Manhattan Living

Asphalt Green: NYC’s Premier Sports and Fitness Club SPECIAL OFFER for Glenwood Residents Only!

It's one of the great perks of Gracie Point/Upper East Side living, the easy access we have to the world-class sports, training, and fitness facilities at Asphalt Green. Seriously: with its playing fields, ball courts, gyms, 50-meter Olympic standard pool AND warm-water exercise pool, all spread out rather luxuriously across a well-maintained, five-and-a-half acre campus, Asphalt Green in […]


IKEA Hacks: The Best & Most Creative Designs

Ah, IKEA. Who among us hasn't succumbed to its temptations? Those lovely, clean, and contemporary designs? Those charmingly fun-to-say Scandinavian names, and the cafe meatballs with lingonberry sauce? And, most seductive of all, those impossible prices? Don't get us wrong, we love IKEA, for all of those reasons and more, but sometimes we get their […]


The Little Cupcake Bakeshop in NYC Is a Surprise Winner

We greeted the opening last fall of The Little Cupcake Bakeshop in NYC with, we think, justifiable skepticism. Not that we don't love baked goodies of all sorts–trust us, we do–including the unfairly maligned cupcake. It's just that, with its cartoony logo, and silly-food offerings (Fruity Pebbles Treats! Cookie Dough Cupcakes! etc.), and false-nostalgia decor, […]


Christian Marclay: The Clock at Paula Cooper in Chelsea

Christian Marclay's 24-hour film The Clock, playing for just another week or so at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea, is, without a doubt, the most totally brilliant things we've seen in years. Funny and engaging, consistently surprising and  creative, technically flawless, Marclay's The Clock takes a wonderfully simple idea–create a montage of clips from, literally, thousands of […]


Five of the Best Home Design and Architecture Blogs

We spend waaaaaay too many hours on the internet each week poring over top design and architecture blogs, imagining what our home might look like if we had unlimited time, money, and energy, as well as a willingness to get rid of all the stuff we already own, and love. Anyway, here are a few […]


Totto Ramen: Among the Best Ramen in NYC

We're right in thick of ramen season here in New York City, a time of slush and sleet and snow when few foods sound as appealing as a big bowl of hot, hearty, noodle-y soup. Good to know, then, about Totto Ramen NYC, located on the western edge of Midtown, and an excellent workaday way […]


The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria: Expanded, Updated, Redesigned, Reopened

After two mostly shuttered years, $67 million, an expansion in size to some 100,000 square feet, and lots of discussion about what, exactly, should be the mission of the institution as a whole, The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria finally reopened its newly gleaming doors about a week ago. And, after a couple […]


Finding the Best Burgers in NYC

We're not ones to bemoan the "burgerfication" of the New York City cuisine scene. There will always be plenty of superb high- and upper-middle-end restaurants in this town, and we will always enjoy dining in them. BUT we (and our wallets) also appreciate the now decade-long trend of talented chefs and well-conceived specialty joints serving […]


Chelsea Gallery Art: Nathan Harger at Hasted Kraeutler

Pickings were a little slim as we strolled through Chelsea art galleries last weekend, as they often are this time of year. The big crowd-pleasing shows of the holiday season were mostly gone (though Brice Marden is still up at Matthew Marks, and will be through the 22nd), and many galleries were either in "Closed […]


Bryant Park Movies: Outdoor Film Fun Starts THIS WEEKEND

  Our by-now favorite New York City ice skating rink, the pretty (and free! sort of…*) Citi Pond at Bryant Park is still open for another month or so, until February 27, so if you haven't gone gliding around the oval yet–the towers of midtown creating a cozy, canyon-esque feel to the proceedings; the grand, […]