Manhattan Living

Best Bar Food: Popular Restaurants NYC: Upper East Side Bars

Word has definitely gotten around about Earl's Beer and Cheese' best bar food: even early evening on a Tuesday the place was pretty packed (granted, it doesn't take much of a crowd to make this place feel like a party).


The High Line New York Section 2 Opens

NYC's beloved High Line opened its hugely anticipated half-mile extension this week, giving us all 10 more blocks of glorious High Line goodness, including a lovely new lawn, pictured above! We were fortunate enough to get an early afternoon viewing yesterday, and are pleased to report that the extension is every bit as spectacular as the original.


Coney Island Opens New Scream Zone Amusement Park

We head out to Coney Island, New York at least a couple of times each summer, for the beach (we go where all the Russians go, toward Brighton); and the scene on the boardwalk, which is always teeming with characters; and to walk through the Coney Island amusement park in all of its iterations over the years; and to ride the world-famous, loud and rickety Cyclone roller coaster (sometimes); and to only-once but never-again eat Nathan's hot dogs, which are just gross.


Pablo Picasso, John Chamberlain: Gagosian Gallery Exhibits

Art dealer and gallery owner superstar Larry Gagosian continues to delight and amaze us with his world-class, museum-quality exhibitions at his galleries both on the Upper East Side and downtown, in Chelsea. Gagosian Gallery's latest triumphs are a pair of blockbuster shows: "Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'Amour Fou", on 21st Street, and "John Chamberlain: New Work", […]


Governors Island NYC 2011: Mini-Golf and Mark di Suvero Sculptures

Governors Island in NYC has definitely become one of the premier summertime daycation destinations, for leisurely strolling or biking or scooting and taking in those beautiful views; for picnicking and relaxing and playing on the huge main lawn, the Parade Ground; for engaging in any number of the participatory activities that have become part of […]


Pop Pub in NYC on University Place

Pop Pub in NYC, a beery new offshoot of the long-time Meatpacking District favorite Pop Burger, just recently opened on University Place, and we couldn't be happier that the Pop people chose this particular stretch of Manhattan to set up shop. Not that Pop Pub serves anything all that spectacular–the Pop Pub menu of sliders, […]


Anthony Caro Sculptures at the MET Roof Garden

For at least a decade now, one of our most-anticipated New York City springtime rituals has been to find a warm sunny afternoon, grab a friend or three, and head on over to the great and glorious MET Roof Garden to see the new sculptures/installations that'll be gracing the space all summer long. And while […]


Ryoji Ikeda: The Transfinite at the Park Avenue Armory

It's one of the great spaces in town, the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall at the historic Park Avenue Armory, but it's also been a bit of challenge for the Arts at the Armory curators to find the right artist, with the right idea, to take full advantage of the massive room. Fortunately, Ryoji Ikeda's […]


ICFF in New York 2011: Wrapping up Design Week

Last weekend the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York took over the Jacobs Javits Center… and even THAT massive space couldn't contain what has become one of the world's premiere celebrations of the most innovative industrial designers and their beautiful, amazing, ridiculous, brilliant, jaw-dropping creations. And so the ICFF has spawned NYC […]


The Dutch in NYC: Chef Andrew Carmellini’s New Restaurant in Soho

Has there been a more eagerly-anticipated opening this spring than Chef Andrew Carmellini's The Dutch in NYC, an impossibly good-looking "American-food" restaurant on a prime corner in Soho? The answer is: no… no there has not… which should come as no surprise, given Chef Carmellini's enviable track record, which includes a Michelin star when he […]