Manhattan Living
Mario Batali Restaurant Opens: Eataly NYC
Mario Batali's restaurant Eataly NYC is the mega-star chef's brand new, insanely huge (36,500 square feet!), and, at this point, crazy-crowded Italian high-end restaurant / wood-fired pizzeria / coffee shop / grocery store / gelateria / chocolateria / panini spot / raw bar / bakery / outdoor beer garden (coming soon!) / salumi wine bar […]
Luxury Apartment Amenities in NYC
With NYC luxury rental apartments fighting to attract the best, most qualified residents–and even steal wary buyers from the luxury condo market–developers all over town have significantly upped the ante in recent years in terms of rental apartment amenities, both in a building's common areas and within individual homes themselves. These days, in fact, contemporary […]
Olio Pizza NYC
One look at Olio Pizza e Piu and it's easy to see why this West Village newcomer was something of an instant hit this summer. With its wide-open frontage and double row of outside tables, located just off a bustling stretch of Sixth Avenue, Olio Pizza NYC is close enough to the throngs to feel […]
Fashion Night Out NYC: THIS FRIDAY, September 10
It's all a bit much, to be sure, and more than a little shallow (let's celebrate shopping!!), but still… the increasingly sprawling, lavish, and heavily-attended Fashion Night Out NYC has already become an early-fall ritual here in the big town, especially if you're in your 20s or 30s, and enjoy things like free makeovers, crudite, […]
The Legos Store NYC: New in Rockefeller Center
Earlier this summer New York City's first-ever Lego Store moved into the heart of the Midtown Manhattan tourist district, opening a heavily-branded flagship store in the old Brookstone space in Rockefeller Center. Now, of course you can buy most everything Legos-related in a hundred places all over the city, as well as everywhere online. So […]
M. Wells Restaurant in Long Island City
File under: the dinner we're most excited about eating in October. When the diner-looking-but-not-diner-tasting M. Wells opened in Long Island City early this summer, anyone who's ever been to Montreal's legendary restaurant Au Pied de Cochin–and we are fortunate enough to include ourselves in that crowd–immediately booked tickets on the 7 train. But M. Wells […]
Leon Levinstein’s New York City Photographs at the Met
After most of the big summer museum exhibitions have closed, and before the crowd-pleasers of fall start making their appearance (Edward Hopper at the Whitney! The Abstract Expressionists–Rothko, de Kooning, Pollock, etc.–at the MoMA! Picasso and Matisse at the Guggenheim!), now is the perfect time to catch up on the smaller shows that we may […]
Frankies Spuntino Restaurants: 457 (on Court Street) and 17 (on Clinton)
The Frankies are the charming, talented, unashamedly hippie-y (down to their love of fine weed and the Grateful Dead) chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. The Spuntinos are the "little snacks" they've made famous, first in Brooklyn, in Carroll Gardens, a few blocks from the F train, then on the Lower East Side, on Clinton […]
Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts World NYC
Kellogg's Pop-Tarts World, which just opened on the heavily trafficked but somehow abandoned-feeling stretch of 42nd Street between Bryant Park and Times Square proper, is a loud, aggressively cheerful, crazily-lit, undisguised attempt by the makers of these iconic treats to scream about their brand for a bit and make a pile of money from visitors […]
Butter Lane Cupcakes: the best cupcakes in NYC?
It’s been almost two years now since Butter Lane Cupcakes added their icinged-up little beauties to the East Village block (7th Street between First and A) that’s become somewhat renowned for its eateries of focused excellence, from the roasted pork sandwiches at Porchetta and lobster rolls at Luke’s to the ceviche at Desnuda and the […]
Mario Batali's restaurant Eataly NYC is the mega-star chef's brand new, insanely huge (36,500 square feet!), and, at this point, crazy-crowded Italian high-end restaurant / wood-fired pizzeria / coffee shop / grocery store / gelateria / chocolateria / panini spot / raw bar / bakery / outdoor beer garden (coming soon!) / salumi wine bar […]
Luxury Apartment Amenities in NYC
With NYC luxury rental apartments fighting to attract the best, most qualified residents–and even steal wary buyers from the luxury condo market–developers all over town have significantly upped the ante in recent years in terms of rental apartment amenities, both in a building's common areas and within individual homes themselves. These days, in fact, contemporary […]
Olio Pizza NYC
One look at Olio Pizza e Piu and it's easy to see why this West Village newcomer was something of an instant hit this summer. With its wide-open frontage and double row of outside tables, located just off a bustling stretch of Sixth Avenue, Olio Pizza NYC is close enough to the throngs to feel […]
Fashion Night Out NYC: THIS FRIDAY, September 10
It's all a bit much, to be sure, and more than a little shallow (let's celebrate shopping!!), but still… the increasingly sprawling, lavish, and heavily-attended Fashion Night Out NYC has already become an early-fall ritual here in the big town, especially if you're in your 20s or 30s, and enjoy things like free makeovers, crudite, […]
The Legos Store NYC: New in Rockefeller Center
Earlier this summer New York City's first-ever Lego Store moved into the heart of the Midtown Manhattan tourist district, opening a heavily-branded flagship store in the old Brookstone space in Rockefeller Center. Now, of course you can buy most everything Legos-related in a hundred places all over the city, as well as everywhere online. So […]
M. Wells Restaurant in Long Island City
File under: the dinner we're most excited about eating in October. When the diner-looking-but-not-diner-tasting M. Wells opened in Long Island City early this summer, anyone who's ever been to Montreal's legendary restaurant Au Pied de Cochin–and we are fortunate enough to include ourselves in that crowd–immediately booked tickets on the 7 train. But M. Wells […]
Leon Levinstein’s New York City Photographs at the Met
After most of the big summer museum exhibitions have closed, and before the crowd-pleasers of fall start making their appearance (Edward Hopper at the Whitney! The Abstract Expressionists–Rothko, de Kooning, Pollock, etc.–at the MoMA! Picasso and Matisse at the Guggenheim!), now is the perfect time to catch up on the smaller shows that we may […]
Frankies Spuntino Restaurants: 457 (on Court Street) and 17 (on Clinton)
The Frankies are the charming, talented, unashamedly hippie-y (down to their love of fine weed and the Grateful Dead) chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. The Spuntinos are the "little snacks" they've made famous, first in Brooklyn, in Carroll Gardens, a few blocks from the F train, then on the Lower East Side, on Clinton […]
Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts World NYC
Kellogg's Pop-Tarts World, which just opened on the heavily trafficked but somehow abandoned-feeling stretch of 42nd Street between Bryant Park and Times Square proper, is a loud, aggressively cheerful, crazily-lit, undisguised attempt by the makers of these iconic treats to scream about their brand for a bit and make a pile of money from visitors […]
Butter Lane Cupcakes: the best cupcakes in NYC?
It’s been almost two years now since Butter Lane Cupcakes added their icinged-up little beauties to the East Village block (7th Street between First and A) that’s become somewhat renowned for its eateries of focused excellence, from the roasted pork sandwiches at Porchetta and lobster rolls at Luke’s to the ceviche at Desnuda and the […]