Substacks recommended by Eden | Big City, Little Friend

Recommended by Eden

book recs, bookstores, and aimless walks around the best borough

Sustainable Gabs is a newsletter from Sustainable Sabs, a platform empowering positive climate action through slow fashion, veganism, reduced consumption, wellness, and more.

what ails me

By Ailey Cooper

two items i'm good at: consuming things and having opinions

Laid Off

By Melanie Ehrenkranz

The coolest place on the internet to talk about being laid off.

City happenings: something fun to do everyday in New York

By Alexa Weiser

A weekly curation of happenings in New York City, with events every single day.

Excellent roundup of weekly events in NYC!

- Eden

Sweet City

By Mahira Rivers

Mahira Rivers, a restaurant critic, is on a quest to find New York's sweeter side. Subscribe for reviews, guides, and essays about dessert culture in New York.

NYC Politics 101

By Sachi

Educating and becoming educated on state and local policy issues

right on Franklin

By Olivia Weiss

where to go for what occasions, New York +

Great NYC restaurant recs with beautiful photos and great insider tips

- Eden

Buttered Popcorn

By Andrew Truong

Reflections on film, dining, cooking, theater — and whatever else comes to mind. A semi-personal newsletter.

Thoughtful takes on movies with a side of great cooking.

- Eden

VARSITY READER

By Julia @smarterinasec

Childhood sports flop = varsity reader. Weekly article roundups, career tips, product recs, and other actionable ways to level up.

Julia is an avid learner who shared articles on a wide breadth of topics. If you love to read about everything and anything, you'll love Varsity Reader!

- Eden

coolstuff.nyc

coolstuff.nyc is a weekly newsletter bringing a design-forward edit of the coolest events, places, and people in New York City – direct to your inbox.

Great for gettin the jump on new business openings and just general NYC happenings

- Eden

Metro Mosaic

By Dipali Gupta

Metro Mosaic is a publication by Dipali Gupta that offers mosaic of ideas, aiming to transform NYC one vibrant tile at a time. NYC is undeniably great, but it’s greatness needs to be shared with more people so that it can be utopia for all its residents

Mr. Flood's Party

By Lorenzo Bongiovanni

Mr. Flood’s Party is a curated collection of tasteful scenes. Built on crisp photography and paired with thoughtful takes on dining, hospitality, travel, and music.

Lovely photography and thoughtful restaurant reviews. Bonus music recs on occasion too!

- Eden

Residual Thoughts

By Joe Hovde

Musings on technology, business, and psychology from a data scientist in NYC.

xoxo Gossip Giancaspro

By Tara Giancaspro

What I'm watching, reading, listening to, screaming about, ruminating over, delighting in, and completely accepting of thanks to years of therapy.

Tara is incredibly smart-funny and her pop culture takes will leave you laughing but also feeling smarter than you were before you knew her. She does lots of podcasts too!

- Eden

easygayoven

By Eric King

a newsletter about baking (and life!) from Eric King

The Neighborhoods

By Rob Stephenson

Photographing and uncovering the stories of New York City, one neighborhood per week across all five boroughs.

A photographer taking pictures of every neighborhood in NYC and writing about interesting history? Sign me up!

- Eden

internet miscellany

Exploring observations and ideas from the left-field of urban planning and urban design. Written for a broad audience.

Cappuccino Thoughts

By Claire Akkan

A newsletter about culture and creativity in New York City

Better Strangers

By Hersh

Facing a bleak world with hope, curiosity, and imagination.

Matt shares great book recommendations and has managed to write about all of the weird and dark little thoughts that live in my brain (and probably your brain too). His posts are always incredibly insightful!

- Eden

Maximum New York

By Daniel

NYC abundance—more people, more housing, more opportunity, more greatness than ever.

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Anne is constantly curious about everything she sees in NYC and I love following her fun adventures. You'll laugh, you'll learn something, you'll never look at a pile of garbage the same way again.

- Eden

The Simple Things

By Grace Yu

Things and thoughts to make life a little more pleasant.

Things I Like And Don't Like

By David Azrael

One thought (mostly) daily.

BOSS BARISTA

By B O S S B A R I S T A

A newsletter and podcast about a thing you drink everyday. Interviews and articles about big ideas in coffee, the service industry, and collective action.

Ashley's newsletter focuses on the intersections of coffee, workplace practices, and commerce. But I'm not a coffee drinker at all and I still love her thoughtful essays and explorations of how and why we work the way we do.

- Eden

This Needs Hot Sauce

By Abigail Koffler

A newsletter and community by Abigail Koffler about cooking, dining out, and making the most of it.

Abigail's newsletter has been a joyous addition to my inbox for years now. She's a native NYer from Queens, now living in Brooklyn, and has impeccable taste when it comes to restaurants and cooking.

- Eden