28 June 2006
Barbarian at the Dive Bar Gate
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The other night, I was holding up a section of the bar at Jimmy's Corner, the last great dive in Times Square, drinking a Sam Adams, lis...
I Walk Along the Street of Sorrows
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I was wending down 57th Street, the sometimes glorious, sometimes unlovely crosstown artery, when I noticed that developers had had their wa...
27 June 2006
Time in a Bottle
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So I was given a tour of the fabled wine cellar at the more fabled "21" Club last week. (Don't ask why.) What a wonder of a pl...
23 June 2006
Refuge of Civility
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I have found one of the last redoubts of those all-but-lost touches of New York civilization: service, proper attire, quietude and dignity. ...
22 June 2006
Burger King
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Just came back from lunch at Donovan's, the squat, sprawling, darkly lit Irish pub that slightly distinguishes the urban blight otherwis...
21 June 2006
Breakers at Tiffany's
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I'm usually upset by news that an iconic store or restaurant has decided to divide itself and become that odious thing, a chain. This so...
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20 June 2006
Real Estate and Nothingness
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According to New York magazine, the absolute cheapest, rock-bottom price to be had for an apartment in Manhattan is $162,180. And it's a...
15 June 2006
Fish Nut Alert: Your Secret Clubhouse Is Moving
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The Curbed website tells us that the Capital Fishing Tackle Company, which has been in the same storefront next to the Chelsea Hotel on 23rd...
14 June 2006
Ain't Gonna Happen
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Nobody is EVER going to refer to the Williamsburg Bank Building in Brooklyn as One Hanson Place, its faux-classy new name now that its been ...
Poor Little Lambs
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The Lamb's building on W. 44th Street, at one time home to the quizzical, once-storied actors club Lambs, has severed its connection to ...
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