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New York City

Hey. . . Get A Room!

Whether tantric or quickie, missionary or kinky, here are DP’s hotel recommendations for every kind of assignation.

Food & Drink

Be Our Guest

Can the talented team behind new downtown restaurant Guest New York turn an ill-fated street corner location into a hotspot worthy of a Michelin star? We’re betting they can.

Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell in HBO‘s The Gilded Age
New York City

Hey, Big Spenders!

Unlike the old/new money protagonists in HBO's The Gilded Age, NYC’s contemporary elite share their wealth more freely—to the city’s benefit.

Then and Now

Here is New York

E. B. White’s 1949 love story to the city that never sleeps seems as relevant and poignant today as it was nearly 75 years ago.

New York City

Private Clubs: How Much is Too Much?

Is the recent influx of private clubs in Manhattan satisfying the wealthy New Yorker’s inner Anglophilia, or their need to cull the herd . . . or both?

Idris Elba in front of the Paris Theater in Manhattan for the em>Luther: The Fallen Sun US premier in March 2023
Art & Culture

Paris calling

Netflix has tarted up New York’s legendary movie theater, and the cinephiles are happy.

Drinks and a copy of the New York Times at Scratchers bar, New York City
After Hours

Literary Dive Bars

What inspires a NYC writer? Cheap booze, good gossip, sticky floors—and maybe just a bit of gloom.

Butterfly migration

The monarchs are coming!

Another orange wave will soon descend upon New York City, but this is one you will want to see.

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.

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