Manhattan Living

Park Avenue Armory Hosts Tom Sachs Art Installation “Space Program: Mars”

We admit it: we were more than a little skeptical about Tom Sach's Space Program: Mars, a sprawling, insanely detailed, enthusiastically immersive installation at the Park Avenue Armory. Not that we have anything against Mars, mind you, or space travel in general, or Tom Sachs, whose meticulous recreations of high-tech gear using low-tech materials have […]


Ovenly NYC: The Best Baked Goods in NYC?

We've just tasted some of the best baked goods in NYC at Books of Wonder Bookstore, and speaking of amazing baked goods, consider the insanely delicious creations coming out of the kitchens at Ovenly. Ovenly NYC has been supplying area taverns (with bar snacks) and NYC coffee shops (with pastries) for about a year and a […]


Books of Wonder Kid’s Bookstore: Now With More Cookies! And Bacon!

Is Books of Wonder NYC's best children's book store? Possibly. Probably. Yes, ok: definitely. Because although it's been a bunch of years since we last brought our children to this pretty, airy Chelsea bookstore–it's both New York City's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore–as soon as we walked in the door last week nothing but […]


5 Memorial Day Weekend Ideas: Memorial Day Activities Across NYC

Staying local in NYC this weekend? Same here! And while we love heading out to points east every once in a while (especially: Ditch Plains, Montauk), there's also something extremely satisfying about hanging city-side on these big, summer holiday weekends – and Memorial Day weekend starts it all off. Basically: there are more fun things […]


Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden

You know it's almost summer when the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens up its fabulous Roof Garden once again, complete with amazing Central Park views, snack and cocktail bar (the Met Roof Garden New York is always an excellent spot for a date, or to bring out-of-town visitors), sunshine and breezes, and, of course, the […]


CitiBike: Bike Rental NYC Locations Announced & Other NYC Bike Rental Ideas

The big news in bike riding last week: the NYC Bike Share program–set to launch in July and now officially called CitiBike–released the initial map of their bike "dock" locations… and there are MILLIONS of them! Well, not really millions… but there are an amazing number of docks, smartly situated near all major (and less-major) […]


Dragonfly NYC Brings Asian Food to the Upper East Side

At first glance, Dragonfly New York Asia, which opened about a month ago in the old Arriba Arriba spot right near The Marlowe on the Upper East Side, looks like a million other places in the neighborhood, some of which are fine, a few of which are quite good, many of which are just plain […]


This Weekend: New Taste of the Upper West Side – May 18th & 19th

Yes, NYC food events are getting to be almost dime a dozen these days: from the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party (this June, in Madison Square Park), to the summer-long Smorgasburg in Williamsburg, to the Stone Street Oyster Festival every fall, to the first-ever, oddly-named Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park (this weekend!), to on and […]


Anish Kapoor at Gladstone Gallery NYC & Richard Avedon Photography at Gagosian Gallery NYC

At least twice a month we like to wander around the Chelsea gallery district (roughly: between 20th and 28th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues, hard by Hudson River Park, and right below the High Line). With more than 400 active galleries of all description, it's truly one of New York City's great treasures, a […]


A Glenwood Building in Tribeca is Living Green

They call it a “DVR for electricity”, and it could revolutionize the way entire city blocks–heck, entire cities–think about energy consumption. This building is saving money and cutting usage with Demand Energy’s brand-new battery storage technology, the Demand Shifter: Glenwood’s Manhattan apartment building, the Barclay Tower in Tribeca (on the right, above). At Glenwood, it […]