Manhattan Living

Boo! Haunted House Art to See in Chelsea

Our Midtown residents are in for a treat…or a trick…at nearby Chelsea art galleries. There are dozens, even hundreds, of new exhibitions within that half-mile stretch between 19th and 28th Streets, not to mention the High Line, the terrific new UrbanSpace Meatpacking food and gift market, and all of the usual area restaurants and bars. […]


Dirty Bird To-Go: Best Fried Chicken in NYC Now in Tribeca

Downtown Glenwood residents, meet your new favorite take-out/quick-bite spot: Dirty Bird To-Go in Tribeca. Or, at a minimum, a new entry into your own personal top five. Dirty Bird To-Go has long been known for some of the best fried chicken in NYC at its West 14th Street location.  In fact Matt Stone, he of considerable Book […]


Regarding Warhol at The Met in NYC: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years

The massive, glorious Regarding Warhol exhibition, just opened at the Met in NYC and running all the way through to New Years Eve, is clearly the blockbuster museum show to beat this season. Featuring nearly 150 works–usually of the large, colorful and expensive variety–by both Andy Warhol himself (there are about 45 of these) and […]


Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 Hits Brooklyn This Weekend: Don’t Miss It!

The Dumbo Arts Festival 2012, one of our favorite events of the fall season (all photos here are from last year), is back this weekend and, no surprise, it looks like it's going to be big and fun and weird and cool and surprising and silly and, really, like everything we always love about this […]


Queens County Farm Events This Weekend Including the County Fair!

Envious of Iowans and their deep-fried sticks of butter? Didn’t think so. But still, it’d be fun to check out a full-blown County Fair–pies, carnival rides, pig races (!), vegetable stands, games, deep-fried Oreos (yup), hayrides, a maize maze (amazing!), you name it–on a beautiful fall day right here in the big town, yes? Enter […]


Claire Tow Theater is the Latest Makeover for the Lincoln Center in NYC

In its several-years-long makeover of its iconic home, Lincoln Center in NYC continues to nail it with Clair Tow Theater.  So far this multi-faceted, many-leveled redesign has included Diller Scofidio + Renfro's beautiful re-do of Alice Tully Hall, with its bustling public space, both outside and in; the fabulous Illumination Lawn/Lincoln Restaurant/Elinor Bunin Munroe Film […]


Museum NYC, a Secret “Gallery” Space in the Financial District

This is so cool, one of those great hidden New York City things that you can show off to friends and family and out-of-town visitors for years to come and feel all underground and in-the-know. In fact, it's so cool that even if you go by yourself, and never tell anyone, it's STILL cool. It's […]


Friedrich Petzel Gallery’s Feverish Library: Art for Book Lovers!

The fall season is in full swing in the Chelsea gallery district, with more than 200 new exhibitions opening in the last two weeks. That's a lot of art to look at (with more to come next week!), and though we've already been twice, it'll take a few more visits to really soak it all […]


All Good Things Tribeca Features Orwasher’s, NuNu Chocolates & More

The sign on the door still says "Mostly Open", but the news is excellent for Tribeca-area Glenwood residents and everyone else in this town who enjoys fresh, delicious food: All Good Things NYC, a year-round Tribeca market (with restaurant to come, hence the 'Mostly") opened last week on a quiet stretch of Franklin Street, instantly […]


It’Sugar: An Ornate Candy Store in NYC’s Upper West Side

It seems unlikely that Upper West Siders–including you, residents of Glenwood's Grand Tier and Regent luxury rental apartment buildings–missed the opening of the insanely bright, loud (aesthetically and music-wise), and awkwardly spelled It'Sugar, a completely bonkers NYC candy store that starting slinging its sweets in mid-August on Broadway and can be seen from ten blocks […]