Little Italy Pizzeria on W. 43rd off Fifth Avenue in Midtown doesn't look particularly historical. However, the independent business ...

Part of what makes my "Who Goes There?" columns for Eater so much continuing fun is the solid knowledge that, no matter how lon...

It took me 25 years of living in New York to get to La Grenouille. Now that I've been, I will be back many times. It easily establish...

I thought, by finally dining at The Famous Oyster Bar, I might crack this mystery of a restaurant, which has dumbfounded me for 25 years....

Little did I imagine the love that abides out there for the dusty French midtown mainstay Le Périgord. The comments on this particular ...

UPDATE : Looks like Gallagher's, thankfully, is changing hands, not closing down. More to come. ***** Now not even the stalwart s...

I passed by the midtown location of Colony Records, the iconic music store in the Brill Building that went out of business last month aft...

Manhattan has a lot of old hotels with great, storied names. The Waldorf=Astoria, the Peninsula, the St. Regis, the Carlyle, the Edison, ...

I used this week's "Who Goes There?" column on Eater to pay my respects to Prime Burger, which is closing today, Saturda...

Prime Burger, the Midtown diner of great longevity and startlingly un-ironic urban authenticity, is going to close. The news comes from E...

The Westmore is a fairly typical mid-century apartment building. It's located on W. 57th Street, west of Columbus Circle. It was built ...

Keep looking. You keep finding. Jean's, a metal storefront with a plain name and a number, on a saddish block of W. 45th Street in Mi...

I hadn't been to a reweaver since I wrote about (and thus discovered) the trade for a New York newspaper about four years ago. And I mi...

First Graydon Carter souped up the legendary Waverly Inn and the Monkey Bar. Then Gabe Stulhman fancified  the Village icon Fedora. And To...

One of my favorite shoe shine shops used to be on the south side of W. 44th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. I often stopped there...

Not sure what's going her, but a reader tipped me off to the fact that the D'Aiuto Bakery building in the Garment District is up fo...

I like the way the block of W. 48th Street between Fifth and Sixth continues to act like a real Midtown block, stubbornly providing a grimy...

The Carnegie Deli, one of the few Jewish deli standard bearers left in Manhattan, is in danger. According to the New York Post , the Seven...

I was about to cross the intersection of Lexington and 58th when I was suddenly transfixed by the towering horror of 731 Lexington. Couldn...

This lovely old building on Fifth Avenue in the 30s, while bright white on the Avenue side, seems to bear a pale green tint on the street s...