Manhattan Living

Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery and Edward Burtynsky at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

We’re total fans of both Andreas Gursky and Edward Burtynsky, hall-of-fame photographers whose signature work over the years has been massive prints of huge and busy urban and/or industrial landscapes. As good fortune would have it, both artists currently have exhibitions in Chelsea: Andreas Gursky at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street, and Edward Burtynsky […]


Molly’s Cupcakes: A sweet and playful West Village Cafe in NYC

Truth is, Molly’s Cupcakes totally had us at their sign in the window: “Unattended Children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.” Ok, sure, it’s a tad hokey (and, as a quick google reveals, not even remotely original), but still, it sums up nicely the playful, comfortable vibe of this newish West Village […]


Planting Tulip Bulbs & Planting Daffodil Bulbs: Glenwood Gardeners Plant 150,000 Tulips & Daffodils

Don Venezia, Supervisor for the Landscape Division at Glenwood management, is a very busy man these days. That’s because Don and his crack crew of seven landscapers and gardeners have been spending much of the last few weeks (and will continue on through November) planting some 150,000 tulip bulbs and daffodil bulbs in Glenwood gardens […]


Canstruction NYC 2011, Through Monday, November 21 Only!

Attentive Glenwood readers already know that we’re big Canstruction NYC fans, having gone to Canstruction in 2009 and Canstruction in 2010 at the World Financial Center. For those unfamiliar, Canstruction is an architecture/engineering extravaganza, for which some of the city’s top firms design and construct fabulously elaborate, often whimsical sculptural structures made entirely of cans of food. […]


Forcella: Fried Pizza Comes to the Bowery at This New York Pizza Restaurant

Early last summer the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Giulio Adriani opened Forcella in Williamsburg, attracting crowds right from the start for his fried pizza, and then keeping the place packed with everything else on his lengthy, extremely inviting pizza menu. Now, just a few months later, Adriani has jumped the river with a brand new, much larger […]


Maurizio Cattelan: All, at the Guggenheim Museum

There are plenty of provocative, witty, and/or outrageous individual pieces of art in Maurizio Cattelan’s career-spanning (and, since he’s vowed to retire after it closes, career-ending) exhibition that just opened at the Guggenheim. Simply, aptly titled All, Maurizio Cattelan: All supposedly includes every single work he’s ever created. Cattelan’s show would be newsworthy and entertaining […]


Huge Chilewich Sample Sale in Midtown, this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ONLY

There are always a dozen or so first-rate New York sample sales going on at any given moment in this town; the only real challenge to getting designer goods–usually clothing, but also accessories and such–at ridiculously low prices is keeping on top of all the offerings, and finding the time to wait on the often […]


Liberty Plaza: Leading the way in Downtown Manhattan After September 11

In 2005, just a few years after we all had predicted that the horrific attacks of 9/11 would change New York City forever–and, more specifically, the neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan–those changes did indeed start to happen… but in ways that were much better than most of us could have dared hope. You see, 2005 was […]


Italian Restaurants in NYC: Frankies 570 Now in the West Village

Whenever we’re wandering South Brooklyn or the Lower East Side, Frankies Spuntino is always one of our go-to choices for a first-rate, satisfying meal that’s easy on the wallet and always feels a bit like a party. Pastas, salads, sandwiches, veggie sides… everything is good here. The original Frankies, on Court Street in Carroll Gardens, […]


New Amsterdam Market: Lower Manhattan’s Best Outdoor Food Market

We were more than a little excited when New Amsterdam Market set up shop in the South Street Seaport community a few summers ago, reviving the concept of the city’s great Public Markets which were once so prevalent but, for many obvious reasons, are rarely seen these days on the streets of Manhattan. With its […]