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Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on the Coney Island Boardwalk, a Fourth of July tradition since 1916.

Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks over the Hudson River.

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The Lincoln Center Festival features a special presentation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses staged

by John Malkovich (through Sun, July 14).

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Head to Bryant Park on Thursdays for a free, hourlong performance from Broadway’s most popular shows (through Aug 15).

Fri, July

MoMA PS1 Warm Up, a live concert series, hosts some of New York City’s best DJ’s.

Admission to Warm Up includes free admission to all of MoMA’s current exhibitions (through Sun, September 8).

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Musicians Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z perform at Yankee Stadium.

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Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival. For more information, visit www.caesars.com/ acfoodandwine (through Sun, July 28).

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Harlem Week celebrates the rich political and cultural heritage of Harlem. Festivities begin with “A Great Day in Harlem” kick-off at the General Grant Memorial in Riverside Park (through July 28).

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The Lincoln Center Festival showcases a wide range of art forms, including opera, ballet, chamber music, and multimedia performances (through Mon, August 5).

Southampton Fresh Air Home’s Annual American Picnic with a fireworks display over the Shinnecock Bay benefits physically challenged children with carnival games followed by a picnic dinner at a private residence in Southampton, located at 1030 Meadow Lane.

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French Restaurant Week begins at various venues throughout New York City (through July 14).

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Brooklyn Hip-Hop Fest, a 4-day celebration of New York City’s rap culture (through July 13).

The start of McCarren Park’s Outdoor Summerscreen Series.

Comedy classics like Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, The Big Lebowski, and The Goonies will be shown every Wednesday night through the end of August.

Each movie screening will feature food trucks and BYOB drinking is welcome.

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The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance celebrates New York City’s best aquatic accessory at Governor’s Island and Jersey City’s Liberty State Park. Canoe, kayak, and boat rentals available along with live music.

Andy Engel’s Comedy Night Show at the Metropolitan Room in the Flatiron District of Manhattan.

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Lincoln Center Out of Doors brings free dance and musical entertainment to city-goers (through August 11).

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Beyoncé’s World Tour arrives at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ. She will also perform at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn on Sat, August 3.

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The New York International Fringe Festival attracts avantgarde theater performers from around the globe (through Sun, August 25).

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The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival on Meadow Lake in Queens. Teams compete for cash prizes, trophies, and other awards (through Sun, August 11).

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The Barclays’ PGA Tour returns to New Jersey’s Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City (through August 25).

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The US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens. All of the top-ranked tennis players will be in attendance including Serena Williams and number-two Serbian player Novak Djokovic (through Mon, September 9).

Art Exhibitions:

Theatre Performances:

“Search for the Unicorn,” The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Ann; Vivian Beaumont Theater

“James Turrell,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “MUNCH: Warhol and the Multiple Image,” Scandinavia House “Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store,” Museum of Modern Art “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art “100 Years of Flamenco in New York,” New York Public Library for the Performing Arts “Chinese American Designers and Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910’s-40’s,” Museum of Chinese in America “John Singer Sargent Watercolors,” Brooklyn Museum “Work by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts,” Brooklyn Museum

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“Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York,” New York Historical Society “Le Corbusier: Landscapes for the Machine Age,” Museum of Modern Art “The History of City Subways,” The New York Transit Museum

“100 Years of Flamenco in New York,”

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Annie; Palace Theatre The Assembled Parties; Samuel J. Friedman Theatre The Big Knife; American Airlines Theatre The Book of Mormon; Eugene O’Neill Theatre Chicago; Ambassador Theatre Cinderella; Broadway Theatre I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers; Booth Theatre Jersey Boys; August Wilson Theatre Kinky Boots; Al Hirschfeld Theatre The Lion King; Minskoff Theatre Lucky Guy; Broadhurst Theatre Macbeth; Ethel Barrymore Theatre Mamma Mia; Winter Garden Theatre Matilda: The Musical; Shubert Theatre Motown: The Musical; LuntFontanne Theatre The Nance; Lyceum Theatre Newsies; Nederlander Theatre Nice Work If You Can Get It; Imperial Theatre

“Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road,” China Institute

Once; Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

“Presencia,” El Museo del Barrio

Orphans; Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

“Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney,” The Morgan Library & Museum

The Phantom of the Opera; Majestic Theatre

“Hopper Drawing,” Whitney Museum of American Art

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Pippin; Music Box Theatre The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream; Richard Rodgers Theatre Rock of Ages; Helen Hayes Theatre Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; Foxwoods Theatre The Testament of Mary; Walter Kerr Theatre The Trip to Bountiful; Stephen Sondheim Theatre Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; John Golden Theatre Wicked; Gershwin Theatre

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rand Central at rush hour is quintessential New York City.

Nowadays people don’t just pass through its marbled Main Concourse, it’s a destination in itself. You can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner there, buy greeting cards and flowers, even prescriptions. It has its own police force, its own fire department and its own sanitation department. And yet not so long ago this magnificent Beaux Arts limestone and granite landmark, one of Manhattan’s most recognizable, had to be saved from the wrecking ball.

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rand Central Station opened in February 1913 and New York’s center of gravity shifted as midtown Manhattan took shape around it. Over the next century, it became the city’s unofficial town square, sitting astride Park Avenue at 42nd Street. Its glorious chandeliers and polished marble floors are a measure of the man who conceived it, shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt who built its precursor, Grand Central Depot, on land that had been cheap because it was so far from the town. At the center of its 8,000 square foot marbled concourse under a colossal ceiling decorated with constellations of stars sits a jewel-encrusted clock worth millions. Each of its four faces is made of opal. It’s been a meeting place for generations of families, soldiers going off and returning from war, lovers, business people, and lost children.

In the heyday of rail travel, in the middle of the 20th century, trains were like ocean liners. Movie stars traveled in luxury cars that boasted real beds and showers, and full service dining. These trains had names like The Wolverine, The Lake Shore Limited, and The Twentieth Century Limited. In Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945), Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck embrace before boarding a train at Grand Central. In another Hitchcock thriller, North by Northwest (1959), Cary Grant disappears into the crowd after buying a ticket on the Twentieth Century. And although it was a set rather than the real thing, Christopher Reeve’s Superman visits Gene Hackman as arch villain Lex Luthor in his underground enclave below Grand Central in Superman (1978).

FROM HEYDAY TO DECLINE But when the jet age arrived, railroads were all but abandoned.

In the 1960s, automobiles delivered the coup de grace. The biggest railway station in the world that had once served three quarters of a million travelers a day had become obsolete. Real estate developers began giving it the eye. The station deteriorated and, with no laws then protecting historic structures, it looked likely that it would share the fate of its rival Pennsylvania Station—pulled down in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden Sports Arena. By the 1970s and 1980s, the building was rat-and-cockroach infested, a magnet for pan-handlers and an army of homeless people who arrived as the last commuters of the day made their way home, to settle down for the night on benches, in corners and in empty railway cars.

After the demise of Penn Station, a landmark preservation law was enacted. Mayor Ed Koch likened the possible destruction of Grand Central to destroying a work of art by Michelangelo.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis made saving the building a cause célèbre. She wrote: “Is it not cruel to let our city die by degrees, stripped of all her proud monuments, until there will be nothing left of all her history and beauty to inspire our children?”

After a nine-year court battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, the building was saved to reinvent itself into the commuter hub it is today.

But even a former first lady couldn’t alter the New Yorker habit of calling it Grand Central Station instead of Grand Central Terminal, its formal title.

The group formed to save the building called itself the Committee to Save Grand Central Station.

Today the station serves commuters rather than long-distance travelers. And all with no stairs. Other than the two grand staircases in the Concourse, gently sloping ramps speed travelers on their way, an idea borrowed from the Romans who knew a thing or two about crowd control. Three hundred engineers and 750 conductors serve 538 trains a day; one train and some 1200 passengers every minute. The numbers associated with Grand Central are staggering: 70,000 tickets sold daily, the world’s biggest Lost & Found handling around 25,000 cell phones a year, some 60 percent of which are returned to their owners.

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During WWII, when railroad stations were considered a national asset, it was feared that fifth columnists might cripple troop movements and the city by sabotaging the electric rotary converters that supplied Grand Central with electricity (they were replaced in 1989). A bucket of sand in the works would have done it. Today, the building has to contend with 21st century terrorist threats. With the need to police platforms and underground tunnels carved from solid bedrock ten stories down and 100 feet below sea-level, as well as hundreds of miles of pedestrian passages and miles of track, the exact location of the power control room and its backup are well-kept secrets.

GRAND CENTRAL TRANSFORMS AMERICA This year is the Centennial of Grand Central Terminal and a number of recent books celebrate the occasion with enthusiasm. If the title of Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

by Sam Roberts (Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2013) seems a little over the top, reading the book might persuade you otherwise. Written by the urban affairs correspondent for the New York Times, it’s a richly-illustrated and entertaining history timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary.

Roberts looks back at Grand Central’s history from its conception in the high industrial period of “robber baron” millionaires with deep pockets and large egos to match. “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt founded the New York Central Railroad; his oldest son William H. Vanderbilt inherited. Roberts describes the accident that led the

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Vanderbilts to create an improved Grand Central to replace their earlier train depot. He examines ways in which the station foreshadowed and fostered the nation’s suburban and westward expansion.

A master of the quirky and behind-the-scenes anecdote, Roberts finds plenty of scope for his talent in the secret underground tunnels and hidden passageways of the building’s command center, and traveler’s tales such as the 1940s honeymooning couple whose travel to Niagara Falls was disrupted by a violent storm. The couple took a room at the Biltmore Hotel where a lobby elevator led directly to the station concourse. They ate all their meals at the Oyster Bar, shopped in the station’s many stores, and spent the entire weekend without once venturing outdoors. They enjoyed themselves so much, the story goes, they decided to do the same thing on their tenth anniversary.

Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark by Anthony W. Robins, written for the New York Transit Museum, is full of thoroughly researched trivia that even New Yorkers won’t know. It features 200 photographs, some archival and some taken by Frank English, Metro-North Railroad’s official photographer for more than 25 years. The photographs celebrate the well-trodden Concourse and offer a view of the building’s hidden workings and the massive power station below ground.

The terminal’s rebirth is told in Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives by renovation architects John Belle and Maxinne R. Leighton (Norton & Co., New York, 2000) It took nine months to clean decades of grime and nicotine from the ceiling. When the job was done, people stared in wonder at what was revealed. It’s correct in every detail except one. What you see is the reverse of what is seen from Earth. When this was discovered the architects claimed the view was from God’s vantage point. When billboards that had covered the buildings windows were taken down, the Concourse filled with sunlight.

For an up close look at what is perhaps not the best period in the building’s history but one which throws its restoration into high relief, check out Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street

by Lee Stringer (Washington Square Press, New York, 1998).

These stories from the street by one who lived on them places the public building in a unique role as haven for the lost and discarded and serves as a fitting metaphor for the building itself at this time. A New York Times Notable Book with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Stringer’s book documents his life around Grand Central and in its underground tunnels from the early 1980s until the mid 1990s, homeless and drug-addicted until he took the pencil he’d been using to run through his crack pipe and began to write his story. His book is a grimly entertaining memoir, reportage rather than fiction. He made his home with “enough cardboard baffles to hold the rats at bay.” The secret was never to bring food into his

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Roger Sterling (John Slattery) and Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in Mad Men. Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMC. Offerings and interior of the Oyster Bar.

shelter, he says. “It’s the food that attracts them.” Stringers’s book shows just how much of a transformation occurred and just how close this city icon came to being forgotten.

OYSTERS AND MAD MEN Part of the building today, of course, is the food concourse and the Oyster Bar, the terminal’s oldest tenant, on the lower level. The below sealevel restaurant sells 5 million bivalves annually.

Viktor Yesensky ran it from its opening until he retired in 1946. After being closed for two years, Jerome Brody transformed it into a destination eatery, which it remains, now employee owned.

In a memorable character-revealing scene from Mad Men, Don Draper takes Roger Sterling to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central for a Martini and two-dozen oyster lunch. The restaurant is an easy stroll from the fictional Sterling Cooper offices on Madison Avenue. In a scene that thousands of New Yorkers can relate to, Sterling compares eating oysters to kissing a mermaid. The humble bivalve has been symbolic of sex and opulence since Roman times. And what could be more fitting for a building that once testified to the wealth and power of the Vanderbilts but fast became a cathedral for the common man? The Oyster Bar opened just three weeks after the station and in addition to clams and shellfish, lobster and fish, offers dozens of varieties of oyster from Maine, Rhode Island, Prince Edward Island, Long Island, Virginia, Oregon, British Columbia, Massachusetts and Washington, to mention a few, shucked to order with names like: Beavertail. Hama-Hama, Witch

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Duck, Yaquina, Pemaquid, Chincoteague, and Naked Cowboy.

Countless A-listers have eaten there alongside regulars, and still do. One regular has enjoyed a simple meal of soup, 6 oysters, and vodka on the rocks there every night for the last 20 years. Diamond Jim Brady, Paul Newman, Lucille Ball, Tony Randall, Chris Farley, George Wendt, even the fictional James Bond have stopped by for platters of raw oysters served on ice with lemon as well as cooked delicacies such as bowls of steaming chowder, lobster and fish, stews and pan-roasts. A book to watch for this fall is The Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Cookbook by Sandy Ingber with Roy Finamore to be published by Abrahms.

And if you have an appetite for more on the subject, National Geographic’s 2005 DVD Inside Grand Central Station, has more information than can be taken in at one sitting. It shows people arriving in the station for the first time after its renovation and staring open-mouthed at the splendor, as if to say, “Pinch me, I must be dreaming.” No one now would question the value of saving this old building. And it’s hard to believe they once did. But what see today is a far cry from what was there in the building’s declining years.

It may have taken years to restore Grand Central to its original splendor, but, as Kennedy Onassis said, “If we don’t care for our past, how can we be sure of the future?”

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Janie Bryant is the Emmy Award winning costume designer currently working on the hit AMC show Mad Men. Her thoroughly-researched designs, inspired by classics of the period, convey character and plot. Here, she shares some of the secrets of her art as well as some of her favorite Manhattan sources for vintage style.

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(TOP): Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and Megan Draper (Jessica Pare) from AMC’s hit show, Mad Men. (LEFT): Janie Bryant: Costume Designer, Mad Men.

LAS: How did you enter the world of costume design?

LAS: How does the costume design process work with Mad Men?

JB: I studied fashion design in school and after graduation, lived in Paris for several months, then moved to New York and got a job as a fashion design assistant. I met a costume designer at a party and decided that was the direction I wanted to take. I called all the film people I knew and told them I wanted to learn the business. One month later, I got my first job as an assistant costume designer. I’ve always loved classic films and they continue to serve as an inspiration for my work. I like to say that my first experience as a costume designer was with Barbie Dolls. (Laughs)

LAS: Which fashion icons from the 60s have most influenced your work at Mad Men?

JB: It starts from reading the script and then I have creative discussions with Matthew Weiner (writer/producer). I do my research and then either I rent from the amazing costume houses in Los Angeles, or I design and build costumes from scratch by making a sketch for the tailor who will drape my design on the dress form in muslin. Then a paper pattern is made. Then the garment is cut and made from the fabrics I have selected. From there a garment is made and then a final fitting with the actor.

LAS: Give us an example on how you have changed a character’s style when the storyline changes.

JB: Peggy is a character with so many complex character arcs.

She’s one of the most complex characters on the show. During the first season she gained weight, got pregnant, and her clothing was dowdy. She became more progressive and more fashionable, then very upbeat in season five when her clothing was a mix of feminine and masculine, wearing menswear cotton blouses, then to power suits when she had a total transformation with her new life.

LAS: Talk about your use of color on the show.

JB: My designs are rooted in reality. I do a lot of research by looking at old issues of Time and Life magazines and catalogues from Sears, JC Penney, and Spiegel. I portray the costumes in realistic ways and use a lot of references. For instance, Don Draper’s costumes are representative of Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, and David Ogilvy who was an influential ad man. Some of the women who have influenced my work on Mad Men are: Jean Shrimpton, Raquel Welch, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, and Twiggy of course.

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of coral. Last season when they got into a huge fight at the Howard Johnson’s, she wore a wool knit, two-piece with a chevron pattern to evoke urgency, frustration, and anger.

LAS: Do you dress the women on the show in vintage style undergarments to achieve that hourglass shape?

JB: The foundation garments are mostly reproduction undergarments from Rago Shapewear. They sell open bottom girdles, closed bottom girdles, long line bras, short line bras, and other things. Sometimes we use dead stock foundations that haven’t been worn. Wearing vintage style undergarments helps achieve the hourglass shape and helps the actors walk and feel as they would in the period.

LAS: Talk about your collaboration with Banana Republic and do you have a favorite piece from the collection that you enjoy wearing?

JB: We initially started as a marketing collaboration and I met Simon Kneen, Banana Republic’s creative director, and realized we had so much in common in design aesthetics and a great love of the 1960s. So it was a natural fit. I have done one promotion and three

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collaborations with them. The first and second collaborations were rooted in iconic Mad Men design. The third collection was based on the later 60s with more color, more graphic, and more bold. My personal favorite is the Megan mini dress from this season with a keyhole neck in a green and blue pattern.

LAS: What are some of your favorite vintage stores in New York City?

JB: I like Family Jewels Vintage Clothing on West 23rd, between Sixth and Seventh in Chelsea. B&J Fabrics has nice silks and they are on Seventh and 38th Street. Mood Fabrics is terrific on West 37th Street. Manhattan Vintage just had a spring show.

LAS: What other projects are you working on?

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(L-R): Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks), Roger Sterling (John Slattery), Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), Don Draper (Jon Hamm), Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse) and Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) - Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels/AMC.

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hile the city of New York, a creative mind and an artistic sensibility still figure into the equation, today’s big advertising agency is a far cry from the fictional Sterling Cooper of Mad Men, and the real-life agencies of that era: J. Walter Thompson, Doyle Dane Bernbach or Ogilvy & Mather. Chalk it all up to technology.

“The Internet has completely transformed everything,” says Barbara Lippert, advertising critic and columnist for mediapost.com and a frequent commentator on the CBS Early Show, The Today Show, and CNN. “Even though on Mad Men it seems like they were under so much stress that they had to drink and cheat, it’s actually much more stressful today. In the late fifties through the end of the sixties, TV was king and commercials were cash cows for ad agencies, which would get a percentage of the production costs. But that has changed.”

Those commercials ran on the three networks to which television was then limited. “Now, the markets are so fragmented and increasingly, clients want social media and online projects,” Lippert continues. “In today’s ad agencies, everything is digital. In the old days, you could go to Europe for a month to shoot a commercial. Now, things are done overnight.”

Consider the 11-year-old New York agency McGarryBowen, which counts Disney, Verizon, Marriott, and Chevron among its high-profile clients. The firm handles all of the social media for many of its customers. “That means things are a lot more layered and nuanced, requiring a lot more disciplines than in the past,”

says Doug Livingston, McGarryBowen’s chief digital officer. “In the old days, there would have been a copywriter, art director, and planner. We still have them, but we also have content strategists, user experience people, and technologists. And they’re all at the table up front when we’re presented with the biggest problem a brand has. We collaborate, go off and do our individual specialties, and then come back to the table.”

McGarryBowen operates its New York office out of a former factory building between 11th and 12th avenues, several blocks from the midtown Madison Avenue nerve center of Mad Men days.

With its employees spread out on three floors in a sprawling building that also houses digital studios, photographers, and the headquarters for food and design giant Martha Stewart, the agency is in one of the city’s current hotbeds of creativity.

“There’s really only one agency left on Madison Avenue, and that’s Young and Rubicam, and they’re moving,” says Lippert.

“They’re in the same building that was shown in the Mad Men episode when water balloons were thrown out the window. And that is supposed to have actually happened.”

The center of operations for advertising agencies began to shift in the 1980s. “Suddenly, there were creative agencies in Los Angeles, Portland, Minneapolis, and a couple in North Carolina, Miami, San Francisco, and Colorado,” Lippert continues. “With increasing communications, you really didn't need to be in a certain city anymore. So New York lost its primacy in the advertising world. It’s coming back a little bit now, but most of the agencies are downtown in Tribeca, the Financial District, or Park

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Don, Roger, and their fellow “Mad Men” have their three-Martini lunches and seduction sessions at various real-life locations around Manhattan, many of which survive today. Some of these restaurants, bars, stores, and hotels are merely referred to; others are the settings for actual scenes.

GRACIE MANSION, 88 East End Avenue. This is where Bert Cooper warns others at Sterling Cooper that they’ll lose accounts if they don’t keep the well-connected Pete Campbell on.

BUTTERFIELD MARKET, 1114 Lexington Avenue. Trudy buys cherries at this small grocery store before she and Pete make their move to Cos Cob, Connecticut.

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Central Park West and 79th Street. This is where Glen and Sally go for an innocent date, and Sally flees after discovering she has “become a woman” in a museum bathroom.

Avenue South in the low twenties area.”

Mad Men fans will recall how much of an old-boy-network the fictional Sterling Cooper agency was portrayed in the initial seasons of the show. Racism, anti-Semitism, and discrimination against women were rampant. All of that has changed too.

“It used to be all-W.A.S.P. white men. But the creative revolution came in the sixties,” says Lippert. “All these immigrant kids from Jewish, Italian or Greek backgrounds came in, and you started to see much more colloquial street language. Some of these kids had been to art school. The environment became less formal. The other big difference these days is that all of these advertising schools have sprung up; places like The Creative Circus in Atlanta. Everybody goes to these schools and learns to do ads in the same way. In the past, they came from different backgrounds.”

Most of the creative staff at McGarryBowen and other large agencies is young, from the post-Generation X demographic known as Millennials. “What’s really different about then and now is that we’re currently in a fragmented communications landscape.

The consumption habits of the fifties are very different from yours and mine,” says Livingston, who is 50. “And brand authority is not what is used to be. Back in 1960, a brand was the only source of information. Today, I can go online, and talk to big communities that have specialties within a brand group. If I’m going to buy a BMW, for example, BMW is not the only place I’ll go for information. There are so many other areas of communication.”

An important innovation that dates from the era in which Mad Men takes place was the pairing, by the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, of an art director and a copy writer as a creative team. “By putting the two together, the idea becomes much more visual and less verbal,” Lippert says. “What was once a separate text area and a separate graphic, has become one concept.”

While most aspects of the advertising agency have changed, others have stayed the same. “What attracted me about this place was that it was founded by old-school Mad Men guys who could have easily retired, and instead became a start-up,” Livingston says of McGarryBowen. “Their approach is the traditional approach of being immersed in business problems and coming up with creative solutions. So that’s what has remained the same.” U

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WILLIAM GREENBERG DESSERTS, 1100 Madison Avenue. Pete hates Connecticut. After Megan gives Trudy brownies from this bakery, he asks Trudy if they make her homesick. Her reply: “I’m sorry there are no bakeries—or Greenbergs—in Cos Cob.” THE BARBIZON HOTEL FOR WOMEN, 140 E. 63rd Street. Don’s blind date, the debutante-ish Bethany Van Nuys, lives here.

LUTECE, 249 E. 50th Street. This swanky French restaurant is where Don and Betty Draper dine with Jimmy and Bobbie Barrett and the Schillings. Don and Bobbie are in the midst of their affair.

BLOOMINGDALE’S, Third Avenue at 59th Street. Pete returns the chip’n’dip wedding present he and Trudy received here because they already have the same tray.

NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB, 180 Central Park South.

Don swims here and then smokes a cigarette outside, hair slicked back and sunglasses on, looking every inch the Lothario.

P.J. CLARKE’S, 915 Third Avenue. Peggy heads here in Season One to celebrate the “Mark your Man” copy she wrote.

THE PALM, 837 Second Avenue. Harry Crane and Don have “a little pre-fight steak and cocktails here” in one show; in another, Joan orders lobster from The Palm for the team working on the Jaguar account.

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THE MAINE BEACHES Biddeford & Saco These neighboring communities are ideal for water-lovers. With ten miles of riverfront and ten miles of shoreline, summertime visitors will surely enjoy playing where the river meets the sea. Located only 2 hours from Boston, Saco is a frequent stop on the Amtrack Downeaster’s weekly trips between Boston and Brunswick, Maine.

La Kermesse is a colorful four-day Franco American festival that celebrates the region’s French heritage with parades, concerts, dances, and fireworks. This year’s celebration takes place in late July.

Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Arundel Known collectively as the “Kennebunks,” the three seaside communities comprise some of the wealthiest zip codes in Maine with many of the town’s shops sharing sister locations in Palm Beach, Fla. Kennebunkport is well-known for being the favored summer home of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and his family.

The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge runs through much of the “Kennebunks” in the form of salt marshes, tidal estuaries, and barrier beaches. The area is named for environmentalist and author Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring, raised public awareness of the effects of chemical pollutants on the habitats of migratory songbirds.

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Situated just north of the New Hampshire border, some of the state’s oldest homes and houses of worship are located here. This coastal town has long been a vacation spot for summer tourists who began travelling to the area during the 1800s. It is in fact, Maine’s oldest settlement (and that’s really saying something). Kittery’s historic district still draws visitors, but it’s the expansive Kittery Outlets that really draws crowds.

Located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, Old Orchard beach features a 7 mile stretch of sandy coastline. The beach is also known for its very low tides making it ideal for safe swimming.

Kittery offers shoppers more than 120 outlets along Route 1, making it a bargain shoppers’ paradise.

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Boothbay Country Club, hundreds of acres of walking paths at Linekin Preserve, and the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

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Bar Harbor is a year-round town located on Mount Desert Island. The island is home to Acadia National Park, comprising more than 40,000 acres or about two-fifths of the island. Acadia is the only national park in New England and is one of the most visited parks in the U.S. There are 17 peaks on the island including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the eastern seaboard. There is also an abundance of unique marine mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians on the island. Notably, Mount Desert Island is an intertidal zone. The island’s twice daily tides rise and fall between 10 and 12 feet.

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Activities like whale and puffin watching, hiking, kayaking, and canoeing are supremely popular during the summer months. Visitors frequently spot eagles, ospreys, and harbor seals during such outings.

The Bar Harbor Music Festival takes place June 30-July 28 with jazz, opera, string orchestra concerts, and new composers at venues throughout Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.

The Cranberry Isles The Cranberry Isles are located 30 minutes by ferry southeast of Mount Desert Island. This collection of islands is named after the low-bush cranberries that grow profusely in the autumn time. They grow on dry ground, not in bogs, and are the size of green peas. The Cranberry Isles boast magnificent views of the mountains of Acadia National Park and are the year-round home of lobstermen, craftsmen, boatbuilders, and bohemians.

Whereas Mount Desert Island is connected by a bridge to the mainland, The Cranberry Isles are true islands, requiring you to take a ferry to reach them.

The annual Fourth of July picnic draws summer visitors from around the state to a party that includes heaps of steamed lobster, clams, corn, barbecue, and homemade desserts. While you’re there, watch the sun set behind the mountains of Acadia National Park.

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(LEFT TO RIGHT): Knee surgery, shoulder and rotator cuff repair, spine surgery.

1. More minimally invasive procedures Thanks to cutting-edge technology, the majority of orthopedic surgeons now use arthroscopic techniques to repair damage done to the joints and spine. Arthroscopy uses high-powered microscopes, delicate instruments and very small incisions to replace joints and repair tissue surrounding the joints. These instruments can do what human hands can’t; specifically, the microscopes magnify the site of the operation many times over and the instruments hold, much steadier than a human hand.

The end-result is reduced post-operative pain, faster recoveries, and better outcomes. For many athletes, hip or knee replacements were once a death-knell for their competitive careers. However, today’s minimally invasive surgeries are often so successful, that with proper rehabilitation, athletes are guaranteed a chance of getting back onto the field.

2. Eliminating the need for general anesthesia with regional anesthesia More minimally invasive procedures mean that physicians can now use regional anesthesia, which allows for a faster recovery time and greater comfort for the patient post-surgery.

3. Specific procedures now more common than ever at orthopedic surgery centers a. Shoulder and rotator cuff repair Athletes who participate in contact sports such as hockey or football as well as anyone who engages in frequent weight lifting, can experience injury to the shoulder. Rotator cuff injuries are also common among baseball pitchers, tennis players, and other athletes who frequently use a forceful throwing or swinging motion.

The majority of rotator cuff repairs are now done arthroscopically. This eliminates the need for doctors to cut through muscles and bone or to make large incisions. This less invasive form of surgery has quickly become the preferred procedure. b. Cartilage repair in smaller joints Arthroscopy is also routinely performed for smaller joints found in the hands, wrists and ankles. These tiny joints are prone to cartilage breakdown and overuse. Once cartilage is gone, arthritis sets in. Thus, cartilage repair is an especially significant area of interest for many Americans, be they athletes or not. Many orthopedic surgeons now use special x-ray imaging that displays motion through a continuous series of images. This imaging technique is used for diagnosing and treating delicate parts of the hands and wrists, all the way down to the fingertips. c. Partial knee replacements What was once a major surgery has become less severe in terms of both pain management and recovery. Thanks to partial knee replacements (a trend amongst professional athletes), smaller incisions and smaller joint replacements are used. d. Spine surgery Some blame a sedentary lifestyle and others the quest to perfect that tricky golf or tennis swing, but there is no denying that spine

surgery is a rapidly growing field. Lumbar spine surgery is the most common form of spine surgery and involves either some sort of decompression (removing a small portion of the bone or nerve) or spinal fusion (using a bone graft to stop any motion at a painful segment of the spine). Arthroscopic techniques are used to treat spine surgeries as well, reviving many an athlete’s professional career.

4. Decreases in length of stay Today, orthopedic procedures average a two- to three-day hospital stay compared with a week-long stay a decade ago. As rehab procedures and surgery techniques continue to advance, the length of hospital stays should continue to fall.

5. Younger people getting joint replacements Years ago, surgeons would never think of giving a total joint replacement to someone under the age of 60. Since 2001, the total number of knee replacements for patients aged 38 to 56 has nearly doubled. Some doctors think that this may be connected to the obesity epidemic in the sense that heavier patients place more pressure and strain on their joints than those at a healthy weight.

Another possibility is the high rate of sports injuries and overuse-related injuries in teenagers and young adults. Sports medicine experts across the U.S. have noticed that there is a growing trend of “professional-level” injuries within youth athletics.

These overuse injuries often have long-term consequences, such as joint replacement at an early age.

6. Smart Implants More and more sensors are being incorporated into orthopedic implants and instruments. For example, microchips are often placed in an implant to help doctors and surgeons monitor the effectiveness of a given procedure. These smart implants increase the healthcare providers’ knowledge of orthopedic related injuries and repairs, helping them to make more informed medical decisions.

7. Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Repairing muscular tears around the hip joint can eliminate a significant amount of pain and restore function to the hip area, thus delaying (and sometimes eliminating) the need for a total hip replacement. This type of surgery is often a preferred choice for younger patients in need of hip repair. Recent studies have shown arthroscopic hip surgery to be so effective, as to fully restore hip-function in athletes like runners, golfers, baseball, and tennis players.

Keep in mind—just as important as the surgery is the quality of the rehabilitation. Both influence the probability of a full recovery.

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Purple dahlia, a summer favorite in Central Park’s Conservatory Garden.

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Manhattan’s midsection is an oasis of green. Inside, you forget that you’re in the largest city in the United States. The trees, grassy expanses, and carefully cultivated promenades dampen the sounds of traffic. You can hear birds singing. Over 235 avian species pass through this verdant space on their annual migrations. The park sees over 35 million human visitors every year too. It’s a hit with all kinds of creatures. {BY DILSHANIE PERERA}

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entral Park is two-and-a-half miles long and half a mile wide, starting at 59th Street and running to 110th Street. Its perimeter encloses 843 acres of land. Nothing inside the park is there by accident.

The position of the reservoir, the placement of the statues, and every curve in each footpath has been debated and fought over. The park was never intended to be a place in which to experience untrammeled nature. Such a concept may be purely imaginary, anyway. Instead, it was presented as a carefully curated landscape. Calvert Vaux, one of the park’s design architects alongside Frederick Law Olmsted, wrote of Central Park as a “many-sided, fluent, thoroughly American high art work.”

Although plans for a city park were drawn up in the early 19th century, it wasn’t until 1857 that the “high art work” showed any sign of taking shape. That year the state legislature appointed a board to Central Park to life. Part of the rationale was that in order to be taken seriously by foreign nations, the city of New York needed an impressively tended green area equal to the parks of European cities, like Hyde Park in London or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. They took inspiration from Kew Gardens and Dewey Arboretum in London and Birkenhead Park in Liverpool. Central Park was always slated to be one of Manhattan’s many icons. This time, instead of building up, the architects would be building across the island, using sand and soil in addition to bricks and mortar.

Olmsted was part of the initial process and was appointed as superintendent in 1857. The next year, when the board sent out a call for project proposals, he and Vaux submitted their vision for the park, which they called “Greensward.” Out of 33 designs, their’s won handily. But, a contingent of New Yorkers sought to develop land at the northern tip of Manhattan for the city park and were vehemently opposed to locating the park squarely in

the center of the island. Park-related grievances where rife.

With the country at the brink of civil war, the abolition of slavery was becoming the primary point of contention between the Union and the Confederacy. At the same time, Irish, Italian, and German immigrants were coming into the country in heretofore unprecedented numbers. Fear of strangers marked the political climate. The creation of a public park was not immune from these issues.

On one hand, Olmsted and Vaux wanted Central Park to bring people together by its very design. In his letters, Olmsted writes: “the primary purpose of the Park is to provide the best practicable means of healthful recreation for the inhabitants of the city, of all classes...thereby affording the most agreeable contrast to the confinement, bustle, and monotonous street-division of the city.” On the other hand, the landscape architects and designers were in favor of the city using eminent domain to claim the land that would house Central Park, despite the fact that 1,600 people lived there in farmhouses and shanties. The inhabitants made their homes at the site precisely because it had been deemed worthless, with uneven terrain and unstable bedrock ill-suited to towering buildings. The acreage in mid-Manhattan instantly transformed from useless to highly prized.

Central Park would see changes over the next 155 years as it gradually expanded to its current footprint. Housing Hoovervilles, the common name for small shanty towns during the Great Depression and a jab at then-president Herbert Hoover, it fell into disrepair and bounced back with the help of the Central Park Conservancy, the non-profit that manages the park today and raises the majority of its $37.5 million annual budget.

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ATTRACTIONS You could spend days wandering Central Park and it would still offer up new surprises every time you return. Below is an eclectic list of sites and sights to see as you traverse its 843 acres. The City Parks Foundation puts on shows and events from the end of May through the end of August known as SummerStage. This year, dance companies, indie rock outfits, hip-hop acts, jazz, classical quartets, films, and lectures will all be part of the free series. Check out cityparksfoundation.org/ summerstage before you go. And if the Bard strikes your fancy, the free Shakespeare in the Park shows will feature The Comedy of Errors and Love’s Labour’s Lost this summer. For more information and ticketing details visit shakespeareinthepark.org.

As for permanent attractions, a carousel was not featured in Olmsted and Vaux’s earliest design of Central Park, though both supported recreation spaces for children and adults. The first carousel was slipped into the park in 1871 when both landscape architects were away. When they returned two years later, they pioneered the kind of carousel design that we know today, where elaborately painted and beautifully carved horses remain fixed on poles instead of flying around on cables. The Central Park Carousel is part of the children’s district, with plenty to do for young people.

The Central Park Zoo is a nearby destination for young and old alike. Like the carousel, Olmsted and Vaux had no plans for a zoo, and in fact were explicitly against keeping animals on the grounds, but when the park opened to the public in 1858, foreign nations and other cities sent over various gifts, many of which were exotic species. The city of Philadelphia donated a herd of deer, and visiting dignitaries brought monkeys, pelicans, parrots, swans, and other beasts. General George Custer and P.T. Barnum sent animals, and Olmsted contributed three South American coatis in 1865. As the menagerie grew, the designers relented, and the Central Park Zoo became the country’s first. Moving between the main Zoo and the Children’s Zoo, you’ll pass under the Delacorte Clock, which was installed in 1965, and features bronze sculptures of dancing animals who play music every half hour.

The large expanse of green between 66th and 68th streets is known as Sheep Meadow because in the late 19th and early 20th

centuries, a flock grazed there. It was cheaper than hiring a grounds crew to mow the lawn every few weeks. Initially slated as a military parade ground, the area’s course altered after 1864, when the flock was donated to the park. When they weren’t roaming the lawn, the sheep were housed in a Victorian-style building, which later became the famed restaurant Tavern on the Green and is now home to a Parks Department visitors’ center and gift shop.

Moving northward, we get to the Mall, an elm tree-lined promenade and the Park’s widest pedestrian path. It ends in Bethesda Terrace overlooking the lake where one can take a leisurely boat ride during the summer. The elms continue up through Strawberry Fields, Central Park’s memorial to John Lennon on the west side between 71st and 74th streets. Intended as a quiet, contemplative space, Strawberry Fields is marked by a circular black and white mosaic with the word “Imagine” at its center.

The east side of the park at 75th street boasts a large bronze Alice in Wonderland sculpture. Designed to invite children to clamber up on it, the statues have a smooth patina from years of play. A few blocks to the north in the middle of the park lies Belvedere Castle at 79th street. Conceived by Calvert Vaux, the edifice is in the style known as a “Victorian folly,” that is, serving a primarily decorative purpose. if a whimsical one. The Castle has the best views in the Park.

The oldest manmade object in the park was created in 1450 BC and installed in Central Park in 1881. A gift from the Egyptian government, the Obelisk previously stood in Aswan, along the banks of the Nile, and then in Alexandria prior to arriving in Manhattan. From the Obelisk at 81st street, one can walk four blocks north to the Reservoir, formerly the city’s temporary water supply to be used when maintenance was conducted on the regular system. It holds a billion gallons of water and is encircled by a mile-and-a-half path for runners and walkers.

Also on the north end of Central Park is the Conservatory Garden, which can be accessed on the park’s east side at 105th street and Fifth avenue or at the 106th street entrance. This area is home to neatly manicured topiaries, carefully pruned bushes, and delicate flower beds. the Conservatory Garden is actually comprised of three gardens in the Italian, French, and English style, respectively. U

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ovies have the Oscars, Broadway the Tonys, music the Grammys and television the Emmys. But when it comes to the culinary arts, the highest honor in the land goes to the chefs and restaurateurs who receive a James Beard Award, presented annually in New York City in a gala ceremony and reception attended by luminaries in the world of food and beverage. Not to mention, the celebrity presenters and enthusiastic eaters hungry for a brush with (and taste of) gastronomic greatness.

(OppOsiTE pAGE, frOm TOp lEfT) Alejandro Barrios Carrero; Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart; Andrew Zimmern; Eric Asimov; The Aviary, Chicago; Ken forkish; Christopher Kostow; Cecilia Chiang; Brooks Headley; maricel E. presilla; Bill Yosses; Barbara lynch; Anne Willan; Dan Barber, Blue Hill, Nyc; Tracie mcmillan; David Chang; Del posto, NYC; Dorothy Kalins; Gabriel rucker; frasca food and Wine, Boulder, CO; Danny Bowien; Adam sachs; Ann Taylor pittman; Emeril lagasse; Colby Garrelts; melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer; rachael moelling Gorman; Hank shaw; maguy le Coze, le Bernardin, NYC; Joseph lenn; melissa Kelly; Wylie Dufresne; Jennifer Jasinski; stephanie izard; merry Edwards; michael mina; paul Kahan; fuchsia Dunlop; Katie Quinn Davies; Normand laprise; state Bird provisions, san francisco; roger sherman; matt Goulding, matthew Kadey (Not pictured) with Tamar Adler, and paul Kita; Nina Barrett; “ChopChop” (sally sampson); Brett martin; Tory mcphail; On location: “The mind of a Chef” on pBs; monica rogozinski; Diane morgan; “How To Cocktail” on liquor.Com – producers: Kit Codik (right), scott Kritz, and Noah rothbaum (left); michele Outland (right) and fiorella Valdesolo (left); scott mowbray (right) and Ann Taylor pittman (left); Dark rye, Darkrye.com; Zarela martinez; “Yes, Chef: A memoir” By marcus samuelsson; michael steinberger; Johnny monis. photos by JuanCarlos-H, Kent miller, courtesy of JamesBeard.org. s u mme r 201 3

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James Beard Slept (and You Can Eat) Here “Welcome to our house. We’re a performance space, a showcase for the culinary arts, a place where chefs come to cook and diners come to enjoy amazing food and great conversation,” gushes Izabela Wojcik, director of house programming at the James Beard Foundation, as she welcomes a visitor into the James Beard House. Here, in this charming 1844 townhouse in Greenwich Village, James Beard (1903-1985), the legendary father of American gastronomy, taught, wrote cookbooks, entertained and, well, lived the good life for his last 12 years. Today, the historic structure serves as, among other things, the setting for lavish dinner parties catered by some of the country’s best chefs…and everyone’s invited.

While it’s not a museum to the original celebrity chef, key details and relics around the house honor his larger-than-life persona, including the color scheme—cream-of-tomato-soup orange and pea green. According to Clay Triplette, who served as Beard’s personal assistant and still holds the title of house steward, Beard was fond of pineapples and crowns; the two themes are reflected in light fixtures, framed prints and upholstery patterns.

Chefs work beside a tattered world map that hangs in the open kitchen, exactly where Beard placed it. On a balcony overlooking a greenhouse-like dining room and backyard garden stands Beard’s old shower. Up a few steps in the main dining room, a six-person “bedroom table” occupies the alcove in which Beard actually slumbered. Photos of the beloved bald one and friends including Julia Child line the walls, as do a few of his bow ties, a pair of cufflinks and his flamboyant, beige linen toque with mandarin collar and colorful appliqués.

For the great honor of cooking here, invited chefs bring and prepare “products that were grown or handpicked for them, that showcase their local terroir,” says Wojcik, who oversees about 220 events—dinners, lunches, Sunday brunches and an occasional afternoon tea—each year. Guests are literally wined and dined.

They’re treated to passed hors d’oeuvres and a multi-course meal with wine pairings, as well the opportunity to mingle with other diners and, the pièce de résitance, meet the chef and staff.

“The biggest difference between having a dinner here and going to a restaurant, even if they know you and they treat you really well and you get a special table,” say Wojcik, “is that here there’s an intimate interaction with the chef … That relationship already means your dinner is going to be more than the sum of its parts. It will transport you to new heights.”

For schedule, rates, reservations and further information on dining at the James Beard House, call 212.627.2308 or visit www.jamesbeard.org

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or the 2013 extravaganza, held for the seventh time at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on May 6, chefs ditched their white toques and, as is the custom, donned their best formal wear. Tuxedos for men, gowns and sky-high stilettos for women. However, in the case of the inimitable Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food, winner of Rising Star Chef of the Year, black tie attire was a funky powder-blue suit, white shirt with flowery blue collar and two-tone sneakers.

“The suit is Dries Van Noten. The shirt is Raf Simons and the shoes are Jordan 11s,” said Bowien. “The concept of these shoes is that Michael Jordan wanted basketball shoes that he could wear when he’d go to press conferences. His slacks would hit them low and it would be like he was wearing dress shoes. They’re called Space Jams.

I wore these 15 years ago, and they’re really hard to find now. I’m the most proud of these.”

Like his personal style—his hair is black, orange, yellow and emerald green streaked—Bowien’s cuisine is bold and inspired. His distinctive brand of spicy, nose-to-tail Chinese-American cooking causes long lines to form in front of the hotter-than-a-Szechuanpeppercorn Mission Chinese Food on Manhattan’s Lower East Side (and its original outpost in San Francisco). Yet, moments after accepting the coveted medal—bestowed upon “a chef age 30 or younger who displays an impressive talent and who is likely to have a significant impact on the industry in years to come”—Bowien seemed amused and even slightly bewildered by all the attention. “I don’t know why I won,” he said with a laugh. “It’s definitely unexpected.

I mean, it’s an amazing thing for me because what we’re doing is so different, and I got into this not knowing what I was doing in the beginning. I had cooked other cuisines, but not Chinese. Being able to get recognition for something that I’ve only been doing for a few years is just insane.”

It was an equally monumental, if overwhelming, night for other New York City chefs and restaurants who took top honors in several of the major categories. Among the local heroes was Wylie Dufresne of wd~50, named Best Chef: New York City, whose state-of-theart kitchen tools include a dehydrator and cryovac machine. “I’ve been nominated ten times before—seven in this category—so I was trying to set a record for most nominations without a win,” quipped the mastermind of molecular gastronomy. Dufresne beat out stiff competition from April Bloomfield of The Spotted Pig, Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto and Mark Ladner of Del Posto. The palatial Italian restaurant Del Posto did, however, claim the prize for Outstanding Service; Brooks Headley, the man behind its decadent desserts, was named Outstanding Pastry Chef.

A vision of grace and classiness in a black sequined gown and fur shrug, Maguy Le Coze, owner of the revered seafood shrine Le Bernardin in Midtown, cried as she referenced her late brother while accepting the award for Outstanding Restaurateur. And while a collective gasp rose from the audience when it was announced that there was a tie for Outstanding Chef—David Chang of the East Village’s beloved Momofuku Noodle Bar and Paul Kahan of Chicago’s Blackbird—the most touching moment of the evening went to Dan Barber, chef/owner of 14-year-old Blue Hill, a farm-to-table institution in the West Village, which won the Outstanding Restaurant award.

Barber brought nine members of his team on stage. He pointed out the former line cook who ascended to vice president, the waiter who became manager and the young Mexican night porter who is now Blue Hill’s esteemed pastry chef. “I feel like the luckiest chef in America,” he declared.

After the ceremony, the beautiful crowd, which included Padma Lakshmi, Debra Mazer and Martha Stewart, celebrated in the lobby, where 22 chefs—all past James Beard Award Rising Star Chef nominees or winners—presented tasting portions of exquisite dishes inspired by movies. “Winning a James Beard Award can change a chef’s life,” reflected Susan Ungaro, president of the James Beard Foundation. “It means they’ve been voted on by their peers, so it’s very special. The day after the awards, their reservation lines ring off the hook.” But on this night, the victors basked in the glow of their shiny new medals, and the only thing off the hook was their jubilation.

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(BELOW) James Beard Foundation kitchen, by Eileen Miller, courtesy JamesBeard.org.

The Winner’s Circle Proving that New York City is the culinary capital of the country, Gotham chefs and restaurants swept the 2013 James Beard Awards. Medals bearing the face of the bald man with a bowtie went to: Blue Hill Outstanding Restaurant (75 Washington Pl., 212.539.1776) A pioneer in farm-to-table cuisine, Executive Chef/Co-owner Dan Barber showcases locally grown ingredients on an überseasonal American menu.

Del Posto Outstanding Pastry Chef: Brooks Headley Outstanding Service (85 Tenth Ave., 212.497.8090) Helmed by Executive Chef Mark Ladner, a 2013 nominee for Best Chef: NYC, this sprawling Italian palace turns out dishes that are simply squisiti.

Isa Outstanding Restaurant Design (75 seats and under): Taavo Somer (348 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, 347.689.3594) In ultrahip Williamsburg, rustic, farmhouse-style décor sets the stage for eclectic Mediterranean fare.

Le Bernardin Outstanding Restaurateur: Maguy Le Coze (155 W. 51st St., 212.554.1515) From a small fishing village in Brittany, France, came Le Coze, who now runs this world-renowned four-star seafood restaurant with her own je ne sais qua, and charismatic Chef Eric Ripert at the helm.

Mission Chinese Food Rising Star Chef of the Year: Danny Bowien (154 Orchard St., 212.529.8800) A colorful character in his own right, Korea-born, Oklahomaraised Chef/owner Danny Bowien takes flamboyant liberties with traditional Chinese food (hello, kung pao pastrami).

Momofuku Noodle Bar Outstanding Chef: David Chang (171 First Ave., 212.777.7773) With four NYC restaurants and one bar, David Chang’s original, Momofuku Noodle Bar (opened in 2004), still has foodies clamoring for his ramen noodle bowls and savory pork buns. wd~50 Best Chef: New York City: Wylie Dufresne (50 Clinton St., 212.477.2900) Part mad scientist, part culinary genius, Wylie Dufresne uses cutting-edge equipment and techniques to create his signature brand of molecular gastronomy.

It’s an Honor Just to Be Nominated…

To members of this elite group, simply having their names on the ballet was a lifetime achievement.

Empellón Cocina Nominee for Best New Restaurant (105 First Ave., 212.780.0999) Pushing the limits of Mexican staples—sea urchin guacamole, roasted carrots with mole poblano, shortrib pastrami tacos—is young Chef/owner Alex Stupak.

ABC Kitchen Nominee for Outstanding Restaurateur: Phil Suarez Restaurant Group (35 E. 18th St., 212-475-5829) Only the freshest, sustainable, locally grown organic produce, and meats from humanely treated, pasture-fed animals free of antibiotics and hormones, show up on the menu.

Jean Georges Nominee for Outstanding Restaurateur: Phil Suarez Restaurant Group (Trump Hotel Central Park, 1 Central Park West, 212.299.3900) The star sapphire in world-renowned Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s crown of stellar restaurants.

Bar at the NoMad Hotel Nominee for Outstanding Bar Program (1170 Broadway, 212.796.1500) Handsome, warm and clubby, this intimate drinking den features hand-crafted cocktails by Bar Manager Leo Robitschek.

Barbuto Nominee for Best Chef: New York: Jonathan Waxman (775 Washington St., 212.924.9700) An early East Coast proponent of California cuisine, Chef/Owner Jonathan Waxman here cooks Italianinspired seasonal fare, often in a wood-burning brick oven.

Brooklyn Brewery Nominee for Outstanding Wine, Beer, or Spirits Professional: Garrett Oliver (79 N. 11th St., Brooklyn, 718.486.7422) A variety of traditional and specialty stouts, ales and lagers are brewed under the supervision of Brewmaster Garret Oliver, and can be sampled in the Williamsburg Tasting Room.

Marea Nominee for Best Chef: New York: Michael White (240 Central Park So., 212.582.5100) Drawing piscine ingredients from the Adriatic, Ligurian, Mediterranean and Ionian seas, Chef Michael White presents fresh Italian interpretations of fish and shellfish.

Pegu Club Nominee for Outstanding Bar Program (77 W. Houston St., 212.473.7348) Cocktail connoisseurs flock to this SoHo lounge for the cutting-edge concoctions of mixologist Audrey Saunders.

The Spotted Pig Nominee for Best Chef: New York: April Bloomfield (314 W. 11th St., 212.620.0393) Chef/co-owner April Bloomfield prepares high-end British and Italian pub grub to go along with good libations.

Dominique Ansel Bakery Nominee for Best Pastry Chef: Dominique Ansel (189 Spring St., 212. 219.2773) At his eat-in and take-out patisserie, Pastry Chef Dominique Ansel’s cakes, tarts, meringues, madeleines and more, are magnificent confections, each worthy of a place on a pedestal.

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Cook Your Way around Manhattan

By Taylor Smith Urban Agenda has sifted through the many cooking class offerings in Manhattan and determined that for the price of dinner and a movie, one can get a whole evening’s worth of education and entertainment. From cupcakes to Chinese dumplings, home cooks will find at least one class that suits their interest. Those who are more passionate about eating than cooking will enjoy these educational courses as well, since every class ends with a small feast and a hand-selection of delicious wines.

Rustico Cooking Rusticocooking.com Address: 40 West 39th St, Third Floor Located in the heart of Manhattan, near Bryant Park, Rustico Cooking offers culinary enthusiasts the opportunity to cook Italian comfort food in a 4,000 square-foot loft space equipped with two highend kitchens. The classes specialize in regional, Italian country cooking and are taught by James Beardnominated author, Micol Negrin and her husband Dino De Angelis. During each class, you will learn to prepare four to five recipes. After the cooking is done, the newly minted chefs will congregate in the loft dining area where they will sample their food paired with specially selected Italian wines. Cooking classes are offered on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

Private parties are also offered for groups of 12 or more.

Natural Gourmet Institute Naturalgourmetinstitute.com Address: 48 West 21st St, Second Floor With offerings almost every day of the week, these cooking classes focus on health and health-supportive foods. A lot of the classes are centered on preparing vegetarian dishes. Adults can elect to take courses, like “Tempeh Temptations” and “Cracking the Coconut,” each of which is unique. Many of the teachers are nutritionists and whole foods enthusiasts as well as culinary instructors.

A highlight of the Institute’s programming is “Friday Night Dinner,” an event that draws New Yorkers from around

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the city with the promise of an artfully prepared, three-course vegetarian meal.

Cooking by the Book Cookingbythebook.com Address: 13 Worth Street “Small Bites, Big Sips” is Cooking by the Book’s answer to culinary classes.

Each class features hands-on food preparation paired with some sort of wine, beer or spirits. You can also reserve the Tribeca loft space and kitchens for corporate and celebratory events like bridal showers and birthdays. In the process of developing your own cookbook? Cooking by the Book has performed recipe testing and development for best selling cookbooks including the last two editions of the Joy of Cooking.

International Culinary Center (ICE), New York Internationalculinarycenter.com Address: 462 Broadway Filled with eager students looking to enter the profession, the International Culinary Center of New York, also offers amateurs the chance to learn professional food preparation techniques. Any type of course that you could dream up is offered here, from wine studies to pastry arts, bread baking, cake design and Spanish cuisine. Casual cooks will certainly leave inspired by the quality of the cooking instruction and the extremely modern facilities. Classes are taught by the same instructors who teach the career students and in the same kitchens.

De Gustibus Degustibusnyc.com Address: 8th Floor of Macy’s Herald Square Here, the emphasis is on

(ToP, MIDDLE) The International Culinary Center; (BoTToM LEFT, RIGHT) Rustico Cooking.

the award-winning and often celebrity-style chefs that grace the cooking classrooms.

Class subjects include “Vegetarian Voyage,” “Baking: A Guided Tour,” “Exploring the Mediterranean,” and more. Classes are offered Monday through Saturday and advance reservations are required. Before you reserve a space online in your desired class, read about the specialty chef who will be

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teaching the course, what types of dishes will be prepared, and the types of wine that will be served. De Gustibus is perfect for the curious cook who would like to learn more about the professional world of cooking, from the aspects of celebrity to the realities of working as a line cook. This is your chance to peek behind the curtain.

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hether at street level or from the new city High Line, Manhattan is all about cityscape views, so why not enjoy your drink “upstairs” at a rooftop bar? Take advantage of rooftop bars during the warmer months, since most of them are only open to the public from May through September. Each of the bars outlined below has it’s own unique flavor. Some are better suited to drinks with family; others, for that all-important first date. Either way, Urban Agenda offers some ideas for enjoying the sights from a distinctly superior angle.

A Weekend Afternoon With friends Mario Batali’s Eataly is New York City’s mecca of Italian grocery.

With its imported provisions, restaurants, wine store, cheese store, kitchenware store, and cooking school, it is 50,000 square feet of circus maximus. When the crowds become too much to bear, the regulars navigate to a nondescript elevator, which transports them to a rooftop getaway: La Birreria.

The rooftop is an 8,000 square-foot, 300-seat restaurant and beer garden that serves ales from Italian and American brewmasters and hearty fare influenced by Austria and Germany. “The idea was to create an artisanal, old world Italian craft brewery that just happens to be located on a rooftop in Manhattan,” said brewmaster Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery.

Thanks to a retractable glass roof, the experience is never compromised by bad weather. With breathtaking views of the Empire State Building, Madison Square Park, and The Flatiron Building, patrons soak up the sun while they mingle and snack on smoked prosciutto, cacciatorini, coppa, and exotic cheeses served with Frangelico and hazelnut honey. It’s the perfect afternoon outing with friends.

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A speciAl outing With fAmily The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden offers an ideal outdoor venue for the art enthusiast. Perched on the fifth floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the rooftop terrace delivers captivating views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. To enhance the visual experience, each spring the Met commissions a contemporary artist to install large-scale artworks that incite thoughtful dialogue amidst the open-air surroundings. In recent years, the roof has featured major works by prominent artists such as Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella. The current exhibition, on view through November 3, showcases the first monumental commission in the United States from Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi. As the first artist to paint directly onto the terrace surface, Qureshi compels visitors to walk across his red patterned canvas and confront the artist’s gruesome comment on global violence. The garden café serves light snacks, sandwiches, cocktails, beer, and wine to enjoy while absorbing the urban views and thought-provoking installation.

While at the Museum, other must-see summer exhibitions include PUNK: Chaos to Couture, curated by the Costume Institute, through August 14, and The Civil War and American Art, through September 2.

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(oPPositE) the iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden offers an ideal outdoor venue located on the fifth floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photography courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

La Birreria, atop Mario Batali’s Eataly. Photography courtesy of Yelp.

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Gallow Green. Photography courtesy of Paul Wagtouicz.

Date Night The McKittrick Hotel hosts a mind-bending and voyeuristic show titled “Sleep No More,” which is a participatory performance unlike any you’ve ever seen. Vice Magazine “guarantees it’s something you need to see if you’ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to live inside a David Lynch film.” But, before you dive in, grab a drink with your date on the hotel rooftop, Gallow Green.

As you step off the cramped and creaky Victorian-decorated elevator and onto the garden patio of Gallow Green, you just might convince yourself that you are in a dream. Servers are dressed in eclectic fashion ranging from western saloon bartender to bohemian waitress. Patrons—a mix of couples, friends, and coworkers—are scattered in nooks spread across the rooftop.

You’ll find people sipping wine on swings, getting cozy with Martinis by the fire pit, and groups chatting under tree canopies strung with white lights.

As you and your date explore the open-air rooftop overlooking Chelsea’s High Line, why not take a peek behind the unmarked saloon doors that lead to nowhere? Don’t bother trying to figure out what Gallow Green wants to be, because it is a little bit of everything, just accept the experience and let your imagination run wild.

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Address: 1000 Fifth Ave. Phone: 212.535.7710 Hours: Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 10AM–4:30PM; Friday and Saturday 10AM–8PM; Friday and Saturday Martini Bar Hours: 5:30–8PM.

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La Birreria at Mario Batali’s Eataly Address: 200 Fifth Ave. Phone: 212.229.2560 Hours: Sunday-Wednesday, 11:30AM–10PM; Thursday-Saturday 11:30AM–11PM.

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Gallow Green at the McKittrick Hotel Address: 530 W. 27th Street Phone: 212.564.1662 Hours: Monday-Saturday, 5PM. until close; Sunday from 4PM until close.

Rumson. Custom designed home built in 2011 delivers expert craftsmanship and beautiful finishes with 5 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, in-ground pool, and spa. Stacey Afflitto-Wain, $3,100,000 Shrewsbury Office, 732-842-6009.

Fair Haven. Nestled in a serene woodland setting, this exceptional 7000+ sq ft home, built in 2004, featuring natural materials and indoor/outdoor living with magnificent views. Joan LaBanca, $2,900,000. Shrewsbury Office, 732-842-6009.

Point Pleasant. 4 beds, 4.2 baths, 9-ft ceilings, built-ins, and 3-fireplaces. Movie theater, wine cellar, cigar lounge and exercise room. Natural gas generator. Riparian grant. Billie Ann Meier, $2,300,000. Pt Pleasant, Office 732-899-3700.

Princeton. Stately Center hall Colonial in The Preserve boasts 6 beds, 4.1 baths on estatelike property with pool house and in-ground pool. Ermelinda (Linda) Carnevale, $2,098,000.

Princeton Office, 609-921-2600.

Mendham Boro. Plantation-Style home offers new world convenience in an old world, country estate setting. In-ground pool, 5 beds, 4.2 baths.

Bryan Seavey & Linda Heffernan, $1,875,000.

RLS Realtors, Mendham Office, 973-543-1000.

Princeton. Style, comfort and quality. Designer kitchen and baths, 3 fireplaces and topping it all off are Bluestone patios, outdoor fireplace and screened porch. Ellen Lefkowitz, $1,849,000.

Princeton Office, 609-921-2600.

Montgomery Twp. Charming bespoke cape delivers spacious living with indoor and outdoor pools, spa, and elegant gardens on Bedens Brook CC 17th green. 6 beds, 5 baths. Alison Covello, $1,250,000. Princeton Office, 609-921-2600.

Colts Neck. Perfectly restored c.1850 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath historic home with handcrafted moldings and 9’+ceilings. Horse farms surround the serene 3.6 acre property. Maureen Bertodatti, $1,099,000. Holmdel Office, 732-946-3200.

Mendham Twp. Currier & Ives Center Hall Colonial delivers sophisticated elegance in desirable Drakewick neighborhood. 5 beds, 3.1 baths.

Bryan Seavey & Linda Heffernan, $1,050,000.

RLS Realtors, Mendham Office, 973-543-1000.

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