alcoholics by the

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