New York

by / on April 23, 2012 at 8:16 am / in Eat, Gary Fong, New York

NEW YORK: CHINATOWN’S CHEAP EATS

    NEW YORK – Admittedly my experience with New York City’s Chinatown has not been lengthy (I have not been going there ‘since we were kids’) but I have done my fair share of exploring the area and have come to know it quite well.  And while I’ve learned a lot – mostly that this overly crowded section of [...]

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by / on April 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, See

NEW YORK: SUNDAY AT THE MET

  NEW YORK:  It was not a good day to do the Met (aka The Metropolitan Museum of Art).  The weather was crap, gray and sad, verging on showers.  The eastside subway connecting downtown to the Upper East Side was on a very limited schedule due to some seemingly never-ending construction (which usually means long waits and packed trains).  And [...]

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by / on April 13, 2012 at 4:59 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, See

NEW YORK: THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

    NEW YORK – I’m not a huge fan of Brooklyn; it’s a bit too hipster-y for me.  But I’ve always enjoyed Brooklyn’s main museum located over in Prospect Heights.  Housed in a lovely, turn of the century McKim, Mead & White designed building (the same blokes who designed a bit of the Met and that grand entrance to [...]

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by / on April 11, 2012 at 5:37 pm / in Eat, Gary Fong, New York

NEW YORK: COFFEE, BAGELS & SLICES

  NEW YORK – While I’ve only spent a short time in New York City, I seemed to have developed a rather strange addiction during my tenure living there, which I’ve decided to acronym as CBS.  CBS stands for: Coffee – i.e. the corner bodega or street kiosk coffee Bagels – i.e. the crusty-on-the-outside chewy-on-the-inside kind Slices – i.e. the [...]

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by / on March 28, 2012 at 10:37 am / in Gary Fong, New York, See

NEW YORK: JANE’S CAROUSEL

    NEW YORK – A quick jaunt over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn’s Dumbo district brings you to one of NYC’s newest and most unique attractions in recent years (as my friend who joined me said, “only NYC would have something like this”).  There lies Jane’s Carousel, a fully restored 1922 classic carousel encased in a acrylic [...]

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by / on March 26, 2012 at 5:54 pm / in Drink, Monica Byers, New York

NEW YORK: GRAND BAR (AT SOHO GRAND HOTEL)

By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK, NY – I have loads of amazing memories planted in my visits to the Grand Bar at the Soho Grand Hotel.  The first time I ever visited, I was living in Los Angeles and visiting with a group of friends when we linked up with the complete strangers seated at the next table.  It was [...]

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by / on January 12, 2012 at 4:36 pm / in Drink, Monica Byers, New York

NEW YORK: MADAME X

  By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK – It calls itself “New York’s sexiest bar and lounge” and that might be about right.  Madame X is downright slutty – think New Orleans bordello meets dive bar.  Though not very fancy, this joint is definitely provocative.  The whole place is bathed in red – from the walls to the lighting to the velour [...]

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by / on January 4, 2012 at 8:23 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, Relax

NEW YORK: FORT TRYON PARK

  NEW YORK – Head to the most northern point of Manhattan island and there you’ll find one of New York’s best-kept secrets, Fort Tryon Park.  A smaller version of Central Park (about one-tenth the size), Fort Tryon offers all the perks of its famous uptown sib – quaint, tree-lined paths, lovely gardens, a rich legacy, and top-notch artwork – [...]

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