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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.

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.

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.

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