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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 [...]
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general and finds: and these are real brooklyn finds!
Blog: cherrypatter - 27 May 2009
general and finds (which until very recently had been store518) joins some of my other favorite little shops and food pit stops (including ruby moriarty and prime meats) concentrated in this great area at the far end of court street in brooklyn. general and finds is the creation of designer nadia tarr, who got lots of acclaim this past year (and maybe [...]
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taste of tribeca: a downtown food feast
Blog: cherrypatter - 15 May 2009
i don’t know that i really need an excuse to hang out outside and eat in this 70 degree weather (assuming no rain of course), but just in case you’re looking for one, taste of tribeca is a great event that is going on tomorrow, saturday, may 16th. held on tribeca’s cobblestone streets, this event [...]
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From Different Planets
Blog: Scouting NY - 13 May 2009
What does this building facade, with its stylish brick work around the windows, great peaked roof, and interesting ornamentation… …have to do with this ugly two-story storefront? As it happens, they’re part of the same building. Yeah, you see this kind of thing all the time, but if you stop to really think about it, the two halves [...]
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The dark side of New York
Blog: everthenomad - 13 April 2009
Today, shaken out of sweet morning sleep by the sound of heavy construction in the apartment upstairs, I started pondering New York, this city of constant change, a place of overwhelming noise, an urban giant ever in flux.
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Adriannnn!
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 7 April 2009
A bit of a quiet day today folks. As I write this at 21:10 EDT I have just awoken from a power nap. That’s right, it’s all go go power rangers. I arrived in Philly at lunch time after a rather pleasant 2 hours on a Megabus (and not an annoying Owens Park student in sight/ear [...]
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I’m an alien
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 5 April 2009
A night out was had in the East Village (I think it’s also known as Alphabet Village) and it was a good one, the club we went in was NYC dinge at it’s finest. Ended up in Queens with some of the locals, so that leaves just The Bronx and then I will have been [...]
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Bada bing, bada boom, Betty Boo
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 4 April 2009
Day 4 and I changed my gruds this morning. A real landmark moment in the trip, almost seminal. I’ve now got the hang of the metro system and have also cracked all this 39th and 7th – 2 blocks down – make a right business. It’s actually all pretty straight forward when you consider it laterally, [...]
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Freedom, liberty and the right to shoot $hit
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 3 April 2009
Hello again gentle reader(s). Done the Statue of Liberty today, nae bad but they don’t let you go to the top anymore, I can only think it due to the Ghostbuster’s escapades. Does anyone else think it somewhat ironic that probably America’s most famous and well loved landmark was donated to them by the cheese [...]
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America f*ck yeah!
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 2 April 2009
Okay, after months of banal waffling I’m finally here. Hello New York City! The flight was ace, they just kept plying me with food and drink and there were loads of films and games gratis. Benjamin Button – good, Ritcheous Kill – chuffin’ dreadful. Had a quick mooch around Time Square last night and to [...]
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African restaurants in NYC
Blog: everthenomad - 31 January 2009
I love to eat at African restaurants so I thought I'd tell you about a couple of my New York favorites.
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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Blog: everthenomad - 26 December 2008
With no special plans on Christmas day, I took a little trip with friends down to Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. Walking along the shore of this once prosperous fishing community, I never would have guessed this was New York City. It felt like we traveled far beyond the city limits while, in fact, it was only a car ride away.
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Ex-Yugo restaurants in NYC
Blog: everthenomad - 9 December 2008
I come from a country that doesn't exist. Yugoslavia is no longer, apart from in our memories – and in the food that lives on.
