5 Memorial Day Weekend Ideas: Memorial Day Activities Across NYC
Staying local in NYC this weekend? Same here! And while we love heading out to points east every once in a while (especially: Ditch Plains, Montauk), there's also something extremely satisfying about hanging city-side on these big, summer holiday weekends – and Memorial Day weekend starts it all off. Basically: there are more fun things […]

Dragonfly NYC Brings Asian Food to the Upper East Side
At first glance, Dragonfly New York Asia, which opened about a month ago in the old Arriba Arriba spot right near The Marlowe on the Upper East Side, looks like a million other places in the neighborhood, some of which are fine, a few of which are quite good, many of which are just plain […]

This Weekend: New Taste of the Upper West Side – May 18th & 19th
Yes, NYC food events are getting to be almost dime a dozen these days: from the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party (this June, in Madison Square Park), to the summer-long Smorgasburg in Williamsburg, to the Stone Street Oyster Festival every fall, to the first-ever, oddly-named Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park (this weekend!), to on and […]

Fratelli la Bufala NYC: Naples-Style Pizza on the Upper West Side
Pizza on the Upper West Side is clearly ready for Fratelli la Bufala, the upscale pizza-centric restaurant that recently opened near Glenwood's luxury rental apartment buildings The Grand Tier and The Regent, and which has been packed just about every night since. It's exactly the sort of place the neighborhood craves, a casual but cool-looking […]

Fulton Fish Market Neighbor New Amsterdam Market Now Open for the Summer
The New Amsterdam Market, located right by the old Fulton Fish Market in the South Street Seaport area, reopened last Sunday for the season, which is good news indeed for all New Yorkers, but especially for downtown Glenwood residents (in both the Barclay Tower and Tribeca Bridge Tower), and especially ESPECIALLY for Glenwoodians fortunate enough […]

Perla NYC Restaurant: New West Village Restaurant from Gabe Stulman
Gabe Stulman is something of a genius when it comes to creating West Village restaurants that combine exciting, excellent food with pretty, convivial surroundings with welcoming, total-pro service. First at Joseph Leonard and across-the-street Jeffrey's Grocery NYC near Sheridan Square, then at Fedora on West 4th Street–and before those at nearby Little Owl with former partner […]

Dinner and a Movie NYC Guide: Lincoln Plaza Cinema
Because we love nothing more than the classic dinner-and-a-movie night on the town, here is part three of Glenwood’s Dinner-and-a-Movie Guide, each installment featuring a movie theater we frequent and an array of personally recommended, close-by dining options, from quick-bite places to more serious dining spots. This week: Lincoln Plaza Cinema (photo by bonez007), in the Lincoln’s […]

Barbarini Alimentari: Great Italian at South Street Seaport NYC
Downtown Glenwood residents–especially you, in the luxury highrise Manhattan apartments Barclay Tower and Liberty Plaza–may we please introduce you to your new favorite neighborhood restaurant: the simple, pretty, consistently terrific Barbarini. Of course, you might already be well acquainted with Claudio Marini (formerly of Caffe Linda) and Stefano Barbagallo's (out of Paprika) casual Italian spot […]

Smorgasburg Brooklyn Flea Food Market 2012
The next time you're making plans with friends to meet for brunch, here's an alternative suggestion to the usual 45-minute-wait to eat the same old eggs benedict/French toast: Smorgasburg Brooklyn, the huge, all-food-all-the-time market in Williamsburg, which launched its 2012 season last Saturday in its usual spot right by the water (and, incidentally, by the […]

BareBurger: Organic Bare Burger Meat Deliciously Joins the Upper East Side
BareBurger is a mini-chain worth rooting for. The newest outpost of this casual eatery opened recently on the Upper East Side, bringing the total number of BareBurgers in NYC up to an impressive eight, with a ninth soon to come in Queens. And from what we've witnessed so far (we've dined in three), food-wise, crowd-wise, […]