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We've been contemplating a jaunt to the old NYC all summer (mainly to see this geekalicious exhibit and have some chocolate), and back before the humidity fried all neural pathways we looked into how, exactly, we would get there. We're not fried too much to remember we’re on a tighter than usual budget, and when did a train ticket get that exorbitant? We resigned ourselves to bussing it, and were delighted, if a bit hesitant, to check out the challengers to the standard Chinatown Bus, which promised (reliable) A/C and Wi-Fi among other amenities, including hard-to-believe $1 fares. Luckily Sulina Gabale over at City Paper took the plunge for us, subjecting herself to four roundtrips to see if the newcomers lived up to her usual chariot, the 2000 New Century Travel Chinatown Bus. The take-away: the newbies deliver, and strange food odors are absent to boot. Excuse us, we're grabbing the laptop so's we can blog our way to the Met.

When you go to New York or Princeton, are you tired of taking the R7 to Trenton? Do you find the schedule isn’t always convenient or the train gets so delayed you miss the New Jersey Transit train? If you don’t want to risk life and limb on a Chinatown bus, there is another option that is much cheaper and runs more frequently, but the downside is that you have to go to Camden.

Besides offering a concise and appropriate representation of the times, some quotes are so incisive that they make a step back from the clarity of the moment nearly impossible.

Well, we tried. We were so close, too. Damn you, Miami, for preventing an all -ist reunion! Paris even came to the party.

The latest New York magazine has a feature on cheap eats in the Big Apple... with a special article about Philly cheesesteaks. That's right - New Yorkers are hungry for cheesesteaks, and several sandwich places have popped up in New York claiming to offer the real thing.