I'm always on the look out for great hidden jazz haunts in New York City, particularly Harlem. I've been keeping tabs on this scene and taking small and large groups of visitors on immersion tours there since 1997. At that time, I started maintai
Tomorrow, Dec. 16th, to celebrate the museum's 75th anniversary. IMHO, this is the best mansion museum in the world. Every painting is a masterpiece you've seen in Art 101. http://www.frick.org/
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I often give advice on NYC, but now I need advice: How/where can I access a bathroom scale (or an old-fashioned drugstore scale) in the Village or Soho so I can weigh some luggage? I'm packing for a bush-plane trip; 25-pound limit. Many thanks.
Read more…Family Travel Forum has arranged a two-for-one deal at this weekend's NY Times Travel Show. Here's how to get it:
Use discount code FTM14 (first registration is $17 plus tax; 2nd registrant is FREE).
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Which Broadway show(s) is everyone excited to see in 2014?
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Once home to hundreds of slaughterhouses and packing plants, this section of Manhattan's Lower West Side was as unglamorous as it got. Yet in 2013, by day well-heeled shoppers roam chic boutiques and brunch in cute little spots, and by night the cobb
If I were to buy a last minute ticket to usher in the New Year with a bang, I'd be headed to one of these five places, where they really know how to party...
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See my question on Ask A Travel Pro and let me know what you think.
Read more…Before there was Sym's and Filenes, there were Alexanders, Franklin Simon, Orbach's, Gimbel's, Saks 34th, A&S, B. Altman, Bonwit Teller, Stern's, S. Klein, May's and EJ Korvette -- which may or may not have been named for eight Jewish Korean veterans
Read more…A tripatini member has tactfully pointed out an error in the NYC segment of this blog. Are you savvy enough to spot it?
http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/dvorak-museums-and-concerts-happy-anniversary-antonin
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Scientific American magazine has just come out with judgments about which cities are green (and in which ways). New York City scored at or near #1 in most categories (although it barely made the top ten for Most Energy-Efficient Buildings). How surpr
Read more…WalkScore.com just computed NYC to be America's most walkable city. #2 - #10 (with their scores) are
San Francisco, 84.9
Boston, 79.2
Chicago, 74.3
Philadelphia, 74.1
Seattle, 73.7
Washington, D.C., 73.2
Miami, 72.5
Minneapolis, 69.3
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Find out if you're smart enough to train a whale (instead of the whale training you).
http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/aquarium-whale-encounters
Read more…Playboy magazine named Mister H the best late night bar in nyc. Is it?
Read more…Cocktails and finger food -- spicy burgers, mini-pizzas, Malaysian samosas -- with New York Travel Writers Ass'n at 230 Fifth. This is the biggest rooftop bar in Manhattan--it's about the size of Rhode Island, but it's divided by palm trees and such
Read more…Weekend rates from $99 a night at 19 Kimpton Hotels through May 1 if you book by March 3. Yup, that includes the Ink Hotel in NYC. http://bit.ly/gXKNdp
Read more…wouldn't be surprised to see some savvy entrepreneur open a mafia cafe/boutique there, offering on the dinner menu a "sleep with the fishes" special along with assorted memorobilial!
Read more…The storefront where Vincent "Vinny the Chin" Gigante, the pajama-clad boss of the Genovese family, reputedly held court, has been covered by thick, black plywood for decades. But this morning we saw workmen ripping out the plywood and getting ready
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