Manhattan Living

Jones Wood Foundry: A New “Food Driven Pub” on the Upper East Side

Jones Wood Foundry, just recently opened on the Upper East Side, is the latest entry in a ever-more crowded field of NYC gastropubs–or, if you prefer, of casual restaurants serving refined, or elevated, British pub fare. The category has had more than its share of duds in recent years, but the good news for locals […]


Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum of Art March 11th, 2011

Full disclosure: we've somehow never been to the extremely cool-looking, much loved and lauded Panorama of the City of New York, the world's largest architectural model, a vast three-dimensional map, done entirely to scale, depicting every single building in the entire city. Yes: Every. Single. Building. From the world famous (Empire State, Chrysler, Rock Center) […]


Tara Donovan Stunners at Two Chelsea Pace Galleries in NYC

Tara Donovan has been one of our favorite contemporary artists since the early aughts, when pictures of her beautiful, crazily intricate, bio-organic-looking installations started popping up on the internet: walls made from clear drinking straws that seemed more coral than plastic; menacing hive-like hangings assembled from styrofoam cups and hot glue; bouquets of scotch tape, […]


Kin Shop NYC Thai Restaurant

Chef Harold Dieterle received national renown in 2005 when he won the first season of Top Chef, and then, perhaps even more difficult (and definitely more important), earned local NYC respect when he opened the first-rate Perilla on Jones Street just two years later, which is still cooking to capacity most nights. Late last fall […]


The Best of the 2011 Art Fairs NYC, COMING THIS WEEKEND

Starting (in some cases) this Thursday, March 3, and running through the weekend, the world's leading art galleries and dealers will be taking over at least a half dozen locations in Chelsea and the Flatiron and Midtown for NYC's increasingly huge, sometimes overwhelming, always not-to-be-missed Art Fair Weekend. We love this annual celebration of both "modern" (read: 20th Century) […]


NYC Apartment Living Links

Because, as a friend of ours once said, "it takes a long time to read the internet", you may have missed a few of our favorite apartment living links (however tangentially related) from these past few weeks, just as we probably missed a few of your favorites. Thus: link swap. We'll go first.    There […]


The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

We can't help but be a little too excited about this. As you've probably heard, London's world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company is coming to New York City this summer, performing five plays–As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar (NOT Antony and Cleopatra, as originally scheduled), and The Winter's Tale–during an historic six-week residency […]


Little Brown Chocolate Bakery and Coffee, New on the Upper East Side

The Bald Man, aka Max Brenner, aka irl Oded Brenner, first brought his chocolate-mad ways over to New York City some five years ago, with his eponymous insta-hit near Union Square. We went to that Max Brenner a few times when it first opened, and gorged on the likes of Chocolate Chunks Pizza, Banana Split […]


David Hammons at L&M Arts on the Upper East Side, FINAL WEEK

About five years ago the New York City artist David Hammons put on one of our all-time favorite gallery exhibitions, called Body Prints, at Tilton on 76th Street. He also contributed several sculptural pieces to the remarkable L.A. Object group show just upstairs. It was all powerful stuff, highly charged and urban and political, informed […]


The Little Cheese Pub NYC, New in Chelsea

Granted, it wouldn't take much to convince us to dine somewhere that's being billed as a "cheese restaurant"… but throw in the care and attention of Chef Daniel Angerer, who also runs Chelsea's solid neighborhood spot Klee, and the place instantly jumps to the top of our list. The Little Cheese Pub in NYC is […]