The Scoop — NYTimes Guide to NYC Food, Drinks & Fun App Reviews

I cant seem to open app I have in the past and enjoyed using it. Is there a problem with the site?

Never trust yelp reviews, this app has the best restaurant recommendations and always updated with new and good places.

Loved it before iOS 8. Still crashes on 8.3.

The new version crashes instantly rendering the app unusable.

Both the data in the app, which is also available on the NYT Web site, as the layout of the app are wonderful. However, there is a major bug in parsing the persistent data of the app. After marking the stuff you did for a couple of days to weeks, the app crashes upon startup and only deleting the app and reinstalling it fixes it. I reported this issue and volunteered to help debug the problem, but the developers werent interested and havent fixes the issue in well over 12 months.

Only crashes... Please update it!

NYT - we love you but the app wont work on my phone. Clean install first time = wont even open

This app is great for finding quirky, different, fun and one-of-a-kind things to do in NYC that youd have a hard time find on apps like Yelp or TripAdvisor. I used to use this app when it first came out - I think for iPhone 1 back in 08? - and never deleted it from my on my iphone apps but after moving away from NYC it kind of fell into disuse. I was recently back in NYC on a work trip and had a few spare hours to kill. I whipped out the latest and greatest user-curated "things to do" app that I had recently downloaded. Beautiful UI but the suggestions were painfully obvious tourist things like "visit the Top of the Rock" "see the New York Public LIbrary." I ended up wandering aimlessly around the Village and SoHo like I usually do having already seen/done most of the familiar. It wasnt until I traveled back home later that evening, looking back with amazement that I had difficulty finding something interesting to do spur of the moment in the most interesting city in the world, that I thought to pull out NYT The Scoop. And the recommendations they gave were things that would have never even occurred to me without the help of the NYT staff: "Get lost among the stacks at the strand" "Get steamed at Russian and Turkish baths" etc. Cant wait for my next trip to put this app back to use!

Its been over a year that this app has crashed and wont stay open unless its deleted and reinstalled. Constantly losing my data. Frustrating because the content is great!