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mini guide: the garment district
Blog: cherrypatter - 9 October 2009
everyone has to come close to the garment district, at least if you ever have to use the ugliest train station ever — penn station. it still is hard to believe that the city allowed the old amazingly beautiful one designed by mckim, mead and white to be destroyed. oh right, i forgot, madison square garden was [...]
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interview: ann cantrell, annie’s blue ribbon general store
Blog: cherrypatter - 8 October 2009
i’m very happy to announce addition number two to cherrypatter (last week was the long awaited map) – again a long time in coming — will be a series of interviews to find out where some of the people behind my favorite places like to eat and shop. i’ll also be featuring people who just love [...]
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Got the runs
Blog: Big City Blog - 8 October 2009
...in that I needed to.Saturday was another really good one - this time directly to the Eiffel Tower. Running west on the pedestrian path alongside the Seine, first past Notre Dame cathedral again, the tower itself only appears in glimpses between buildings occasionally - until it appears consistently as a great motivator to keep running.
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dear fieldbinder: the beauty on smith street
Blog: cherrypatter - 8 October 2009
although atlantic avenue has a bunch of fancy clothing shops, the rest of south brooklyn doesn’t really see that much in the high end range, or at least my interpreation of high end which is where the range is often around $200 or more. for me, especially that i no longer work in a law firm which is [...]
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New York, You’ve Changed – Taxi Driver (Part 2)
Blog: Scouting NY - 7 October 2009
“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY site feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, it is a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what [...]
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posteritati: for the film obsessed
Blog: cherrypatter - 7 October 2009
posteritati is an unassuming shop at the very bottom of chinatown (or soho according to some) just where it starts to bleed into the city hall and wall street area. usually, i wouldn’t think of roaming around there but there actually seem to be quite a few cute shops there including saturdays, a surf and espresso shop [...]
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NYC Ft. Tryon - 2009 Medieval Festival
Blog: Travel Jounral - 7 October 2009
NYC Ft. Tryon - 2009 Medieval Festival
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yerba buena: great cocktails, good latin american food
Blog: cherrypatter - 6 October 2009
yerba buena has been on my list since it opened last year, and we finally made it — en famille - just a few weeks ago. we came at an ungodly hour (i won’t admit how early) but it’s a good thing we did as it’s not really a child-friendly restaurant though the waiter did a [...]
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New York, You’ve Changed – Taxi Driver (Part 1)
Blog: Scouting NY - 5 October 2009
“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY site feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, this is a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what [...]
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der schwarze kolner biergarten: almost like being in germany
Blog: cherrypatter - 5 October 2009
j. spent more than 7 years living in germany before i met him, and understandably he was very excited for me to visit his adopted homeland. i, on the other hand, couldn’t have been less enthusiastic. of all the european countries, we were going to spend lots of time in stuttgart and frankfurt — delightful. [...]
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New York - U2
Blog: Big City Blog - 3 October 2009
Jumping back about 9 days, the following is a post about New York... it was the first stop (after a night in Montreal) on the leaving-town calendar. More Parisian posts to follow shortly...The drive to NYC from MTL is roughly 6-7 hours, depending on traffic and the weight of the driver's right foot. We (my oldest friend Jason) and I left from downtown at about 7:45am.
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atlantic antic: amazing, a street festival that’s fun
Blog: cherrypatter - 2 October 2009
i am no lover of street fairs, and usually when i see them coming i run the other way. i don’t actually understand why new york city supports them. the same stuff all the time, blocking up the streets, producing lots of garbage and i don’t actually know who enjoys them. i know, this is [...]
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mini guide: atlantic avenue
Blog: cherrypatter - 2 October 2009
there will be plenty going on along atlantic avenue with the atlantic antic, but just in case the street fair shopping is not doing it for you, there are so many excellent shops lining atlantic avenue within boerum hill that it was very difficult to pick which ones to highlight. basically all you need to [...]
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Teaser: Guess the Movie!
Blog: Scouting NY - 2 October 2009
On Monday, we’ll be posting a brand new “New York, You’ve Changed” article, part of a series in which we compare the New York depicted in a particular movie to the city of today on a shot-by-shot basis. Many readers were pleasantly surprised at how little had changed with regard to the New York of [...]
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goldy + mac: a quick and affordable pick-me-up
Blog: cherrypatter - 1 October 2009
when we moved back to park slope way back in 2004 and we were living at the corner of 4th avenue and president, it was bizarre. definitely not like the old hood had been in the late ’80s, and it was all good. instead of passing by the incredibly expensive but alluring anik or searle, i had diana [...]
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Leaving NY: The White Mana Diner
Blog: Scouting NY - 1 October 2009
Recently, I’ve been scouting New York looking for Detroit (don’t ask), a search that ultimately led to me to northern Jersey. As I was driving down down Tonnele Ave in Jersey City, I had to pull over and shoot what has to be one of the coolest diners I’ve ever come across, The White Mana [...]
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john derian: maybe my favorite store ever hidden on east 2nd street
Blog: cherrypatter - 30 September 2009
i know it may be hard to believe, since i do try to talk about the best this or that, but the john derian company inc. is really truly one of my very very very favorite stores of all kinds. i think that i have only held off writing about it for so long because i was [...]
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saraghina: a very pleasant pizza adventure
Blog: cherrypatter - 29 September 2009
as i’ve mentioned before, our family has this pizza friday tradition. while sometimes it has to be local (and last friday i endured two boots which while extremely family friendly really leaves something to be desired in the taste department), we try to make a bit of trek out of it both for better pizza [...]
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shake shack: still amazing despite all the accolades
Blog: cherrypatter - 28 September 2009
shake shack is not exactly a revelation for anyone who knows anything about the new york food scene, but i’m very happy to report that it continues to be as good as it’s ever been, and i’ve been coming here from the very very beginnings when it was just a hot dog cart. my office [...]
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The Owls of PS 110
Blog: Scouting NY - 28 September 2009
Next time you’re heading over the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn, either driving or on the pedestrian walkway, be sure to check out the public school on the south side. PS 110 (the Florence Nightingale school) has one of my favorite school adornments in the city… …a roof covered in owls! They’re perched everywhere, from these five on [...]
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tompkins square park: toddlers exist in the east village!
Blog: cherrypatter - 25 September 2009
we spend many of our weekends in new york hunting down the best playgrounds. we travel all over to explore the newest, the most fun, the biggest and the wildest play areas in the city (we are so tired of our local one at j.j. byrne parkwhich isn’t so great anyways). if we hear or see [...]
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mini guide: tompkins square park
Blog: cherrypatter - 25 September 2009
before moving to brooklyn, the far east village was totally my stomping ground. ten years ago, this part of town was a little less gentrified, a little rougher around the edges, and that allowed for smaller shops anda few restaurants to really thrive without worrying about whether they could pay the rent. that all became [...]
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New York, You’ve Changed: Ghostbusters – Part 2
Blog: Scouting NY - 23 September 2009
“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY site feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, this is a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what [...]
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tia pol: tiny nuggets of spanish wonder
Blog: cherrypatter - 22 September 2009
i haven’t had the best of luck with spanish food. j and i have been to barcelona and madrid (5 months pregnant so that may have had something to do with it) and both times we never really found that nirvana in tapas eating. we kept trying out different spots, trying to pick what looked [...]
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New York, You’ve Changed: Ghostbusters – Part 1
Blog: Scouting NY - 21 September 2009
Today marks the first installment of “New York, You’ve Changed,” a new Scouting NY series in which the New York featured in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not meant to be the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, this is [...]
