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As crowded, cramped and cluttered as many New Yorker’s find their apartments, we are a city of animal lovers and pet owners. According to one recent analysis, there are over a million pets in the Big Apple, including 600,000 dogs and 500,000 cats. (Just thinking about all that fur makes us want to get out…
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Professional organizer Jeni Aron, dubbed the “Clutter Cowgirl,” knows a thing or two about making the most of small spaces. For ten years, she’s been helping New Yorkers clean up their mess and store the rest. We caught up with Jeni in the middle of her daily de-cluttering to ask a few questions about her…
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How It Started: Originally called “The Macy’s Christmas Parade,” it came about in 1924, after first-generation Macy’s employees suggested a European-style festival to celebrate this very American holiday. It featured store employees as well as animals from the Central Park Zoo. It’s actually the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the U.S., tied with “America’s Thanksgiving Parade”…
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MANHATTAN MINI STORAGE AND OTHER EDISON BUSINESSES TEAM UP WITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS AND FEEDINGNYC FOR TOY DRIVE AND HOLIDAY MEAL DELIVERIES It’s become a holiday tradition: Instead of spending money on decorations, Edison Properties and its various businesses are once again teaming up with worthy charities this season to make the holidays brighter…
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When people decide to store their most personal treasures, how does that change their living space? How do people negotiate their relationships to that changed space? And what can they do to stay connected to their belongings, even after they’ve been stored away? Those are some of the questions New York-based artist Alex Schweder will…
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Attention, lovers of architecture and history! We just wanted to pass along to you a very cool event happening in New York City from Friday, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 13: This is the 6th annual Historic House Festival, brought to you by New York City’s Historic House Trust. On this special weekend, 23 historic…
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Congratulations, Amber King! You’ve just won an iPad and a $100 gift card, courtesy of Manhattan Mini Storage on Wheels! The student storage program, which offered NYU and Columbia/Barnard students a special flat rate for storing their belongings over the summer, ran a sweepstakes on Manhattan Mini Storage‘s Facebook page in which anyone could sign up,…
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The frost is on the pumpkin, the leaves are starting to turn, and there’s no doubt that autumn is upon us (officially beginning this Sunday, Sept. 22). Many people say they get bummed out this time of year, what with the warm glow of summer wearing off. But for others, there’s no more beautiful time…
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Twelve years ago today, on a beautiful late summer morning, 2,977 innocent people lost their lives after 19 terrorists hijacked planes that ultimately crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, PA. Of those souls lost, 246 had been aboard the four aircraft; 125 were at the Pentagon; and 2,606 were…
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Manhattan Mini-Storage Partners with Hipstermaid in Cleaning and Storage Giveaway! Hold on to that bowling trophy collection, and throw out your moldy old mop. Because Manhattan Mini Storage, New York City’s self-storage leader, is teaming up with Hipstermaid, the city’s favorite new cleaning service, to offer the prize of a lifetime: free storage and cleaning…
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