Speakeasy

30 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, New York City Reading Time:  8 minutes

New York's 21 Club was a Prohibition-era speakeasy © David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0

New York’s 21 Club was a Prohibition-era speakeasy © David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0

A speakeasy, also called a beer flat or blind pig or blind tiger, was an illicit establishment that sold alcoholic beverages. The term may also refer to a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies.   read more…

High Line in New York City

6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  8 minutes

© Dansnguyen

© Dansnguyen

The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line’s design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf. The abandoned spur has been redesigned as a “living system” drawing from multiple disciplines which include landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. The High Line was inspired by the 4.7 km (2.9 mi) long Coulée verte (tree-lined walkway), another elevated park in Paris completed in 1993.   read more…

Eggs Benedict

29 September 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, New York City Reading Time:  7 minutes

Eggs Benedict with bacon © flickr.com - Alpha/cc-by-sa-2.0

Eggs Benedict with bacon © flickr.com – Alpha/cc-by-sa-2.0

Eggs Benedict is a common American breakfast or brunch dish, consisting of two halves of an English muffin, each topped with Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. It was popularized in New York City.   read more…

The Mercer Hotel in SoHo

2 September 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Hotels, New York City Reading Time:  5 minutes

© flickr.com - ajay_suresh/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – ajay_suresh/cc-by-2.0

The Mercer Hotel, located at the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. It offers 73 guest rooms on six floors of a Romanesque revival building. Opening in 1997, The Mercer is the sister hotel to The Greenwich Hotel.   read more…

One Vanderbilt in Midtown Manhattan

1 August 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Kidfly182/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Kidfly182/cc-by-sa-4.0

One Vanderbilt is a 73-story supertall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer SL Green Realty, the skyscraper opened in 2020. Its roof is 1,301 feet (397 m) high and its spire is 1,401 feet (427 m) above ground, making it the city’s fourth-tallest building after One World Trade Center, Central Park Tower, and 111 West 57th Street.   read more…

NoLIta in New York City

22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

Mural on East Houston Street and Bowery © Nolita Studio LLC/cc-by-sa-4.0

Mural on East Houston Street and Bowery © Nolita Studio LLC/cc-by-sa-4.0

Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from “North of Little Italy“, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Nolita is situated in Lower Manhattan, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west by Lafayette Street. It lies east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown.   read more…

Pride Month

1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Berlin, French Riviera, Greater Los Angeles Area, Hamburg, London, Miami / South Florida, New York City, Paris / Île-de-France, San Francisco Bay Area Reading Time:  9 minutes

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride. Pride Month began after the Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States. Modern-day Pride Month both honors the movement for LGBT rights and celebrates LGBT culture.   read more…

Pullman Hotels and Resorts

20 May 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Hotels, Paris / Île-de-France Reading Time:  8 minutes

Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel © flickr.com - International Railway Summit/cc-by-sa-2.0

Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel © flickr.com – International Railway Summit/cc-by-sa-2.0

Pullman Hotels and Resorts is a French multinational upscale hotel brand owned by Accor. Pullman has 145 hotels and resorts in 42 countries spread across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle-East and Oceania.   read more…

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manhattan

30 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

© David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0

© David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Congregation Shearith Israel (lit.: Congregation Remnant of Israel), often called The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2 West 70th Street, at Central Park West, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.   read more…

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