280,000 Pounds of Earth in a SoHo Loft: The Hidden Art Installation That’s Been Here Since 1977
On the second floor of a SoHo building on Wooster Street, 280,000 pounds of earth have been sitting in a loft since 1977. The New York Earth Room by Walter De Maria is one of NYC’s most extraordinary hidden experiences — free, quiet, and hiding in plain sight.
A Mother’s Day Literary Pilgrimage Through New York: Walking the Addresses of the Women Who Wrote the City
A Sunday Mother’s Day pilgrimage through the New York addresses of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, and Toni Morrison.
The Free Russian Museum Hidden in an Upper West Side Brownstone Where the Himalayas Live: Inside the Nicholas Roerich Museum
On a quiet block of West 107th Street, behind an unmarked brownstone door, three floors of mountainscapes glow purple and gold above the Upper West Side. The Nicholas Roerich Museum has been free since 1949 — and almost no one in New York has ever set foot inside it.
The Sunday Sunset Rooftop Hiding on Top of a 1928 Art Deco Tower Most New Yorkers Walk Right Past: Ophelia at Beekman
On the 26th floor of the Beekman Tower — a 1928 Art Deco landmark tucked into a Mitchell Place cul-de-sac most New Yorkers have never set foot on — Ophelia Lounge serves cedar-smoke cocktails under 360 degrees of skyline. The Sunday sunset spot the guidebooks haven’t quite figured out yet.
Movies Filmed in Greenwich Village: A Cinephile’s Walking Guide to NYC’s Most Storied Neighborhood on Screen
Greenwich Village has served as backdrop and character in American cinema for more than seventy years. A cinephile’s walking guide to Washington Square Park, Caffe Reggio (Shaft, Inside Llewyn Davis), Julius’ Bar (Next Stop Greenwich Village), and the specific blocks Gordon Parks, Paul Mazursky, and the Coen Brothers kept returning to.
Saturday in Literary Manhattan: A Bookstore Pilgrim’s Route Through Six of the City’s Most Storied Shops
A full-day Saturday route through six of Manhattan’s most storied bookstores: Three Lives & Company, the Strand, Housing Works, Rizzoli, the Drama Book Shop, and Argosy. From the West Village to Midtown — with verified addresses, hours, transit, and the literary history of every stop.
The $5 Rack and the Hand-Written Tag: Inside Unearth Vintage, Cobble Hill’s Best-Kept Secret
Most vintage shops in New York will sell you a story. Unearth Vintage on Smith Street in Cobble Hill is one of the rare ones that actually has one. The owners — a family of first-generation immigrants from Eastern Europe — came to Brooklyn carrying something most people don’t think to pack: a lifelong relationship […]
Governors Island’s Free Saturday Ferry Is Back — And This Year, You Can Board in Brooklyn Too
There is a trick that every savvy New Yorker quietly files away and almost never shares: if you arrive at the Governors Island ferry dock before 11 a.m. on a Saturday, the ride is completely free. The boat leaves from the Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street in Lower Manhattan — the beautiful green-roofed […]
Spike Lee’s Brooklyn: A Cinephile’s Honest Pilgrimage Through Fort Greene and Bed-Stuy
A pilgrim’s walk through Spike Lee’s Brooklyn — Fort Greene, Bed-Stuy, Do the Right Thing Way, 40 Acres and a Mule — with the complications of gentrification kept honestly in frame.
The Algonquin Round Table: A Literary Pilgrim’s Guide to the Vicious Circle at 59 West 44th Street
The Vicious Circle ate lunch at 59 West 44th Street every weekday for ten years. The dining room is still there. A pilgrim’s guide to the Algonquin Round Table — Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harold Ross, the founding of The New Yorker, and what’s still standing today.