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Dear Luis Castillo: No one likes to see you dropping balls and hitting into double plays, either, but we're all forced to watch that....

I think it's gotten way worse since airlines started charging for checked baggage. I'm not sure what Jet Blue's policies are, but my husband and I paid $150 to check bags on our last vacation (three...

The best part is right before the actual fighting starts, one of the girls on the right watching the argument is intently applying lip gloss....

Or you can join the city's rec centers and pay $75 for the YEAR to use any of the city's rec centers and pools. The one in Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in Queens is fairly new, immense, and surprisin...

A lot of those so-called "perks" don't seem so ridiculous to me. Mortuary aides get paid $600 extra a year for performing autopsies that are "physically arduous" or doing work on rabid animals? I'm ...

A few years back, there was a similar situation involving a kindergartener. At the time, I thought it seemed ridiculous to handcuff a child. Now I'm in my third year teaching second grade, and I've ...

This is probably going to go down in history as one of the biggest events in the fight for GBLT rights, even as big as the (Stone wall riots) Um, no. Maybe if you consider your little teenage lif...

I speak from personal experience: There is nothing more terrifying than coming home after a long day and pulling Sarah Palin's giant head out of your mailbox....

I'm one of those people who feels like, "When I gotta go, I gotta go" -- I've used some pretty foul Port-a-Potties, etc. That said, the subway is the one place in the world I have never gone to the ba...

Yes...in Woodside, at 72nd Street. The address is 70-50 Queens Boulevard. My dad used to work near there and would come home with boxes and boxes of Entenmann's...good times!...

Me, reading Gothamist out loud to my husband: "The No Pants subway ride is this weekend. I think it's supposed to be freezing out." My husband: "Should we go down there and make fun of them? You know,...

I ran the marathon yesterday with my new husband. Our shirts said "Just Married" on the back. Around mile 6, a man congratulated us and said, "I'm going to tell you a secret -- at the end of the race,...

But that's part of the point of the movie -- that dolphins are being slaughtered in Japan despite the fact that 99% of the population wouldn't dream of eating dolphin. It's not really about consumptio...

I think they turn the fountain on during the U.S. Open -- actually, everything in that park mysteriously becomes much better looking during the U.S. Open. That whole park is so neglected, which is a ...

I continue to be shocked by the amount of vitriol that Gothamist commenters always seem to direct toward NYC public school teachers. @JenChungsBra: I am a teacher, and I am neither stupid nor tenured...