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mini guide: bushwick, brooklyn
Blog: cherrypatter - 7 August 2009
although bushwich is incredibly industrial, there seem to be some side benefits of being accessible on the l train and located just far enough away from the williamsburg crazy development scene. bushwick has what some say is an emerging art scene, and the blog devoted to life in bushwick seems to be thriving. brownstoner picked up that even british airways– the standard [...]
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Private Tour of NYC’s Fourth Ward
Blog: Paris By Appointmenty Only - 6 August 2009
Since all of Paris closes shop in August, I’ll be posting “by appointment” discoveries made during my summertime travels back home in the USA this month. Hope you enjoy this special summer edition with content from New York, Los Angeles and Maine.
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NYC Travel with Kids? Get thee to the Boroughs
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 6 August 2009
THE 'DADDY TRAVELER' LOOKS HOME
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New York street art
Blog: everthenomad - 21 July 2009
One of my favorite things to do at home and on the road is taking photos of street art. It's especially great in New York City, a place in constant flux where nothing stays the same for too long.
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The final curtain
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 28 June 2009
Oh man, what a day. I got in from that gig (which was very good, the pic below is when Dr Dog was on stage) at about half 1 and then had patchy sleep at best as the new arrival in the bunk above appeared to be prone to some sort of weird epileptic whailing banshee [...]
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To the 5 boroughs
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 27 June 2009
One of my ambitions on this trip was to witness a proper gig in the US of motherflippin’ A. Tonight I will kind of get the chance as I’ve been duly informed that there is another free outdoor thing on. I’ve been YouTubing 2 of the bands (Dr Dog and Phosphorence) and really like them [...]
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I’ve had the same jeans on for 3 months now
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 26 June 2009
Last night was nae bad, though funnily enough I’d actually been to the Brooklyn joint (Legion) last time I was here. I know New York like the back of my hand I does. I was drinking ‘Atomic lager’ which tasted hangin’ but it was the cheapest thing going and I couldn’t afford to be picky. The music [...]
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Who ya gonna call?
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 25 June 2009
I got that bored last night that I went to the flicks. Disappointingly, ‘Gomorra’ wasn’t being shown anywhere in New York and I didn’t fancy any of the main-stream stuff out at the moment so I checked the art house listings and opted for ‘The Brothers Bloom’ which was already on my impossibly large list [...]
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Cheerio to John Hancock and co.
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 23 June 2009
Last night was good. I met up with Eric in Harvard Square and we went to a shop called ‘Hootenanny’ which was deadly. I bought a t-shirt and a very smart Ben Sherman polo for a total of $90. Not the smartest move as that’s left me less than $25 a day for New York [...]
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Frenchie’s Gym - Not Your Local Crunch
Blog: Scouting NY - 23 June 2009
Hidden on the second floor of this building adjacent to the JMZ elevated train line in South Williamsburg is Frenchie’s Gym, a slice of authentic old school Brooklyn culture that has somehow managed to avoid the gentrification wrecking ball rapidly swinging toward it. Blink and you’ll miss it. From the ground level, the only evidence of [...]
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coney island and the mermaid parade: an excuse to go to the seashore
Blog: cherrypatter - 19 June 2009
i haven’t been out to coney island in a while, and this weekend is a perfect excuse as the weather is supposed to finally be decent (maybe) and it is time for the annual mermaid parade. this year’s king neptune is harvey keitel with his queen mermaid daphna (whoever she is) leading the way. started in 1983, [...]
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enchanted, back to basic toys on the upper east side
Blog: cherrypatter - 18 June 2009
despite thinking that i have explored every nook and cranny on the upper east side for interesting, not crazily priced stores, i was surprised to learn from my friend in silver spring, maryland that i might have missed a special spot. and it’s true. enchanted is a really wonderful toy store full of hand made, [...]
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lucali: good enough for gq, pretty good for brooklyn
Blog: cherrypatter - 15 June 2009
yes, i’ve been visiting a few too many pizza spots the last few weeks, but given that we have “pizza” friday in our house, and it is one of the few foods k eats without much complaint, it is no wonder. so on my list for a while has been lucali. with the never ending [...]
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governors island: definitely a strange world away
Blog: cherrypatter - 12 June 2009
i finally visited governors island for the very first time last year, and it was one weird experience. although technically part of new york city, this 92-acre island that is just 800 yards from downtown manhattan, just feels like someplace else. full of now empty and abandoned army residential buildings (which are very slowly in the [...]
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mini guide: a kind of desert at the tip of manhattan
Blog: cherrypatter - 12 June 2009
a couple big tourist destinations leave from the very southern tip of manhattan including the statue of liberty/ellis island adventures, the staten island ferry (a great way to see the statue without having to wait in huge lines or pay a cent) and governors island which i just posted about above. unfortunately, and maybe not surprisingly, [...]
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journelle: pretty little things
Blog: cherrypatter - 11 June 2009
although i tend to be quite particular about my clothes and shoes, i have not treated my underthings as kindly, mostly because i am just less willing to splurge in the lingerie department. however, i am slowly but surely coming around and gaining the understanding that yes, it is equally important to have beautiful undies and beautiful blouses and [...]
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cloth: an affordable stylish treasure in fort greene
Blog: cherrypatter - 10 June 2009
i had heard of this place cloth mentioned a few times, but never knew quite where it was or what it was — some kind of crafty place is what i thought so maybe i just wasn’t that interested. when i finally stumbled upon cloth recently in quest for other clothing stores in fort greene it was [...]
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wings at bonnie’s grill: spicy, cheap and filling
Blog: cherrypatter - 9 June 2009
i am not a buffalo style chicken wing expert (and there are lots of opinions on this topic: see here and here for starters). nonetheless i think i can wholeheartedly recommend the wings from bonnie’s grill in park slope. bonnie’s wings show up regularly on the wing rankings, and so i’m pretty sure i like them not just [...]
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veloce pizzeria: the latest square pizza in town
Blog: cherrypatter - 8 June 2009
given my love of the sandwiches produced at porcetta, i was pretty darn excited to try out newly opened veloce pizzeriasince porcetta’s owner sara jenkins is half the creative team behind this sicilian pizza venture (the other owner come from the bar veloce mini chain which i’ve never tried). and since j has no problem trying out every single pizza spot in new [...]
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the high line: an elevated train track landscaped to the nines
Blog: cherrypatter - 5 June 2009
it does seem that the new york’s newest park, the high line, has been under discussion for a very long time with incredible publicity generated by lots of high end support (”friends of the high line” includes quite a roster of developers, politicians and celebrities like ed norton, stella mccartney and sarah jessica parker, of course). now, at last, starting next tuesday, [...]
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mini guide: chelsea and the high line
Blog: cherrypatter - 5 June 2009
mini guide: chelsea and the high line: now that chelsea, or at least the far west side of chelsea will be dominated by the huge attraction of the high line, i think we will be coming to hang out here more and more often. unfortunately, much of the recent development that has gone on, particularly [...]
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deluxa: a good vintage family mix
Blog: cherrypatter - 3 June 2009
so without meaning too, i seem to have been doing a few posts lately on shops with some amount of vintage including general and finds and franny and roey, and they are great stores. i have one more to report on today deluxa, which opened last fall, and then i plan to give the vintage [...]
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vinegar hill: so hard to live up to that hype
Blog: cherrypatter - 1 June 2009
before we ventured over to vinegar hill house, we had never been to vinegar hill the neighborhood and boy is that a treat. one of what feels like the few spots in new york that have been untouched (at least too much) from all the crazy development that has gone on over the last few [...]
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ernesto neto: anthropodino: super fabulous net and pod stuff
Blog: cherrypatter - 29 May 2009
this ernesto neto exhibit called anthropodino, at the park avenue armory, is really fabulous, and kids will be especially smitten. k and i visited last weekend, and it’s definitely worth a few hours. while i could go on and on with some not very well written commentary about this obviously creative brazilian artist (who i had never [...]
