I’m an avid flea-market bargain hunter, but I can barely afford to refurbish my finds. (I paid $265 to redo a $30 chair last week!) Where can I learn to do it myself?

I live near Columbia and have 24 bags of clothes that I can’t get Goodwill or the Salvation Army to pick up. Who’ll do it?

I need to spend an afternoon running errands around the city—and I’m hauling home a lot of stuff, so it’d be much easier with my car, if parking weren’t so impossible. Where can I rent a driver for the day?

I have some leather and suede skirts that need altering. Where can I find a specialist?

A cranky parking officer gave me a ticket I don’t deserve! How do I lose this orange envelope without giving up any green?

I like those monogrammed jeans Madonna wears in the Gap’s ad campaign—who can stitch my initials on my back pocket?

My 8-year-old daughter has an ugly habit of shoveling cereal into her mouth, then dribbling the milk. Her friends applaud her, and I can’t stop her. Where can she go for etiquette lessons?

Where can I find a selection of vintage T-shirts—the kind with ironic iron-ons?

Some New York–savvy friends are visiting this spring, and I’m trying to think of new things to do. They’ve already tried the Circle Line. Are there any other ways to spend a day on the water?

Too many of my hand-wash-only, ultra-delicate undergarments have been ravaged by the washing machine—or an overzealous date—lately. Is there anywhere I can have them mended?