Manhattan Living

West Branch: Tom Valenti’s Upper West Side Restaurant

The sad thing is, Tom Valenti could have done just about anything in that big space in the heart of the Upper West Side, and the crowds would have come. Valenti, you see, is something of a culinary hero in these parts, for bringing bold flavors and expertly prepared “low cuts” of meat to a […]


Canstruction 2009 NYC: Open until Monday, November 23

  Canstruction 2009, the latest–and, as usual, pretty sensational–iteration of what has become a great, pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, has for the second year in a row set up shop in the soaring, sun-dazzled Winter Palace in the World Financial Center. And while we still sort of miss the “treasure hunt” aspect of the […]


Richard Serra at Gagosian, Chelsea

Richard Serra Sculptures In Chelsea Richard Serra at Gagosian, Chelsea: if you’ve never seen his massive, extraordinary sculptures in person, well… you’re in for a treat. Serra’s new exhibition at the 21st Street Gagosian Gallery brings together two large-scale works, Blind Spot and Open Ended, pieces almost playfully similar in form but, as always with […]


The Tipsy Parson

The Tipsy Parson is definitely a restaurant to root for. For more than five years, Tasha Garcia Gibson and Julie Taras Wallach’s first restaurant, the beloved Little Giant, has been offering an excellent alternative to the general raucousness of the Lower East Side dining scene, serving simple yet sophisticated food in a lovely little room […]


Vassily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim Museum

Great Collection of Kandinsky Art at the Guggenheim   Vassily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim, the first full-scale exhibition of the enormously influential artist in New York City since 1985, is, put simply, the best show we’ve seen here in years. Maybe that isn’t a huge surprise–after all, the Guggenheim owns more of Vassily Kandinsky’s work […]


Check out Glenwood on Facebook!

The Glenwood Facebook Fan Page: an Easy Way to Stay on Top of the Best of NYC If you spend any time at all on Facebook–and considering there are now more than 100 million users on that social networking site, you probably do–become a fan of Glenwood NYC today. Just go to the Glenwood Management […]


Aldea Restaurant: Our New Favorite Portuguese Restaurant in NYC

The best meal we’ve had so far this year was dinner at Aldea restaurant, Chef George Mendes’s mid-priced, Portuguese restaurant in NYC, gorgeously designed space near Union Square and the Flatiron. It was smack in the middle of summer, the place had just recently opened, and from the house-made Corn and Basil Soda, through the […]


Bill’s Bar and Burger in the Meatpacking District

Bill’s Bar and Burger, the super-casual, spanking-new Meatpacking District restaurant from Steve “B.R. Guest” Hansen (Dos Caminos, Ruby Foo’s, Blue Water Grill, etc., etc.), seems like a sure thing. It’s in the former Hog Pit space, that somewhat battered but handsome old triangular brick building in the heart of the Meatpacking district party zone. The […]


Glenwood’s Best of NYC For Less: Home Design

Home Design in NYC Homes For Less No question in our minds: New York City is the best place in the world to live, to work, to raise a family, to have fun, to eat and drink and play, to learn, to laugh, to love. Of course, no one moves here and says: “Everything is […]


Fatty Crab Restaurant UWS

The Fatty Crab restaurant and the Upper West Side: it’s not an obvious fit. After all, Zak Pelaccio’s West Village Fatty Crab has been a scenester / foodie mainstay for a few years now, wowing the downtown crowd with its big, messy meals (don’t order the signature Chili Crab on a first date–it’s a smash […]