Things To Do at South Street Seaport: Pop-up Shops, Smorgasbar, and More!
The South Street Seaport area was just beginning to shed its tacky-tourist image at this time last year, with a revitalized Museum, restaurants at which you'd actually want to eat, the great Imagination Playground, and the lovely East River Esplanade. And then autumn came, and the nightmare of Sandy, and ever since then the Seaport's main pedestrian plazas have […]

Pace Chelsea Art Galleries Featuring Tim Hawkinson, Yoshimoto Nara, and Richard Misrach
One of the biggest players in the Chelsea gallery scene is Pace, whose trio of large spaces on 25th Street are always a solid choice when you’re making your art-viewing rounds.

Asphalt Green Battery Park City Opening; Register for Summer Camp and Classes!
It's been a long time coming (I know, I'm sorry, I first promised you it would open in the winter of 2011!), but the sports and fitness complex Asphalt Green is really, truly about to open its state-of-the-art facility in Battery Park City. In fact, the lobby's already open, and you can right now register […]

Governors Island 2013 Season; Events, Music, Food and More!
The list of must-do NYC summertime rituals just keeps getting longer: free Shakespeare (in the Park and in the Parking Lot), free concerts everywhere, outdoor movie festivals galore, Coney Island for the new rides (and the Mermaid Parade, on June 22), Rockaway Beach bouncing back from Sandy, on and on.

Rain Room at MoMA; You Can Leave Your Umbrella at Home
Last fall, when design firm rAndom International first presented their remarkable Rain Room at London's Barbican Centre, rave reviews and social-media-fueled word of mouth quickly made five- hour lines at the site routine. Now, thanks to the terrific MoMA PS1 exhibition Expo 1, Rain Room has arrived here in Midtown, Manhatthan – not a bad […]

Orly Genger’s Red, Yellow, and Blue Installation at Madison Square Park
Maybe it was the glorious spring weather that had me swooning, or the fact that the flowers and trees were all in full, spectular boom, but I must say that Orly Genger's massive new art installation in Madison Square Park, titled Red, Yellow, and Blue, could be the best yet to grace the lawns of […]

Things to Do in Brooklyn This Weekend: Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg
Brooklyn attractions are many but for my money, one of the most fun things to do in Brooklyn on the weekend  is experiencing Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg. For the past few years, the great Brooklyn Flea and its also-great foodie spin-off Smorgasburg have become something of an institution in New York City. Open now and […]

New York Yankee Stadium; The New Way to Experience Baseball
In 2009, both of New York City's beloved/hated (depending) baseball teams started their seasons in spanking-new stadiums. Citi Field replaced the 45-year-old Shea Stadium as home to the Amazin' Mets, and when I went for the first time last year I was pretty blown away by what is clearly the new trend in sports entertainment, […]

Claes Oldenburg Sculptures and Pop Art Exhibition at MoMA
Claes Oldenburg, whom the New York Times recently called "one of the last surviving giants of Pop Art", has made a career of creating true showstoppers.

James Nares’ Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the most important unwritten rules of living in this magnificent, packed-like-sardines city is that, even in the most crowded of our public spaces (which is all of them), we don't intrude upon each other's privacy. We don't make eye contact for too long on the subway, or stare into each other's windows. For […]