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89th And Broke

I'm a young professional living in Astoria (formerly of Williamsburg, the UES and Murray Hill - I move a lot!). I'm always looking for something fun to do or the best place to grab a drink and dinner at an affordable price around the city. Have a suggestion? Email me at Laura AT 89thandbroke DOT com.
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Try This Trick! Ebay for Daily Deals, Plus Giveaway!

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Every few months, Caryn and I realize we have a Groupon or LivingSocial deal that’s about to expire and then it’s a mad dash of us trying to figure out when we both can go to a restaurant and use the deal.  Case in point:  a few Fridays ago while most 20somethings [...]

Try This Trick! Dine Out, Earn Airline Miles!

Flying home from Barcelona in 2009

A few months ago, my friend Yael tipped me off to airline dining programs.  While I don’t have a credit card that earns airline miles, I can enroll my credit cards into dining airline mile programs and earn miles in addition to my usual credit card rewards.

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Try This Trick! Discounted Tickets!

With cooler weekends up ahead, you may finally want to visit some of those indoor exhibits you’ve been putting off all summer.  If you are ready to check out Bodies or King Tut, check Goldstar before you buy.  Now we’ve mentioned Goldstar in the past for last year’s Cook. Eat. Drink. Live. Festival, and [...]

Try This Trick! Share Your Opinion, Earn Amazon Gift Cards!

A couple weeks ago, my friend Manisha from NY Social Agenda emailed me with a new site her company has created, called Crowdtap.  With Crowdtap, you share your opinions and in exchange, earn points and rewards.

To get started with Crowdtap, you need to log in through Facebook Connect to verify that you are [...]

Try This Trick! Free Amazon Two-Day Shipping!

Maybe my ethics will be called into question again today after yesterday’s post, but I thought I’d share a favorite deal that I heard about earlier this summer.  If you have an active .edu email account, it’ll now come in handy.  My friend Lisa at Fantabulously Frugal shared that with your student email address, you [...]

Try This Trick! Have Your Local Bodega Deliver To Your Door!

Such a simple and smart idea: collect a database of local bodegas that deliver and compile it on a website.

I can’t tell you how many times I’m cooking something late at night and I realize I’m missing an ingredient. Or I’m having people over and we’re running low on beer and snacks. I [...]

Try This Trick: 54 Cent Coffees at Starbucks

Here’s a secret:  most weeks I spend $2.70 on coffee.  From Starbucks.  And I have a venti iced coffee every weekday.

Want to know the secret?  Starbucks offers 54 cent refills and no, I’m not gross and I haven’t been using the same cup all summer.  What I have done however,  is invested $3.21 [...]

Try This Trick! Order Pick-Up From Seamless Web and Eventually Get $5 Off Your Order!

Through September 3rd, SeamlessWeb has a new promotion: Pickup Paydays. What this means is that when you place your order via SeamlessWeb and select Pick-up rather than Delivery, you’ll earn Pickup Points. I checked it out online and it looks like most places will offer 5 or 10 Pickup Points. Once you accumulate 50 [...]

Try This Trick: Sell Your Groupons!

Sometimes I get really excited when I see a great deal on Groupon, KGB Deals or LivingSocial.  I buy it and then wonder, “Oh my God, when am I gonna use this?”

I’m not the only one who suffers from that OMG moment – Caryn sent me a frantic email a few months back [...]

Try This Trick! Cash Back When Shopping Online!

Almost a year ago, I wrote about Bing Cashback and how you can use this site to get money back when shopping online. I raved about it, and told everyone I knew that they had to use it when shopping online. A few weeks back I shared the site with a friend, who then [...]

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