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Veteran critic Robert Sietsema writes about New York City restaurants, focusing on inexpensive eats, neighborhood food walks, and dish histories. Readers get specific recommendations, dish descriptions, and cultural context drawn from decades of reporting.
A weekly photo-essay newsletter that profiles one New York City neighborhood at a time across all five boroughs. Readers get photographs along with local history, observations and cultural context.
A biweekly newsletter by New York writer Anne Kadet profiling quirky New Yorkers and city oddities, from a pay-what-you-can doctor to bodega cats and a vending machine king. Each issue adds reader comments, neighborhood observations and updates on her freelance work.
A personal newsletter from an Italian travel designer living in New York, answering reader questions and sharing tips, travel diaries and reflections. Issues include trip write-ups, a video walking series about NYC spots, and personal essays on travel.
A weekly roundup of new restaurant and shop openings, markets, workshops and events across New York City, written with a design-forward eye. Paid subscribers also get travel guides such as one for Prague, plus extra content and a weekly Q&A.
Ben P. writes Skipped History, a reader-supported newsletter that uses books, archives, comedy and live performance to explore how America became what it is, currently centred on his Power Broker trilogy about Robert Moses and Robert Caro. Issues are short, personal updates about show dates, ticket links and reflections on the project rather than in-depth historical analysis.
A weekly roundup of events for Black professionals and creatives in Brooklyn, NYC and New Jersey, mostly listing parties, networking and cultural happenings. The excerpts are largely promotional boilerplate with a matchmaking pitch and ticket links, with little original writing about the events themselves.
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