Is BrisketTown the (current) Winner of the NYC Smoked-meat Wars?
BrisketTown in the Brooklyn Neighborhood of Williamsburg
Today’s question: who has the best smoked-meat in NYC? BrisketTown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is certainly a contender. (more…)
Check out Jon Kessler: The Web, at Soho’s Swiss Institute
Giant iPad at Jon Kessler: The Web at the Swiss Institute in Soho
I recently visited John Kessler’s newest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in Soho. If this is your kind of art, I urge you to make a visit.
Mixed-media sculptor Jon Kessler has been a personal favorite for a bunch of years now, ever since I first saw his massive The Palace at 4:00 A.M. piece at MoMA PS1 back in early 2006. Featuring dozens of surveillance cameras and their corresponding, trickily positioned monitors, and a hundred intricate, often kinetic details, The Palace took over the entire third floor of the museum and was, in a word, amazing. And everything I’ve seen of Kessler’s since, such as last winter’s The Blue Period at Salon 94 on Bowery, has been more of the same: tons of closed circuit cameras, lots of whirring, moving parts, crazy imagery, overall amazingness. (more…)
Why Gowanus is on Track to Becoming Brooklyn’s Next Top Residential Neighborhood
Rendering of Lighthouse Groups 700-unit Luxury Rental Complex in Gowanus
A lot of times in this real-estate-crazy town you hear about a neighborhood, or even micro-neighborhood, that’s a sure-fire “next big thing.” New residential towers are coming, the hipsters say, along with new restaurants, new stores and services… everything about this unloved/undiscovered community’s about to explode. And then, often as not, nothing really happens, and everyone’s attention moves elsewhere. Which is definitely NOT the case for that most unlikely candidate for major development, Gowanus. (more…)
New Phone Booths and Trash Cans: a Pair of Recent Innovations That Could Change the Lives (sort of) of NYC Residents
“Smart Sidewalks” Payphone — Combining Communication, Sustainability and Location Information
How often do you think about the tens of thousands of garbage cans on our NYC sidewalks and subway stations, parks and pedestrian plazas? Pretty much never, right? Except when they’re overflowing with trash because of some nearby festival or parade or whatever, and then you say “gross” and go about your day? And what about those other ubiquitous street structures, NYC payphones? Hahahahaha, I know. Even less! Who still uses those (talk about gross!), except advertisers, as billboards? (more…)
Check Out Tomorrow’s Best Ramen Dishes Today with the Excellent YUJI Ramen Test Kitchen at Whole Foods Bowery
YUJI Ramen at Whole Foods Market in the Bowery/Lower East Side of Manhattan
The Whole Foods Bowery / Smorgasburg partnership has already brought some first-rate cheap eats to the second floor of that sprawling store, with Milk Truck’s quality grilled cheeses and Mighty Quinn’s sublime barbecue among the highlights since the program’s launch last fall. Really, it’s been a great addition to the neighborhood for Lower East Side and East Village residents, not to mention anyone looking for a quick bite before catching at movie at the Sunshine. And now? It’s even MORE great at the Whole Foods Smorgasburg with both the imminent opening of the Smorgasburg Snack Bar (starring, I hear, the fabulous sweet treats from the women of Butter and Scotch), and, right now, the crazy-good YUJI Ramen Test Kitchen setting up shop for the next two months. (more…)
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