Manhattan Living

The Alliance for Downtown New York & Glenwood Team up for Spring Community Planting Day

  Last weekend the Glenwood Management team was thrilled to co-sponsor the Alliance For Downtown New York's Third Annual Spring Community Planting Day… and even more thrilled by the huge turnout of lower Manhattan residents who spent hours getting their hands dirty to help spruce up the no-longer-forlorn Wall Street Park.     The weather […]


Starn Twins Installation: “Big Bambu” at the Met

  Checking out the new sculptures/installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden has become one of New York City’s great springtime (and summer-long) rituals. With its spectacular views of Central Park, readily available snacks and beverages (including beer, wine and cocktails), and an all-star roster of contemporary artists transforming the space over the […]


Hester Street Fair NYC

  The Hester Street Fair NYC launched last Saturday with a stellar line-up of food and merchandise vendors, a few opening day jitters, and tons (and tons!) of people enjoying the Lower East Side sunshine. The model here is the Brooklyn Flea, the outer borough’s hugely successful weekly gathering of hip handicrafts, unusual antiques, and […]


New York City Home Tours THIS WEEKEND

  We love poking around people's homes–how do THEY deal with the challenges of New York City apartment living?–but short of embarking on a new b-and-e career, there are only so many open houses we can get to in a weekend, or friends who will tolerate our home design/real estate obsession. Enter New York City […]


Babbo NYC: Chef Mario Batali’s Flagship Restaurant

Chef Mario Batali's flagship restaurant Babbo NYC is as famous for its astonishing array of pastas (and for its Fennel Dusted Sweetbreads…and its Grilled Octopus…and its Olive Oil Gelato…and its…well, you get the idea) as it is notorious for the difficulty of getting a reservation. The solution, as we discovered just last weekend? Babbo's bar. […]


Shepard Fairey’s new mural on Houston Street

  Shepard Fairey spent years making a name for himself in street art culture with his ubiquitous "Obey" posters and stickers–he's racked up well over a million hits worldwide; even if you don't know what we're talking about, you'd definitely recognize them–but in 2008 he became famous to the rest of the world for his […]


The Modern Century: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs at the MoMA

  For so many reasons, on so many levels, the huge new Henri Cartier-Bresson photography show at the Museum of Modern Art is a stunner. In more than 300 photographs spanning his entire 50+-year career, from the early 1930s into the 1980s, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century delivers one indelible, sometimes challenging, often iconic, always […]


Ma Peche, aka Momofuku Midtown

We'd follow chefs David Chang, Christina Tosi and the rest of the Momofuku crew just about anywhere… even, as it turns out, to the lobby of a Midtown hotel. Yes, as we're sure you've heard by now, after opening FOUR game-changers in the East Village over the past six years–in order of appearance: Momofukus Noodle […]


L.A.’s Family Bookstore Hosts Thirty Days NY

  We've never been, but everything we've ever heard about Family bookstore in West Hollywood, we love: the cool parties and events; the commitment to local artists, designers, writers and musicians; the excellent selection of books and related products, whether obscure or known, dyi or big press, graphic or wordy. Now Family brings its indie […]


Baohaus NYC: Taiwanese Street Food on the Lower East Side

Is there room for yet another cheap, all-hours place to grab a quick bite on the Lower East Side? If it serves up Taiwanese food as tasty, as original, as lovingly-prepared as the buns (and sides) that we had last week at newcomer Baohaus NYC, then the answer is most definitely yes. Not that David […]