Things To Do In New York

A Little Francophone Corner at Cole's Greenwich Village

For 30 years this space hummed along as Café de Bruxelles, occupying a West Village building shaped like a wedge of brie. Back then, the interior was stark white,... More »

Wylie Dufresne's Casual East Village Outpost

Here is a bowl of New England clam chowder ($15), the stock, thickened with potato, a silky conduit for the flavors of clams, bacon, and bay leaf, served with a bowl of... More »

Mediterranean Diet at Kopiaste Taverna

If Turkey were a skull facing west, the island of Cyprus would be tucked well under its chin, a scant 60 miles off both the Turkish and Syrian coasts. A sizable portion of... More »

We'd been turned away at Death & Co. far too many times to ever consider showing our face there again (really, there's no room for us?) when we stumbled upon Elsa, a jewel box of a bar situated slightly farther south and east. Elsa is one of those bars we'd rather not tell you about,... More »

The real Sin City comes to Gotham with The Top of the Standard (formerly called the Boom Boom Room), the Vegas-y club on the 18th floor of the Standard Hotel, where, for a year, names, name-droppers, and Euros with euros have gasped at the views of the New York skyline if they weren't... More »

If you find Astoria's Bohemian Beer Garden insufficiently bohemian, consider a night at Williamsburg's Radegast not at all a gas, and can discern no siren call from the Lower East Side's Loreley, maybe it's time to venture farther out in your quest to leave no stein untipped.... More »

Well, it didn't work out. You just weren't compatible; you're a Virgo from a small family, and she's a controlling maniac with undiagnosed histrionic-personality disorder. When it's time to end things, take her to Brooklyn Bridge Park. It's free, and God knows you've already spent... More »

Few of Brooklyn's all-ages DIY venues seem to exist in a way (or even long enough) to be considered an institution. These spaces, usually little more than dilapidated warehouses, struggle to establish community and familiarity as much as legalization. But Bushwick venue Shea Stadium... More »

Departing the waterfront when Monster Island's lease ran up, the long-running Williamsburg institution resettled in Bushwick, a brisk walk from the Morgan Avenue L stop, down a side street, and across from a Menonite revivalist mini-megachurch. With enormous blank walls and a giant new... More »