Manhattan Living

Barbarini Alimentari: Great Italian at South Street Seaport NYC

Downtown Glenwood residents–especially you, in the luxury highrise Manhattan apartments Barclay Tower and Liberty Plaza–may we please introduce you to your new favorite neighborhood restaurant: the simple, pretty, consistently terrific Barbarini. Of course, you might already be well acquainted with Claudio Marini (formerly of Caffe Linda) and Stefano Barbagallo's (out of Paprika) casual Italian spot […]


Smorgasburg Brooklyn Flea Food Market 2012

The next time you're making plans with friends to meet for brunch, here's an alternative suggestion to the usual 45-minute-wait to eat the same old eggs benedict/French toast: Smorgasburg Brooklyn, the huge, all-food-all-the-time market in Williamsburg, which launched its 2012 season last Saturday in its usual spot right by the water (and, incidentally, by the […]


Upper East Side Gyms: Three Great “Boutique” Workout Spaces

Like just about any neighborhood in Manhattan these days, there are terrific Upper East Side gyms, including big-name brands like Equinox and Reebok, New York Health and Racquet Club and the similarly named New York Sports Club, all with weight rooms and high-tech machines, on-site trainers and classes galore. There's also the great community-oriented programs […]


BareBurger: Organic Bare Burger Meat Deliciously Joins the Upper East Side

BareBurger is a mini-chain worth rooting for. The newest outpost of this casual eatery opened recently on the Upper East Side, bringing the total number of BareBurgers in NYC up to an impressive eight, with a ninth soon to come in Queens. And from what we've witnessed so far (we've dined in three), food-wise, crowd-wise, […]


Kembra Pfahler Wanders Claude Monet’s Gardens: Downtown on The Bowery

Fifteen, twenty years ago, if someone asked you to go downtown to the Bowery to see an exhibition at a place called The Hole, you would be forgiven if the invitation gave you pause. Today, of course, things are different–WAY different–on NYC's one-time Skid Row, as time has given way to luxury highrise manhattan apartment […]


Dinner and a Movie NYC Guide: IFC Center NYC Edition

Because we love nothing more than the classic dinner and a movie night on the town, here’s is part two of Glenwood’s Dinner and a Movie Guide, each installment featuring a movie theater we frequent and an array of personally recommended, close-by dining options, from quick-bite places to more serious NYC dining. Last week we […]


Gastroarte NYC: A Molecular Gastronomy Restaurant from Chef Jesus Nunez

Chef Jesus Nunez earned a degree of renown in Madrid for opening two hot restaurants–Polenta and Flou–that exemplified the Spaniard's love for such avant garde culinary tags as molecular gastronomy, artistic plating, and experimental, often playfully deconstructed dishes. And that's exactly the same sense of adventure that Nunez has been bringing to the Upper West […]


Whitney Museum NYC ‘Biennial’ Returns to Upper East Side

It's the exhibition that everyone loves to complain about, the Whitney Biennial, that every-other-year contemporary show that takes over most of the Whitney Museum of American Art for most of the spring, and purports to take the pulse of what's going on in art right now. We grouse about the selection, and its emphasis on money […]


Dinner and a Movie NYC Guide: Landmark Sunshine Theater Edition

It’s the classic night out, going for dinner and a movie (or reverse it: a movie, then dinner). Even here in New York City, where there’s always 20 million things happening, it’s still one of our favorite date-night plans… or when the kids are willing to hang out with us on a Saturday night… or […]


Restaurants in Tribeca NYC: Edward’s NYC

It's not like downtown Glenwood luxury highrise Manhattan apartment residents –at Tribeca Bridge Tower, or Liberty Plaza, or Barclay Tower–are exactly hurting for good places to eat… There are a ton of great restaurants in Downtown NYC. Heck, even Battery Park City, long a culinary wasteland, has suddenly become fertile restaurant-opening territory, what with Danny […]