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Dreaming of Swig ever since you binged The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? Luckily for us, NYC’s first-ever ‘dirty soda’ shop has two locations to give you your fix: South Street Seaport & Rockefeller Center. Known as Cool Sips, this new hot-spot with a beachy twist offers hundreds of ways to customize your soda, however you like it!

So what is dirty soda and where did it come from? Dirty soda is essentially fountain soda, mixed with syrups, cream, and other candies. Hailing from Utah in the 2010s, these dirty drinks were at first most commonly consumed by faith-based communities that practice sobriety.

However, Hulu’s hit show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has brought the dirty soda industry on the map, making viewers, religious affiliated or not, crave those 44-oz doctored up sodas.

Cool Sips offers a “create your own sip” option, with customizations beyond your wildest imaginations. With 16 syrups ranging from toffee to coconut (and yes, they can all be made sugar free—just how the Mormon wives get them), three cream options and what Cool Sips deems “fun stuff” to add like boba pearls and jelly candies, there’s no limitations on what you can dream up. Not to mention, your liquid doesn’t have to be soda. Cool Sips also offers the choice of tea & ade, Gatorde, an energy drink, or cold brew coffee.

But if you’re overwhelmed and spoiled for choice you can stick to one of their Signature Sips:

• Dirty Dirty: Dr. Pepper, Coconut, Lime, Half & Half
• P-Town: Starry, Blue Raspberry, Watermelon
• Fulong: Sweet Tea, Sweet Cream, Brown Sugar Boba
• Dewey: Lemonade, Mango, Pineapple, Mango Jellies
• Pines: Club Soda, Peach, Kiwi Boba

Cool Sips even has a special fall menu:

• Nags Head: Root beer, toasted marshmallow, brown sugar boba
• Cape May: Starry, green apple, sweet cream
• Goose Rocks: Unsweetened black tea, pumpkin pie, vanilla cream
• Ditch Plains: Sweet tea, apple, pomegranate, sweet cream

P.S. if you haven’t caught on yet, each drink is named after a beach town to go along with the theme. Cool Sips intends to keep the nostalgia of warm summer nights and surf culture all year round. Find the full menu on the Cool Sips website.

And just in case you wanted to try, we’ve listed The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ soda orders:

• Mayci: Dr. Pepper, raspberry puree, coconut syrup, vanilla syrup, cream
• Jessi: Dr. Pepper, vanilla syrup, coconut creme
• Layla: Mountain Dew, strawberry puree/syrup, mango syrup, coconut creme
• Demi: Sparkling water, SF coconut syrup, SF vanilla syrup, SF raspberry syrup, SF pineapple syrup, coconut creme

Rockefeller Center: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Rink Level (11am – 7pm) or South Street Seaport: 84 South Street, Pier 16 (Sun – Weds: 10:30 am to 7 pm
Thu – Sat: 10:30 am to 8 pm)

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Although jaywalking—crossing the street outside designated areas without regard for traffic—is a common practice in NYC, it is technically illegal.

That might soon change, though: New York City Council recently passed new legislation aimed at decriminalizing the practice. 

Mayor Eric Adams still has to sign the bill into law and, given his current indictment, we can’t imagine he’ll be giving much attention to New Yorkers’ street-crossing habits right at this moment. 

Alas, it’s worth mentioning that citizens’ reactions to the news fall into two camps: many pro-jaywalking decriminalization folks specifically point to data showing that over 90% of related tickets given out in 2023, each one about $250, were issued to Black and Latino pedestrians. 

“This bill seeks to address this imbalance,” said councilmember Mercedes Narcisse, one of the lead sponsors of the bill, during an official press event. “How many people in the room can tell me they never jaywalk? None of you.”

At the same time, many worry that legalizing the practice may make things murky when it comes to accidents—especially since jaywalking can, potentially, lead to car injuries.

Whatever the case may be, crossing the street without regard for the presence of a sidewalk has become part and parcel of being a New Yorker—is that right? Who knows. Eventually, Mayor Adams will decide. 

* This article was originally published here