new york city

How NOT To Be An Annoying Broke-Ass
Rule of thumb: you can be poor, just don’t be annoying about it. Everyone’s trying to get by. Especially if you live in an outrageously expensive city such as New York or San Francisco. But if you do indeed live in such a city, then you know how utterly amazing

BA of the Week: Jessica Tiare Bowen from UsedYorkCity
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

Late Night Basement with Chris Rose featuring Andrew WK at Legion Bar
Late Night Basement had a successful opening show at Brooklyn’s Legion Bar in late January, with a full house enjoying live stand-up from two of the best comedians today, Brooke Van Poppelen and Dave Hill. Since then, Chris Rose’s Puppy Bowl Pep Talk from the first show was featured on HuffPost

Chasing the Perfect Hairstylist in New York
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of me standing in front of a mirror in my dining room, alternately laughing hysterically and then bursting into tears. I was confused and unable to reel in my emotions, and the image of myself sobbing in the mirror only made me

Broke-Ass Adultolescence: Living at Home
“Living at home is such a drag. Now, your Mama threw away Your best porno mag.” – Fight for Your Right by the Beastie Boys Once upon a time, living at home was an unfortunate situation which only losers, failures, and the mentally unstable would have to endure. See, moving

Incredibly Cheap Japanese Cuisine at Cafetasia
Cafetasia is your not-so-typical Japanese cuisine located in the New York City’s quintessential neighborhood, Greenwich Village. It is unconventional perhaps due to the large volume of diverse individuals that step foot in there every day and night and probably because of the bar-like atmosphere it transforms into sometime during the

Bus/Train Etiquette in NYC for the Fellow Broke-Ass Travelers
Just a little word of advice for the fellow broke-ass bus and train riders: There ARE actually a list of do’s and don’ts that may be useful to some or useful to others when it comes to riding the bus or train. These rules are also specific to NYC travelers.

Three of the Biggest Ripoffs In NYC
Some expenses are unavoidable – fare for the (ever-increasing) metro, the monthly procurement of non-leaking shelter, avoiding starvation. If you’re savvy, you can probably manage to do this reasonably within budget. However, there are some things in this city so disproportionately costly, it might make you do a double take