92Y Tribeca: Newer, Hipper Than the Original
Four years ago, the 92nd Street YMCA, a great Upper East Side cultural center, shifted all of its Makor program's offerings for "twenty-somethings" to a sleek new outpost downtown, right on the northern edge of Tribeca. It was a risky move but since then, the 92Y Tribeca has thrived, offering the institution's trademark eclectic array […]
Boo! Haunted House Art to See in Chelsea
Our Midtown residents are in for a treat…or a trick…at nearby Chelsea art galleries. There are dozens, even hundreds, of new exhibitions within that half-mile stretch between 19th and 28th Streets, not to mention the High Line, the terrific new UrbanSpace Meatpacking food and gift market, and all of the usual area restaurants and bars. […]
Regarding Warhol at The Met in NYC: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
The massive, glorious Regarding Warhol exhibition, just opened at the Met in NYC and running all the way through to New Years Eve, is clearly the blockbuster museum show to beat this season. Featuring nearly 150 works–usually of the large, colorful and expensive variety–by both Andy Warhol himself (there are about 45 of these) and […]
Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 Hits Brooklyn This Weekend: Don’t Miss It!
The Dumbo Arts Festival 2012, one of our favorite events of the fall season (all photos here are from last year), is back this weekend and, no surprise, it looks like it's going to be big and fun and weird and cool and surprising and silly and, really, like everything we always love about this […]
Queens County Farm Events This Weekend Including the County Fair!
Envious of Iowans and their deep-fried sticks of butter? Didn’t think so. But still, it’d be fun to check out a full-blown County Fair–pies, carnival rides, pig races (!), vegetable stands, games, deep-fried Oreos (yup), hayrides, a maize maze (amazing!), you name it–on a beautiful fall day right here in the big town, yes? Enter […]
Claire Tow Theater is the Latest Makeover for the Lincoln Center in NYC
In its several-years-long makeover of its iconic home, Lincoln Center in NYC continues to nail it with Clair Tow Theater. So far this multi-faceted, many-leveled redesign has included Diller Scofidio + Renfro's beautiful re-do of Alice Tully Hall, with its bustling public space, both outside and in; the fabulous Illumination Lawn/Lincoln Restaurant/Elinor Bunin Munroe Film […]
Museum NYC, a Secret “Gallery” Space in the Financial District
This is so cool, one of those great hidden New York City things that you can show off to friends and family and out-of-town visitors for years to come and feel all underground and in-the-know. In fact, it's so cool that even if you go by yourself, and never tell anyone, it's STILL cool. It's […]
Friedrich Petzel Gallery’s Feverish Library: Art for Book Lovers!
The fall season is in full swing in the Chelsea gallery district, with more than 200 new exhibitions opening in the last two weeks. That's a lot of art to look at (with more to come next week!), and though we've already been twice, it'll take a few more visits to really soak it all […]
It’Sugar: An Ornate Candy Store in NYC’s Upper West Side
It seems unlikely that Upper West Siders–including you, residents of Glenwood's Grand Tier and Regent luxury rental apartment buildings–missed the opening of the insanely bright, loud (aesthetically and music-wise), and awkwardly spelled It'Sugar, a completely bonkers NYC candy store that starting slinging its sweets in mid-August on Broadway and can be seen from ten blocks […]
The Quay Brothers Bring Creep to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
Need another good reason to go to Museum of Modern Art in Midtown NYC this fall? Look deep into the dark and disturbing heart of the Quay Brothers, whose work as avant garde stop-action animators, collagists and puppeteers has been given a fantastic–and fantastically creepy–career-spanning retrospective on the Museum of Modern Art's second floor, first […]
Four years ago, the 92nd Street YMCA, a great Upper East Side cultural center, shifted all of its Makor program's offerings for "twenty-somethings" to a sleek new outpost downtown, right on the northern edge of Tribeca. It was a risky move but since then, the 92Y Tribeca has thrived, offering the institution's trademark eclectic array […]
Boo! Haunted House Art to See in Chelsea
Our Midtown residents are in for a treat…or a trick…at nearby Chelsea art galleries. There are dozens, even hundreds, of new exhibitions within that half-mile stretch between 19th and 28th Streets, not to mention the High Line, the terrific new UrbanSpace Meatpacking food and gift market, and all of the usual area restaurants and bars. […]
Regarding Warhol at The Met in NYC: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
The massive, glorious Regarding Warhol exhibition, just opened at the Met in NYC and running all the way through to New Years Eve, is clearly the blockbuster museum show to beat this season. Featuring nearly 150 works–usually of the large, colorful and expensive variety–by both Andy Warhol himself (there are about 45 of these) and […]
Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 Hits Brooklyn This Weekend: Don’t Miss It!
The Dumbo Arts Festival 2012, one of our favorite events of the fall season (all photos here are from last year), is back this weekend and, no surprise, it looks like it's going to be big and fun and weird and cool and surprising and silly and, really, like everything we always love about this […]
Queens County Farm Events This Weekend Including the County Fair!
Envious of Iowans and their deep-fried sticks of butter? Didn’t think so. But still, it’d be fun to check out a full-blown County Fair–pies, carnival rides, pig races (!), vegetable stands, games, deep-fried Oreos (yup), hayrides, a maize maze (amazing!), you name it–on a beautiful fall day right here in the big town, yes? Enter […]
Claire Tow Theater is the Latest Makeover for the Lincoln Center in NYC
In its several-years-long makeover of its iconic home, Lincoln Center in NYC continues to nail it with Clair Tow Theater. So far this multi-faceted, many-leveled redesign has included Diller Scofidio + Renfro's beautiful re-do of Alice Tully Hall, with its bustling public space, both outside and in; the fabulous Illumination Lawn/Lincoln Restaurant/Elinor Bunin Munroe Film […]
Museum NYC, a Secret “Gallery” Space in the Financial District
This is so cool, one of those great hidden New York City things that you can show off to friends and family and out-of-town visitors for years to come and feel all underground and in-the-know. In fact, it's so cool that even if you go by yourself, and never tell anyone, it's STILL cool. It's […]
Friedrich Petzel Gallery’s Feverish Library: Art for Book Lovers!
The fall season is in full swing in the Chelsea gallery district, with more than 200 new exhibitions opening in the last two weeks. That's a lot of art to look at (with more to come next week!), and though we've already been twice, it'll take a few more visits to really soak it all […]
It’Sugar: An Ornate Candy Store in NYC’s Upper West Side
It seems unlikely that Upper West Siders–including you, residents of Glenwood's Grand Tier and Regent luxury rental apartment buildings–missed the opening of the insanely bright, loud (aesthetically and music-wise), and awkwardly spelled It'Sugar, a completely bonkers NYC candy store that starting slinging its sweets in mid-August on Broadway and can be seen from ten blocks […]
The Quay Brothers Bring Creep to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
Need another good reason to go to Museum of Modern Art in Midtown NYC this fall? Look deep into the dark and disturbing heart of the Quay Brothers, whose work as avant garde stop-action animators, collagists and puppeteers has been given a fantastic–and fantastically creepy–career-spanning retrospective on the Museum of Modern Art's second floor, first […]

