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Each summer the New York Transit Museum brings back its fan-favorite tradition of Summer Nostalgia Rides, giving New Yorkers the opportunity to climb aboard vintage 1930s R1-9 trains that were transporting people around the city more than a century ago.

But this year you’ll have a third chance to hop aboard a vintage train as the Transit Museum will roll the vintage R32 “Brightliner” out onto the tracks for one day only in celebration of their 60th anniversary.

Riders will get to hop aboard the R-32s return for two special Nostalgia Rides on Saturday, September 14th: one at 10 am and another at 2 pm.

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The train will take straphangers from the 96th Street-Second Avenue station in Manhattan through the Coney Island yard and back with exclusive behind-the-scenes views! The round-trip journey will last about 90-120 minutes with no option to disembark in Coney Island.

The New York Transit Museum writes:

The stainless steel R-32 trains had an incredible 6-decade run in NYC transit from 1964 to 2022. Built by the Budd Company, the lighter steel construction made for a more efficient ride, while the shiny fluted exteriors inspired the car’s nickname, the Brightliners. The R-32s served well beyond their expected 35-year service run to become one of the longest operating subway cars in the world and a nostalgic crowd favorite.

Tickets for the R-32 Nostalgia Rides are now on sale to Museum members. Tickets to the general public will go on sale tomorrow, Friday, August 9th. Tickets are $60 for adults and $40 for children 17 years and under. Member prieces are $10 cheaper.

You can snag your tickets online here.

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In this week’s “only in New York” news, city dwellers who thought they might be hallucinating earlier this week when hearing objects talking from the sky were, actually, not hallucinating: the New York City Emergency Management unleashed drones on Tuesday afternoon to warn residents about the arrival of tropical cyclone Debby and the potential risk of flooding. 

To make matters even weirder, the machines delivered messages in English and broken Spanish, a fact that wasn’t lost on many. 

According to Gothamist, the drones announced: “Heavy rainfall and flooding will take place until Wednesday morning. If you live in a basement or ground floor apartment, be prepared to leave your location if flooding occurs.”

The outlet reports that the second portion of the announcement initially sounded like Spanish but then… didn’t sound like any language at all?

The new technology comes courtesy of (who else?) Mayor Eric Adams, reports the New York Times.

That should come as no surprise: the politician has deployed creative gadgets all throughout the city during his reign, including a robot policeman that could pass for the next villain on Doctor Who.

Although not a big hit in real life, the weather drones caused a bit of a funny ruckus on social media. Here are some of the funniest comments we found on the Internet:

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Carving a jack-o’-lantern may be a time-honored American tradition for many, but nobody—and we mean nobody—does pumpkin carving quite like Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze. Every fall, pumpkins aplenty decorate two locations of this festive, family-friendly attraction. This year promises thousands of intricately carved jack-o’-lanterns in mesmerizing displays, plus dazzling new experiences in honor of the event’s founding 20 years ago. 

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When is the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze?

Blaze: Hudson Valley runs at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County from September 13 through November 17. Blaze: Long Island runs at Old Bethpage Village Restoration in Old Bethpage, Long Island from October 4 through November 3. Tickets are on sale now with adult prices starting at $20.

What are the best things to see at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze?

No matter which location you choose, you can expect to be wowed by the installations. Past experiences have included a pumpkin bridge, a pumpkin arch, a pumpkin ferris wheel, a pumpkin Nessie, a pumpkin Statue of Liberty, a pumpkin circus, a pumpkin carousel, pumpkin artworks, the list goes on. Many are real pumpkins, while some are “Funkins,” meaning artificial pumpkins, but all are individually hand-carved on site by the Blaze team.

Synchronized lighting and an original soundtrack complement the walk-through activity, making for a truly immersive experience. You can buy a cup of cider, hot cocoa or a pumpkin beer on the way in, along with plenty of snacks.  

How much are Blaze: Long Island tickets?

Adult tickets on Long Island start at $32; kids tickets cost $10.  

At the Blaze: Long Island outpost, see a Long Island Hall of Fame, which celebrates local legends like Billy Joel, Joan Jett, Sue Bird, Dr. J, Jerry Seinfeld, and Natalie Portman. There’s even a pumpkin lighthouse, which looks like the Montauk Point Lighthouse, featuring a blazing beacon of illuminated pumpkins.

How much are Blaze: Hudson Valley tickets?

Admission to Blaze: Hudson Valley starts at $32/adult, but you can score $20 tickets on select weekday evenings after 8pm. Tavern admission costs extra.

n honor of 20 years at Blaze: Hudson Valley, the Historic Hudson Valley team is unveiling a giant Kraken rising from the Croton River and a pumpkin birthday cake. There’s also a new VIP speakeasy along the pumpkin trail called The Gourd & Goblet Tavern. Situated in an 18th-century inn, the speakeasy serves up snacks, cocktails, and mocktails and offers tavern games.

In addition to Blaze activities, there’s more to do in the setting of Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow. Take a tour of Sunnyside, Irving’s 19th-century home, while getting goosebumps as you listen to a master storyteller and hear live music. Or check out music, magic and a twilight tour at Philipsburg Manor where you may even see the headless horseman. Here’s more info on those creepy activities.

While these events offer a ton of fall fun, they also support Historic Hudson Valley, the Tarrytown-based private, non-profit educational organization that produces all of these events at the National Historic Landmarks it owns and operates. 

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The iconic Paris Theater, the sole-surviving single screen theater in Manhattan that is now owned by Netflix, officially reopened after the pandemic a year ago.

To celebrate its reopening anniversary, the cinema at 4 West 58th Street by Fifth Avenue is bringing bag its awesome “Big & Loud” screening series, featuring 70mm showings of a ton of iconic movies. 

The event will kick off on August 23 and run through October 31, taking us right to Halloween.

You can browse through the full schedule of screenings right here and purchase tickets to whatever fits your fancy on this website. 

Among the standout titles are Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo; Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz; the always-good Boogie Nights and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, by Steven Spielberg.

“The series […] originally debuted in 2023 upon the historic Paris Theater’s reopening to showcase its state-of-the-art technical upgrades, including a newly installed Dolby Atmos sound system and the technology to screen 70mm for the first time in fifteen years,” reads an official press release. “With over 500 seats, Manhattan’s last remaining single screen theater also became its largest Atmos cinema.”

Lest you think the screenings will only appeal to true cinephiles, think again: there’s quite nothing like catching a film the way the director meant for it to be seen, especially in such a legendary theater. 

Speaking of its history, in case you’re not familiar with the venue, you should know that the cinema opened back in September of 1948, when it showed art and foreign productions in their original languages. When the Ziegfeld Theater on 54th Street closed in January of 2016, the Paris Theater became the only destination of its kind in all of Manhattan—imbuing the space with even more meaning. In 2019, it was announced that the cinema was about to close until Netflix swooped in and saved the day. The streaming giant still operates the space today.

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Fifteen years ago, Justin Lim fell in love at first bite with a taste of tsukemen. Translating to “dipping noodles,” tsukemen is a popular style of ramen in Japan that consists of chewy, thick noodles and a rich broth for dipping. On a mission to introduce the noodle and other lesser known Japanese dishes to American palates, Lim and his business partners, Sean Park and Naoki Kyobashi, opened Okiboru in 2019 in Los Angeles.

Today, Lim and Park continue on the business, running seven restaurants across the country—the latest of which landed at Time Out Market New York in July. We caught up with Lim and talked about what drew him to tsukemen, how he visited 30 ramen restaurants in a day and what’s on the menu at his latest NYC location.

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What initially drew you to the restaurant industry? Did you always have an inkling towards food?

Justin Lim: I have a typical immigrant story. My family immigrated in 1978. My parents would leave at 6am and come back at 8pm. My sister was in fourth grade and my brother in first grade. We had to do everything ourselves. We had to cook, we had to clean, we had to pack our lunches. We actually prepared dinner for our parents when they came home. We didn’t have any choice but to cook.

What kind of meals would you make your parents?

JL: I’m Korean, so we made a lot of Korean dishes. Rice is a staple. We made different soups—like miso soup, but we call it doenjang jjgae.

You fell in love with your first taste of tsukemen, so much so that you and your friends (Sean Park and Naoki Kyobashi) traveled to Japan to research tsukemen ramen in each prefecture. Tell us about that.

JL: When I had Tsujita about 15 years ago in Los Angeles, I was blown away. So I went to Japan and tried every single tsukemen ramen restaurant. I would go in and take a couple bites, so I could go to the next one. I was doing 30 ramen shops a day. There’s like over 10,000 in Japan, but I went to the top ones. I think I’m a perfectionist, I want everything to be perfect. And I try to blend different components from different restaurants and kind of mash it together.

Why did you want to focus on this dish specifically?

JL: Tsukemen was something I never had before, and I wanted to introduce something that was unique. It didn’t have to be tsukemen, but that’s what I fell in love with. I wanted to introduce that particular dish to the American audience.

Okiboru now has six different locations across Atlanta and New York. In New York alone, do you have any idea how many noodles you serve a day?

JL: Each portion is about 225 grams, and we do probably about 600 to 700 servings a day. We have 16 seats here [Okiboru House of Udon] and 30 seats over there [Okiboru House of Tsukemen] with no to-go. So we do a lot.

Major achievements for Okiboru have included Michelin Bib Gourmand and a two-and-a-half star review from the New York Times. But Okiboru was also featured in Cobra Kai? Tell us more about that.

JL: They reached out to us, they wanted a Japanese restaurant and they thought this was a good setting. They did their season finale at our Duluth (Atlanta) location. I think Atlanta is now the second Hollywood, so I think it’s a little bit cheaper.

Now that Okiboru is coming to Time Out Market New York, what do you want to introduce here?

JL: We’ve done the tsukemen in the Lower East Side, we’ve done the Himokawa udon noodle in the East Village. We want to introduce something else that people haven’t tried—the tan tan ramen and the tsukemen.

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For 12 years, Yuja Haraguchi has manned his two-in-one restaurant concepts under one roof: Okonomi and Yuji Ramen. With only 12 seats at his disposal, Haraguchi’s Greenpoint restaurant serves a hearty Japanese breakfast of roasted and raw fish in the AM, always served with rice, vegetables and miso soup. But in the PM, Yuji Ramen takes over with soul-warming bowls of noodles alongside springy mazeman ramen. Now, on August 12, the Brooklyn restaurant will be popping up in Manhattan for a fall residency. And if you haven’t caught the pattern yet, the restaurant will operate for 12 weeks.

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Running from August 12 to October 27, you can catch Okonomi and Yuji Ramen for a limited time at 110 Madison Avenue. Taking over the shuttered LittleMad Korean restaurant in NoMad, the pop-up will welcome 50 hungry souls—a huge jump from the quaint 12-seater restaurant. But even with more space and seats, the pop-up retains a cozy and intimate feel with long wooden tables and elements of concrete and glass.

Unlike the Brooklyn location, no matter what time of day you roll into the Manhattan spot, both experiences can be had here. Breakfast for dinner calls for one of Okonomi’s “Ichiju Sansai” Japanese-style breakfast sets. Choose from the Yakizakana Set with grilled fish or the Unaju Set with a crispy glazed Maine eel, both supplemented with an option of three or five sides that include charred eggplant, potato salad and a custardy square of tamagoyaki (Japanese-style egg). Craving ramen? Favorites from Yuji Ramen appear here as well, such as the Okonomi Shoyu served with a tonkotsu-style tuna and chicken based broth or the shrimp and miso Ebi Paitan ramen topped with a lightly charred yellowfin tuna belly. Haraguchi’s thick and chewy mazemen noodles have sailed over as well, including the Bacon Egg variety served with a jiggly onsen egg, begging to be stirred among smoky hunks of bacon. Sake by the pour or bottle are also available, alongside Japanese beers and soft drinks.

Reservations are now available on Resy, while walk-ins are also accepted. Residents of Manhattan: don’t forget to make a visit before it’s gone.

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