Manhattan Living
Foodparc NYC: Jeffrey Chodorow’s High-Tech “Food Hall”
Three's a trend? Foodparc NYC, Jeffrey Chodorow and Ed Schoenfeld's futuristic food court in northern Chelsea/southwest Midtown, joins the Plaza Food Hall (from Todd English) and the gigundo Eataly (from Mario Batalli) as 2010's most-likely-to-succeed multi-station restaurants with a high-end pedigree. But while Foodparc definitely shares some of the features of its food court counterparts–multiple, differently […]
Kenny Scharf Artist Mural on the Houston Street Wall
It’s quickly become one of our favorite public art spaces: “the Wall” on Houston Street (formerly the “Deitch Wall”, now curated by the Hole Gallery), right around the corner from Bowery, and, in case you’re hungry, across the street from Pulino’s Bar & Pizzeria. In the past year or so the space, all 17′ x 50′ of […]
Peter Pan Donuts–the best in NYC–now also at Brooklyn Farmacy
File under: fun and tasty Saturday family adventure. The Peter Pan Bakery in Greenpoint (on Manhattan Avenue; near the Nassau G-train stop) has been attracting donut lovers by the dozens (and dozens… and dozens) for a few years now, and especially after Tina Fey raved about them rather salaciously in Esquire. And this isn't empty […]
Three Cool Holiday Shopping Pop Ups
Upper West Side: Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store Ann Lopatin, aka Annie Lo, has a good eye and an even better sense of fun, both of which are everywhere in evidence in this spacious Upper West Side version of her beloved Brooklyn "Urban General Store". In true holiday shopping pop up style, the space […]
Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea featuring Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg
At this point it should come as no surprise that rockstar art dealer Larry Gagosian can put on multiple large-scale exhibitions by brand-name artists, any one of which would be more than welcome in any museum in the world. But in case you still need convincing, we heartily recommend heading over to Chelsea some time between […]
Levi’s Photo Workshop NYC, in Soho
The Levi's Photo Workshop could be the least-hyped coolest thing going on in the New York City right now. Located on Wooster Street in the–instant nostalgia alert!–former Deitch gallery space, the Levi's Photo Workshop has so much photography-related, totally-free goodness that it's almost a bit overwhelming. We went once just to take it all in, and […]
Rubirosa NYC
We had so long ago ceded Little Italy to the tourists that it seems almost counter-intuitive to head over to Mulberry Street to eat pasta and pizza and zeppole and the like. And yet, there we were, twice this past week, ordering up a storm from the old-school menu at Rubirosa NYC. Opened in early […]
Hung Ry Noodle Shop NYC
As we head into that big-bowls-of-steaming-meaty-noodle-soup time of year, our favorite discovery of the new fall restaurant season has to be Hung Ry, a lovely, almost shockingly soothing spot on what has become an ever-increasingly excellent though definitely frenetic dining scene on Bowery (think Peels, Hecho en Dumbo, DBGB, Pulino’s, etc.). Located on a quiet, […]
Canstruction NYC 2010 at the World Financial Center
In what has become a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, we roamed the soaring, sun-drenched Winter Palace at the World Financial Center last Thursday afternoon to take in Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it […]
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, running now through January at the Met, is packed with the kind of visually clever, relentlessly entertaining works that have earned him recognition as one of the great pioneers of the Conceptual Art movement. In and of itself, this is an extremely engaging exhibition, filled with energy and spectacle and humor. But what […]
Three's a trend? Foodparc NYC, Jeffrey Chodorow and Ed Schoenfeld's futuristic food court in northern Chelsea/southwest Midtown, joins the Plaza Food Hall (from Todd English) and the gigundo Eataly (from Mario Batalli) as 2010's most-likely-to-succeed multi-station restaurants with a high-end pedigree. But while Foodparc definitely shares some of the features of its food court counterparts–multiple, differently […]
Kenny Scharf Artist Mural on the Houston Street Wall
It’s quickly become one of our favorite public art spaces: “the Wall” on Houston Street (formerly the “Deitch Wall”, now curated by the Hole Gallery), right around the corner from Bowery, and, in case you’re hungry, across the street from Pulino’s Bar & Pizzeria. In the past year or so the space, all 17′ x 50′ of […]
Peter Pan Donuts–the best in NYC–now also at Brooklyn Farmacy
File under: fun and tasty Saturday family adventure. The Peter Pan Bakery in Greenpoint (on Manhattan Avenue; near the Nassau G-train stop) has been attracting donut lovers by the dozens (and dozens… and dozens) for a few years now, and especially after Tina Fey raved about them rather salaciously in Esquire. And this isn't empty […]
Three Cool Holiday Shopping Pop Ups
Upper West Side: Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store Ann Lopatin, aka Annie Lo, has a good eye and an even better sense of fun, both of which are everywhere in evidence in this spacious Upper West Side version of her beloved Brooklyn "Urban General Store". In true holiday shopping pop up style, the space […]
Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea featuring Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg
At this point it should come as no surprise that rockstar art dealer Larry Gagosian can put on multiple large-scale exhibitions by brand-name artists, any one of which would be more than welcome in any museum in the world. But in case you still need convincing, we heartily recommend heading over to Chelsea some time between […]
Levi’s Photo Workshop NYC, in Soho
The Levi's Photo Workshop could be the least-hyped coolest thing going on in the New York City right now. Located on Wooster Street in the–instant nostalgia alert!–former Deitch gallery space, the Levi's Photo Workshop has so much photography-related, totally-free goodness that it's almost a bit overwhelming. We went once just to take it all in, and […]
Rubirosa NYC
We had so long ago ceded Little Italy to the tourists that it seems almost counter-intuitive to head over to Mulberry Street to eat pasta and pizza and zeppole and the like. And yet, there we were, twice this past week, ordering up a storm from the old-school menu at Rubirosa NYC. Opened in early […]
Hung Ry Noodle Shop NYC
As we head into that big-bowls-of-steaming-meaty-noodle-soup time of year, our favorite discovery of the new fall restaurant season has to be Hung Ry, a lovely, almost shockingly soothing spot on what has become an ever-increasingly excellent though definitely frenetic dining scene on Bowery (think Peels, Hecho en Dumbo, DBGB, Pulino’s, etc.). Located on a quiet, […]
Canstruction NYC 2010 at the World Financial Center
In what has become a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, we roamed the soaring, sun-drenched Winter Palace at the World Financial Center last Thursday afternoon to take in Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it […]
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, running now through January at the Met, is packed with the kind of visually clever, relentlessly entertaining works that have earned him recognition as one of the great pioneers of the Conceptual Art movement. In and of itself, this is an extremely engaging exhibition, filled with energy and spectacle and humor. But what […]