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New York City

The Wonder of Loew’s Wonder Theatres

As much as they were built to simply show movies, these pleasure domes were also built for New Yorkers to feel a sense of awe.

Fairfax Dorn in the laundry room she designed for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Photo by
Arts & Culture

Fairfax Dorn: bringing art to utility

The Ballroom Marfa co-founder is making her mark with her first Kips Bay Decorator Show House room.

Famously memorialized as the Amazon Hotel in Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar, the Barbizon also hosted the likes of Grace Kelly and Liza Minnelli, Peggy Noonan, and future First Lady Nancy Reagan. However, by 1980 it was one of only three hotels for women operating in the city. Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux
New York City

No Boys Allowed: NYC’s Women-Only Hotels

Were they a haven, an escape from male predation, a control of women’s sexuality—or all three?

Julie Reiner, New York City's 'cocktail queen'. Photo by Daniel Krieger
Food & Drink

Julie Reiner, NYC’s Cocktail Queen

Traditionally, bars have been the province of men. Then came Julie Reiner, breaking the cocktail-glass ceiling.

After Hours

Jac’s on Bond

Bond Street’s newest hipster mecca is the kind of hotspot Cousin Greg would approve of. (No surprise, since Succession actor Nicholas Braun is an investor.)

Bathtub Gin's cocktail menu comes in the form of a newspaper blaring headlines like “A Classic New York City Gin Joint
After Hours

Speakeasies 2023

Sometimes you want to go where absolutely nobody knows your name.

New York City

New York’s Most Unusual Co-Op Board Dramas

Your NYC Co-Op Board vs. You: Who Will be the Winner?

Fashion

Kirna Zabête Opens Uptown

Downtown retail maven Beth Buccini is opening a new Steven Gambrel-designed boutique on Madison Avenue.

Chef Rich Torrisi’s original NYC venture was located around the corner from his new incarnation in the Puck Building. He draws inspiration from Nolita and Little Italy. Photo courtesy of Major Food Group
Dining Out

Rich Torrisi Goes Glam

The New York chef’s glitzy new Torrisi Bar & Restaurant is like the cocktail party you don’t want to leave.

Looking in the window at La Bonbonniere, a historic greasy spoon in the West Village. Photo courtesy of @happydavid
Local Flavor

NEW YORK’S BEST GREASY SPOON

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

The New York Junior League hosted its Most Outstanding Volunteer Party for Amy Phelan at Pink Elephant on January 23, 2010. (Photo by CLINT SPAULDING/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
The New Twenties

The End of Excess

The Pink Elephant’s former GM says the debaucherous consumption his notorious nightclub pioneered in the aughts would never fly today.

A bartender pours Sippin Santa cocktails at the Miracle on 9th Street pop-up in the East Village. Photo courtesy of Miracle on 9th Street.
Ho Ho Ho

The Best Holiday Pop-Ups

From traditional tree lightings and ice skating to cocktail pop-ups and boozy ice cream to heated pools with a view.

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