Manhattan Living
A Holiday Blast at the 2012 Brooklyn Night Bazaar
Looking to make your holiday shopping feel more like a party this year? How about more like a delicious dinner? Or even, maybe, like a rock show? If your feeling is, ‘Yes to all three please!’ then look no further than the Brooklyn Night Bazaar. Big crowds turn out for this NYC holiday market and […]
Go Burger: Some of the Best Burgers in NYC
No matter where you live in NYC, a good neighborhood burger place can always make apartment dwelling feel like home. Glenwood has luxury rental apartments on the Upper East Side and Midtown West (or, if you prefer, North Chelsea). As luck would have it, Go Burger, which specializes in tasty, hearty burgers, has establishments in […]
Martha Rosler’s Meta-Monumental Garage Sale at the MoMA
Everything's Clean, Nothing's Guaranteed at This Garage Sale in NYC This is a blast; the most fun we’ve had shopping in years. For months now, artist Martha Rosler has been collecting donations of, just about anything, from MoMA staffers, her own personal stash, and the public at large, so that she can throw the ‘Meta-Monumental […]
Brooklyn is Hot for Mexican Food at Gran Electrica
Mexican Restaurant Supports Its Sister Eatery After Sandy Glenwood residents…there are several reasons why you should hop on the F, A, C, 2, or 3 trains, or grab the East River Ferry, and head over to Brooklyn top-notch Mexican restaurant, Gran Electrica. First, and most important, the Mexican food here is, in a word, outstanding! […]
SoPo NYC Downtown Restaurants Need Our Support
Pete Wells, chief restaurant critic for the New York Times and possibly the most important restaurant critic on the planet, substituted this week’s usual restaurant review for a love letter guide of where to eat downtown in NYC. It also makes an impassioned plea for all New Yorkers to make a special effort to patronize the […]
Ice Skating and Gifts at Citi Pond in Bryant Park, NYC
It’s that time of year again! Are you looking to get in the holiday spirit? Need a fun idea for a date? Want something cheap and tiring to do with your kids during the upcoming Thanksgiving break? Well we’ve got the answer for you! One of our favorite seasonal NYC traditions is back and running […]
High Line Public Art and Treasure Hunt
We’ve always loved the High Line year round in all seasons. This year, the Friends of the High Line stepped up their food, family, and NYC public-art events in Chelsea. Consequently our fondness for this unique communal space has only grown stronger. The latest example of the creative use of the space is Richard Artwchwager’s […]
The Mast Brothers’ Chocolate Shop Now in Manhattan
The Mast Brothers, those bearded Brooklyn magicians who can turn cacao beans from all over the world into the absolute best artisan chocolate in town, made the jump across the East River to Manhattan. Their newest retail shop is in the heart of the South Street Seaport area, not far from Glenwood’s Liberty Plaza property […]
Hu Kitchen: Organic Healthy Restaurant in Downtown NYC
It’s easy to poke a little fun at Hu Kitchen, the newest NYC downtown restaurant. They’re known for serving what they call, “Food for Humans” that’s pre-industrial, pre-agrarian cuisine in a bi-level and attractively rustic space near Union Square. What is “Pre-Industrial, Pre-Agrarian Cuisine?” It’s using kitchen tools like blenders for smoothies. Hu Kitchen’s co-owners […]
Birdbath Bakery; City Bakery’s superb spin-off on the Upper West Side!
Upper West Side Glenwood residents, your life just got a whole lot sweeter and more pretzel-croissant-ier. City Bakery founder Maury Rubin is opening one of his excellent Birdbaths, you know those small "neighborhood green bakery" satellites at Columbus and 84th Street. The Upper West Side is already flush with baked goodies from Levain, Momofuku Milk […]
Looking to make your holiday shopping feel more like a party this year? How about more like a delicious dinner? Or even, maybe, like a rock show? If your feeling is, ‘Yes to all three please!’ then look no further than the Brooklyn Night Bazaar. Big crowds turn out for this NYC holiday market and […]
Go Burger: Some of the Best Burgers in NYC
No matter where you live in NYC, a good neighborhood burger place can always make apartment dwelling feel like home. Glenwood has luxury rental apartments on the Upper East Side and Midtown West (or, if you prefer, North Chelsea). As luck would have it, Go Burger, which specializes in tasty, hearty burgers, has establishments in […]
Martha Rosler’s Meta-Monumental Garage Sale at the MoMA
Everything's Clean, Nothing's Guaranteed at This Garage Sale in NYC This is a blast; the most fun we’ve had shopping in years. For months now, artist Martha Rosler has been collecting donations of, just about anything, from MoMA staffers, her own personal stash, and the public at large, so that she can throw the ‘Meta-Monumental […]
Brooklyn is Hot for Mexican Food at Gran Electrica
Mexican Restaurant Supports Its Sister Eatery After Sandy Glenwood residents…there are several reasons why you should hop on the F, A, C, 2, or 3 trains, or grab the East River Ferry, and head over to Brooklyn top-notch Mexican restaurant, Gran Electrica. First, and most important, the Mexican food here is, in a word, outstanding! […]
SoPo NYC Downtown Restaurants Need Our Support
Pete Wells, chief restaurant critic for the New York Times and possibly the most important restaurant critic on the planet, substituted this week’s usual restaurant review for a love letter guide of where to eat downtown in NYC. It also makes an impassioned plea for all New Yorkers to make a special effort to patronize the […]
Ice Skating and Gifts at Citi Pond in Bryant Park, NYC
It’s that time of year again! Are you looking to get in the holiday spirit? Need a fun idea for a date? Want something cheap and tiring to do with your kids during the upcoming Thanksgiving break? Well we’ve got the answer for you! One of our favorite seasonal NYC traditions is back and running […]
High Line Public Art and Treasure Hunt
We’ve always loved the High Line year round in all seasons. This year, the Friends of the High Line stepped up their food, family, and NYC public-art events in Chelsea. Consequently our fondness for this unique communal space has only grown stronger. The latest example of the creative use of the space is Richard Artwchwager’s […]
The Mast Brothers’ Chocolate Shop Now in Manhattan
The Mast Brothers, those bearded Brooklyn magicians who can turn cacao beans from all over the world into the absolute best artisan chocolate in town, made the jump across the East River to Manhattan. Their newest retail shop is in the heart of the South Street Seaport area, not far from Glenwood’s Liberty Plaza property […]
Hu Kitchen: Organic Healthy Restaurant in Downtown NYC
It’s easy to poke a little fun at Hu Kitchen, the newest NYC downtown restaurant. They’re known for serving what they call, “Food for Humans” that’s pre-industrial, pre-agrarian cuisine in a bi-level and attractively rustic space near Union Square. What is “Pre-Industrial, Pre-Agrarian Cuisine?” It’s using kitchen tools like blenders for smoothies. Hu Kitchen’s co-owners […]
Birdbath Bakery; City Bakery’s superb spin-off on the Upper West Side!
Upper West Side Glenwood residents, your life just got a whole lot sweeter and more pretzel-croissant-ier. City Bakery founder Maury Rubin is opening one of his excellent Birdbaths, you know those small "neighborhood green bakery" satellites at Columbus and 84th Street. The Upper West Side is already flush with baked goodies from Levain, Momofuku Milk […]