The High Line Rink: Uniqlo New York Sponsors Roller Skating Under One of NYC Best Parks!
Roller skating plus tacos trucks plus beer plus the High Line?! Sign us up! A few weeks ago the excellent Friends of the High Line teamed up with the Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and plopped down the expansive High Line Roller Rink at the northern end of what has become one New York City's great […]

Downtown Culture Pass and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Two Smart Ways to Explore the Tip of the Island
There's always a million great things to do in this city, with new events, exhibitions, stores, restaurants, pop-ups, shows, parks, and recreations vying for your attention (and paycheck) all day, every day. And that's fantastic, of course — it's one of the reasons why we love living here — but it does mean that under-hyped […]

BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC An Urban Environment Experiment
It's difficult to explain exactly what the BMW Guggenheim Lab is all about in a sentence or two — which is why they've posted a three-minute video on the BMW Guggenheim Lab website under the question "What is the Lab?" — but we can tell you this: we've stopped by a few times already to […]

“Talk to Me” at MoMA New York: Design and Communication
First, a caveat about the small but lively exhibition "Talk to Me: Design and Communication between People and Objects"  just opened on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art: if you spend any time looking at design websites, blogs or tumblrs, you've probably already seen a lot this online. We're kind of obsessed […]

The Brooklyn Flea Markets: The New Williamsburg Flea Market
We've had a ton of fun–and eaten a lot of good food–at the Brooklyn Flea's Fort Greene location several times already this summer, but last weekend was our first foray into the great market's Williamsburg digs. The Brooklyn Flea's formula is much the same here, offering up sellers of interesting vintage wares (from dining room […]

Mini Golf in Manhattan (and more!) at Pier 25
Ok, so it's August, but don't panic: there's still PLENTY of time to do all those great Summer in the City things that make this our favorite time of year. And if "playing mini golf in Manhattan" was on your summer must-do list, like it was on ours, you are sooooo going to love Pier […]

A New Beautiful Lincoln Center Movie Theater
Welcome, the new Lincoln Center movie theater… welcome to Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, to the Upper West Side, to New York City, a new Lincoln Center cinema. We've been waiting a long time for another state-of-the-art theater to open up in this town, one that shows first-run indies and documentaries, and has comfortable stadium […]

MoMA PS1 Warm Up: Holding Pattern by Interboro Partners
One of the New York City's best–and certainly one of its liveliest–summer traditions kicked off last Saturday with the launch of MoMA PS1 Warm Up always-a-blast  music and dance party. Here's how it works: every Saturday between now and September 3, from around 2:00 in the afternoon until 9:00 at night, MoMA PS1 turns its […]

Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty at the Met FINAL WEEKS
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a generous expansive, provocative, and wildly entertaining fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been drawing huge crowds since it opened in early May, and will undoubtedly continue to do so until it closes in just a few weeks, on August 7, which is a week later than the Met had originally planned, to try and satisfy the overwhelming demand.

The High Line New York Section 2 Opens
NYC's beloved High Line opened its hugely anticipated half-mile extension this week, giving us all 10 more blocks of glorious High Line goodness, including a lovely new lawn, pictured above! We were fortunate enough to get an early afternoon viewing yesterday, and are pleased to report that the extension is every bit as spectacular as the original.