HTC America has announced four new ‘premium’ Desire smartphones that it claims are “affordable.” Since cheap, free and affordable are the leitmotifs of DirtCheapNYC, we’re intrigued by the new devices. Now affordable means different things to different New Yorkers and is often determined by the size of your wallet. Plus, to confound us further HTC […]
Boombox Retrospective Tom Sachs pays tribute to a defining icon of street culture—the boom box—by transforming our glass entryway, the Rubin Pavilion, into a living sound system that hovers between art and science, the functional and the mythological. Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999–2016 features 18 works that highlight the artist’s ability to inventively transform ordinary, […]
Samosa Chaat is one of God’s sparse blessings on an ungrateful human race. At Dil-E Punjab Deli, the Samosa Chaat is a mere $4. Now if you don’t know what a Samosa Chaat is, lemme explain quickly. One of the many varieties of Chaat (Indian street food), Samosa Chaat is a spicy, tangy medley of […]
Ignore the hype about Mac OS X or the upcoming Windows 10. Folks, there’s a fantastic new operating system out there that runs well even on old PCs (an operating system is the basic software on which all applications run, kinda like Windows). It’s called Linux Mint 17.2 aka Rafaela. And the best part of […]
The tablet market is cratering, buddy. In Free Fall. Tablet inventories are piling up on store shelves. Everyone from Apple to Samsung to Microsoft is struggling to get their tablets into the hands of consumers. Apple’s famed iPad tablets has gone through five consecutive quarters of sales declines. As for Android tablets, they’re fighting to […]
I know, I know. Given the embarras de richesses of former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s failures, it’s hard to pick one. Let’s consider the snooty billionaire mayor’s most glaring failure – Constructing more toilets in New York City. The world’s greatest (supposedly) city has far too few public toilets. NYC – Too Few Toilets In […]
Indian restaurateur Manjit Singh’s Jackson Diner has vamoosed out of 72 University Place in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. An old-timer on 74th St Jackson Heights, Jackson Diner opened the Manhattan outpost in 2010 in hopes of exploiting, and expanding, its curry fame beyond Queens. The Queens locations had earned much renown and much press attracting famous […]
FREE What: Free Tai Chi classes for all ages and experience levels at Bryant Park in NYC. Where: Bryant Park Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park 6th Avenue and 41st St New York, NY 10036 When: Tuesday & Thursday Until September 29, 2016 7:30AM-8:30AM Subway: B, D, F, M to 42nd St Contact:212-768-4242
