New York City

The Cerca Guide to New York City.

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About this Guide

A guide to New York is like an instruction manual for falling in love. It’s impossible. It’s personal. All the cliches are true. And none of it is a given. In this Cerca Guide to The Big Apple, Dhira Rauch and Alyssa Ciccarello do the impossible and give you a dirty, gorgeous, generous, relentless, inspiring, exhausting, delicious, eclectic mix tape of everything all at once. Because that’s New York.

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Episodes in this Guide

New York City: Music – 1234! Punk in NYC

E6
December 1, 2022
41.00

You can argue all you want about Punk’s birthplace, but there’s no question that it was defined in NYC.

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  • You can argue all you want about Punk’s birthplace, but there’s no question that it was defined in NYC. The Velvet Underground and Blondie and CBGBs on the Lower East Side in the 70s and 80s?…That’s as New York as the subway or a hot dog with mustard. The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Patti[...]

New York City: Dark City – The Mafia

E5
November 1, 2022
42.11

In this episode, we’re going to make you an offer you can’t refuse - just listen, and we’ll give you the real story of the Mafia and New York City.

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  • There’s nowhere else in the world with Mob history like New York City, and in this episode, we’re gonna get into all of it. Like why the places with the best meatballs in this city are also the places where the red sauce wasn’t always tomatoes. How some of the most iconic New York spots[...]

New York City: Skint – On a Budget

E4
September 1, 2022
48.45

NYC can be expensive, so we’re giving you everything you need to take advantage of all the cheap, and free, and still incredibly, magically, New York, experiences the city has

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  • It’s true, NYC Is expensive. People will tell you things are getting pricier and pricier, and that’s true. But every day in this city is priceless. And not only is experiencing New York on a tight budget doable, sometimes it reveals things that are even better than what you’d see by paying for the upgrade.[...]

New York City: Art – The Theater Town

E3
August 1, 2022
36.07

We're going back to the glory days of Broadway, when theater caused riots, exploded culture, and made this town much of what we know and love today.

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  • There are film towns like LA. Music towns like Nashville. Food Towns like Chicago. And New York likes to go toe to toe with all of them. But above all, New York is a theater town. Not just a theater town, the theater town. In this episode, we go back to the glory days, when[...]

New York City: Eat Here

E2
August 1, 2022
39:30

From Bagels and NY Slices to Chinese Bakeries and Nepalese Momos, put down your fork and knife, this is where to eat in NYC… with your hands.

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  • There are over 25,000 restaurants in the city and that’s just the official eateries. So many of the finest restaurants in the world are here that it would be impossible to cover them all. So instead, we’re going to focus on the fundamental flavors of NYC - the places from which all that culinary greatness[...]

New York City: Start Here

E1
August 1, 2022
53:59

Everything you need to have the kind of New York experience that Sinatra would sing about.

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  • The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. Gotham. The City So Nice They Named it Twice. Or simply, The City New York just has too big a personality to be contained by one name. And while it may seem intimidating if you’ve never been - or if it’s been a while - we’re here[...]