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Secret Museums
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 05/Jan/2007
PhillipsIf you've read the New York Times recently, you can't help but notice the craziness going on at the auction houses in New York. Paintings are selling for all time highs- I'm talking hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars. Meaning, the richest jerks get to enjoy the world's finest art- all to themselves. Imagine a Picasso or a Cezanne hanging in your living room?! Unreal. Unfair!

Well, thanks to a trip to Sotheby's with my grad school class, this outsider art lover found out something I'd wish I'd known years ago...

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Pink Pony
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 23/Nov/2006
Pink Pony (teaser)The Lower East Side is a great area to spend an evening, peppered with divey bars, music venues, boutiques and cafes. The West Village is home to more French Cafes, but The Pink Pony on the East side is one not to be missed...

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Cupcake Quest
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 18/Nov/2006
CupcakeThanks to Sex in the City, Magnolia Bakery in the West Village has a permanent line around the block. I'm not joking. The first time I attempted to go there, I assumed because of the line they had table service. Nope. Just a line to get cupcakes! $3.50 cupcakes. Beautiful, big, amazing cupcakes!

But seriously, what local would wait in an hour line for a sugar fix? OK, probably me, until I decided to seek out other sources to satisfy my sweet tooth in this town....

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Conservatory Garden
Posted by Philip in New York + Places on 10/Nov/2006
Conservatory Garden: Pattern In New York City, you're more likely to see a butterfly tattoo than you are an actual butterfly. You'll probably see more flower-selling than flowers growing. Bombarded as New Yorkers are by honking horns, flashing lights, jackhammers, sirens and psychoses, it's important to find some places where you can get away. Where the noise dies down a bit, and the flow of people slows to a comfortable trickle.

Conservatory Garden in Central Park is just that kind of place...

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Union Square Market
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 30/Oct/2006
Union Square Market (teaser tile) If you are anything like me and you live in New York, going grocery shopping is a nightmare. I feel like a loser lugging those old lady carts across town, but decent grocery stores are few and far between. I've actually found myself attempting to create a healthy diet based solely on the inventory of my corner deli. After contemplating buying a pale peach colored tomato, I decided ENOUGH! I need nutrients! I want to remember what real vegetables taste like, and not just some shriveled mass posing as produce...

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Socrates Sculpture Park
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 09/Oct/2006
Socrates Sculpture Park Until 1986, the site of the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens, was an illegal riverside landfill, abandoned and ugly.

A group of local artists got together and decided to turn the area into a park and outdoor museum...

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Hot Bamn!
Posted by Lori in New York + Places on 05/Oct/2006
It's 5 am. You've just wandered from the far east side of Alphabet City, in search of pizza, a hot sandwich, SOMETHING that isn't deli chips. But everything is closed!

Wander no more! Hot food awaits at the corner of St. Marks and 2nd Avenue in the East Village...

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Grassroots Tavern
Posted by Philip in New York + Places on 02/Oct/2006
Grassroots Tavern Sign On my first visit to Grassroots Tavern, I accepted a $3 pint of Red Hook ESB from the bartender—which in New York City, is a pleasant surprise in and of itself. Being one of New York's many subterranean drinking dens, the place has a basement feel—with low, ornate tin ceilings and weathered wood surroundings. There was a cat walking the wooden planks, which had been blackened from over sixty years of drunken shuffling. The bartender, an efficient man in his sixties, worried out loud that the cat might get downstairs into the basement.

I started to feel a bit like I was in someone's home, and that's always a good sign...

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