1. HERE’S THE NY SCOOP
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| A very happy Thanksgiving to you and your families! We thank you so much for reading and sharing our newsletter every week. We love and are grateful for you 🙂 Sending you all the love, health, wealth and happiness you deserve! -ciaooo! team |
GOOD NEWS
| NYC is the East Coast Hollywood- Did you know there are a TON of studios being built in NY? Lionsgate Studios just opened a $500 million production facility and studio in Yonkers. Meanwhile, Steiner Studios is building a 500,000-square-foot production hub in Brooklyn Army Terminal. Forget AI, maybe now’s the time to live out your dreams of being an actor?! |
BAD NEWS
| Library Cuts lose Sunday Service – November 26th will be the last day of Sunday Service. Mayor Adams announced the NYPL budgets were cut from $36.2 million a year to $12.6 million in 2024. As a former library kid, I feel this pain. I used to go to the library every Sunday like clockwork, and when my neighborhood library closed for a 6 year renovation…I simply stopped reading. Hate to see what this will do for kids across the boroughs. |
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2. HOW TO THROW THE BEST FRIENDSGIVING!
| By Nick Williams From the vault, enjoy our article celebrating Friendsgiving! New York City is filled with Thanksgiving orphans, hence the growing popularity of Friendsgiving. It’s not hard to throw the best Friendsgiving ever, although it’s certainly a different vibe than your average rager. I like to gather a few friends to start cooking around noon, and I delegate sides and desserts to the late-arriving guests. I enforce a strict dress code of hideous holiday sweaters, for maximum coziness. Cook Thanksgiving food and give the people what they want! For food, stick to the classics – turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, Parker House rolls, pumpkin pie, etc. We only get to eat this food once a year so there’s no reason get all crazy with racks of lamb and sous vide goose and Ras El-Hanout etc. But what is the perfect wine to serve? Beaujolais Nouveau just so happens to be the fucking perfect Thanksgiving Wine. Friendsgiving Wine, as the case may be. Made from the Gamay grape, the wine is bottled mere months after the grapes come down off the vine. This extremely short fermentation and aging period keep the wine fresh and bright, and the natural qualities of Gamay ensure a tangy and refreshing drop. And please have a happy and safe Friendsgiving.I hope it’s heartwarming! |
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3. WAYS TO VOLUNTEER OR DONATE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
| Manhattan Volunteer Corps – Be it neighbors coming together to help clean up a local garden or a teenager applying to a Community Board, the solid core of our borough’s success lies in the absolutely amazing commitment to volunteerism shown by its residents. New York Cares is a non-profit organization that connects volunteers with opportunities to serve in NYC. You can find volunteer opportunities in a variety of areas, such as education, homelessness, and healthcare. City Harvest is a non-profit organization that rescues surplus food from restaurants and other food businesses and delivers it to soup kitchens, food pantries, and other hunger relief programs in NYC. You can donate money, volunteer your time, or donate food to help them with their mission. |
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