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915 Broadway, 3rd floor, btw. 20th and 21st sts.
212/982-4600.
www.paciiccollege.edu
. Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm; Fri-Sat 9am-5pm. Subway:
N/R to 23rd St.
WorkSong Chinese Medicine
Like the Brooklyn Acupuncture Project above, this neighborhood clinic is part
of the Community Acupuncture Network. You'll be giving up a private room while you're waiting with your
needles in, but for that minor cost you'll save plenty. Treatment follows the sliding scale, which runs $20 to $50
per session depending on your income. The practitioners here are very experienced and friendly as well.
88 Franklin St., btw. Calyer and Oak sts., Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
347/742-3834.
www.worksongacupuncture.com
.
Mon, Wed, and Fri
10am-7pm; Tues and Thurs 10am-8pm; Sat 10am-6pm. Subway: G to Greenpoint Ave.
Dental
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
You can get Ivy Leaguers to poke around your mouth for
cheap. The students and residents at this popular teaching clinic are well-trained and fully supervised. With sev-
eral eyes on your teeth, the visit will take longer than a trip to a private clinic, but you'll pay a lot less. A first
visit, which includes an oral health screening and X-rays, is $85.
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Vanderbilt Clinic, 622 W. 168th St., 7th floor, btw. Broadway and Fort Washington Ave.
212/305-6100.
www.dental.columbia.edu
.
Registration desk Mon-Fri 8:30am-5pm. Subway: 1/A/C to 168th St./Washington Heights.
New York City College of Technology
Student work makes for a seriously deep discount at the Dental Hygiene
Clinic here. It will take a while—professors supervise the work and have to check it over before you're let out on
your way—but the students here are working for a grade and tend to be thorough about cleaning your teeth. If
you've got the time, the prices are amazing: a cleaning is only $10, and X-rays are only $15.
300 Jay St., 3rd floor, btw. Tech Place and Tillary St., Downtown Brooklyn.
718/260-5074.
www.citytech.cuny.edu
. Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Borough
Hall; A/C/F/R to Jay St./Metro Tech.
New York University College of Dentistry
NYU runs the largest dental college in the country and offers deep
discounts on dental care. An initial appointment (which may require two visits) is $95 and covers a checkup,
X-rays, and oral cancer screenings. For further work, the costs here are less than what they would be in a profes-
sional office (a cleaning is $70).
As your teeth are somebody's class work, expect to spend more time
than you would in a private clinic.
345 E. 24th St., at First Ave., Clinic 1A.
212/998-9872.
www.nyu.edu/dental
.
Mon-Thurs 8:30am-8pm; Fri 8:30am-4pm. Subway: 6 to 23rd St.
Alexander Technique
The American Center for the Alexander Technique
Tasmania-born thespian F. Matthias Alexander pi-
oneered this enigmatic science, which seeks to retrain the body out of a lifetime of bad postural habits. To learn
more, check out the free monthly demonstrations at this almost 50-year-old institution. They're held the first
Monday of the month from 7 to 8:30pm. Seating is limited; call in advance to reserve a spot. Should you wish to
follow up afterward, third-year students at the center need volunteers to work on. An eight-session course comes
with an $80 fee, but you'll be treated under the supervision of a senior faculty member; for less formal training
sessions, the base cost is between free and $25.
39 W. 14th St., Room 507, btw. Fifth and Sixth aves.
212/633-2229.
www.acatnyc.org
.
Subway: F/M to 14th St.; L to Sixth Ave.; N/Q/R/4/5/6 to
14th St./Union Sq.
3 In the Housing
What would New Yorkers have to talk about if we weren't complaining about our living arrangements? Or, for
a lucky few of us, bragging about them? I, for example, pay $264 a month for my rent-stabilized four-bedroom
with stunning views of the East River, Paris, and Cairo. The sad fact is, even as the economy only jogs along, NYC
rental rates and housing prices remain firmly in the realm of the absurd. One concept we learn all too well in
