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 Audacious reporter Andrea Sachs tries out some of the accommodations offered by Airbnb.com, a year-old Web site that pairs renters with people who have a room to spare -- or share. The site boasts offerings in 108 cities in 77 countries, including more than 870 properties in the New York area alone. (By Helayne Seidman For The Washington Post)
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"Pop-up" restaurants are, yep, popping up around New York. Cooking in the prep kitchen of this gourmet food store in downtown Brooklyn, César Ramirez welcomes as many as 12 diners to Brooklyn Fare just three nights a week. It's not exactly a restaurant, but such dishes as butter-poached lobster topped with sugar-snap peas, mint and tarragon foam make the experience anything but ordinary.
With a new generation traveling between Washington and New York, the bus is making a comeback. To shake out the good from the bad, the comfortable from the dismal, Travel reporter Andrea Sachs dedicated a month of her life to riding the buses to New York, boarding nearly a dozen to figure out what makes these vehicles go 'round and 'round -- or go flat.
A former New Yorker makes a return visit to Manhattan and finds that the Lower East Side, historically known as a bargain garment district with a strong immigrant culture, is now home to pricey boutiques, 20-story hotels and $2 million apartments. The area's historic authenticity might be endangered, but the writer finds that the district's traditions of multiculturalism and shopping are still going strong.
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Despite a rocky start, the new SeaStreak ferry service from New York to Martha's Vineyard will continue its weekend runs through Labor Day, according to SeaStreak's President James Barker.
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts' new hotel brand, Aloft, is targeting tech-savvy travelers with DJ nights, a pool table, board games, specialty cocktails, flat-screen TVs and iPod, PlayStation and computer connectivity units.
Hint a little, reveal less and wait for the crowds to come flocking. That's the premise behind a spate of wildly popular clandestine bars that have cropped up in Manhattan in the past few years.
Welcome to the gastropub. Not quite a bar and not quite a restaurant, the gastropub is a British hybrid of sorts, offering a casual-meets-refined atmosphere that welcomes beer drinkers and wine snobs, non-fussy eaters and foodies alike.
The Dia Art Foundation wants to tear down the idea of temporary exhibitions, loyally maintaining minimalist artwork for 30 years.
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