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by / on January 5, 2013 at 10:34 pm / in Drink, Monica Byers, New York

NEW YORK: RACCOON LODGE

By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK – I stumbled across Raccoon Lodge while making the trek from the Financial District to the Tribeca Whole Foods.  Based solely on the name I was dying to try this place and – when I finally visited – I was rewarded with pure dive bar joy. I can’t say this is a strictly locals place [...]

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by / on December 9, 2012 at 10:21 am / in Drink, Monica Byers, New York

NEW YORK: WELCOME TO THE JOHNSONS

By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK – I’m somewhat bi-polar about my drinking and dining preferences.  On the one hand, I love dressing up (sort of) to go out to a classy cocktail lounge for an evening of dirty martini indulgence.  On the other hand, I equally love finding a fun scuzzy place for slumming away the evening.  The thing that [...]

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by / on November 30, 2012 at 8:49 pm / in Drink, Monica Byers, New York

NEW YORK: ROLF’S

By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK – I’m just going to put it out there – while I love Rolf’s any time of year, I really, really adore this German bar/restaurant during the Christmas season.  I’d never heard of Rolf’s until a friend described it as being a place where “Santa threw up.”  Beginning right around the 2nd week of November [...]

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by / on July 30, 2012 at 1:37 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, See, USA

NEW YORK: ASIA SOCIETY MUSEUM

  NEW YORK – Located smack dab in the middle of NYC’s Upper East Side is one of my favorite NYC art venues, the always interesting but often-overlooked Asia Society Museum (ASM).  I say overlooked because it’s not officially grouped in with the nearby venues along Museum Mile (that includes the Met and the Guggenheim) nor is it officially part [...]

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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 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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