Maurizio Cattelan: All, at the Guggenheim Museum
There are plenty of provocative, witty, and/or outrageous individual pieces of art in Maurizio Cattelan’s career-spanning (and, since he’s vowed to retire after it closes, career-ending) exhibition that just opened at the Guggenheim. Simply, aptly titled All, Maurizio Cattelan: All supposedly includes every single work he’s ever created. Cattelan’s show would be newsworthy and entertaining […]
Huge Chilewich Sample Sale in Midtown, this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ONLY
There are always a dozen or so first-rate New York sample sales going on at any given moment in this town; the only real challenge to getting designer goods–usually clothing, but also accessories and such–at ridiculously low prices is keeping on top of all the offerings, and finding the time to wait on the often […]
New Amsterdam Market: Lower Manhattan’s Best Outdoor Food Market
We were more than a little excited when New Amsterdam Market set up shop in the South Street Seaport community a few summers ago, reviving the concept of the city’s great Public Markets which were once so prevalent but, for many obvious reasons, are rarely seen these days on the streets of Manhattan. With its […]
Now at the New Museum: Carsten Höller and His Three-Story Indoor Slide!
Carsten Höller: Experience, now at the New Museum on Bowery, is pretty much guaranteed to give you the most flat-out thrilling time you’ll have at any art exhibition this year. Which we guess isn’t much of a stretch, considering that, if you choose to participate, and sign a waiver exempting everyone from any responsibility for […]
High Line New York Social Soup Experiment was a Success!
We had such a great time this past Saturday at the High Line Social Soup Experiment, eating excellent bowls of soup with a hundred other people. Everyone was happy and chatty and seated at a long communal table. Sounds great, right? It was. And it was only $5 a person! Spearheaded by a group within […]
Uniqlo Midtown and Century 21 Lincoln Square: Two New NYC Clothing Stores
If you need to buy any sort of clothing for yourself or anyone you know between now and the rest of your life, a pair of massive new outposts of two of New York City’s best retailers are here to help: the Japanese chain Uniqlo, now on Fifth Avenue in Midtown; and the legendary designers-at-discounts […]
Madison Square Eats: An NYC Food Festival Across from Madison Square Park
Whether we’re in the mood for gorging or grazing, the great Madison Square Eats has quickly become one of our favorite fall festivals (see also: one of favorite spring festivals). No surprise, really. Madison Square Eats is centrally located in Worth Square, next to Madison Square Park, in the shadow of the Criterion Building to […]
Asphalt Green Sports & Fitness Center Coming to Battery Park City
For downtown Glenwood residents, this is very good news indeed. Asphalt Green, one of New York City’s finest sports and fitness centers, is coming to Battery Park City. Set to open this winter right on North End Avenue and Murray Street, the Battery Park City Asphalt Green campus is a fantastic 52,000 square foot facility […]
NYC Bike Share demonstrations going on all of October!
A Bike Sharing Program for NYC Starting Next Summer The basics of Bike Share NYC are this: starting next summer hundreds of NYC Bikes will appear at dozens of self-service, solar-powered "docking stations" in hub-ish locations throughout Manhattan (below 79th Street) and in northwest Brooklyn, quickly expanding to other neighborhoods in all five boroughs if (when!) Bike Share NYC is deemed a success. New York's bike sharing program members members pay annual dues which, says the NYC Department of Transportation, will be "less that a monthly Metrocard", and can use any bike at any Bike Share NYC docking station for an unlimited number of 30- to 45-minute rides. Short term membership (daily, ride-based, etc.) will also be available. What Bike Share NYC is best at is giving you a pleasant, healthy, super-speedy alternative to using buses and subways and especially, providing convenient transportation to parts of town that are under-served by the MTA, such as the far west and east sides.
The National 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center Site
You think you're prepared for the National 9/11 Memorial, which has been open to the public for a couple of weeks now at the World Trade Center site: you've seen the photographs and videos, you've read the descriptions and accounts, you've steeled yourself emotionally. But you're not prepared… not really. Or, at least, that how […]
There are plenty of provocative, witty, and/or outrageous individual pieces of art in Maurizio Cattelan’s career-spanning (and, since he’s vowed to retire after it closes, career-ending) exhibition that just opened at the Guggenheim. Simply, aptly titled All, Maurizio Cattelan: All supposedly includes every single work he’s ever created. Cattelan’s show would be newsworthy and entertaining […]
Huge Chilewich Sample Sale in Midtown, this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ONLY
There are always a dozen or so first-rate New York sample sales going on at any given moment in this town; the only real challenge to getting designer goods–usually clothing, but also accessories and such–at ridiculously low prices is keeping on top of all the offerings, and finding the time to wait on the often […]
New Amsterdam Market: Lower Manhattan’s Best Outdoor Food Market
We were more than a little excited when New Amsterdam Market set up shop in the South Street Seaport community a few summers ago, reviving the concept of the city’s great Public Markets which were once so prevalent but, for many obvious reasons, are rarely seen these days on the streets of Manhattan. With its […]
Now at the New Museum: Carsten Höller and His Three-Story Indoor Slide!
Carsten Höller: Experience, now at the New Museum on Bowery, is pretty much guaranteed to give you the most flat-out thrilling time you’ll have at any art exhibition this year. Which we guess isn’t much of a stretch, considering that, if you choose to participate, and sign a waiver exempting everyone from any responsibility for […]
High Line New York Social Soup Experiment was a Success!
We had such a great time this past Saturday at the High Line Social Soup Experiment, eating excellent bowls of soup with a hundred other people. Everyone was happy and chatty and seated at a long communal table. Sounds great, right? It was. And it was only $5 a person! Spearheaded by a group within […]
Uniqlo Midtown and Century 21 Lincoln Square: Two New NYC Clothing Stores
If you need to buy any sort of clothing for yourself or anyone you know between now and the rest of your life, a pair of massive new outposts of two of New York City’s best retailers are here to help: the Japanese chain Uniqlo, now on Fifth Avenue in Midtown; and the legendary designers-at-discounts […]
Madison Square Eats: An NYC Food Festival Across from Madison Square Park
Whether we’re in the mood for gorging or grazing, the great Madison Square Eats has quickly become one of our favorite fall festivals (see also: one of favorite spring festivals). No surprise, really. Madison Square Eats is centrally located in Worth Square, next to Madison Square Park, in the shadow of the Criterion Building to […]
Asphalt Green Sports & Fitness Center Coming to Battery Park City
For downtown Glenwood residents, this is very good news indeed. Asphalt Green, one of New York City’s finest sports and fitness centers, is coming to Battery Park City. Set to open this winter right on North End Avenue and Murray Street, the Battery Park City Asphalt Green campus is a fantastic 52,000 square foot facility […]
NYC Bike Share demonstrations going on all of October!
A Bike Sharing Program for NYC Starting Next Summer The basics of Bike Share NYC are this: starting next summer hundreds of NYC Bikes will appear at dozens of self-service, solar-powered "docking stations" in hub-ish locations throughout Manhattan (below 79th Street) and in northwest Brooklyn, quickly expanding to other neighborhoods in all five boroughs if (when!) Bike Share NYC is deemed a success. New York's bike sharing program members members pay annual dues which, says the NYC Department of Transportation, will be "less that a monthly Metrocard", and can use any bike at any Bike Share NYC docking station for an unlimited number of 30- to 45-minute rides. Short term membership (daily, ride-based, etc.) will also be available. What Bike Share NYC is best at is giving you a pleasant, healthy, super-speedy alternative to using buses and subways and especially, providing convenient transportation to parts of town that are under-served by the MTA, such as the far west and east sides.
The National 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center Site
You think you're prepared for the National 9/11 Memorial, which has been open to the public for a couple of weeks now at the World Trade Center site: you've seen the photographs and videos, you've read the descriptions and accounts, you've steeled yourself emotionally. But you're not prepared… not really. Or, at least, that how […]
