A real-life Candy Land with two floors of rainbow sweets that beckon stars like Taylor Swift and the Beckham boys. Tip: Get bang for your buck with the pre-packed baskets.
The only U.S. location for this London go-to delivers on fourfloors crammed with edgy British style at budget prices. Tip: Call ahead toschedule a personal shopping experience—the service is free!
Runway fashions from Prada and Lanvin keep socialites and celebs alike flocking to this flagship. Tip: Hit the 7th floor for slightly more accessible brands like 3.1 Phillip Lim and Rag & Bone.
Get an ego check at this rooftop hot spot, which boastsone of the toughest doors in N.Y.C. If you do make it onto the 18th floor,check out the bathrooms—for the amazing views of lower Manhattan.
This haute Mexican eatery is harder to get into than Harvard, having built a rep around fancy tequilas and ceviche. Can't snag abooth? The no-frills, street-level taqueria can sate your wounded ego.
Feeling ambitious? Try getting into the Gramercy Park Hotel'suber-exclusive hangout, where Warhols adorn the walls. If you succeed, $19martinis (and bragging rights) await you.
Just steps from the Boom Boom Room, a 4-ft.-deep rooftop pool welcomes the scantily-clad, while AstroTurf pads well-heeled feet. Tip: Forgot your suit? Buy a bikini at the vending machines.
Studio 54 may be gone, but classic clubland style lives on at this ultralounge. With glass-walled staircases and crystal chandeliers, M2 is so blinged-out that even Mariah Carey parties here.
Staff Pick! Deb (Digital Lab): Catch a snack at the Mambo Open Book Café and check out some books at the same time. Sit under an umbrella on the plaza and sip your coffee. Civilized!
Staff Pick! Deb (Digital Lab): Breakfast at lunchtime and classic diner food amid year-round holiday decorations.
Staff Pick! Shelley (Technology): Soda is awesome for letting us host a weekly Work of Art screening party w/ the big TV. Come Weds at 10pm thru Aug 11 to watch reality TV w/ museum staff! Read more.
Staff Pick! Jillian (Editorial): This place has all the elements that make a bar great: large patio, well-sized dance floor, and weekly trivia.
Staff Pick! Deb (Digital Lab): Small and cozy, with a back garden during nice weather. Great soup/sandwich combos and a tasty main dish every day.
4/1/13 - Michael Schulman profiles the funniest singer-comedian you may have never heard of, Tim Minchin, songwriter for Matilda: The Musical: Read more.
Sarah Larson attends "Manilow on Broadway" (1/30/13): "Manilow is music, of course, and he writes the songs. Another sing-along, an explosion of confetti over our heads, and then home..." Read more.
A waiter: “Rubirosa? I heard he was this man who used to be a playboy and he had sex with everyone, and then he became a librarian.” Read more.
(3/25/13) Patricia Marx: The store "feels like a huge ski chalet-- that is, one in which O.C.D.-afflicted skiers have color-sorted their parkas before hanging them... from custom-made meat hooks." Read more.
Silvia Killingsworth's review from the 4/1/13 issue: "It’s Le Pain Quotidien with a Scandinavian makeover." Read more.
(3/20/13) SAVE 92Y TRIBECA -- A call for the 92Y to reconsider its decision and maintain 92Y Tribeca, from Richard Brody: Read more.
The front of the vest-pocket space—a hybrid bodega, lunch counter, and raw bar—is stocked with groceries. In the back, a mere two dozen seats at the bar and around one communal table. Read more.
A coquettish and vintagey take on bohemia selling cardigans embellished with jewels, clear beading, rope trim, hot-pink stitching, and pompoms. Read more.
Be sure to catch the concert of remounted 'New Dance Group'-- founded in NY in 1932-- dances, incl. works by Anna Sokolow, Sophie Maslow, and others. Performance on 2/1/2013. Joan Acocella has more: Read more.
Are people paying to see calamity? Theatregoers suffer a case of Spider-Man Schadenfreude, as injured actors spur ticket sales for the new Broadway musical. Read more.
The Italian restaurant’s twist on potato chips and P.B. & J. may seem out of place, but “skip the scoffing and order.” Next, try one of their fresh pastas, and be sure to save room for secondi! Read more.
This sleek bistro offers “haute-cuisine versions of home-cooking favorites.” Their theatrical and legendary DB Burger is “rich, well travelled, charred in the right places, and a little bit jaded.” Read more.
When Radio City first opened in 1932, it was the world’s largest enclosed theatre. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. once remarked to a New Yorker reporter, “Don’t you think that it’s a lovely room?” Read more.
Architect Daniel Libeskind’s plan strikes “a careful balance between commemorating the lives lost and reëstablishing the life of the site itself.” Read more.
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around 11:00 on a Friday night in October, 1999. He spent forty-one hours trapped in elevator car No. 30. Watch the video. Read more.
Didier Pawlicki, the chef and owner of one of the tiniest, least pretentious, more pleasurable French bistros in the city, is a sensitive and adaptable—not to mention Internet-savvy—soul. Read more.
Investment banks recently banned employees from entertaining clients in front of bikini-clad waitresses. Owner Dennis Riese defends himself. Read more.
Before this became a discount clothing spot with communal dressing rooms, in 2007, it was a gay bathhouse, then the swingers’ club Plato’s Retreat. Read more.
The owner, Evan Blum, sells all types of “vintage doors.” In a 2007 Talk of the Town piece, Blum says, “They don’t look special, but more people have a need for ordinary doors than you could imagine.” Read more.
At 5:30 P.M. on Wednesdays, people gather in Suite 1107 for Laughter Yoga. Read more.
The team behind the Spotted Pig brings this new gastropub that projects a certain swagger. Chef April Bloomfield’s knack for unusual meats is evident, and the menu reads a bit like Dickens. Read more.
Designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: “The visual signals this building sends—it is at once crisp and pliable, solid and permeable—seem deliberately ambiguous.” Read more.
In 1938, workmen laid down a new 2,295-square-foot rug in the lobby, “stopping only to extricate a workman who had fallen into its folds.” Read more.
