Manhattan Living
9/11 memorial 10th Anniversary Photography Exhibition: here is new york: Revisited” at SVA until September 17
Ten years ago, just two weeks after September 11, 2001 a storefront on Prince Street was transformed almost on-the-fly into a remarkable photography exhibition, taken and donated by amateurs and professionals alike, of the attacks of that terrifying morning on 9/11, and in those strange, horrible days that followed. You could buy prints of any […]
Chef Seamus Mullen Presents Spanish Tapas to NYC With Tertulia
Looks like Chef Seamus Mullen has another hit on his hands with Tertulia. Five years ago Mullen brought his genius for preparing and plating authentic-feeling Spanish tapas to Manhattan with Boqueria, an acclaimed, always-packed restaurant in the Flatiron District. That eatery spawned a tapas restaurant offshoot in Soho and at least a dozen imitators. Seamus […]
Jane’s Carousel Opening Next Week Under the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
For more than 20 years, Brooklyn artist Jane Walentas has been overseeing the meticulous restoration of 48 wooden horses, a stable-full of palominos, bays, and ponies that first began saddling up back in 1922, in Youngstown, Ohio, and then on Water Street in DUMBO, until Walentas took them into rehab in 1984. Next week, on […]
Entertaining at Home: Food, Wine, Friends and Family
image courtesy of googleusercontent.com Hosting a Party: Home Entertaining Ideas In a city with enough restaurants to be able to dine somewhere new every night, most of us resort to entertainment outside of our homes. With accessibility to so many options, culture and convenience you’re probably wondering, “Why would anyone even think about entertaining in […]
Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn: good food, unusual stores, lots of fun!
Add the friendly, neatly-designed, packed-with-tasty-treats Dekalb Market to your list of fun things to do in Brooklyn. Launched this summer on a vacant lot near the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn (and, thus, near many subway lines), the Dekalb Market is different from all of the other excellent markets that have been cropping up these […]
Legendary 2nd Ave Deli Comes to the Upper East Side
Has there ever been a neighborhood more excited about a new restaurant than the Upper East Side, and the 2nd Ave Deli? Given the big lines, packed houses (and this during what is traditionally the slowest time of the NYC restaurant year, the dogs days of August) and the exclamations of delight we heard from […]
Best Brooklyn Restaurants: Roberta’s Pizza
Roberta's might just be our new favorite restaurant. Not that we're claiming to have discovered the place: Roberta's restaurant in Brooklyn has been wowing the world with their amazing pizzas and delicious dishes since the beginning of 2008, and if you go to Roberta's restaurant today, in prime time, the wait for a table can […]
Met Opera HD Free Summer Festival Begins Aug27 Lincoln Center
Even as recently as few years ago we wouldn't have predicted that, on a pleasant summer's evening, the plaza at Lincoln Center is one of our favorite places to be in all of New York City. In fact, the redesign and renovation of the entire Lincoln Center complex has been a spectacular success as far […]
A Private Pool in Manhattan: Private Swimming Pools are a Surprisingly Rare Luxury
They are marketed prominently by many of New York City’s newest breed of rental and condo towers, and with good reason: swimming pools in residential buildings remain an exceptionally rare luxury, especially in Manhattan. In fact, as was mentioned in a piece by C. J. Hughes in the New York Times that ran earlier this […]
The High Line Rink: Uniqlo New York Sponsors Roller Skating Under One of NYC Best Parks!
Roller skating plus tacos trucks plus beer plus the High Line?! Sign us up! A few weeks ago the excellent Friends of the High Line teamed up with the Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and plopped down the expansive High Line Roller Rink at the northern end of what has become one New York City's great […]
Ten years ago, just two weeks after September 11, 2001 a storefront on Prince Street was transformed almost on-the-fly into a remarkable photography exhibition, taken and donated by amateurs and professionals alike, of the attacks of that terrifying morning on 9/11, and in those strange, horrible days that followed. You could buy prints of any […]
Chef Seamus Mullen Presents Spanish Tapas to NYC With Tertulia
Looks like Chef Seamus Mullen has another hit on his hands with Tertulia. Five years ago Mullen brought his genius for preparing and plating authentic-feeling Spanish tapas to Manhattan with Boqueria, an acclaimed, always-packed restaurant in the Flatiron District. That eatery spawned a tapas restaurant offshoot in Soho and at least a dozen imitators. Seamus […]
Jane’s Carousel Opening Next Week Under the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
For more than 20 years, Brooklyn artist Jane Walentas has been overseeing the meticulous restoration of 48 wooden horses, a stable-full of palominos, bays, and ponies that first began saddling up back in 1922, in Youngstown, Ohio, and then on Water Street in DUMBO, until Walentas took them into rehab in 1984. Next week, on […]
Entertaining at Home: Food, Wine, Friends and Family
image courtesy of googleusercontent.com Hosting a Party: Home Entertaining Ideas In a city with enough restaurants to be able to dine somewhere new every night, most of us resort to entertainment outside of our homes. With accessibility to so many options, culture and convenience you’re probably wondering, “Why would anyone even think about entertaining in […]
Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn: good food, unusual stores, lots of fun!
Add the friendly, neatly-designed, packed-with-tasty-treats Dekalb Market to your list of fun things to do in Brooklyn. Launched this summer on a vacant lot near the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn (and, thus, near many subway lines), the Dekalb Market is different from all of the other excellent markets that have been cropping up these […]
Legendary 2nd Ave Deli Comes to the Upper East Side
Has there ever been a neighborhood more excited about a new restaurant than the Upper East Side, and the 2nd Ave Deli? Given the big lines, packed houses (and this during what is traditionally the slowest time of the NYC restaurant year, the dogs days of August) and the exclamations of delight we heard from […]
Best Brooklyn Restaurants: Roberta’s Pizza
Roberta's might just be our new favorite restaurant. Not that we're claiming to have discovered the place: Roberta's restaurant in Brooklyn has been wowing the world with their amazing pizzas and delicious dishes since the beginning of 2008, and if you go to Roberta's restaurant today, in prime time, the wait for a table can […]
Met Opera HD Free Summer Festival Begins Aug27 Lincoln Center
Even as recently as few years ago we wouldn't have predicted that, on a pleasant summer's evening, the plaza at Lincoln Center is one of our favorite places to be in all of New York City. In fact, the redesign and renovation of the entire Lincoln Center complex has been a spectacular success as far […]
A Private Pool in Manhattan: Private Swimming Pools are a Surprisingly Rare Luxury
They are marketed prominently by many of New York City’s newest breed of rental and condo towers, and with good reason: swimming pools in residential buildings remain an exceptionally rare luxury, especially in Manhattan. In fact, as was mentioned in a piece by C. J. Hughes in the New York Times that ran earlier this […]
The High Line Rink: Uniqlo New York Sponsors Roller Skating Under One of NYC Best Parks!
Roller skating plus tacos trucks plus beer plus the High Line?! Sign us up! A few weeks ago the excellent Friends of the High Line teamed up with the Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and plopped down the expansive High Line Roller Rink at the northern end of what has become one New York City's great […]