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a new york state of mind Welcome to the city that never sleeps—and never ceases to amaze, inspire and exhilarate. Having selected one of the finest hotels for your stay, you are about to experience the singular sensation that is New York City.

A global center of finance, fashion, media, communications, film, television and the arts, New York City is the world’s most cosmopolitan and influential metropolis. Whether you’re a first-time or seasoned visitor, the sheer amount of things to do in this bustling city is almost limitless—with new places to go, sights to see and memories to be made around every corner.

Please allow this edition of Where GuestBook® New York to acquaint you with our city’s infinite pleasures. For starters, some of the world’s finest shopping awaits: top designers’ flagship stores on Madison and Fifth avenues, as well as in the Meatpacking District and SoHo; trendy boutiques in Greenwich Village and on the Lower East Side; and dazzling baubles in the Diamond District and at world-class jewelry stores all over town.

Theater fans can marvel at the amazing performances on Broadway, where 40 historic playhouses on the Great White Way present classic and contemporary dramas, revivals, comedies and

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musicals, often featuring superstars of the stage and screen. To the north, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the world’s leading cultural complex, entertains with a year-round schedule of classical music, ballet, theater, opera and jazz in more than 40 spectacular concert halls and public spaces on and off its newly revitalized campus. Culture and art reign supreme at the Museum of

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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Art and antique collectors will enjoy the many art galleries throughout the city—with the highest concentrations in Chelsea, SoHo, TriBeCa and, more recently, the Lower East Side—showcasing everything from ancient to avant-garde art, as well as shops offering museum-quality antiques. Of course, you’ll have to make time to see our array of historic landmarks, such as the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, South Street Seaport, Top of the Rock, Times Square and the National September 11 Memorial.

Recognized as one of the foremost culinary capitals on the planet, New York City is home to a vast selection of classic. You can sample a melting pot of mouthwatering international cuisines ranging from Afghani to Vietnamese, Nordic to Australian. For a taste closer to home, New York City steak and seafood houses are legendary, and many chefs are sourcing farm-to-table ingredients. When you only have time for a quick bite, do as the locals do and enjoy a slice of pizza, a pastrami sandwich on rye from one of our delis or a gourmet treat from any of the trendy food trucks parked around town.

After dinner and a show, put on your dancing shoes and get ready to dance away the night.

Or just sit back and let others entertain you through the wee hours of the morning! Nightclubs, lounges, jazz, dance and comedy clubs feature top headliners and tomorrow’s brightest stars. You may even rub shoulders with some of our famous residents, who are in town shooting a movie or television show or here for a concert tour stop.

For help navigating Manhattan and its four sister boroughs, start by speaking with your hotel Concierge, who can offer insider tips and information. In fact, all members of the hotel staff—from the Bellmen to the General Manager—are committed to ensuring that your visit to New York City is as rewarding and fulfilling as your stay at their hotel.

On behalf of the management and staff of your hotel, we're delighted you're here, so get out and "paint the town red!"

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new york Essence 26 first look Iconic sights that demand a place on every visitor’s itinerary.

46 a fine line His and her fashions, austere, striking and designed to blur the lines.

52 gaining momentum Stars of the art world: innovating, changing and recreating art. by terry trucco

62 taster’s choice Tasting menus that are sure to whet your palate and delight your senses. by karen tina harrison

68 local spirits New York-brewed beverages, from wine to soda pop, that hit the spot.

76 landmark dining

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Enjoy some of the best tastes of the city in restaurants both historic and hallowed. by drew limsky

82 In the blink of an eye

Classic fashion looks, paired with timeless antiques and collectibles. by troy segal

112 art house cinema

Massages, facials and more, faster than you can say ahhh ...

The city’s great museums make their mark in Hollywood. by william

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88 sets in motion Spectacular Broadway sets that really know how to move—and how to move you. by francis lewis

120 shutter speed Capturing a moment in sports, one frame at a time. by bob cannon

154 parting shot

96 broadway follies Who doesn’t love a juicy bit of gossip?

Here’s what’s been happening backstage at some of Broadway’s hottest shows.

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Period Pieces, page 104 While born in Louisville, Kentucky, Senior Editor Segal considers herself an adopted native of New York City, or, rather, all the little cities that exist within New York. She’s lived in the same 19thcentury neighborhood for 25 years, reflecting her love of history. A lifelong writer/voracious reader, she often finds it easier to express herself on the page, where thoughts come across more clearly.

Or, if they don’t, can at least be rewritten.

Shutter Speed, page 120 Cannon doesn’t veil his love for NYC: “New York is where it all starts, as far as I’m concerned. It’s the media capital, the cultural capital and the economic capital of the West.” Having authored a sportscentric story for this volume, he knows exactly which competitive game captures the city’s essence: “Roller derby. If you know how the game is played, then you’ll do great here. If you miss a few important rules, they’ll put you over the rail.”

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Period Pieces page 104 For Texas-born photographer Pao, life in New York is about digging in. “I was inspired to come to NYC for the opportunities, culture and creative outlets,” says the Miami Ad School graduate, who first fell in love with visual arts in middle school. While he has shot in such places as Mexico and Tibet, the Big Apple’s skyscrapers and urban energy continue to a inspire him every day. “The light of the city is unreal, especially during dusk with the beautiful interplay of the setting sun bouncing off windows.”

Art House Cinema, page 112 Associate Editor Frierson was tickled by the task of examining movies filmed in NYC’s legendary museums: “I imagine my entire life to be a film, after all,” he says. “Every morning for me is lights, camera, action! In this make-it-or-die-trying town, one always has to be ready for one’s big close-up.” Who’s this film’s star? “You’re looking at him.”

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Local Spirits, page 68; Landmark Dining, page 76 A self-taught photographer, Sung has a client roster that includes The New York Times, Vogue and The Wall Street Journal. His relationship with his camera is an intimate one: “It’s like a marriage. My camera is a machine, so sometimes its quirks can frustrate me, but when I get the results I’m looking for, I’m endeared to it all over again.”

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Gaining Momentum, page 52; In the Blink of an Eye, page 82 After 10 years reporting from abroad, journalist Trucco landed back in New York—for good. The Californian first came to the city as a Columbia University student, and she now runs Overnight New York, a website featuring reviews of NYC hotels. Her advice? “Always check the quality of the towels at your hotel.”

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Local Spirits, page 68 Archaeologist-turned-writer Haynes-Peterson enjoys a stiff drink almost as much as he loves this city: “There has never been a better time to drink in NYC than now. From corner dives and rooftop party bars to hidden craft cocktail dens—the scene is vibrant, expressive, innovative and fun.” What’s in his glass? “Spiritforward classics. Think: Negronis and Old Fashioneds.”

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cun shi Broadway Follies, page 96 Creative energy can run in the family. Brooklyn-based illustrator Cun Shi, raised by two artists, is living proof. He muses on the power of imagery: “Images affect us in a way that is similar to music. It’s an abstract process that begins as soon as the eye perceives the visual cues and sets the gears in motion. A thousand words can describe one image, but a thousand images can also be made from one word.”

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Broadway Follies, page 96 Bill Corsello is a native New Yorker, who began his career as an actor before transitioning to writing about Broadway and Off-Broadway, which he’s been doing for more than a decade. A self-professed theater aficionado, connoisseur and obsessive, he considers a week that he hasn’t seen a show to be a bad week. For his feature on Broadway scandals, he dug into his memory, having collected tales of Great White Way peccadilloes as if they were Playbills.

Taster’s Choice, page 62 From a young age, photographer Kennedy knew an “office job” was not for him. The adventurer’s career started with portraiture and documentary photography, but two years ago he began shooting food. What defines the New York experience for Kennedy? “The food, of course. Here, you have the opportunity to experience a slice of many cultures from around the world. Go exploring for the day.

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Taster’s Choice, page 62 Karen Tina Harrison is used to being on top of things: She’s worked for the New York Post, penned her own best-selling children’s book and currently runs About.com’s luxury travel site. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t willing to cede some control come dinnertime: “My favorite restaurant meals are those in which I’m in the hands of the chef, who’s cooking his or her preferred recipes with that day’s ingredients.”

All About Town, page 138 Though she was born in Montreal, illustrator Gagnon has come to call New York City home.

The city’s architecture, energy and diversity are her sources of inspiration, and it shines through in her paintings and drawings. “Everything comes to life during the coloring stage,” Gagnon says of her creative process. “This is something I look forward to every time.”

Landmark Dining, page 76 NYC doesn’t get old in writer and editor Limsky’s eyes: “I’ve lived in this city most of my adult life, and when I walk down the street, I still feel like something great is going to happen. It’s exciting, edgy, familiar and somehow safe, all at the same time.” Neither does the city’s cuisine scene: “The demand and foot traffic ensure that quality is always great, on both ends of the price spectrum, and everything in between.”

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A Fine Line, page 46 At age 15, photographer Le embarked on a solo journey to New York in search of a safe haven to practice his craft. “In Vietnam, people didn’t appreciate art. They had the mentality that you have to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer to make your family proud.” Inspired by “beauty and darkness,” his work has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam and Sheer.

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A Fine Line, page 46 Stylist Katsanis started interning for fashion magazines while studying at FIT. These days, her own work has appeared in Elle, Vogue and Glamour magazines.

Katsanis can’t point to just one remarkable time in her career, since “every day is memorable because I am lucky enough to do what I love.” For inspiration, she takes to the city streets in search of new looks.

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francis lewis Sets in Motion, page 88 Executive Editor Lewis, who looks at four innovative set designs, remembers when a puppet version of The Prince and the Pauper visited his grade school and turned him on to live theater. “The lights came up on a flat backdrop, with just enough detail to tell me I was outside a palace. Some images are burned on the retina for ever. This is one of them.”

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Artifice rarely looks this natural. In laying out the 843 acres of the country’s first landscaped park, architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux employed a staggering 20,000 laborers to sculpt terrain, dig ponds and blow up rocks. Construction of the park began in 1857 and was completed in 1873, though it opened to the public in the winter of 1859. Today, some 25 million people visit the park annually to commune with nature, enjoying its seemingly endless paths for strolling, jogging or cycling; over 150 varieties of trees; numerous ornamental sculptures, fountains and monuments; and 36 bridges and arches. 59th to 110th sts., btw Fifth Ave. & Central Park West, 212.794.6564 26

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The most famous skyscraper in the world started out as a purely speculative venture for which building costs were intially estimated at $50 million.

Contracts were signed in September 1929, merely weeks before the stock market crash. Yet the building broke records, not only for height but for speed of construction: The job was completed 45 days ahead of schedule and $5 million dollars under budget.

Today, it remains a sleek Art Deco landmark, prized for the views from its 86th- and 102nd-floor observatories and for the lighting of its upper floors that changes color to salute holidays (i.e., red, white and blue for the Fourth of July) and other events. But the Empire State Building is more than just a pretty facade. Designed to act as a lightning rod, it protects other nearby properties, absorbing about 100 hits a year. 350 Fifth Ave., 212.736.3100

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Bryant Park

In 1686, when the city was still basic wilderness, the governor of New York, Thomas Dongan, designated the area now known as Bryant Park a public space.

The first official park on the site opened in 1848 and was called Reservoir Square; in 1884, it was renamed Bryant Park to honor the New York Evening Post editor and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. Today the park, located between Fifth and Sixth avenues and between 40th and 42nd streets in Midtown, is favored by New Yorkers as a lunch and lounging spot in all seasons. It includes a number of lovely sections including The Upper Terrace, The Lawn (the jewel of the park), The Fountain Terrace, Le Carrousel and the Southwest Porch, which offers chairs, swings and cushions. It also boasts summer film programs, an ice-skating rink in winter and other events throughout the year and is home to two popular eateries, Bryant Park Grill and ’Wichcraft. 341 W. 40th St., 212.768.4242

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It’s 6:00pm and backstage at the Minskoff Theatre things are starting to heat up just two hours prior to curtain. The show is celebrating its 16th season and over 70 million guests, yet each night is a new opening as the curtain rises on this singular live experience. From stage setup, to makeup, to the performers warming up, we see how every component of this much-lauded show is methodical and meticulous. A small army of dedicated stagehands, artists and actors have arrived once again tonight, to deliver the one show that is unlike anything else on Broadway.

7:02pm: Costumes and props rest silently, soon to be beckoned to the stage again as “The Circle Of Life” unfolds before the audience.

7:16pm: Cast members take the stage and begin their warm-up.

Their combination of strength, grace and movement are part of the reason this magnificent production continues to deliver a seamless marriage of entertainment and art.

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Grand Central Terminal

Because the stately edifice known as Grand Central Terminal sits on a precious piece of Midtown real estate, its design integrity has sometimes been threatened by commercial development plans: One proposal, in 1960, would have divided the waiting room into four horizontal stories, with bowling alleys on the upper three.

Soon after that project was attempted, Grand Central Terminal was designated a landmark. In 1975, Grand Central’s landmark designation was voided by the court, clearing the way for a building over the station: Largely due to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ efforts, the landmark was saved. Over 140,000 commuters a day pass through Grand Central Terminal, which remains one of the country’s most spectacular architectural achievements and one of the world’s busiest train stations. 89 E. 42nd St., at Park Ave., 212.340.2583

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Brooklyn Bridge Park is the home of the exquisitely restored Jane’s Carousel, a gift to the park from Jane and David Walentas. Built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, the carousel was purchsed in 1984 by the Walentas as a way of preventing it from being sold piecemeal. The carousel was in poor condition, so Jane began the work of restoring it to its former glory at her studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, which included scraping away 62 years of “park paint” with an X-Acto knife. Everything on the ride that could be was repainted, stenciled and releafed to look the way it did in 1922. The carousel, which overlooks the East River, opened to the public Sept. 16, 2011.

Today, it dazzles with 1,200 lights, and offers a fully operating ride, delighting the young, the old and the in-between. Brooklyn Bridge Park, Dock Street, Brooklyn, 718.222.2502

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral

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The Cathedral of St. Patrick, which is more commonly known as St. Patrick’s Cathedral, is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and also a parish church.

Located on the East Side of Fifth Ave., it is directly across the street from Rockefeller Center, facing the Atlas statue. Its Neo-Gothic style, Stations of the Cross, grand galley organ, stained-glass windows and magnificent art, including the Pietà by William Ordway Partidge (three times larger than Michelangelo’s Pietà) make it a breathtakingly beautiful visitor destination. On Christmas Eve, the church is packed with people of all denominations for its world-famous midnight mass. 14 E. 51st St., 212.753.2261

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New York Botanical Garden

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In the late 1800s, Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife, Elizabeth, also a botanist, were so inspired by their visit to England’s Royal Botanic Gardens that they came back determined New York should possess a great botanical garden as well. Fast forward over 100 years to what their wish has wrought: the 250-acre New York Botanical Garden, which offers some of the world’s leading plant laboratories, gardens and plant collections, including arguably the most beautiful rose garden in the United States, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, which displays more than 3,000 species, ranging from ancient varieties developed more than 2,000 years ago to the latest hybrids. 2900 Southern Blvd., the Bronx, 718.817.8700

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Originally opened in 1933 and modeled after the decks of luxury ocean liners, the observation terraces of the 70-story Top of the Rock set visitors drifting over the city, with wideopen views in every direction, fore and aft, starboard and port. In 2005, after being closed for 20 years, the lofty perch reopened with multimedia exhibits and three levels for gazing at the far horizon. On a clear day, you can see for 80 miles. There’s plenty to view on the way up, too, from the colossal Swarovski crystal waterfall chandelier inside the entrance (left) to the mezzanine exhibition on the history of Rockefeller Center, with a beam that invites visitors to imitate the balancing act of construction workers, to the Breezeway on the 69th-floor deck, which features an interactive lighting system, where guests’ movements trigger changes in sound and light. 30 Rockefeller Plz., 212.698.2000

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a mix-and-match of his and her fashions pushes the boundaries of sophisticated style. snug fits, rich colors and bold prints: does it really matter who wears what?

LEFT: Sunglasses by Italia Independent USA. Atrium NYC, 644 Broadway, 212.473.9200. Cashmere crew sweater by Bloomingdale’s The Men’s Store. 1000 Third Ave., 212.705.2000. “Mercer” corduroy pants and “Burke” blazer by Tommy Hilfiger. 681 Fifth Ave., 212.223.1824.

Gloves by Sermoneta Gloves USA, 609 Madison Ave., 212.319.5946.

RIGHT, ON HIM: Paisley print buttondown shirt by Etro. 720 Madison Ave., 212.317.9096. Straight-leg trousers

by Richard Chai. Odin New York, 199 Lafayette St., 212.966.0026.

ON HER: Gray and blue jumpsuit

by Ter et Bantine. Maryam Nassir Zadeh, 123 Norfolk St., 212.673.6405.

“Meyers” heels by Paul Smith.

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Hat by Eugenia Kim. Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave., 212.826.8900. Jacket and silk bow blouse. Brooks Brothers, 346 Madison Ave., 212.682.8800. Leather pants by Nicole Miller. 77 Greene St., 212.219.1825.

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ON HIM: Sunglasses by Prada.

Sunglass Hut, 605 Fifth Ave., 212.759.3720. White cotton buttonup shirt by Dior Homme. 17 E. 57th St., 212.931.2950. Beige plaid suit

by Valentino. 821 Madison Ave., 212.772.6969. PAM 523 Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days Automatic watch by Officine Panerai. 545 Madison Ave., 212.233.1562.

ON HER: GNOMI dress in albino

by Max Mara. 813 Madison Ave., 212.879.6100. Gray wool jacket by Etro. Venus tote by FURLA. furla.com.

Gloves by Sermoneta Gloves USA.

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ON HIM: “Black Sail” sweater

by Nautica. Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave., 212.940.2818.

“Hampton” slim-fit dress pants. John Varvatos Soho, 122 Spring St., 212.965.0700.

ON HER: Long-sleeve black turtleneck sweater and blue flouncy skirt by Ports 1961. 3 Ninth Ave., 917.475.1022. White shirt by Hache. Kisan NYC, 125 Greene St., 212.475.2470.

Black hat by Hache, available at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

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Since WHERE GUESTBOOK NEW YORK is an annual publication, there is a possibility that the items shown, while available for purchase at press time, may be out of stock. The products featured, however, provide a fine representation of the overall quality of the stores’ merchandise.

ON HIM: Gray vest and black wingtip shoes by Bloomingdale’s The Men’s Store. Charcoal trousers by Etro. Bag by Fairchild Baldwin. Five Story, 18 E. 69th St., 212.288.1338, and Mariana Antinori, 1242 Madison Ave., 646.476.5108. Balloon bleu watch by Cartier. Wempe, 700 Fifth Ave., 212.397.9000.

ON HER: Wool bicolor vest and pencil skirt by Ter et Bantine.

Muléh, 500 W. 22nd St., 212.524.0220. Heels by Angela Scott, available at Saks Fifth Avenue. Balloon bleu watch by Cartier, available at Wempe.

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IF THEY CAN MAKE IT HERE, THEY’LL MAKE IT ANYWHERE: UP-AND-COMING ARTISTS ARE ALWAYS EAGER TO BE ON VIEW IN NEW YORK CITY. BY TERRY TRUCCO

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FACING PAGE: “MARY’S LAKE, MT 7” IS TYPICAL OF MATTHEW BRANDT’S COLOR-DRENCHED PHOTOS. THIS PAGE: “LES BALLETS DE FAILE,” DONE FOR THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET BY THE ARTISTIC DUO FAILE.

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t’s hard for an artist to know when his or her career is about to take off. But one pretty good sign is having a work snapped up by the mighty Metropolitan Museum of Art for its permanent collection—and then having that work displayed in a special exhibit, not far from pieces by 20th-century titans like Christo and Robert Smythson. That’s what happened to art photographer Matthew Brandt in summer 2013, when his monumental landscape, “Mary’s Lake, MT 9” (2012) proved a crowd-pleaser at the Met’s Land Marks show. “It’s a crazy honor,” says the self-effacing Brandt, who, at age 31, was the youngest artist in the exhibit.

New York’s thriving art scene has been catnip to generations of young artists, with a mega-cast of museums, galleries, art schools, auction houses and collectors. All this makes our town a prime hunting ground for anyone eager to spot a fresh talent, watch a promising artist blossom or augment a collection. Even artists not in residence seek a nod from a New York museum, press from a New York critic and representation by a New York gallery.

Brandt, for example, works and shows in Los Angeles, but also is represented in New York by the Yossi Milo Gallery (245 10th Ave., 212.414.0370), which placed “Mary’s Lake, MT 9” at the Met. “There’s a lot going on in his pictures,” says dealer Yossi Milo. At the Met exhibit, viewers admired “Mary’s Lake” as much for its otherworldly beauty and vibrant coloration as for the idea behind it. Brandt developed the 8-foot-wide, near-abstract image using water he collected from the lake itself. His practice of embedding physical elements from the objects depicted in his photos allows “subject and image to meet and collide,” the artist says. And by choosing unconventional elements like dust, bees and even gummy bears, Brandt guarantees no two of his works will be remotely alike.

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PHOTO: DORIT LEVINSTEIN, “RENOIR DANCERS,” COURTESY OF EDEN FINE ART

COMBINING HER PAINTER’S EYE FOR COLOR WITH A SCULPTOR’S FEEL FOR BRONZE, AS IN “RENOIR DANCERS,” PROVIDED A BREAKTHROUGH FOR DORIT LEVINSTEIN .

subjects are of color. “His intent is to fill in where art history has left out Africans and people of African descent,” says Joseph Kraeutler, a partner at Hasted Kraeutler Gallery (537 W. 24th St., 212.627.0006), where Erizku’s photographs, some a monumental 6 feet tall, range from $3,500 to $5,000. Erizku, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in the Bronx, landed an internship with surrealist photographer David LaChapelle while still an art student at Cooper Union. He was tapped to show his grand-scale portraits at the FLAG Art Foundation, where they caught the eye of Kraeutler, who arranged a solo exhibit in 2012. Since then, collectors have snapped up portraits like “Boy Holding Grapes,” “Lady With a Pitbull” and “Girl With a Bamboo Earring,” revisionist takes on, respectively, Caravaggio, da Vinci and Vermeer that deliver the young artist’s message “without being in-your-face or gimmicky,” says Kraeutler.

Not every up-and-comer is a youngster. Consider the career of sculptor Dorit Levinstein, whose upbeat works are on view at Eden Fine Art (437 Madison Ave., 212.888.0177).

The Tel Aviv-based artist began as a painter, academically trained, traditionally inclined. When she felt herself growing stale, she turned to sculpture, eventually channeling her love of color into vividly painted pieces shaped from welded lengths of polished bronze. Now 57, Levinstein became a proverbial overnight success, with her work displayed at London’s Royal Academy and galleries from Paris to New York. At Eden, where her statues start at $5,000 and can top $100,000, one series of undulating forms references instantly recognizable paintings by Picasso, Matisse and van Gogh, among others: “My way of studying and reacting to these works,” Levinstein says.

Another relatively late starter is Robert Deyber, 58, who became a full-time painter after a 20-year career as an airline exec, and is now one of the most popular living artists represented by Martin Lawrence Galleries (457 W. Broadway, 212.995.8865) In the last four years, prices for his larger acrylic canvases have leapt from $5,850 to $9,850 and higher. A favorite of rock stars—he did the cover image of Tom Petty’s 2006 album Highway Companion—Deyber is famed for Magritte-like images that work a visual pun on a stock phrase or cliché (i.e., a portrait of a confused-looking canine entitled “Dog Daze”).

Alison Elizabeth Taylor proves that the right artist can reinvent an age-old craft. Marquetry is her medium, the 16th-century art of piecing together minute wood fragments in decorative patterns. But Taylor blazes her own path. Carried by the James Cohan Gallery (533 W. 26th

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AWOL ERIZKU’S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, LIKE “GIRL WITH A BAMBOO EARRING,” OFTEN EVOKE OLD MASTERS’ PAINTINGS—A REMINDER OF PEOPLES AND SUBJECTS THAT ART HISTORY HAS OFTEN IGNORED. 56

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St., 212.714.9500), her latest pieces introduce oil paint to marquetry’s traditional implements of wood and shellac, adding depth to the contrasting textures of the woods in still life portraits and renderings from nature. “Real wood grain is very expressive,” says the 40-year-old artist, who’d been integrating pieces of wood-grained contact paper into her paintings for years. Her move to marquetry ignited her imagination—and her career. Critics took note of a 2010 series shown at Cohan, depicting damage to foreclosed houses: works fashioned from wood renderings of mutilated drywall, floorboards and light sockets. (Marquetry’s historic association with luxury furniture heaped irony on the gritty subject matter.) Lately, curators have come calling, too.

Against the Grain, a recent show at the Museum of Arts and Design, featured two Taylor works.

While Taylor deals with tiny wood pieces, Brooklyn artist José Parlá is literally a big-picture man, creating murals for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fisher Theater and the new Barclays Center in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

Complex, color-rich abstract paintings, they are often embedded with writing obscured in layers of paint: Close inspection of “Diary of Brooklyn,” the Barclays mural, reveals borough-centric monikers like street names, words plucked from James Agee’s novel Brooklyn Is and hip-hop lyrics by Big Daddy Kane. Parlá, 40, who got his pre-art-school start painting on walls around the city at night, relishes working on a grand scale: “The canvas is like a palimpsest,” he says.

“The process is a performance.” Outside Brooklyn, Parlá fans, who include Tom Ford, Eric Clapton and Agnès B., can find his works at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (505 W. 24th St., 212.243.8830), where they now fetch anywhere from $50,000 to $125,000 and up.

Chinese art is increasingly in demand as mainland artists flex their creative muscles, freed from decades of constraints.

One closely watched muscle-flexor is Beijing sculptor Chen Wenling, who first appeared on art collectors’ radar after a splashy debut at the 2006 Beijing Biennale. Three years later, he made headlines with his massive bronze of a man with the face of Bernie Madoff pinned to the wall by a charging bull. “His international notoriety skyrocketed after that,” says dealer Martha Sutherland, whose M. Sutherland Fine Arts handles Chen in New York (212.249.0428, by

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PHOTO: ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR, “CLOUD 10,” © THE ARTIST / COURTESY JAMES COHAN GALLERY, NEW YORK/SHANGHAI; CHEN WENLING, “PIG,” COURTESY OF M. SUTHERLAND FINE ARTS

ABOVE: IN “CLOUD 10,” ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR PUTS THE ANTIQUE ART OF MARQUETRY TO MODERN USE. RIGHT: CHEN WENLING’S SLY SENSE OF HUMOR AND SATIRIC USE OF ANIMALS IS EVIDENT IN PIECES LIKE “PIG.”

appointment). The artist, 43, channels his classical training into formidable works infused with rawness, bawdiness and wit that fetch from $20,000 to $45,000. One work in Sutherland’s inventory, “Pig,” is a smug sow with a coin slot for an anus—a gimlet-eyed comment on China’s new rich.

“Pigs are symbols of wealth and fertility, but Chen takes them to a comic extreme,” Sutherland says.

The shimmering halls of Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch

Theater, home to the New York City Ballet, are a long leap from the walls of the derelict downtown buildings where FAILE, the Brooklyn-based art team of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, wheat-pasted their earliest creations. But in winter 2013, FAILE made the jump appear effortless. For months, their cheeky graphic art, commissioned by the dance troupe—the highlight was a 40-foot tower of woodblocks mixing ballet iconography with pop culture subjects— filled the theater and adorned the programs. London’s Tate Modern museum and a nature park in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, are a few of the places FAILE’s art has appeared.

But their formative years as art-school-trained street artists continue to inform the 37-year-old duo, and also influence their business approach. Though brick-and-mortar galleries carry their works, FAILE has an ardent social media following, which signs up online (www.faile.net) to purchase new limited-edition prints priced from $500 by lottery. “Previous generations didn’t have the opportunity to use the Internet this way,” notes Miller.

For art aficionados, talent spotters, collectors and anyone hungry for a taste of the new, New York City’s art world awaits, its ranks filled with fresh creative voices.

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TASTER’S CHOICE TASTING MENUS—MULTICOURSE, MULTIHOUR FEASTS—ARE THE BIG THING IN NYC DINING. BY KAREN TINA HARRISON

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At some restaurants, the chef’s tasting menu is the star of the show. At others, it waits in the wings, available to those who know to ask for it. Diners at Kellari Taverna (19 W. 44th St., 212.221.0144), for example, are welcome

BOULUD SUD’S MEDITERRANEAN FARE INCLUDES MEZZE (HERBED FALAFEL, HUMMUS AND BABA GHANOUSH, ABOVE) AND A SPICED LAMB BURGER WITH SWEET POTATO CHIPS (RIGHT).

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to put themselves in the Hellenic hands of Corporate Executive Chef Gregory Zapantis and savor his off-themenu Aegean Feast. Says this native son of Kefalonia, “In Greece, every day brings a menu du jour—what the gods of the seas and the fields have granted us.” The Aegean Feast’s quintet of courses honors these gods, with dishes like seafood in the shell, tender octopus grilled with Santorini capers, and Greek salad topped with creamy feta. The main course is a grilled fillet—anything from Arctic char to Aegean fagri. A second entrée of grilled New York State lamb chops or a dessert assortment with now-trendy Greek yogurt finishes the feast.

A different side of the Mediterranean is the raison d’être of Boulud Sud (20 W. 64th St., 212.595.1313).

At this airy, arty West Side spot, bons vivants volunteer for Executive Chef Aaron Chambers’ seven-course chef’s tasting menu, which he calls “an experience for the entire table, a literal culinary tour of the Mediterranean, showcasing Morocco, Spain, Italy and Greece.” Made with “hyper-local ingredients,” this rich repast commences with mezze—bites of falafel, hummus and baba

ghanoush. Then come Sicilian sardine escabèche, cured anchovies with Provençale socca chickpea crisps, Spanish octopus, and lemon-saffron linguine with Italian bottarga roe. The main meat course could be Moroccan-spiced lamb, while “dessert is usually something chocolate.”

A cozy, brick-walled spot tucked into a brownstone near the American Museum of Natural History has become a foodie pilgrimage station. And like the museum’s famed dioramas, Dovetail (103 W. 77th St., 212.362.3800) showcases nature’s wonders. “We have an intense food culture here, with waves of trends and ideas,” marvels Dovetail’s top toque (and proprietor), John Fraser. “And whatever’s new and pure, I like to play up in my prix fixe tasting menu.” This American banquet comprises seven courses, “all compact but intense,” he notes. Dishes can be as simple as a May vegetables consommé infused with ginger-vanilla essence, or as intricate as foie gras transformed to recall a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but with graham-cracker puree and huckleberry compote.

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read with attention and tie the ends together,” Fraser feels.

“Chef’s tastings challenge my team to be at our best and to take chances. On weekend nights, about half my diners are up for it. It’s an investment of time and stomach space.” The return on investment? “Pure pleasure.”

“Tasting menus are a voyage for the palate, a journey from high point to high point,” says Chef/owner Jesse Schenker of Recette (328 W. 12th St., 212.414.3000). His prix fixes, which complement à la carte choices, are like his restaurant: rustic yet refined, with savory, satisfying dishes that echo Recette’s view of tree-lined Greenwich Village streets. Schenker intends them to be “a complete experience: warm, inviting and personal,” he says.

Patrons choose five-, seven- or 10-course menus, their courses seasoned and sequenced by Chef Schenker “with definite diner input,” he says. “I serve things I think diners must try, but I listen when there are things they won’t.”

His modern American dishes are comprised of “pure, rich ingredients like bone marrow, spring lamb, sea urchin and Maine lobster,” which stars in a seafood “cassoulet” with chorizo. On the second Monday of the month, the entire restaurant is devoted to a special 10-course tasting menu; the 20 diners who reserve receive double table (and plate) space in the dining room.

While Schenker’s tasting menus “can push the envelope,” as he cheerfully admits, Executive Chef Carmine Di Giovanni takes a different approach at Greenwich Project (47 W. 8th St., 212.253.9333), housed in a vintage town house with a ground-floor cocktail parlor and a glamorous, chandelier-lit dining room upstairs. His five-course contemporary New American prix fixe is “not meant to intimidate or challenge the diner,” he says. “We are cooking for you, making familiar dishes, but with the extra zest and flair that only a chef can bring.” An even more epic eating experience, the seven-course “market menu” offered in fall, winter and spring, also features “finned fish” and pasta courses. Both options spotlight early morning finds from the Union Square Greenmarket a few blocks away and ingredients that “are here today, gone tomorrow,” says Chef Di Giovanni. But whatever the season, Greenwich Project’s menus always include a sweet—say, a chocolate mousse trio or a baba au rhum. “I don’t approve of skipping dessert,” the chef states.

Chinese food has meant fun on a plate to generations of New Yorkers. And at stylish Hakkasan (311 W. 43rd St., 212.776.1818), International Development Chef Ho Chee Boon reports that Big Apple diners have taken to his fresh, lively Cantonese cuisine like a Peking duck to water.

“Our tasting menu is served and enjoyed the traditional way Chinese people eat,” says Chef Ho. “Everything is cooked to come out at the same time and shared by the

HAKKASAN DINNERS ARE SERVED CHINESE BANQUET-STYLE, WITH SEVERAL DISHES, SUCH AS VEGETABLE STIR-FRY (TOP) AND PRAWNS WITH LILY BULBS AND ALMONDS, SERVED SIMULTANEOUSLY.

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whole table. New Yorkers love it because the tradition here, too, is to taste everything and talk about it. And they appreciate healthy, fresh ingredients. That’s very Chinese, but also very American today.” Arranged in three courses, his signature menus include 10 or 11 items—“which lets the kitchen show off the range of our techniques and ingredients”—and are intended for tables of 10 or more.

But three-course prix fixes, supplemented by rice and pak choi, are offered at lunch and pre-theater, and waiters are delighted to help smaller parties create their own tasting menus. Many patrons commence with a soup and then progress to a “small eat” (dim sum, handmade like tiny artworks). Next, they choose an entrée, perhaps a stew like Hakka pork belly clay pot. For dessert, a sampling of macarons in exotic flavors. Chef Ho jokes, “A French dessert in a Chinese kitchen in Times Square: What could be more New York?”

New York’s tasting-menu craze may stem in part from the popularity of fine Japanese cuisine, where tasting menus are a vaunted tradition, both in formal kaiseki dinners (a progressively complex parade of seasonal trea-

sures) and omakase meals, in which the chef sends out a succession of freshly prepared items at his discretion.

Several tasting menus (along with à la carte items) are on offer at MEGU New York (62 Thomas St., 212.964.7777) and MEGU Midtown (Trump World Tower, 845 United Nations Plaza, 212.964.7777). The Osusume feast, a seven-course menu, accents sumiki aburiyaki, a grilling technique that employs a rare Japanese charcoal and is used on delicacies like king crab and Kobe beef, resulting in a delicate smokiness. The pre-theater menu showcases gindara, a Japanese black cod, gentled with yuzu and miso. Miso also has a starring role in a nine-course Umami menu alongside other mouth-rich morsels, such as crispy okaki asparagus, which arrives in a tempura-style jacket of crushed rice crackers. “This is a visually thrilling dish,” notes Executive Chef Norito Shimura. “Fresh tastes are fundamental, but all the senses are involved in a Japanese tasting menu.” MEGU’s tasting menus all conclude with “Sweet Five,” a handcrafted glass platter bearing a quintet of desserts. “Pure indulgence,” remarks the chef.

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East Village bar Death & Co. (Left) specializes in cocktails, many of which (below) use spirits crafted by local producers such as the New York Distilling Company of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which makes several types of gin.

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One of the first “new” local beer makers, Brooklyn Brewery, in Williamsburg (Right), makes a variety of traditional and customized stouts, ales and lagers (above), which can all be sampled in its tasting room after a tour of the premises.

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STILL LIFES Makers of spirits have a long history in New York, claims Allen Katz, co-founder of New York Distilling Company. The city’s first distillery (of applejack, possibly) opened in 1640 on what is now Staten Island.

Katz’s 2-year-old operation is nestled in a warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, adjacent to its bar, The Shanty (79 Richardson St., 718.878.3579), a place with low, sexy lighting, dark wood and brick walls. Turn around and admire the gleaming 1,000-liter copper pot still with its dual fermentation tanks in the next room, churning out what will become Dorothy Parker American Gin (floral and aromatic), Perry’s Tot Navy Strength Gin (spicy and bracing, at 57 proof) and Chief Gowanus New-Netherland Gin, which Katz says is “based on what Dutch immigrants were making in the 19th century.” Weekend afternoon tours are offered, and the distillery’s gins are available at around 400 venues around town, according to Katz, served neat or in artisanal cocktails such as those crafted at Death & Co. (433 E. 6th St., 212.388.0882), a shrouded speakeasy-style East Village haunt.

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Malbec RESTAURANT & TANGO HOUSE THEATER Malbec Restaurant and Wine Bar, located on the top floor, features two window-side banquettes, a communal table, and a handful of cozy table-fortwos. There is a full bar, a glass-walled wine room, and works from various artists including a wine cork-lined wall created by Brazilian artist Ignacio Pla. On the menu youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find modern cuisine courtesy of internationally recognized Argentine chef, Rodrigo Sieiro. The dishes are inspired by both his travels and his experience with French, Italian and Spanish cuisine. Ingredients vary with the seasons but are sure to impress any time of year. Also at Malbec, you'll find over 170 Argentine wines and a curated list of vintage Argentine cocktails. For more about the menu and wines, visit malbechouse.com Tango House is located on the bottom floor. Inside youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a cozy bar/lounge space where food and drink are served. Behind the bar/lounge is an intimate, cabaret-style theater where every night guests enjoy the signature tango show, The Showcase of Esquina Carlos Gardel. This performance chronicles the history of tango through song, dance, and elaborate costumes, and features an international cast of singers, dancers, and musicians. This show has been featured in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the past 12 years and has been viewed by nearly 2 million people to date. The show's producer, Juan Fabbri, is a tango impresario and 25-time winner of the Martin Fierro Award. For more about the show and to purchase tickets, visit tangohouse.net

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Brooklyn Oenology Winery’s intimate tasting room and gallery offers its own colorfully labeled vintages (Below), as well as other made-inNew-York-City liquors and foodstuffs.

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While New York Distilling focuses on the gin game, Kings County Distillery specializes in whiskey. The 3-yearold distillery located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (63 Flushing Ave., Bldg. 121, kingscountydistillery.com) has a working corn and barley farm next door. Visitors are welcome every Saturday afternoon to the 114-year-old former Paymaster Building to tour the 7,200-squarefoot facility, which includes samples of the signature unaged corn liquor (aka moonshine), bourbon and brandnew chocolate-flavored whiskey, incorporating ground “husks” from Brooklyn’s Mast Brothers Chocolate factory. You’ll find Kings County’s wares at The Modern (9 W. 53rd St., 212.333.1220) and Ward III (111 Reade St., 212.240.9194).

Although it conjures up images of Caribbean islands, “rum was really a Northeast spirit first,” insists Bridget Firtle, a hedge-fund analyst turned distiller—and indeed, historians have found evidence of 16 NYC-area rum makers in the 1720s.Their spiritual descendent is Firtle’s The Noble Experiment (23 Meadow St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tnenyc.com), which offers by-reservation Saturday tours. Launched in 2013, the Noble Experiment’s

first product, Owney’s Rum, has landed behind the bar at The Rum House (228 W. 47th St., 212.240.9194) and chic eatery Alison Eighteen (15 W. 18th St., 212.366.1818).

SUDSY SAGAS In New York, the beer-making scene is hopping. Best known of the new bunch is Brooklyn Brewery (79 N. 11th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718.486.7422), which offers tours every day but Friday, when it hosts a happy hour. At the other end of the city is the Bronx Brewery. Already reputed for its pale ales, it also offers custom casks, such as those at Monument Lane (103 Greenwich Ave., 212.255.0155).

Queens is now home to six beer makers. Among them, Astoria’s SingleCut Beersmiths, (19-33 37th St., 718.606.0788) has an 85-seat Tap Room and provides samples of some of its beers. You’ll also find SingleCut brews at suds meccas around town, including Alphabet City Beer Co. (96 Ave. C, 646.422.7103).

Then there are the brewpubs, selling their own suds, either crafted on premises or at a local brewery. 508 GastroBrewery (508 Greenwich St., 212.219.2444) has an in-house program and offers such beers as Hamber

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Smoked Amber Ale and Beauty Booty Blonde Ale. Other restaurants and bars make a point of specializing in New York City brews. Houston Hall (222 W. Houston St., 212.675.9323) offers 10 exclusive beers on tap from Greenpoint Beer Works, a craft brewery in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. DBGB Kitchen and Bar (299 Bowery, 212.933.5300) pairs its Gallic-tinged pub grub with several local suds, such as Sixpoints’ Crisp Lager.

Even teetotalers can get into the locovoreliquid spirit at the greenwich village restaurant Rosemary’s (below), which infuses its fresh lemonade (right) with homemade syrup crafted from the namesake herb.

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WINE TIME Wine production in New York is a growing phenomenon. While it may seem odd that NYCbased producers call themselves “wineries” when they don’t actually grow grapes, Craig Kayaian at Brooklyn Oenology Winery, or BOE (209 Wythe Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718.599.1259) points out that France has a history of vineyard-free wineries. Varietals are sold in more than 150 places around town, as well as in BOE’s cozy Tasting Room and Gallery. Red Hook Winery (Pier 41, 325A, 175-204 Van Dyke St., Brooklyn, 347.689.2432)

does blend its grapes on premises, and offers tastings of the resultant 70-odd rieslings, chardonnays and merlots.

TINY BUBBLEs Teetotalers need not fret. New York is also home to several artisanal soda producers. GuS (Grown-up Soda), a Manhattan-based label, focuses on full-flavored beverages made with real juices. Eight flavors are found at gourmet groceries and restaurants throughout the city, including Eataly (200 Fifth Ave., 212.229.2560) and Per Se (10 Columbus Circle, 212.823.9335). Brooklyn’s P&H Soda Company packages handcrafted syrups in flavors such as ginger and hibiscus in old-fashioned bottles, sold at retro delis like Zucker’s Bagels & Smoked Fish (370 Lexington Ave., 212.661.1080). Restaurants devoted to local foodstuffs also often create their own drinks; one such is Rosemary’s (18 Greenwich Ave., 212.647.1818), which offers fresh rosemary syrup-infused lemonade.

“Producing locally ties into the same reason that New York City is the epicenter for a lot of things,” says Tobin Ludwig, co-founder of Brooklyn’s Hella Bitter, whose wares flavor cocktails at eateries such as The Red Cat (227 10th Ave., 212.242.0199). “There’s a demand for everything here, no matter the niche.”

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hen surveying eateries in the city’s signature buildings, it seems logical to begin at the architectural beginning. Fraunces Tavern (54 Pearl St., 212.968.1776) is situated in a Georgian house-turned-inn that dates from 1719. In 1783, Gen. George Washington held a farewell feast for his officers here at the end of the Revolutionary War. Today, entering the dining room is like stepping into a time machine—the décor is a faithful reconstruction of a late-18th-century tavern, with wide-plank wood floors, long wood tables and period portraits—where guests sample Irish-American classics (chicken potpie, corned beef and cabbage) and an extensive list of beers and whiskeys. The building also houses a museum, which includes the room where Washington privately bade the boys goodbye.

Many a private dinner also occurred in what is now Frankie & Johnnie’s Steakhouse (32 W. 37th St., 212.947.8940). The brownstone was once the home of stage and screen actor John Barrymore. Guests can dine in his former study, with its stained-glass ceiling and mahogany walls; one prized table is set beside the

Super-fresh shellfish platters (right) with lobster and the namesake bivalve are perennials at the Oyster Bar & Restaurant.

Featuring a vaulted tile ceiling, the 100-year-old fish eatery resides on the lower level of Grand Central Terminal.

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working fireplace. “It’s a romantic spot—Barrymore was a romantic man,” says Owner Russ Panopoulos.

While Frankie & Johnnie’s suggests intimacy, other landmarks are known for their imposing size. One of the most commanding is Grand Central Terminal. Each year, 21 million people pass through its Beaux Arts portals, from commuters dashing for trains to visitors lingering to gaze upward at the Main Concourse’s famed green ceiling, decorated with a fresco of the constellations. And downstairs the view is just as rewarding, if one dines at The Oyster Bar & Restaurant (89 E. 42nd St., 212.490.6650), with its vaulted ceilings clad in pale tiles by architect Raphael Guastavino. The 400-seat poisson palace opened just after the terminal in 1913.

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Noël Coward and illustrator Howard Chandler Christy, who painted a series of “Fantasy Scenes With Naked Beauties” (completed in 1935) for the walls of what was then a tenants’ dining room. These cavorting, lipsticksporting lovelies remained a major draw, even after the dining room became a long-running independent restaurant, Café des Artistes. Acquired by Gianfranco and Paula Bolla Sorrentino, it reopened as The Leopard in 2011, welcoming patrons back to “a full gut renovation and restored murals, so they could be seen as they were first intended—brighter,” Paula says. This incarnation features Italian cuisine, with menu standouts including an eggplant and mozzarella timbale and orecchiette with broccoli Romanesco and anchovies.

The Four Seasons (99 E. 52nd St., 212.754.9494) is located in the Seagram Building, a touchstone of International Style architecture created by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. Opened in 1959, its then

Nobu New York (above left), where the David Rockwell-designed interior suggests a stylized take on a Japanese farmhouse, features Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s minimally presented dishes, such as a simple umami sea bass (above), which introduced New Yorkers to an innovative take on Japanese cuisine.

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grilled pork chops (ABOVE, RIGHT) accompany a variety of prime beef cuts on the menu at FRANKIE & JOHNNIE’S STEAKHOUSE. THE RESTAURANT IS iN A TOWN HOUSE ONCE OWNED BY actor JOHN BARRYMORE, WITH A WOOD-LADEN DINING ROOM (above).

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avant-garde design (a marble pool, two-story windows covered by rippling metal-chain curtains and a canopy of seasonally changing trees) caused it to be the only eatery in the city to be designated an interior landmark by the New York City Landmarks Commission.

Much more typical at the time were places such as La Grenouille (3 E. 52nd St., 212.752.1495), at age 51 an icon in its own right—and standard-bearer for the culinary tradition of haute cuisine. “We do French tableside service as it used to be,” says Owner Charles Masson. “It’s almost a lost art to carve the chicken right in the dining room. It’s part of the theater.” Equally old-school is the décor, dominated by dramatic floral arrangements. “And the flowers are in season just like the cuisine,” he points out.

Landmarks not only represent the familiar—they

can symbolize a turning point, too. In that sense, Nobu New York (105 Hudson St., 212.219.0500) is an institution, one that introduced the city to fine Japanese cuisine and drew its denizens down to a hitherto deserted-at-night neighborhood. “Nobu helped to put TriBeCa on the map,” declares Co-owner/restaurateur Drew Nieporent. “What used to be an industrial area is now one of New York City’s prime dining destinations.” David Rockwell’s minimalist, Asian-inspired design matches Founding Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s presentations of such delicacies as salmon sashimi and the widely copied, but never-replicated, miso-marinated black cod.

Whether they’re famed for their place or their plate, these grand restaurants are the stuff of which legends are made.

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No one knows who originated the term “a New York minute.” But this fabled nanomoment—or as the late Johnny Carson put it, the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn—describes the local pace with breathtaking precision. Small surprise that the city that never sleeps is a splendid place for health and beauty treatments designed to relax, rejuvenate and primp on the quick.

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A chic take on time-saving is the idea behind Fix Beauty Bar (847 Lexington Ave., 2nd fl., 212.744.0800), an Upper East Side blowout and manicure salon with multitasking in its DNA. “My partner and I were always short on time and wanted a place where we could combine both services,” says co-founder Michelle Breskin. The result: a white-on-white, 12-chair retreat, where hair is shampooed and blown out while nails are manicured in one simultaneous swoop. With a stylist standing behind and a manicurist perched in front, clients sit at a table outfitted with hand dryers and are out the door in 40 to 50 minutes, sporting a coif out of a look book—options include The Jen (“simply straight”), The Kim (“big dramatic curls”) and The You (“your way or the highway”)—and fashion nail colors by Chanel, Tom Ford and Dolce & Gabbana or salon stalwarts Essie and OPI. And since even speed demons value pampering, Fix offers a complimentary coffee or wine upon arrival.

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Fuller massages can also be done on the fly (relatively speaking). The need for speed is the idea behind the trio of 30-minute sessions offered at Exhale (980 Madison Ave., 212.561.6400), shortened versions of its normally 60- and 90-minute massages, aimed at busy folk who want to duck into the spa on a lunch break or between meetings.

A brief massage can be effective, especially if it’s targeted, says National Spa Director Laura Benge. Mention that your lower back is tight, for example, and the therapist will lavish the most time there, but also visit feet, arms and shoulders. Besides, “just lying down on the table, you feel you’re letting go of your day,” Benge says.

If pairing the words “eyelash extensions” and “timesaving” seems incongruous, think again. Winks are silk extensions applied only to the outer lashes, a process done in 20 to 30 minutes—half the time of full-blown extensions, or a proverbial blink of the eye. “It’s a flirty, Marilyn Monroe look that’s great for a photo op or an event,” says Jamie Ahn, owner of Townhouse Spa

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Great Jones spa (above, left) offers a facial that simulates a face-lift’s effect, sans surgery; townhouse spa offers an eyelash extension method (right) that does the job in the blink of a you-know-what.

The beauty equivalent of small-plates dining can be found in the fast-growing array of bite-size treatments that trim the time but still deliver the goods. At its sleekly futuristic outpost, Dermalogica in SoHo (110 Grand St., 212.219.9800) takes a deconstructionist approach, serving walk-ins with an enticing menu of 20-minute MicroZone treatments that zero in on a specific skin condition, be it blackhead relief, flash exfoliation or age management. This is where to go when a blemish erupts the day before the wedding or you want a facial moisture boost before traveling.

A gentle head-rub can be an instant soothe, especially when it’s paired with organic conditioners and essential oils. The John Masters Organics haircare store (77 Sullivan St., 212.343.9590) offers a scalp treatment and massage that, in true New York fashion, multitasks. The half-hour experience starts with a consultation with the treatment therapist, who determines which potions to use to help oily scalp, dandruff, split ends or frizzy hair. After a shampoo, the treatment is applied, followed by a 10-minute head, neck and shoulder massage and 10 minutes under the ionic dryer to hydrate the hair. That said, a hirsute head

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Matilda The Musical

When audiences take their seats in Broadway’s Shubert Theatre for a performance of Matilda The Musical, the curtain is already up. And what they see, as they face the stage, is a riot of alphabet tiles and building blocks, exploding on and totally devouring the proscenium. Imagine a Scrabble board upended, its scores of tiles scattered every which way. Immediately, Rob Howell’s scenic design, winner of the 2013 Tony Award, establishes the show’s tone and underscores its plot. This is a musical about words, and how language and books comfort, sustain and ultimately lead the pint-size (and very precocious) heroine of the title to not only overcome but also triumph over a mean-spirited adult world, as represented by her boorish parents and a sadistic (albeit comically so) headmistress. Throughout the show, tiles with letters shift and spell out words, from “joy” to “beastly;” the use of upper and lower case and a variety of typefaces sustains visual interest. “Each wood block was individually made and represents an amazing amount of work,” Howell has said. “They fit together like a big puzzle.” But, as everyone knows, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy—and Matilda an even duller girl. In one of the show’s most exuberant production numbers, the kids sing and swing out over the audience.

“The swings are complicated,” Howell says. “The pendulum point has to be exactly right to get them to swing in time to the music. It would be maddening if they didn’t.” Fortunately, they do.

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Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre never stops moving, as befits a musical with footwear at its soul (pun intended). These stiletto heels never stand still, not in Jerry Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning choreography and not on David Rockwell’s Tony-nominated sets. As a celebrated architect, Rockwell has designed hospitals (Children’s Hospital at Montefiore), hotels (Andaz Wall Street), airport terminals (Jet Blue Terminal 5 at JFK International Airport) and restaurants (Nobu 57)—and those are just a few of his NYC projects. For Kinky Boots, his main set—a shoe factory in the English Midlands—is all industrial red brick and iron girders. Within it, there are moving staircases, mobile platforms and four conveyor belts, which represent the factory’s assembly line. Most of the mechanical elements are driven by people-power, with actors changing sets as locations quickly move from the factory floor to the factory office, from a local pub to a London drag club. Kinky Boots’ upbeat finale features a rousing fashion show at the Milan International Shoe Fair.

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A prince goes on a journey in Pippin, 2013’s Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, striking out in search of adventure and himself. “I’ve got to be where my spirit can run free/Got to find my corner of the sky,” Pippin sings in one of the show’s best-loved Stephen Schwartz songs. And what better place to be free than with a traveling circus, especially one conceived by director Diane Paulus and designed by Scott Pask. On one level, Pask’s blue tent studded with stars represents the hero’s aspirations, his corner of the sky; on another, it is the environment within which jugglers, hand-walkers, trapeze artists and assorted acrobats and tumblers, not to mention actors, fly through the air, breathe fire, balance on balls, walk planks, climb poles, jump through hoops, as well as sing, dance and emote. Pask refers to his set as a “magic box,” which, either knowingly or through sheer happenstance, is ensconced in Broadway’s jewel-box Music Box Theatre.

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“[Peter and the Starcatcher] is a show that doesn’t need any scenery at all. This is a show that is completely about imagination.” And with those words, Donyale Werle accepted her 2012 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play. Certainly, in creating the environment for this show about Peter Pan—before he became Peter Pan—Werle put her imagination into overdrive. Look closely at her “Victorian jewel box proscenium,” as she calls it, and you’ll see a work sculpted out of everyday found objects. Corks, bottle caps, rolling pins, zippers, chains, rope, records, CDs, plastic spoons: What others might consider trash fit only for the dumpster, Werle rescues and recycles. Buttons can be made to look like rivets; a plastic bottle can be molded into a flower. Werle is in the forefront of green designers working in the theater today. “We can create scenery out of anything,” she has said, referring to herself and her team. “And we do.” Like its peripatetic hero, Peter and the Starcatcher has been a show on the move, bouncing from Off-Broadway (2011-2012) to Broadway (2012-2013) back to Off-Broadway (2013-2014), where it ends its run at New World Stages on Jan. 12, 2014. But in the grand theatrical tradition of “have set, will travel,” the play’s national tour continues to crisscross the United States, with stops in Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, D.C., Chicago and more.

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In mid-April 2011, the highly anticipated new Broadway superhero musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (left) was, after a record-setting five months of previews and about as many postponed opening nights, about to go on an unprecedented hiatus. The trouble started immediately after it began performances, in late-November 2010. Word of mouth was not good. Chief among the complaints were a convoluted story with extraneous characters, unreliable special effects and strange musical sequences, especially a production number about shoes. Trouble turned to tragedy when an ensemble member fell 30 feet during a stunt gone wrong, suffering a fractured skull, broken ribs, cracked vertebrae and other serious injuries. (He miraculously recovered and rejoined the show four months later.) Trouble turned to scandal when director/designer/writer Julie Taymor, renowned for her work on the musical The Lion King, was ousted, and a revised script and some new musical numbers were instituted (hence the hiatus). Taymor sued the producers, claiming copyright infringement; they countersued, citing breach of contract.

The drama at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark spilled off the stage, into the tabloids and onto TV. The comic-book-style cliffhangers were numerous. Would the show ever open? Would its flying sequences never be perfected? Would hundreds of jobs and a reported $70 million (the largest Broadway budget ever) be lost?

What was to become of Julie Taymor?

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The professional theater doesn’t turn out scandals as steadily as the film or music industries, but when it does, the world tunes in. And the bigger the celebrity, the more intense the scandal. Enter Shia LaBeouf. In February 2013, the star of the blockbuster Transformers film franchise went into rehearsals for what was to be his legit stage debut, in a revival of the hard-hitting drama Orphans. A little more than a week later, he was let go. But he did not go quietly, instead doing what any millennial movie star would do: He took to Twitter, posting links to emails between him, his co-star, the formidable Alec Baldwin, and his director, the esteemed Daniel Sullivan. The emails revealed “a disagreeable situation,” with suggestions of insurmountable differences in acting styles. “This one will haunt me,” an email from Sullivan to LaBeouf read. “You tried to warn me. You said you were a different breed. I didn’t get it.”

Though its premiere was delayed (LaBeouf shockingly sat in the first row for the first preview, ostensibly to cheer on his former colleagues and replacement, possibly to keep stirring the pot), Orphans did open, but it ultimately disappointed, playing a truncated run. Baldwin came away unscathed, unlike a previous appearance on the New York stage, in an Off-Broadway production of the black comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane in 2006. As the story goes, the airconditioning wasn’t turned up high enough in Sloane’s theater, so Baldwin punched a wall backstage, sending his co-star, respected stage actress Jan Maxwell, running for friendlier climes. The verdict from the press was swift: uncool. However, in the court of public opinion, he was acquitted.

Audiences are especially forgiving of a divo—or diva—in distress.

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It’s one thing to chastise a scofflaw spectator, but imagine the courage needed to publicly reproach a powerful impresario, as Glenn Close did with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1995. When the actress took a welldeserved two-week vacation from her legendary leading performance as Norma Desmond during the Broadway run of the lush, lavish Sunset Boulevard (based on the 1950 movie), which Lloyd Webber composed and produced, it was announced that box-office revenues remained steady, presumably to imply that Close was an expendable commodity. In reality, the receipts took a dive. A scathing letter Close wrote Lloyd Webber conveniently found its way to the press, and he was forced to admit that the numbers had been fudged.

Beloved actress Julie Andrews showed similar bravery—not to mention tremendous loyalty and a refreshing lack of ego—when she took the Tony Awards nominating committee to task in 1996. When Andrews earned the sole nomination for the stage version of the zany film Victor/Victoria, for Best Actress in a Musical, she publicly rejected it. “I have searched my conscience and my heart,” she said in a now-classic speech, “and find that, sadly, I cannot accept this nomination, and I prefer instead to stand with the egregiously overlooked” cast and creators.

Another instance of a notable figure standing up to a powerful organization involves British producer Cameron Mackintosh’s battle with the American stageactors union, Actors’ Equity Association. After making Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera runaway hits, Broadway audiences were waiting with bated breath for the prolific promoter’s next attraction, Miss Saigon, the Madama Butterfly-inspired megamusical that was slated to open in April 1991 with an astounding $37 million advance sale. Mackintosh wanted his two leads from the London production, Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce, to cross the pond.

For that to happen, special permission from Actors’ Equity needed to be obtained—and it wasn’t going to give it for Pryce. “The casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community,” read the union’s statement. “The casting choice is especially disturbing when the casting of an Asian actor, in this role, would be an important and significant opportunity to break the usual pattern of casting Asians in minor roles.” Mackintosh had a simple solution: He would cancel the production, return the

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advance and leave a multitude of theater professionals bereft. Actors’ Equity quickly changed its tune, and Miss Saigon wound up running for a decade, providing employment for many actors of Asian descent­and winning three Tony Awards—including one for Pryce.

Some tortured productions don’t get to open at all.

Enter Rebecca, the Musical, the calamity-plagued show whose long-delayed opening night is still a dream as of this writing. A hit in Vienna, Austria, where it premiered in 2006 and ran for three years, the adaptation of the gothic-thriller novel by Daphne du Maurier was slated to bow on Broadway in March, then November 2012 with a reportedly exhilarating score, an opulent physical production and special effects that included the fiery destruction of its set. Two months later, the production was at best postponed, at worst canceled due to the alleged death of a mysterious, never-seen investor from malaria, and the loss of his promised $4.5 million investment, more than one-third of the show’s budget. That investor, it was soon proven, was the fabrication of a con man. The aftermath: scores of actors, musicians, crew and designers out of work, a warehouse filled with props, an inquiry from the FBI and producers scrambling to raise the budget shortfall before they lose the rights.

Only time will tell if Rebecca ever gets to debut on the Great White Way, but if it does, it’s not inconceivable that, even with all of the strikes against it, it could be a hit. Re-enter Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

With its revisions in place, it finally opened on June 14, 2011. The consensus was that it was improved. More importantly, audiences were pleased, especially by the thrilling flying sequences, and word of mouth spread.

Julie Taymor eventually reached a settlement with the producers, and her name remains on the credits. SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark had, to paraphrase one of its lyrics, risen above. That’s what true fans of Broadway love about a scandal—when it ends in success.

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“The Mysterious East.” Throughout the centuries, a variety of phrases have reflected the Western world’s fascination with China—a fascination dating back to 1299, when a merchant named Marco Polo published an account of his Asian travels. Ever since then, periodic waves of interest have engulfed these shores, especially for decorative art objets—precious pieces that capture the essence of a civilization that’s ancient, erudite and intriguingly distant, both geographically and culturally. “China has always struck a chord as ‘the other,’” says Steven Chait, vice president of Ralph M. Chait Galleries (724 Fifth Ave., 212. 319.0471), which has dealt in Chinese art and antiquities for over a century.

His grandfather founded the firm, taking advantage of one of those aforementioned waves of interest—in this case, the vogue among Belle Époque robber barons for amassing collections of Chinese artifacts.

Aside from their intrinsic, exotic beauty, such pieces

were originally prized for their uniqueness. They were, literally, made of something Westerners couldn’t have, either because of an indigenous-to-the-East material— say, bamboo or jade—or craft, like lacquer or painted china. Even after the West developed its own factories, for decades “nothing was as refined as Chinese porcelain,” says Chait. “The colors, the attention to detail, the emphasis on symmetry all established the ideal.”

The Chinese also adapted their crafts to suit foreign tastes. Silver was not traditionally used by Asian artisans, for example. But, noting Westerners’ fondness for it, in the 1700s craftsmen in port cities began creating “Chinese export silver”: tableware that was European in shape, but decorated with Asian motifs, such as a dragon handle on a teapot or pagoda-adorned tureen.

Such cross-pollination has been particularly evident in fashion of late. Asian or Asian-American names (Jason Wu, Phillip Lim) are at the forefront of couture.

The growth of the Chinese fashion market has encouraged an explosion of Chinese-influenced designs, in a variety of ways: While Vivienne Tam playfully adorns Western styles with Asian imagery (i.e., skirts with silk-screened Buddhas), the label Blanc de Chine uses characteristic Chinese details, such as mandarin collars or frog closures, in garments made of Western fabrics, like tweed or leather. The gap between East and West may be shrinking—but the fascination remains.

MORE OPTIONS FOR ASIAN ARTIFACTS: Kaikodo, 74 E. 79th St., 212.585.0121; Chinese Porcelain Company, 475 Park Ave., 212.838.7744; Zetterquist Galleries, 3 E. 66th St., #1B, 212.751.0650

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ON HER: Hand-embroidered corset by Maggie Norris. Antonio Marras long paneled skirt and Bionda Castana boots, at Saks Fifth Avenue. Long ruched leather gloves by Jane Carr, janecarr.com. Natalie Dejean pheasant-feathered headpiece, at Yuta Powell. Thorin & Co. topaz chandelier earrings, at House of Lavande, houseoflavande.com

Eternal Elegance

The mansionlike premises of antiques dealer Carlton Hobbs houses an extraordinary room. Built in the 1770s, it’s an entire paneled library in white and gold—painted, floorto-ceiling wood walls, with carved and gilded motifs emblematic of the arts and sciences, including eight different musical instrument ensembles (detail, above).

Dominating one side is a chimneypiece, adorned with boldly carved flutes; a row of urns, linked by garlands, sits atop the bookshelves. Originally installed in an aristocratic home in Dijon, France, the library has bounced around a bit: In the 20th century, it was acquired by J.P. Morgan Jr. and later resided in the Metropolitan

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Museum of Art before coming to Hobbs—where, miraculously, it fit perfectly into a section of his gallery’s town house (60 E. 93rd St., 212.423.9000).

The fact that the room has survived physically is amazing; the fact that it endures stylistically, less so. The late-18th-century look—known as Neoclassicism— never seems dated, somehow. As the name implies, the style was based on classical (ancient Greek and Roman) ideals of simplicity and symmetry, proportion and balance, elegance and grace. Furniture from the period has simple geometric shapes, gently curved or rectilinear.

It’s often embellished with small carvings or painted images, along with intricate inlaid patterns and veneers.

Designs depict things that are lively and light—swags, ribbons, feathers—or suggestive of living nature: trees, flowers, fruits.

With its clean lines, neoclassical design has never gone completely out of style—it “doesn’t seem to be bound to fashion,” as Carlton Hobbs notes—but currently, it is having a sartorial moment. Order and discipline are returning to clothes, in the form of nipped-in waists and defined shoulders, So is discreet adornment: lace lining a lady’s blouse, a detailed floral print on a tie. And accessories are in again—a pair of long gloves or a pocket square for a finishing touch of refinement.

May it endure for another 300 years.

MORE OPTIONS FOR 18TH-CENTURY ANTIQUES: L’Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, 36 E. 73rd St., 212.517.9176; O’Sullivan Antiques, 51 E. 10th St., 212.260.8985; Hyde Park Antiques, 836 Broadway, 212.477.0033

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ON HIM: Double-breasted wool coat, wool trousers and cotton shirt, Paul Smith, 142 Greene St., 646.613.3060. Wingtip shoes, Kenneth Cole, 95 Fifth Ave., 212.675.2550. Lions pocket square, Thomas Pink, 520 Madison Ave., 212.838.1928 ON HER: Black and lichen heavy wool dress, Orla Kiely, 5 Mercer St., 212.775.8340. Optic white Joselle pumps, Michael Kors Rockefeller Center, 610 Fifth Ave., 212.582.2444 FURNITURE: 1960s Lightolier teak and brass lamp and late 1950s Basset walnut desk, at Adelaide

Midcentury Mystique

“If I’d known it was an ‘Era,’ I’d have paid more attention,” singer Helen O’Connell once reminisced about the Big Band days before and after World War II. Many citizens of a certain age might feel that way about the current craze for Midcentury Modern furniture, the moniker for styles from the late-1940s to the early 1970s.

While it may cause déjà vu in baby boomers, a lot of the interest today comes from twenty- and thirtysomething collectors, says Michael Smith, co-owner of antiques store Adelaide (702 Greenwich St., 212.

627.0508), which specializes in the period—suggesting that its “appeal is not nostalgia, but design.” Light and

spare—this was a time when the mantra ‘form follows function’ reigned—the angular or amoeba-shaped furniture (or abstract patterns, as in the 1950s American piece of drapery, left) pairs well with the minimalist, sleek architecture of today, Smith notes. Yet it offers “a vintage touch,” too, since the modern designs were often executed in traditional wood or other natural materials. In clothing and fabric, the look was enlivened with bright pops of color (a key characteristic of contemporary “retro” fashions).

What has fueled the interest in Midcentury Modern style now? The influence of the TV series Mad Men, a fictional chronicle of the era, has been “huge,” as Smith says. Also, since much of it was factory-made—famed designers of the day, such as Charles and Rae Eames, prided themselves on styling furniture that could be mass-produced—pieces are relatively affordable, by antiques standards (think four figures, not five). Even so, the quality quotient remains high. “You can restore these things,” Smith says. “They clean up beautifully.”

MORE OPTIONS FOR MIDCENTURY MODERN FURNISHINGS: L’Art de Vivre, 978 Lexington Ave., 212.734.3510; Hostler Burrows, 51 E. 10th St., 212.343.0471; R Gallery, 82 Franklin St., 212.343.7979

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ening visual and emotional experiences. Scenes set in museums even possess the core qualities of the host institutions themselves: They’re revelatory, discovery-filled and loaded with intrigue. Roll the cameras.

When one visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lifechanging discoveries are to be expected. But who could anticipate running into the man your wife is having a heated affair with? Such is the case in A Perfect Murder (1998), when a haughty financial executive (Michael Douglas) catches his aristocratic heiress wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) sharing an intimate exchange with her secret artist lover (Viggo Mortensen) in the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. It’s easy to understand why the pair chose this wing as an escape: With 26,000 ancient artifacts on view, dating between the Paleolithic and Roman periods and

organized chronologically in over 39 rooms, it’s a choice destination in which to lose oneself. The murderous plot born from this discovery—involving a web of lies and secret assassins aimed at the demise of the unwitting wife—strikes a similar thematic chord as a treasure from the museum’s permanent collection: Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) “Majas on a Balcony” (1800-1810, housed in Gallery 612, European Paintings). In the work, two upper-class women sit gazing, beautiful and oblivious (embodying hints of Paltrow’s character’s initial pose), while two menacing men lurk in the shadows, eyes dark with impure thoughts (hello, Douglas and Mortensen). It’s a chilling painting with an aura that aligns alarmingly with a chilling film.

The Met is home to a highly coveted, and highly valued, art collection—and is guarded accordingly. Only

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It turns out Hollywood directors seek the same inspiration—and NYC museums are where they find it.

Considering our upper-crust crop, who can blame them?

Moviemakers simply can’t help setting their dramas in our wonder-filled galleries, and it makes a lot of sense: Both films and museums document and engage, offering enlight-

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the most deviously debonair individual could pull off a heist there. Enter Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). His playboy allure, seemingly unlimited finances and elite social status serve him well as he manages to steal—and return, it’s eventually revealed—a prized, and pricey, work from the museum: Monet’s Impressionist masterpiece “San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk” (1908-1912). In reality, the painting isn’t owned by or shown at The Met, but rather is at the National Museum Wales. Other Monet works from the same period are viewable, however, such as “The Doge’s Palace Seen From San Giorgio Maggiore” (1908).

Fortunate for those without fortunes, or art heist aplomb, you can ‘pay as you wish’ for the viewing pleasure (with a recommended donation of $25).

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a place for quiet contemplation. Not so in the fast-paced The International (2009), which features a climactic shootout in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure. The museum and the flick share a set of identifying aesthetic traits: Both are hypermodern, edgy and global in reach. The chief difference being that the film provides just 118 minutes of action, while the museum itself can captivate for the larger part of a day. The high-octane firefight erupts along Wright’s legendary, winding ramp. Bullets fly—Don’t hit the art!

Please, don’t hit the art!—while, to any architecture lover’s despair, a chandelier is dislodged and shattered, crashing on the rotunda floor below. The sequence is thrilling, if you can get past the gross disregard for the museum’s revolutionary

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Woody Allen’s 1979 ode to the city’s central borough (and the game of love), Manhattan, turns museums into places of courtship. As Issac Davis (Woody Allen) attempts to woo his best friend’s mistress (Diane Keaton), these cultural centers are where all the romantic sparks fly—from an almost-kiss at the Hayden Planetarium (giving new meaning to “star-crossed lovers”) to a revealing discussion about past romances at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Only after a chance encounter at the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden do the pair open up to each other.

As they discover art, they discover one another. The whole film is a comic expression of a man’s struggle to understand the feminine mystique—how women act, think and attract.

And Allen isn’t the only great mind inclined to mull over such matters. American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) demonstrates a similar fascination with the opposite sex. He frequently featured complex femmes in his works, including “New York Movie” (1939), part of MoMA’s collection, depicting a solitary blonde usherette in a theater, lost in a contemplative cloud, as a film plays behind her (black-andwhite, just like Allen’s). The viewer finds himself, like Issac, trying to decode an alluring woman’s inner thoughts. Allen’s protagonist never fully figures out the girl he pines for, but at least he makes time for some earnest art appreciation.

As the opening lines of Manhattan go, “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion ... no, make that: He romanticized it all out of proportion.” With the museum scene this city has to offer, how could you not?

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abovE: woody allen and diane keaton at the whitney museum of american art in manhattan (1979); above, right: Edward hopper’s “new york movie” (1939), part of the museum of modern art’s collection.

design and exhibits. Fortunately, the damage was done to a studio set and not the actual space or art. Once riddled with bullets, a futurist masterpiece loses a lot of luster, after all.

Just one trip to the American Museum of Natural History reveals how The Squid and the Whale (2005)—the story of two Park Slope, Brooklyn, boys coping with their parents’ nasty divorce—found its title. The film’s final two shots take us to the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. The eldest son (Jesse Eisenberg) gazes at the hall’s giant blue whale suspended in the grand room, a 94-foot-long and 21,000-pound beast looming over museumgoers, as he contemplates fraying relations with his mother. Quick cut, and he’s before the fabled diorama depicting a sperm whale in hungry combat with a giant squid, red and alienlike, with toothed tentacles boring holes in the sea mammal’s fleshy hide. It’s a moving sight—a clash of biological titans—and a striking metaphor for two parents at each other’s throats. The boy’s revelation about the ugly nature of divorce, invoked by such powerful imagery, is emotionally crushing. Not easily forgotten.

Families, be they dysfunctional or harmonious, can look to the AMNH for coveted together time during the museum’s sleepover program, offering kids between the ages of 6 and 13 (with chaperones over 21) the chance to slumber underneath the same blue whale (check amnh.org for dates). An entire night spent within those walls is fated to be a magical one—just ask Ben Stiller, or anyone who has seen Night at the Museum (2006). Rumor has it that, in this museum, history has a way of coming to life after dark.

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In New York, of course, the spotlight’s glare—and the photographer’s lens—is unavoidable.

For instance, every September the tennis world turns its attention to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the home of the U.S. Open. The tournament was held for more than 50 years in nearby Forest Hills before moving to its present location in left: new york yankee derek jeter at yankee stadium (Sept. 19, 2012). Above: Dan girardi, michael del zotto, brian boyle, mats zuccarello and chris kreider of the new york rangers at TD garden in boston, Mass (may 25, 2013).

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tennis champion serena williams at the usta billie jean king national tennis center in flushing, queens (Sept. 9, 2012).

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1978, where its DecoTurf surface makes it a notoriously fast court that demands a vast amount of power from its champions.

Few have combined those qualities better than Serena Williams, whose dominating baseline style has earned her five women’s Open championships among her 17 Grand Slam singles titles. In 2001, she became the first player in tennis history to win the season-ending WTA Tour event on her debut. Serena is currently sixth on the all-time Grand Slam singles list, one major behind Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.

Although she has made winning look easy, it has been anything but. Here, photographer Mike Stobe captures the strain of competition during Williams’ three-set victory in the 2012 U.S. Open final against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

Just as Queens has the Open, the Bronx is synonymous with the New York Yankees, the most iconic franchise in American sports. The third, and current, version of Yankee Stadium features the famed “Monument Park” that bears the retired numbers of past Yankee greats—with whom most fans are on a single-name basis: the Babe, Lou, DiMaggio, Mickey, Billy. Those names have helpd the Yankees become the most dominant team in baseball history, with 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships.

In a few years, they will inevitably be joined by No. 2, Derek Jeter, the Yankee captain who has manned shortstop for the Bronx Bombers since 1995, ushering in one of the team’s most successful periods. Between 1996 and 2000, Jeter led the team to four World Series wins in five seasons. In a shot by Al Bello, Jeter waves to the fans on his way to the dugout before the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on the team’s way to clinching the American League East title in 2012. By season’s end, Jeter had amassed 3,305 hits, placing him 11th in major league history. As this photo suggests, Derek Jeter seems bigger than life.

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York, the ice at Madison Square Garden becomes a focal point for New York Rangers hockey fans, a diehard breed that has stuck by their team through thick and thin—mostly thin. One of NHL’s “Original Six” teams, the Rangers joined the league in 1962 and had 48 Hall of Famers wear their colors. In fact, the Rangers were the first American team to win the Stanley Cup. However, in recent years, the blue shirts have tested their fans patience with just one Stanley Cup win (in 1994) since 1940. Yet the love endures. The 2012-2013 season saw the team reach the Eastern Conference semifinals, winning Game 4 at the Garden before falling to the Boston Bruins. Here, during the series’ decisive Game 5, the Rangers’ Dan Girardi (No. 5) celebrates a first-period goal with teammates Michael Del Zotto (No. 4), Brian Boyle (No. 22), Mats Zuccarello (No. 36), and Chris Kreider (No. 20). This photo by Alex Trautwig captures that moment of elation for a team when all things—including a Stanley Cup title—are possible.

Though basketball was invented in Massachusetts, New York City is the sport’s spiritual home. The latest addition to the city’s roundball history is the Brooklyn Nets. Starting out in the old American Basketball Association of the 1970s, the Nets spent years wandering the metropolitan area from Long Island, then to northern New Jersey before finally landing in New York City last season to play their home games at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Here the Nets’ Deron Williams (No. 8) lets go of a jump shot against the Chicago Bulls during Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals on May 4, 2013. Though the Nets came up short in their quest for an NBA title, they announced last summer that they intend to rectify the situation by acquiring superstars Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett from the Boston Celtics (which has since happened).

To coin a cliché, the future is now. And if fortune winds up smiling the Nets’ way, it will make for another glorious chapter in the history of New York City, the city of winners.

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CENTRAL PARK SOUTH A diverse group of musical luminaries have lived along this desirable piece of real estate at the southernmost edge of Central Park, from Liza Minnelli to Lady Gaga to the Three Tenors—Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras and Plácido Domingo. At Central Park’s southeast entrance near Fifth Avenue, horse-drawn carriages can be hired for leisurely excursions in and around the park. This is also where Central Park Astrology, known for its readings (tarot card, tea leaf, photo and palm, among others), is based. At the western corner of Central Park South is Columbus Circle, marked by a Beaux Arts fountain/monument honoring 15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, and the Time Warner Center, home of The Shops at Columbus Circle and several of the city’s most exclusive restaurants.

CHELSEA The area bordered by the Hudson River, Sixth Avenue between W. 14th and W. 24th streets and Eighth Avenue between W. 24th and W. 34th streets has, in the last few years, emerged as New York City’s capital of contemporary art. Here, more than 200 galleries, such as Hasted Kraeutler, exhibit and sell cutting-edge works by established and emerging international artists of every medium. Other arts-minded attractions include the Joyce Theater, a year-round home for modern dance companies from the United States and abroad; and the Rubin Museum of Art, which specializes in Himalayan works. For more active entertainment, Chelsea Piers hosts a myriad of sporty diversions, such as bowling, ice-skating, golfing, rock climbing and swimming. The New York office of tech giant Google occupies an entire city block between Eighth and Ninth avenues, while stylish, casual restaurants and bars line Eighth Avenue. Chelsea Market is an indoor food concourse.

CHINATOWN The heart of the largest Chinese enclave in the United States is at the bustling intersection of Canal and Mott streets, while its outer extremities are bordered by Chambers Street in the south, Broadway to the west, the East River to the east and Grand Street to the north. Residents with roots from all over Asia­—Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Fiji and The Philippines, among others—live as neighbors in this melting pot. Tiny stores selling bargain-priced designer bags, jewelry and clothing spill onto the narrow sidewalks, while establishments, such as Peking Duck House and Ten Ren Tea, present authentic culinary offerings. The Museum of Chinese in America provides a fascinating historical primer of the experiences of early Chinese

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immigrants. In Chatham Square stand the Kim Lau Memorial Arch, built in 1962 to honor Chinese-Americans who lost their lives in World War II, and the statue of Lin Zexu, a scholar official during the Qing Dynasty, who is remembered as a fierce force against the Chinese drug trade. Across from the Manhattan Bridge, a 16-foot-tall golden Buddha marks the entrance to the Mahayana Buddhist Temple.

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and jewelry mainstays Wempe, Tiffany & Co., Cartier, the OMEGA Boutique and Global Gold & Silver’s showroom on W. 45th Street; antiques The East Village is best known for breeding countercultural dissent and dealers, such as Metropolitan Fine Arts and Antiques, which is just a few political activism. Abounding in rich history, the neighborhood, east steps off Fifth on W. 57th Street; and luxe department stores, including of Broadway between Houston and 14th streets, takes its name from Bergdorf Goodman and Lord & Taylor. Casual, popular retailers abound, Greenwich Village to the west. Like the neighboring Lower East Side, it’s too, including apparel giants H&M, Abercrombie & Fitch and Uniqlo. been home to countless immigrant groups, including German, Irish, Jewish The main branch of the New York Public Library on the west side of Fifth, and Puerto Rican. That diversity helped to spur the creativity of some of between 41st and 42nd streets, is guarded by stone lions Patience and its distinguished 20th-century artists and writers, including painter JeanFortitude; it houses 100 miles of bookshelves and has delighted readers and Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist Keith Haring and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, scholars since 1911. who wrote his poem “Howl” here and was in attendance at the introduction of Hare Krishna to New York in Tompkins Square Park, where the religion’s mantra was first recorded in 1966. Since 1967, major stars, such FINANCIAL DISTRICT / lower manhattan as Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, have appeared at The Public Theater.

The roots of New York City were planted here—the neighborhood south Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an architecture, art of City Hall Park, known as both Lower Manhattan and the Financial and engineering school, is where Abraham Lincoln gave the 1860 speech District—in the 17th century, when Dutch fur traders built a wall less than that cemented his presidential candidacy. New York University students and half a mile from the southern tip of the island and dubbed the plot Nieuw skateboarders gather at Astor Place, home of the sculpture “The Alamo,” Amsterdam. Soon after, the British conquered the nascent metropolis (witha towering cube that can be spun on its vertical axis. Restaurants here can out firing a shot) and renamed it New York. The wall was torn down, but the feel like party palaces, as typified by Malbec Restaurant & Tango House street remained; today, the phrase “Wall Street” serves as a general reference Theater in the bordering enclave known as for the American financial system and the finanNoHo (which stands for North of Houston cial industry (many investment firms, banks Street). Lounges, cafés and boutiques with and brokerages have their headquarters here). columbus circle a bohemian bent, plus international eateries The site of the first U.S. capitol, where George CENTRAL PARK SOUTH like Buenos Aires, an Argentinean destination, Washington’s presidential inauguration was populate Alphabet City (named for its major held on Apr. 30, 1789, is today Federal Hall, arteries: avenues A, B, C and D). a museum. In the late-18th century, nearby Maiden Lane was the city’s jewelry center; William Barthman, watch and jewelry retailer FIFTH AVENUE (MIDTOWN EAST, founded in 1884, continues that tradition.

MIDTOWN WEST) Other points of interest include the bronze Fifth Avenue, which runs north to south, is sculpture “Charging Bull,” a talisman of capiManhattan’s dividing line, separating the East tal gains; the Federal Reserve Bank; Museum Side from the West Side. Its well-earned repuof American Financial History; Fraunces tation for being one of the most exclusive Tavern Museum; National Museum of the streets in the world began in the late-19th American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; St. century, when the Astors built a glittering Paul’s Chapel and Trinity Church. Passengers mansion on the southwest corner of 34th sail to the Statue of Liberty from Battery Park Street, where the Empire State Building and its aboard Statue Cruises ferries. New York Water observatory now stand. Other powerful famiTaxi makes a stop at the South Street Seaport, lies, including the Vanderbilts, whose fortune a historic district. At Ground Zero, site of the was made in railroads, followed. Today, north former World Trade Center destroyed in the of 59th Street is prime residential real estate, terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, visitors with block after block of apartment buildgravitate to the 9/11 Tribute Center and the ings and town houses fronting Central Park.

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all about town FLATIRON DISTRICT The iconic wedge-shaped Flatiron Building sits at the heart of its namesake neighborhood, which spans 14th to 23rd streets between Park Avenue South and Sixth Avenue. Quite a few famous authors have been associated with the area, including Herman Melville, O. Henry and Edith Wharton. President Theodore Roosevelt was born in a brownstone at 28 E. 20th St., the only U.S. president (so far) to have been born in the city. A respite with well-manicured lawns and public art displays, Madison Square Park holds the distinction of having been the home of the world’s first baseball club, the New York Knickerbockers. The neighborhood is also treasured for its architecture; examples are the pyramid-topped Metropolitan Life Insurance Building and the New York Life Insurance Building, with its octagonal gilt spire. Dining in the area focuses on well-established restaurants, many of which are owned by celebrity chefs (e.g. Craft and Craftbar, founded by Tom Colicchio, known to TV audiences as the co-host of Bravo’s Top Chef). Nearby Union Little Square Park, with a center lawn and impressive bronze statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Marquis de Lafayette and Mahatma Gandhi, has been a cradle of activism since the 1880s. Rallies are still held there and the northern section hosts the outdoor Union Square Greenmarket, held several days a week all year round.

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Fashionistas can even shop for materials to create their own outfits at one of the neighborhood’s many fabric and trimming stores. Adjacent to the Garment Distrtict is Manhattan’s most fragrant enclave, the Flower District. Concentrated in a single block—W. 28th St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues—this is where Starbright Floral Design carries fresh blooms and arrangements.

GREENWICH VILLAGE Though known in the 20th century as a center of bohemian culture, Greenwich Village also enjoys a history studded with wealth and glamour. Its heart was and still is Washington Square Park, laid out in an elegant European style with a central fountain. Henry James’ 1880 novel Washington Square painted a definitive portrait of rarefied early-19th-century New York society just as the era was coming to an end. (Today, the square is home base for New York University, and the area pulses with youth and energy.) Built in 1892 and designed by Sanford White, the Washington Square Arch stands at the north entrance to the park and commemorates the 1789 inauguration of President George Washington. Dada artist Marcel Italy Duchamp climbed to its top in 1916 and declared the “Independent Republic of Greenwich Village.”

Though the assertion didn’t stick, since then, artists, musicians and intellectuals with rebellion on their minds have been drawn to the charming lanes, brownstones and freethinking cultural institutions. The Village’s streets are lined with intimate cafés, cabarets and jazz clubs; the cozy Cornelia Street Café is a popular one-stop dining and entertainment spot.

GARMENT DISTRICT Although it occupies a mere square mile from W. 34th to W. 42nd streets between Sixth and Ninth avenues, the influence of the Garment District spans continents. When newly invented sewing machines and cheap laborers from Europe arrived in the mid-19th century, this area became the nation’s leading manufacturer of textiles and ready-to-wear clothing. Today, approximately one-third of all garments manufactured in America are designed and produced here by designers who include Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan and Nicole Miller. Style mavens can see which other tastemakers have made an impact by perusing the bronze plaques on Seventh Avenue’s Fashion Walk of Fame, the first permanent landmark dedicated to apparel design in the United States. Along the way, the giant sculpture depicting a needle and button in front of the Fashion Center Business Improvement District’s information kiosk is hard to miss. Shopping-wise, visitors can explore Macy’s Herald Square department store, mainstream outlets at multistore Manhattan Mall, or specialty shops, such as Hour

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HARLEM Originally a Dutch farming village by the name of Nieuw Haarlem, the area, roughly defined as 110th to 157th streets from the East to the Hudson rivers, was transformed drastically during the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when Northern factories recruited Southern blacks. The seeds were planted for what would become the largest, most influential AfricanAmerican community in the nation, and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s saw it flourish. The sounds of jazz emanated from such ballrooms as the Savoy. Billie Holiday sang the blues and Duke Ellington led his orchestra at the Cotton Club. Writers and civil-rights leaders, including Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois, empowered the community. Notable residents Eubie Blake and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson lived in the famed town houses on Strivers’ Row. Today, these homes are some of the area’s most beautifully preserved landmarks and a must-see while touring a neighborhood that is experiencing its second renaissance. On W. 125th Street stands the iconic

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gogues, such as the restored Eldridge Street Synagogue and its museum, which is open for guided tours. Orchard Street and its environs, where pushcarts once predominated, continues to be the neighborhood’s commercial hub and is lined with retail storefronts selling everything from luggage to European fashions to designer leather, many at discounted prices. The current vibe is decidedly younger as many trendy restaurants, bars, boutiques and art galleries have set up shop, and real-estate developers are busy with the process of gentrification. Even so, the area still honors its traditions and features many family-owned businesses, such as Zarin Fabrics, Jodamo International and Mendel Goldberg Fabrics.

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One of Manhattan’s leading thoroughfares is home to high-end jewelers, haberdashers, boutiques, art galleries, museums and attracFew things are as important to Italians as food, family and tradition. tions. Its personality changes every few blocks. The lower portion, That same unwavering dedication to home values is what has kept Little between E. 28th and E. 34th streets, is known for its Oriental rug Italy one of New York City’s most stalwart ethnic communities since the emporiums and forward-thinking home and furniture showrooms.

1800s. By the 1920s, approximately 63,000 Italians lived between Canal, At the corner of Madison Avenue and E. 36th Street, literary and illuminatBleecker, Rutgers and Crosby streets. Marked by turn-of-the-century ed manuscripts, Mozart’s sheet music, several Gutenberg Bibles, Old Master walk-ups with ubiquitous fire escapes and many cobblestoned byways, drawings and other priceless cultural treasures are housed in The Morgan its delineation has shrunk over the years to the blocks between Bowery Library & Museum. Tailored men’s clothand Crosby Street. Today, the boundaries ing, epitomized by Brooks Brothers and Paul between it and surrounding neighborhoods times square Stuart, occupies the block between E. 44th Chinatown and NoLIta blur more and more, THEATER DISTRICT and E. 45th streets. Many fine establishments but one thing remains constant: Mulberry dominate the avenue between E. 50th and E. Street, the heart of a very spirited nabe. On 57th streets, including Eden Fine Art, which this charming lane, you’ll find the Italian represents Israeli and international artists.

American Museum, independent clothing From E. 58th to E. 63rd streets is the Crystal boutiques and a profusion of regional Italian District with glistening shops selling glass masdining options, both casual and formal; terworks by Swarovski and Baccarat, while E. in summer, tables line the sidewalk for 63rd through E. 68th streets constitute a mini alfresco supping. The area comes to boisterjewelry row, populated with precious baubles ous life every September during the Feast of from the likes of Chopard. Exclusive, limitedSan Gennaro, a street festival that includes edition mobile Vertu phones are available parades, games, fairground rides, music and, at the brand’s store between E. 58th and E. of course, food.

59th streets. The Historic District, which runs from E. 59th to E. 72nd streets, is lined with LOWER EAST SIDE the luxe boutiques of American designers This melting pot was the first destination for Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Tom Ford thousands of immigrants between 1863 and and Ralph Lauren, and Italian mainstays 1935, when the neighborhood had the dubiGiorgio Armani and Beretta Gallery. A few ous distinction of being one of the planet’s blocks north, Vilebrequin offers men’s and most populated places. The Lower East Side boys’ matching swimwear with a colorful Tenement Museum, a former apartment South of France insouciance. building that housed settlers from 20 different nations, is a celebration and recreation of that era and a sobering must-visit. The large MEATPACKING DISTRICT Jewish population left its impression on the Long before the pocket west of Hudson Street community, recognizable today in everything between W. 15th and Gansevoort streets was from Katz’s Delicatessen to historic synacrowned the epicenter of hip, it was known

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Jeffrey is a clothing department store for men and women. Restaurateurs and nightlife entrepreneurs have swooped in to launch a host of always-on-the-radar restaurants. Bouncers guard the velvet ropes at sought-after clubs and lounges. An abandoned stretch of elevated railroad trestle has been reborn as The chinatown High Line, a landscaped park and promenade that stretches from Gansevoort to W. 30th streets. The new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, scheduled to open in 2015, is fast taking shape.

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The residential-corporate hybrid of Midtown East (E. 42nd to E. 59th streets, from Fifth Avenue to the East River) lays claim to two of the city’s most recognizable architectural icons: the Chrysler Building, a 71-story marvel topped with stainless steel eagles and a graceful Art Deco pyramid, and the headquarters of the United Nations, which shimmers at its perch on the East River. Midtown East is also filled with several tony (and picturesque) residential areas, including Murray Hill, Sutton Place and Beekman Place. Silver Suites Residences at Beekman Tower offers extended-stay, furnished apartments, ranging from studios to three-bedroom abodes.

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NOLITA By the mid-1990s, this area NOrth of Little ITAly—roughly between Broome, Houston and Lafayette streets and the Bowery—had almost completely lost its Italian character. An influx of yuppies supplied a newfound cachet to this forgotten area—and demanded a sexier name. Chic boutiques beckon with the promise of haute jeans, tropical dresses, organic fabrics, bespoke men’s

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of the Rock Observation Deck, which is perched 70 floors above 50th Street.

(One time- and cost-efficient way to visit Top of the Rock, along with five other attractions around town, is to purchase a New York CityPASS; it allows you to skip ticket-buying lines, and the overall price totals almost half that of the six separate admissions.)

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THEATER DISTRICT Attracting millions of visitors every year, Times Square—the area between W. 42nd and W. 54th Streets and between Sixth and Ninth avenues—beats rockefeller center as the very heart and soul of the Theater District, just as it has for more than The Art Deco complex of commercial buildings, bordered by 46th Street, 100 years. Around 1904, theater owners started building playhouses on the Fifth Avenue, 55th Street and Sixth Avenue, is home base for NBC-TV’s surrounding blocks, each one trumping the other in glitz. These dazzling crowd-pleasing Today show and Christie’s auction house. More than theaters of the Great White Way have enthralled and fascinated ever since 250,000 ice-skaters a year exercise under the gaze of Paul Manship’s gilded their arrival. Of the 40 designated Broadway theaters, the Stephen Sondheim sculpture of Prometheus at The Rink at Rockefeller Center during its seais the newest, while the New Amsterdam on 42nd Street is one of the oldson, October through April. During the warm-weather months, The Rink est, surviving in all its sumptuously restored Art Nouveau glory, thanks to becomes a popular alfresco bar and lounge. Radio City Music Hall, where the painstaking efforts of The Disney Company, which aided in creating the precision dance troupe, the Radio City Rockettes, kicks up its heels in a Times Square light years away from the family-unfriendly landscape it the annual Christmas show, is a prized concert and performance venue; had become in the 1970s and 1980s. Businesses began to return to the tours detailing its storied history and sumptuous décor are conducted sevdistrict throughout the 1990s. Today, everyone can walk Broadway from W. eral times daily. After an in-depth look at the Music Hall’s nooks and cran42nd to W. 48th streets without a care, anticipating the thrill of catching a nies, visitors can get a bird’s-eye view of the city skyline by visiting the Top

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Shopping options range from soft knit sweaters at American Eagle to Steel Blaze watches at Danielle B. Jewelers. While millions of people know the area from watching it on TV during the cacophonous New Year’s Eve countdown held every Dec. 31, no one forgets his or her first in-person glimpse of Times Square by night, when it seems as if the entire universe (or that part of it that resides on Manhattan Island) is lit by the vast array of neon, LED lights and computerized signage, bringing communications and advertising to a mass audience. The closure of sections of Broadway to cars has boosted the foot traffic in what is truly “the crossroads of the world.”

TRIBECA In its 19th-century industrial incarnation, TriBeCa’s majestic buildings—with marble, limestone and cast-iron facades—were home to munitions warehouses. In the early 20th century, textiles were the name of the game. By the 1960s, counterculturists seeking solitude and cheap-to-free rents moved in. By the early 1970s, the fight to gain legal zoning status led a group of artists to coin the term TRIangle BElow CAnal Street (even though it’s really a trapezoid, with Broadway, Chambers Street and the Hudson River as its other three borders).

Its transformation into a coveted enclave was prompted by such celebrities as Robert De Niro, who helped create two of its most eminent restaurants, Tribeca Grill and Nobu, and co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival held every spring. Bold-faced names, such as Mariah Carey and Jon Stewart, have maintained residences here at one time or another. Keeping these stars and their homes outfitted are some of the city’s most exclusive boutiques, art galleries and antiques shops. Visitors to TriBeCa can arrive in style in a Commonwealth Worldwide car.

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From its earliest days, when its well-heeled residents earned it the nickname Silk Stocking District, the Upper East Side has laid claim to being Manhattan’s wealthiest, most socially prominent and most rarefied neighborhood. At the turn of the last century, affluent captains of industry such as Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke and Henry Clay Frick chose to build their “country estates” in the once-bucolic enclave bounded by Fifth Avenue, the East River, E. 59th and E. 96th streets. Today, the city’s elite continues to nest in prewar co-op apartments and town houses. Gracie Mansion, the Mayor of New York’s official residence, is a charming Federal house set in a park overlooking the East River. Visitors to the privileged area can revel in some of the most important art in the world, which is on view in the stellar museums that abut Central Park on the stretch of Fifth Avenue known as Museum Mile. Institutions here include the all-encompassing and encyclopedic Metropolitan Museum of Art. More specialized institutions along Museum Mile include the Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, El Museo del Barrio and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, famously designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Glorious mansions from a bygone era now house The Frick Collection, renowned for its Old Master paintings and decorative arts, and the Neue Galerie, which specializes in early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design. The Whitney Museum of American Art is a fixture on Madison Avenue. Many new york public library long-standing commercial art and antiques fifth avenue galleries, as well as Sotheby’s and Doyle New York auction houses, maintain their headquarters on the Upper East Side. The neighborhood is also home to sprawling strips of green, including the eastern portion of Central Park (which features the Tisch Children’s Zoo, Boat Pond and Conservatory Garden). Upscale restaurants abound, including a steak house with a difference: Prime 333, which is housed in the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club. While strictly fiction, the television show Gossip Girl was nonetheless a fairly accurate portrait of the lifestyles of the rich, famous and privileged who live in this district.

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Joan Rivers and Woody Allen got their starts, is Manhattan’s oldest continuing cabaret; it’s also a popular piano bar. The Stonewall Inn, still remembered as the site of the Stonewall Riots in 1969, is considered the birthplace of the gay-rights movement. Today, the West Village is brimming with young families and professionals, who wait in line for buttercream-slathered cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery before winding their way down Bleecker Street, a tree-lined thoroughfare and mecca for designer shopping at the boutiques of Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Cynthia Rowley, Lulu Guinness, Coach, Jo Malone, Burberry Brit and many more A-listers. Loft buildings, like architect Richard Meier’s three rippling glass towers on the West Side Highway, exhibit some of the city’s most innovative and exclusive residential architecture. Among the film stars who have succumbed to the West Village are longtime residents Hugh Jackman and Julianne Moore.

From its beginnings in the 1830s as a status address for well-to-do liberal families and the cultural elite, to its stint as a mainly workingclass neighborhood in the early 20th century, to its current run as—once again—a status address for well-to-do liberal families and the cultural elite, the Upper West Side makes a convincing argument for just how cyclical life in New York City can be. Families, socialites and celebrities live and play among the treelined blocks between Central Park West and the Hudson River from W. 59th to W. 110th streets. Their playground consists of the NewYork Historical Society, which has a fine collection of Hudson River School paintings among its many holdings, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, an interactive center for young and old. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a cultural complex and must-visit for classical music, ballet, opera and theater fans. Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall is the permanent home of the New York Philharmonic, but throughout the year it also plays host to artists as diverse as composers the outer boroughs Eric Whitacre and Stephen Schwartz and New York City, as we know it today, came pieces as monumental as Handel’s Messiah into being in 1898, when the five boroughs— and Orff’s Carmina Burana, courtesy of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx St. John THE Divine UPPER WEST SIDE Distinguished Concerts International New and Staten Island—were consolidated into a York. The castlelike American Museum of single entity. While most visitors, especially Natural History is a treasure trove, where first-time visitors, concentrate on Manhattan an astounding number of real dinosaur fossils share the same roof as halls and its neighborhoods, increasingly those who have been to NYC before documenting human evolution and dioramas depicting North American look to the outer boroughs for new adventures and memories. Long Island mammals. The museum’s Rose Center for Earth and Space, with its state-ofCity in Queens, for example, is ripe for discovery, featuring many musts for the-art Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, is one of its most awe-inspiring culture vultures, including the Noguchi Museum, MoMA PS1 and the Fisher attractions. Several elegant restaurants, such as Lincoln Ristorante, have Landau Center for Art. Fashion lovers get their fancy on at MissesDressy turned this area into a fine-dining destination, while the more casual eaterin LIC, while Francophiles swear they’re in Paris at bistro Tournesol. In ies that line Broadway, Columbus and Amsterdam avenues are popular for the same way that the Brooklyn Academy of Music has made its borough Saturday and Sunday brunch. Shopping options include the U.S. flagship of a magnet for theater, opera, ballet and classical music devotees, the openinternational women’s clothing line OSKA. ing in 2012 of the state-of-the-art Barclays Center has attracted pop music enthusiasts to its A-list concerts and professional basketball followers to Brooklyn Nets home games. Staten Island is just a free ferry ride away from WEST VILLAGE Manhattan, and once there the curious gravitate to an authentic Chinese The West Village has always marched to the beat of a different drummer, Scholar’s Garden, the serene Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art and both physically and figuratively. Its maze of narrow streets, from Sixth the all-American Historic Richmond Town. In the summer, nirvana can be Avenue to the Hudson River and W. 14th to Houston streets, does not found at a New York Yankees baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, follow the grid pattern of much of the city. Its most eminent citizens have hot dog and beer in hand. Foodies might find a stroll up and down Arthur always been writers, performers, musicians and other bohemians. An ambiAvenue in pursuit of Italian delectables more to their liking, but there’s no tious teenager from Brooklyn named Barbra Streisand first gained attention disputing the allure of the Bronx Zoo for animal lovers of all ages. singing in Village cabarets in the early 1960s. The Duplex, where comedians

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Ten Ren has four other locations in the New

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