Manhattan Living

Cake Ball Truffles at Momofuku Milk Bar NYC

We were a little worried, to tell you the truth, about Momofuku Milk Bar Bakery, one of our favorite sweet-treat spots in all of NewYork City. Ever since a huge upsurge in demand (mail order; the new midtown operation adjoining Ma Peche) forced the wildly, wonderfully inventive Chef Christina Tosi to move her Momofuku baking […]


The Green Table NYC

On any given day there are a dozen excellent reasons to walk through the Chelsea Market, Manhattan's most successful attempt, by far, at creating the ideal urban mall. The "warm industrial" design of the common spaces, the waterfall, the ample seating; the near-perfect record in interesting store curation through some 13 years of growth and […]


Henri Matisse: Radical Reinvention, 1913 – 1917, at the MoMA

What a wonderful treat, the just-opened Henri Matisse art show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sprawled out luxuriously in the larger of the MoMA's sixth-floor galleries, this full-scale exhibition includes some 120 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, the bulk of which have been culled from Matisse's most difficult creative period, a four-year stint from […]


Fun FREE Live Music in NYC Alert: Two Epic Shows This Weekend

Ok, yes, there is great free music in NYC all summer long, from Rockefeller Park to Governors Island, Central Park to Castle Clinton, the Williamsburg Waterfront to the South Street Seaport, Wingate Field to Pier 54, Coney Island to Prospect Park to Madison Square Park to the World Financial Center to the East River Ampitheater […]


Nanoosh NYC

Oh Nanoosh, you're such a tease.  When the first invitingly-designed space of what has become a humus-centric chainlet opened on the Upper West Side, we were more than a little excited. At the time, eating on Broadway in the 60s, 70s and 80s was pretty much like this: bad diner, boring salad/sandwich chain, bad pizza, […]


5 & Diamond Restaurant NYC

Chef Ryan Skeen is as famous for his aggressively-flavored, meat-centric cooking as he is notorious for his too-public battles with owners and partners and other chefs and, um, everyone else in the world. We loved the fatty, offal-y delights at Skeen's Resto, for example, and his flap-meat burger at Irving Mill is the stuff of […]


MoMA PS1 Brings Us Warm Up, Solid Objectives Pole Dance & Greater New York

It's that time of year again, when hundreds (thousands?) of club kids and euro-tourists and hipsters and frat boys and young families and scenesters turn Long Island City's MoMA PS1 into an afternoon-into-nighttime sun-drenched dance party, every Saturday, from now until Labor Day weekend. It's called Warm Up, it takes place in the sprawling PS1 […]


The Best Chocolate Cake In the World

  There’s a difference between engaging in a little good-natured hyperbole, and raising expectations waaaaay beyond your ability to deliver. Sadly, the Best Chocolate Cake In the World, a tiny, fussily-designed bakery and cafe recently opened in Nolita, lands firmly on the wrong side of that line. Seriously: if you’re going to name your shop […]


Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum

The challenge is formidable: how do you stage an Andy Warhol art exhibition these days that will get people excited? After all, Warhol is not only the most overly-famous, most commonly reproduced artist of the late 20th century, but his work itself is all reproductions (of reproductions), so it's not as if seeing the original […]


Crif Dogs vs. Bark Hot Dogs, for the title of best hot dogs in NYC

Summer really kicks into high gear this weekend, the Fourth of July three-day (four-day? more-day?), and so naturally our thoughts turn to sandy beaches, late-afternoon naps, family outings, and… New York City hot dogs. Yup, every year around this time the craving kicks in for good ol' fashioned frankfurters, simply dressed or sloppy with toppings. […]