Up until about 10 years ago, Beacon, New York, a small city just an hour north of Manhattan, was verboten. A city overrun by drugs, prostitution and crooked cops. Your classic booming manufacturing town broken by the economic downturn of the 1970s.
Not for Duval Culpepper the bright lights of Broadway or the hipster retreat of Greenwich village! He is on a mission to explore the grittier nightlife of Williamsburg. He starts by striking out… but can he end by striking it lucky? My best friend I’ve known since kindergarten is having his…
Backdrop of countless classic movies and TV shows, New York’s imagery is imprinted on most visitors before they even get here; but its soul is much harder to define. Natalie Buster explores the metropolis behind the mythology… New York. Concrete jungle where dreams are made, the city that never sleeps,…
Regular readers will know us for our City Guides and magazine-style travel features but at UTB headquarters we’ve been glancing around the blogosphere in envy… where are all our tall tales of the unexpected? The comic / tragic mishaps, the near death experiences and just the random weird-ass sh!t that…
Graffiti = art? Richard Tulloch is a little sceptical, but that doesn’t stop him taking a spray-painted tour of New York’s infamous Brooklyn district. Will he be converted? Unless it’s a Banksy, when I see graffiti sprayed on public walls I assume I’m in an area where a community has…