Things To Do In New York

Williamsburg's Sweet Chick Revives an Iconic Harlem Favorite

Fried chicken and waffles seem like an odd pairing, as if somebody were trying to cram dinner and breakfast into a single meal. Which is just how it originated in the late... More »

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 »

Respect your elders, as the dictum goes, especially when they're managing your alcoholic intake. That's the most important rule of thumb in befriending the decidedly colorful over-sixty bartending staff of Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern (a/k/a "GPT"), a red-walled Williamsburg treasure... 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 »

The fictional rich brat Chuck Bass isn't exactly the kind of guy we ever want to see nursing a glass of Maker's at a bar. Luckily, he doesn't actually own this place. Gossip Girl ties notwithstanding, The Empire Hotel Rooftop Bar & Lounge is a good enough follow-up to the Met's high... More »

Monday nights are really the perfect time to go out dancing: It's the beginning of the week, you're already a zombie, and you need to get out that pent-up energy from sleeping in and stuffing your face with brunch all weekend. The Good Kids, a newly formed crew of current and former... More »

The basement dancerie Drom celebrated its reopening in the spring after quietly shutting down more than a year ago. The time off did the space a service. Once just another bar hidden among the dives of the East Village, Drom has now fully embraced its original aim of bringing global... More »

For a while, we thought the Jalopy Theatre was the only country venue. But the fact that we knew of it at all says a lot: We grew up in a smelly, armpit-shaped land not far from New York City where country music simply did not exist except in the form of whatever crossover pop from... More »