Midnight to 4 AM at Smalls: Inside the West Village Jazz Basement That Refuses to Close on a Friday Night
Down a flight of stairs off West 10th Street, Smalls Jazz Club plays serious straight-ahead jazz until 4 a.m. Here’s why the after-midnight set is the real New York night.
Westlight: The 22nd-Floor Williamsburg Rooftop Where the Entire Manhattan Skyline Lines Up at Sunset
Atop The William Vale, 22 floors above North Williamsburg, Westlight holds the whole Manhattan skyline in one frame. Here’s how to catch the Friday sunset from Brooklyn’s highest rooftop bar.
The 500-Square-Inch Triangle of Pure Spite Hidden in a West Village Sidewalk
At Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street, a mosaic triangle smaller than a doormat has been insulting New York City for over a century. Meet the Hess Triangle — the city’s tiniest, pettiest landmark.
The Cemetery Beneath Lower Manhattan: How a 1991 Discovery Unearthed the Graves of 15,000 Forgotten New Yorkers
One block from City Hall, beneath a federal building, lie an estimated 15,000 free and enslaved Africans who built colonial New York. The story of the African Burial Ground National Monument.
The East Village Store Guarded by a Predator: Inside Tokio7’s 30-Year Avant-Garde Archive
Since 1996, Tokio7 on East 7th Street has quietly run one of NYC’s finest consignment operations—Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Issey Miyake, and a 900-pound scrap metal Predator standing guard outside.
Andrew Carnegie’s Secret Vault Is Now a Bar—And You’re Drinking Inside It
Beneath 115 Broadway in the Financial District, Andrew Carnegie’s 1904 bank vault—once sailed down the Hudson River on a barge—is now one of NYC’s most extraordinary hidden bars. Here’s how to find it.
The Red Doors of West 10th Street: Inside Three Lives & Company, New York’s Most Literary Bookstore
Since 1978, a small bookshop with red double doors has stood on the corner of West 10th Street and Waverly Place in the West Village. Three Lives & Company is named for a Gertrude Stein novel, has hosted readings by Toni Morrison and Raymond Carver, and is one of the best bookstores in New York City. Here’s why it matters.
The Only Louis Sullivan Building in New York City Is Hiding in Plain Sight on Bleecker Street
At 65 Bleecker Street in NoHo stands the only building Louis Sullivan — the father of the American skyscraper — ever built in New York City. Its 7,000 terracotta tiles, organic ornament, and six rooftop angels have watched over the street since 1899. Here’s the story almost nobody knows.
They Drove a Wisconsin Supper Club to Brooklyn: The Turk’s Inn and the Sultan Room After Dark
In 1934 a supper club opened in Hayward, Wisconsin. When it closed in 2015, two devotees drove everything to Bushwick and rebuilt it. The result is one of the most singular after-dark experiences in New York City.
The Street New York Forgot: Sylvan Terrace’s 20 Wooden Houses and the Cobblestones Nobody Can Find
Tucked behind a staircase in Washington Heights, Sylvan Terrace is a single cobblestone block lined with 20 identical wooden rowhouses built in 1882 — invisible from the sidewalk, and one of the most startling streets in Manhattan.