The Best Things About Being A Middle-Aged Guy in New York

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The idea of aging used to terrify me. America, young, randy and so fashionably decadent, worships youth. Coming up on 40, I became so neurotic about not having achieved any level of what could be termed "worldly success" whatsoever that I actually took to consulting a shrink for a while, a fruitless endeavor for anyone
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About the Best of Manhattan 2000

Written by Russ Smith on . Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

Danny Hellman I’m Talkin’ Trash New York’s National Embarrassment Pouring It All Out, Part XIII. This week’s entire New York Press is devoted to our annual Best of Manhattan roundup. There’s no need to expand further; our editors and writers have worked for several months at compiling this year’s digest of recommendations and opinions. Read
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BEST NOSE OF ANY EAST VILLAGE BARTENDRESS Part One Best Nose …

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We mean the nose not of the head bartendress proper, but rather of the younger blonde woman who seemed to be performing the bar-back duties of a barkeep trainee. Don’t get us wrong. Her nose ain’t big, and it certainly pulls off the trick of augmenting a good-looking face. But man, if that isn’t a
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Part Two Best Howard Stern-Obsessed Website …

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Part Two Best Howard Stern-Obsessed Website Marksfriggin.com King of All Losers. We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: we’ll temp till we’re dead. And since that means having to be at work around 9 every weekday morning, there are whole chunks of Howard Stern that we miss. Not to fear, though, because Marksfriggin.com provides
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Part Three Best Goyishe Bagels La …

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Part Three Best Goyishe Bagels La Bagel Delight 252 7th Ave. (5th St.) Brooklyn, 718-768-6107 Yelling for Your Supper. Say “La Bagel Delight” in a heavy Brooklyn accent, and you’re sure to get some laughs. There are at least three La Bagel Delight outlets that we know about in Brooklyn, but this one’s our favorite,
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Part Three Best Argument for Social Security …

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Part Three Best Argument for Social Security Overhaul Proving Bush’s Point. Gov. Bush hasn’t gone far enough, in our opinion, in his proposal for partial-privatization of Social Security, but at least he’s recognized that the New Deal entitlement is about as modern at the hula hoop. In late August, on a talk show in Atlanta,
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