Manhattan Living
The Lincoln Center: Out of Doors Free Summer Festival Next Week!
The New York Summer Festival Season is Jam Packed There are lots of great free outdoor music series every year here in the big town, and Summer 2012 has been no exception. Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park has been a blast, with a bunch of good shows still to come, including The Head and the […]
Kayaking in NYC: Downtown Boathouse & More NYC Kayaking
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve taken advantage of the excellent, still-going-strong free kayaking in NYC program, courtesy of the non-profit, all-volunteer organization, the Downtown Boathouse. But two years is too long! So we’re getting back in the paddle sometime soon, maybe even this weekend if the weather holds…
MoMA PS1 2012: Warm Up 2012, Wendy by HWKN, and M. Wells
We love MoMA PS1 any time of year: the Museum of Modern Art's Long Island City outpost–just a stop or two away from Glenwood's luxury New York City apartments in Midtown Manhattan–not only consistently puts on interesting (if occasionally uneven) contemporary art exhibitions, but the building itself, a former NYC public school, is enormously appealing […]
Upper West Side Restaurant AG Kitchen is a Huge Win for Alex Garcia
Give Chef-owner Alex Garcia a lot of credit for AG Kitchen, a Latin-seasoned comfort-food spot, just opened on the Upper West Side: with a crowd-pleasing menu–burgers! tacos! cheese bread! ice cream sundaes!–and extremely reasonable prices, he and his crew could have phoned this baby in (Garcia already runs nearby Calle Ocho), and the neighborhood probably […]
Lunch Hour NYC: A Fascinating Exhibition at the New York Public Library
Add it to the long, long, long list of reasons to be grateful for New York City: turns out, among the thousands of other amazing things about this town, we also invented lunch! Well, sort of. According to this terrific new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC at the New York Public Library–the main branch, aka the […]
The Penrose NYC on the Upper East Side
Is the Upper East Side actually getting some downtown flavor? For example, over the past couple of years we've seen the likes of the great "food-driven pub" Jones Wood Foundry start slinging its bangers and mash on 76th and First Avenue, and then the lively, creative cocktail spot JBird open a few blocks up on […]
Amazing artwork alert: Lincoln Center opens Christian Marclay “The Clock” on July 13
About a year and a half ago, in February of 2011, Christian Marclay's spellbinding, 24-hour movie The Clock played to packed houses at the Paula Cooper Gallery, day after day and, on weekends, all through the night. Even at two in the morning, during one of the most relentlessly bitter winters in memory, hours-long lines […]
Christopher Boffoli Photography: Edible Words at Winston Wachter Fine Art
Ok, so this is just a fun idea, cleverly and, with their vibrant color schemes and soft focus, beautifully executed. Christopher Boffoli's new exhibition at Winston Wachter Fine Art in Chelsea is titled Edible Worlds, and the concept is simple: put tiny people on top of common fruits, veggies, baked goods, whatever, go in close […]
Disappointing Indie Food and Wine at Lincoln Center: An Open Letter
We don't usually post bad reviews of restaurants in this space because, really, what's the point? Unless it's a heavily-hyped place that fails, and fails badly, to deliver on its promise (and/or premise), and so deserves a warning before you go dropping a pile of your hard-earned dollars on a bad meal, it's so much […]
Photoville NYC 2012: An Exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park
There was so many fun things going on in the city last weekend (to sum it up: Le Grand Continental at the Seaport was totally endearing, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade was an absolute blast; the Staten Island Lumen Festival was not worth the ferry schlep, we had to skip Pride on Sunday to pull […]
The New York Summer Festival Season is Jam Packed There are lots of great free outdoor music series every year here in the big town, and Summer 2012 has been no exception. Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park has been a blast, with a bunch of good shows still to come, including The Head and the […]
Kayaking in NYC: Downtown Boathouse & More NYC Kayaking
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve taken advantage of the excellent, still-going-strong free kayaking in NYC program, courtesy of the non-profit, all-volunteer organization, the Downtown Boathouse. But two years is too long! So we’re getting back in the paddle sometime soon, maybe even this weekend if the weather holds…
MoMA PS1 2012: Warm Up 2012, Wendy by HWKN, and M. Wells
We love MoMA PS1 any time of year: the Museum of Modern Art's Long Island City outpost–just a stop or two away from Glenwood's luxury New York City apartments in Midtown Manhattan–not only consistently puts on interesting (if occasionally uneven) contemporary art exhibitions, but the building itself, a former NYC public school, is enormously appealing […]
Upper West Side Restaurant AG Kitchen is a Huge Win for Alex Garcia
Give Chef-owner Alex Garcia a lot of credit for AG Kitchen, a Latin-seasoned comfort-food spot, just opened on the Upper West Side: with a crowd-pleasing menu–burgers! tacos! cheese bread! ice cream sundaes!–and extremely reasonable prices, he and his crew could have phoned this baby in (Garcia already runs nearby Calle Ocho), and the neighborhood probably […]
Lunch Hour NYC: A Fascinating Exhibition at the New York Public Library
Add it to the long, long, long list of reasons to be grateful for New York City: turns out, among the thousands of other amazing things about this town, we also invented lunch! Well, sort of. According to this terrific new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC at the New York Public Library–the main branch, aka the […]
The Penrose NYC on the Upper East Side
Is the Upper East Side actually getting some downtown flavor? For example, over the past couple of years we've seen the likes of the great "food-driven pub" Jones Wood Foundry start slinging its bangers and mash on 76th and First Avenue, and then the lively, creative cocktail spot JBird open a few blocks up on […]
Amazing artwork alert: Lincoln Center opens Christian Marclay “The Clock” on July 13
About a year and a half ago, in February of 2011, Christian Marclay's spellbinding, 24-hour movie The Clock played to packed houses at the Paula Cooper Gallery, day after day and, on weekends, all through the night. Even at two in the morning, during one of the most relentlessly bitter winters in memory, hours-long lines […]
Christopher Boffoli Photography: Edible Words at Winston Wachter Fine Art
Ok, so this is just a fun idea, cleverly and, with their vibrant color schemes and soft focus, beautifully executed. Christopher Boffoli's new exhibition at Winston Wachter Fine Art in Chelsea is titled Edible Worlds, and the concept is simple: put tiny people on top of common fruits, veggies, baked goods, whatever, go in close […]
Disappointing Indie Food and Wine at Lincoln Center: An Open Letter
We don't usually post bad reviews of restaurants in this space because, really, what's the point? Unless it's a heavily-hyped place that fails, and fails badly, to deliver on its promise (and/or premise), and so deserves a warning before you go dropping a pile of your hard-earned dollars on a bad meal, it's so much […]
Photoville NYC 2012: An Exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park
There was so many fun things going on in the city last weekend (to sum it up: Le Grand Continental at the Seaport was totally endearing, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade was an absolute blast; the Staten Island Lumen Festival was not worth the ferry schlep, we had to skip Pride on Sunday to pull […]