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 on and on, it seems like not a week goes by without something tempting us to grab some friends and go and gorge in a large, communal setting. That said, it just so happens that one of the city's best food fests is happening this weekend, the New Taste of the Upper West Side 2012, under a huge tent on Columbus Avenue (right near Shake Shack and the Museum of Natural History), and sponsored, in part, by yours truly, Glenwood.
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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 word-class concentration of contemporary art, constantly changing, always free. And although we tend to just show up without a plan–nothing more than "pick a few blocks, pop into everything"–sometimes it's nice to have a least a couple of specific destinations in mind. Like these two shows, for instance, both on 21st Street, and both well worth seeing: Richard Avedon photography at Gagosian Gallery NYC, and Anish Kapoor at Gladstone Gallery NYC.
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They call it a "DVR for electricity", and it could revolutionize the way entire city blocks–heck, entire cities–think about energy consumption. But for now, only two buildings in all of New York City are saving money and cutting usage with Demand Energy's brand-new battery storage technology, the Demand Shifter: Glenwood's Manhattan apartment buildings the Barclay Tower in Tribeca (on the right, above), and The Caldwell, on the Upper East Side (below). At Glenwood, it seems, the future is now.
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Tagged Green Building Design, Green Construction, Green Construction Materials, Green Design, Green Home Building, Green Home Design, Leed Certified, Living Green, Tribeca, upper east side
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Pizza on the Upper West Side is clearly ready for Fratelli la Bufala, the upscale pizza-centric restaurant that recently opened near Glenwood's luxury rental apartment buildings The Grand Tier and The Regent, and which has been packed just about every night since. It's exactly the sort of place the neighborhood craves, a casual but cool-looking spot with an interesting, crowd-pleasing menu that's as comfortable for families as it is for, say, a second date, or a rowdy meal with a pack of friends. Only thing is, is Fratelli la Bufala ready for the Upper West Side? Well… after one visit we'd have to say the answer is: yes and no. But let's backtrack for a minute first.
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There's art that you stand and admire (or not, as the case may be) from a distance… and then there's the stuff Ernesto Neto does. The Brazilian sculptural-installation-ist Ernesto Neto has become something of an art star in this town these past few years, especially after his sensual crowd-pleaser Anthropodino–the New York Times called the womb-like, aromatic work a "Great Spicy, Gauzy Mother"–filled the vast Park Avenue Armory in 2009. Now Ernesto Neto's enveloping magic is back, albeit on a much smaller scale, with a very fun, extremably climbable series of works at Chelsea's Tanya Bonakdar Gallery called, for some reason, Slow iiss goood.
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The New Amsterdam Market, located right by the old Fulton Fish Market in the South Street Seaport area, reopened last Sunday for the season, which is good news indeed for all New Yorkers, but especially for downtown Glenwood residents (in both the Barclay Tower and Tribeca Bridge Tower), and especially ESPECIALLY for Glenwoodians fortunate enough to live in the luxury rentals of LIberty Plaza, just a few blocks away. The New Amsterdam Market is one of our favorite such markets in all of New York City, because it combines the on-site fun and feasting of a good snacking/dining destination (think: Smorgasburg) with the take-home, locally grown or produced pleasures of a solid farmer's market.
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Posted in Downtown, NYC Dining, NYC Events
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Tagged Downtown, Downtown NYC, Fish Market, Fulton Fish Market, Fulton Market, Kings County Jerky, Liddabit Sweets, Lower Manhattan, New Amsterdam Market, NYC, Queens County Farm, Queens Farm
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For the urban adventurers among you, this is a great plan: hop on the 4 train, or the D train, and head up to the South Bronx, just one stop past Yankee Stadium. There you'll find a massive old limestone mansion, the Andrew Freedman Home, built by decree of its namesake's last will and testament in 1924 as, amazingly enough, a kind of homeless shelter (or, to put it more kindly, a retirement home) for the formerly well-heeled who had lost all of their money but not their manorial taste or sense of entitlement. Right? Those were the days. The Andrew Freedman Home abandoned its primary purpose in the 1980s, and though certain sections have remained open and active as, for a example, a day care center, or a community-events facility, most of the space has been sealed off for decades. Until now.
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Gabe Stulman is something of a genius when it comes to creating West Village restaurants that combine exciting, excellent food with pretty, convivial surroundings with welcoming, total-pro service. First at Joseph Leonard and across-the-street Jeffrey's Grocery NYC near Sheridan Square, then at Fedora on West 4th Street–and before those at nearby Little Owl with former partner Joey Campanaro–Stulman's restaurants are total crowd-pleasers (albeit with crowds that can afford drop a hundred-plus bucks for dinner for two… these may feel like casual neighborhood spots, but they're not cheap), perfect for all sorts of occasions, and appreciated equally by locals, destination diners, and in-the-know tourists alike.
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When Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the co-founders of London's huge (and hugely influential… AND hugely fun) Frieze Art Fair decided to bring their fabulous spectacle across the Atlantic, they chose to forgo the insanity of NYC Armory Art Fair weekend and set up camp at a location, and at a time, all their own. The location turned out to be Randall's Island–fairly close by for Glenwood Upper East Side and Gracie Point residents; fairly not-at-all-close-by for everyone else–and the time is almost now!
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For about a month now the great Venezuelan sculptor Rafael Barrios has been messing with people's minds in the heart of Manhattan with his series of ingenious, geometric pieces that are, basically, 20-foot-high optical illusions. Right in center of Park Avenue! The city has had a terrific run of interesting, unexpected public art projects (most everything in Madison Square Park; the Mark di Suvero exhibition on Governors Island last summer; Michael Sailstorfer's Tornado, the tire-tower across from the Plaza at the entrance to Central Park), but this just may be the coolest of them all.
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