Manhattan Living
All Eggs Everything. From Sandwiches to Salads -The Egg Shop Shines in Nolita
Does NYC–and, more particularly, does the already wonderfully loaded Elizabeth Street, home to such recent favorites as Black Seed and Farmer's Daughter, as well as old-school charmers like Cafes Habana and Gitane, all within a few blocks of each other–really need another cute, fun, healthy, casual restaurant? Well, that depends… but if it's a good as […]
Fall For Dance Festival is Here! Free Shows and Fantastic Dancing – Starts Tonight!
New York City Center’s 11th annual Fall for Dance Festival kicks off tonight with two free shows in Central Park. The regular season which kicks off October 8th includes six unique programs includes 24 acclaimed dance companies and artists from around the world. Find out more!
What’s Hot at Chelsea’s first Fall Art Thursday Night Gallery Hop
Chelsea's art gallery district exploded back to life last Thursday evening with the opening of dozens of new exhibitions. The Thursday night 'Gallery Hops' have turned neighborhood-wide parties are always fun, with first-rate people-watching and lots of free drinks! If you've never been to one of these Thursday nights in Chelsea, you should go at least once, as a kind of a rite of passage. This past Thursday was the first of many big-fall-openings nights of the new season, here are three of the biggest crowd-pleasers from our night out and about.
Dirt Candy: Amanda Cohen’s Vegetarian Heaven Coming Soon to Allen Street
Did you hear what the turnip said to the rutabaga? No, probably not. Vegetables don’t tend to inspire great jokes. However they do inspire great restaurants. Chef Amanda Cohen's vegetarian restaurant in the East Village is set to open its doors to their 'bigger, better, badder' hotspot in November. Find out why you might need to star making your reservations now!
A Complete Guide to NYC Fall Film Festivals
I go out to the movies at least twice a week (which is why I'm such a fan of MoviePass), and my year-end Top 10 list usually includes a mixture of Hollywood blockbusters, off-beat indie flicks, documentaries, and foreign films. So when Film Festival season rolls around each year–which is basically all of fall–I always promise […]
Best NYC Events In September: A Guide from A-to-Z
Summer's come to end - but there's a bright, sterling-silver lining. Namely: September! Yes, if there's one thing that's even better than summer in the city, even more jam-packed with great things to see and and do and hear and eat, then it's the start of the NYC fall season. We put together this extensive guide to things in NYC you can't miss this month, ordered from A to Z. Check it out!
Root & Bone: Bringing Southern Fried to the Lower East Side
Introducing Root & Bone. Avenue B's newest eatery brings Southern Fried to the Lower East Side in a major way. The talented duo behind the hotspot are none other than Jeff MicInnis and Janine Booth, the newest Top Chef alumni to bring their knives to NYC. Root & Bone has been slinging first-rate Southern-style food to large and lively crowds every night since it opened in late June. If you're anywhere near the place, for any reason at all, you should definitely consider stopping in for a feast.
Word Above the Street: The Water Tank Project is Refreshing the NYC Skyline
New York City’s water towers are iconic, and starting this month, a hundred of them will be covered in artwork created by Jeff Koons, Maya Lin, and plenty of other other artists. The project is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Mary Jordan. meant to raise awareness of global water problems and encourage New Yorkers to drink their tap water. Find out where you can see these amazing pieces of public art.
Ample Hills Creamery Opens in Gowanus
Ample Hills Creamery has been ice-cream-famous in this town ever since they opened that first tiny parlor in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights some four years ago. Their newest location in Gowanus is fantastic. With 24 flavors available at any given time, a spacious, comfortable roof deck looking out over the sunset in South Brooklyn - its the perfect treat for your end-of-summer nights.
Whitney Museum set to Open on Mondays for Koons Retrospective
Way to go out with a bang, Upper East Side Whitney. For its final exhibition in the iconic, modernist Madison Avenue building that's been its home since 1966, the Whitney gives us a true blockbuster, filling nearly the entire space with one of the most crowd-pleasing, successful and, perhaps for those very reasons, polarizing American […]
Does NYC–and, more particularly, does the already wonderfully loaded Elizabeth Street, home to such recent favorites as Black Seed and Farmer's Daughter, as well as old-school charmers like Cafes Habana and Gitane, all within a few blocks of each other–really need another cute, fun, healthy, casual restaurant? Well, that depends… but if it's a good as […]
Fall For Dance Festival is Here! Free Shows and Fantastic Dancing – Starts Tonight!
New York City Center’s 11th annual Fall for Dance Festival kicks off tonight with two free shows in Central Park. The regular season which kicks off October 8th includes six unique programs includes 24 acclaimed dance companies and artists from around the world. Find out more!
What’s Hot at Chelsea’s first Fall Art Thursday Night Gallery Hop
Chelsea's art gallery district exploded back to life last Thursday evening with the opening of dozens of new exhibitions. The Thursday night 'Gallery Hops' have turned neighborhood-wide parties are always fun, with first-rate people-watching and lots of free drinks! If you've never been to one of these Thursday nights in Chelsea, you should go at least once, as a kind of a rite of passage. This past Thursday was the first of many big-fall-openings nights of the new season, here are three of the biggest crowd-pleasers from our night out and about.
Dirt Candy: Amanda Cohen’s Vegetarian Heaven Coming Soon to Allen Street
Did you hear what the turnip said to the rutabaga? No, probably not. Vegetables don’t tend to inspire great jokes. However they do inspire great restaurants. Chef Amanda Cohen's vegetarian restaurant in the East Village is set to open its doors to their 'bigger, better, badder' hotspot in November. Find out why you might need to star making your reservations now!
A Complete Guide to NYC Fall Film Festivals
I go out to the movies at least twice a week (which is why I'm such a fan of MoviePass), and my year-end Top 10 list usually includes a mixture of Hollywood blockbusters, off-beat indie flicks, documentaries, and foreign films. So when Film Festival season rolls around each year–which is basically all of fall–I always promise […]
Best NYC Events In September: A Guide from A-to-Z
Summer's come to end - but there's a bright, sterling-silver lining. Namely: September! Yes, if there's one thing that's even better than summer in the city, even more jam-packed with great things to see and and do and hear and eat, then it's the start of the NYC fall season. We put together this extensive guide to things in NYC you can't miss this month, ordered from A to Z. Check it out!
Root & Bone: Bringing Southern Fried to the Lower East Side
Introducing Root & Bone. Avenue B's newest eatery brings Southern Fried to the Lower East Side in a major way. The talented duo behind the hotspot are none other than Jeff MicInnis and Janine Booth, the newest Top Chef alumni to bring their knives to NYC. Root & Bone has been slinging first-rate Southern-style food to large and lively crowds every night since it opened in late June. If you're anywhere near the place, for any reason at all, you should definitely consider stopping in for a feast.
Word Above the Street: The Water Tank Project is Refreshing the NYC Skyline
New York City’s water towers are iconic, and starting this month, a hundred of them will be covered in artwork created by Jeff Koons, Maya Lin, and plenty of other other artists. The project is the brainchild of documentary filmmaker Mary Jordan. meant to raise awareness of global water problems and encourage New Yorkers to drink their tap water. Find out where you can see these amazing pieces of public art.
Ample Hills Creamery Opens in Gowanus
Ample Hills Creamery has been ice-cream-famous in this town ever since they opened that first tiny parlor in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights some four years ago. Their newest location in Gowanus is fantastic. With 24 flavors available at any given time, a spacious, comfortable roof deck looking out over the sunset in South Brooklyn - its the perfect treat for your end-of-summer nights.
Whitney Museum set to Open on Mondays for Koons Retrospective
Way to go out with a bang, Upper East Side Whitney. For its final exhibition in the iconic, modernist Madison Avenue building that's been its home since 1966, the Whitney gives us a true blockbuster, filling nearly the entire space with one of the most crowd-pleasing, successful and, perhaps for those very reasons, polarizing American […]