How to Eat Smart Into the New Year and Beyond

Written by Alissa Fleck on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Local Pedro Yanowitz checks out the Fuji apples at the Union Square Farmers’ Market. Photo by Aaron Adler A few local foodies sing the praises of farmers’ markets Maybe you want to eat right in 2013 but, like most New Yorkers, you’re always in a hurry, and making good nutrition a priority doesn’t come as easily as it should. Fortunately, there are ways to turn that perception around. Farmers’ markets, like those open
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Update Your Wardrobe

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dt_newyou_JenniferCollins_PinkClouds2 Style experts explain how to usher in a year of clothing bliss By Sharon Feiereisen We’re constantly bombarded with news of the latest trends and wardrobe must-haves, but what are small things we can do that can have a major impact as we usher in this new year? The answer may very well reside in
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Small Changes to Make 2013 Less Stressful

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bed We talked to downtown experts in stress management about how to handle anything the new year can throw at you By Sharon Feiereisen It’s not for nothing that Woody Allen is a New York City poster child. Life in this city—as fantastic as it can be—can bring with it an endless parade of neuroses, anxiety
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Don’t Be a Fitness Failure in 2013

Written by Alissa Fleck on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

NYCSSC Dodgeball How ordinary people can fulfill exercise goals this year It’s the same old story—New Year’s rolls around and New Yorkers everywhere march proudly to the gym, armed with shiny new sports gear and a can-do attitude. “This year’s going to be different,” they think. By mid-January, spirits are waning. By February, most have fallen off
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Sixteenth Street Synagogue Narrowly Avoids Eviction

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DT_synagogue_kid_aa Threatened with ouster, the 67-year-old congregation fights back in the courts By Caroline Lewis Last week, a long- coming eviction notice posted on the door of Manhattan’s Sixteenth Street Synagogue finally confronted its president, Richard McBee: He had five days to clear out the space that has housed the congregation’s services and spiritual life ever
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Tenants of Luxury Building Sue Management Over Sandy

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A huge boiler sits outside of 2 Gold Street. The residents of 2 Gold Street accuse building management of being grossly unprepared for flooding By Sophia Rosenbaum After Hurricane Sandy devastated downtown, many buildings were left uninhabitable for days and weeks at a time due to severe flood damage. Many of those displaced residents have since been able to return, but residents of the
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NYU Langone Resumes Inpatient Services

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hospital After severe damage from Hurricane Sandy forced Tisch Hospital and the Schwartz Health Care Center to remain closed for months, these facilities at NYU Langone Medical Center resumed inpatient services on Thursday, Dec. 27. Administrators also anticipate a return of nearly all services by the end of January. “We have overcome many challenges over the
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2013 Predictions: Conjectures on the Great White Way

Written by Doug Strassler on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Scarlett Johansson appears in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Richard Rogers Theater It’s a new year, a new turn for stars to come to the stage and show their stuff. Below are a few of the bigger ones to set your sights on: Though she won a Tony, I was not a big fan of Scarlett Johansson in Arthur Miller’s View From the Bridge. Can she redeem
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2013 Predictions: Two Dans Walk Into a Fortune Teller…

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garodnick-200x300 We asked Upper East Side Council Member Dan Garodnick and Assembly Member Dan Quart to give us their 2013 predictions. What’s going to be the biggest news story to come out of your district in 2013? Garodnick: Dan Garodnick will kiss every baby in Council District 4 in support of his reelection bid. Quart: As
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Lady Smarts: 2013, The Year of the Megging

Written by Meredith Russo on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

meggings-1 By Meredith Russo What the hell, 2012. No really, who do you think you are? I guess that Zombie Bath Salt Apocalypse went to your head. And “Call Me Maybe.” Maybe. That happened. But meggings? You’re leaving 2013 with meggings? What are meggings? Oh, you know, what a casual dude might buy at LululeMAN if
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