Virginia K. Smith

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A guide to maximizing free tickets from the libraries' Culture Pass The often-slept-on program offers free tickets to museums, botanic gardens, theaters, movies and more

the libraries continue to give us a ludicrous amount of free stuff even as they get treated like a political football, btw nygroove.nyc/nyc-culture-...

Real Young & Lazy Horse is the rock and roll book club that will blow out your eardrums ‘It's just an extension of our hang.’

the best band in new york city and that's not an exaggeration nygroove.nyc/real-young-l...

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that joe ricketts is keeping busy terrorizing his neighbors in wyoming these days www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

The dream of the aughts is alive at The New Colossus Festival The neighborhood music festival once thrived in New York City, and it can once again

Have been meaning to check out New Colossus Fest and will be doing so after reading @vksmith.bsky.social's story on how it carries on the spirit of dirtbag daytime drinking music fests of the past nygroove.nyc/the-dream-of...

The dream of the aughts is alive at The New Colossus Festival The neighborhood music festival once thrived in New York City, and it can once again

waxed a little nostalgic on the blog, so sue me nygroove.nyc/the-dream-of...

Meet the vigilante cleaners pulling garbage and love locks off the Brooklyn Bridge 'We have free will, it just occurred to me one morning, and I said ‘I can just do that.’

rare and needed reminder that better things are possible and we have free will to make them happen!!!! nygroove.nyc/garbage-clea...

An odd love story to chew on this Valentine’s Day A century ago, beavers were basically extinct in Massachusetts. Now, their numbers are in the tens of thousands. It all started with an ill-fated love triangle involving three beavers named Paul Bunyan, Paula Bunyan and Big Swede.

A century ago, beavers were basically extinct in Massachusetts. Now, their numbers are in the tens of thousands.

Their rebound in the state all started with an ill-fated love triangle involving three beavers named Paul Bunyan, Paula Bunyan and Big Swede.

Fun NYC Fact: The portal to hell in The Sentinel (1977) is a 9 minute walk from where Cher kicks the can down the street in Moonstruck (1987). What a difference a decade of Ed Koch makes! 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

What to actually expect from the mayor's 'Rental Ripoff' hearings How to sign up, and why this won't be a free-for-all open mic airing of grievances

Here's a good rundown from @vksmith.bsky.social of how the mayor's new 'Rental Ripoff' hearings will work, and unfortunately it's less of a specatator sport than you might have hoped nygroove.nyc/what-to-actu...

What to actually expect from the mayor's 'Rental Ripoff' hearings How to sign up, and why this won't be a free-for-all open mic airing of grievances

expect the vibe to be more "school science fair" than "wild-ass open mic" nygroove.nyc/what-to-actu...

The Groove guide to freeing yourself from food delivery The new young broke need to learn some lessons from the seasoned old broke

blogged my personal favorite bowl slop recipe, among other things nygroove.nyc/how-to-stop-...

Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.

We’re launching a pop-up newsletter to keep tabs on everything going on with ICE - including @wired.com reporting and essential coverage from other outlets, plus analysis to help you make sense of the chaos.

Sign up here, first edition next week:

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

If you tie your garbage to the Brooklyn Bridge you should be thrown off the bridge I am not fucking around here.

. @davecolon.bsky.social is being entirely reasonable here nygroove.nyc/brooklyn-bri...

📣 Marketplace is hiring a temp newsletter writer for 3-4 months, starts at $40+/hr, remote friendly. don't sleep on it — we're only taking applications this week! recruiting2.ultipro.com/AME1098APMG/...

Let the Pinnacle case be be your inspiration to start a tenants union 'People can just start a tenants association the same way you can start a book club.'

you can start a tenants union today, it's probably a good time to do it! Here's a well-reported guide by @vksmith.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/how-to-start...

Let the Pinnacle case be be your inspiration to start a tenants union 'People can just start a tenants association the same way you can start a book club.'

having this mayoral administration in office is basically the tenant equivalent of having a friendly NLRB, it's a prime moment to organize nygroove.nyc/how-to-start...

Video: This what happens if you stay up all night before Inauguration Day This is the story of being at the inauguration looking and feeling like you just crawled out of the sewer.

The other day I told someone that I was choosing to age with dignity. In an unrelated matter, check out my latest blog post nygroove.nyc/video-this-w...

Intertapes — Main Obscure tape finds and their stories

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Will Mayor Mamdani uphold Eric Adams’ restrictive new press rules? The proposed new rules came in just hours before the end of the Adams era

of course eric adams used his last few hours in office to take one last whack at local journalists nygroove.nyc/nyc-press-pa...

BREAKING: Legendary Brooklyn Heights dive Montero is on the cusp of being sold Brooklyn Heights’ legendary nautical dive bar Montero is set to change hands soon, with the Montero family planning to sell the drinkery to a pair of businessesmen who also own a string of nautical ba...

crucial karaoke hound news nygroove.nyc/breaking-leg...

Opinion | The Rent-Control Slums of New York Mayor Mamdani tries to stop a bankruptcy his new housing czar caused.

The premise of this WSJ article is incorrect. We can debate the effects of the 2019 laws on the rental market, but Pinnacle was a bad actor long before them. Their model for decades was to buy up RS properties and let them fall into disrepair to push tenants out. www.wsj.com/opinion/new-...

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'Time' is no longer for sale in New York City RIP the add ‘value/add time’ meme, buried alongside the MetroCard

Here's my obituary for the ability to buy time in New York City, which died today along with the MetroCard (includes a guest appearance by Shilpa Ray) nygroove.nyc/add-value-ad...

Everything you need to know about Zohran Mamdani's first year as mayor The Zohran era is officially upon us — here's what to expect

3908 words on what to expect/look for during Zohran Mamdani’s first year. I wrote it all last night nygroove.nyc/everything-y...

Everything you need to know about Zohran Mamdani's first year as mayor The Zohran era is officially upon us — here's what to expect

"If Mamdani wants to make the bus fast, he has a lot of power to do something about it, because the Department of Transportation has control of the city’s streets and can put down bus lanes in plenty of places..."

New York’s Revolutionary War history is cooler than Boston and Philly’s, actually — here’s where to find it A guide to what to do with yourself once you've finished the new Ken Burns

I've come down with a classic case of Ken Burns mania nygroove.nyc/nyc-revoluti...

How Christmas as we know it was invented by New York City immigrants American Santa is a Native New Yorker and don't you forget it

I could not possibly love this slice of festive city history from @jessjoseph.bsky.social more nygroove.nyc/christmas-ne...