Governors Island opens FIGMENT Interactive Sculpture Park & Mini Golf
As far as we're concerned, you don't really need an extra-added-bonus reason to visit Governors Island this summer, beyond the usual appeal of leisurely bike rides (bring your own or rent at Bike and Roll "on-island"), and lovely views, and pleasant picnics. Of course, there are plenty of special events to tempt the non-converted to […]

Gustav Klimt: 150 Anniversary Fete at Upper East Side Neue Galerie
Throughout this whole year, in museums and galleries all over Austria, there have been exhibitions honoring the 150th birthday of one of the all time greats, native son Gustav Klimt. The Albertina, the Belvedere, the Kunsthistorisches, the Leopold, the Wien Museum… all are putting on shows that celebrate some aspect of Klimt's extraordinary, revolutionary art. […]

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 […]

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) […]

Ernesto Neto: Slow iis goood at Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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 […]

Fulton Fish Market Neighbor New Amsterdam Market Now Open for the Summer
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 […]

This Side of Paradise: The Andrew Freedman Home in the South Bronx
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 […]