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NY’s Galleries Go to the Hamptons

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New York City’s art culture has changed dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic. Museums are closed, swanky galleries are seeing less foot traffic, and the recession is curtailing sales. Many New Yorkers fled the city to their outlying vacation homes, and their favorite New York art houses, galleries, and artists followed them.

This development is a win for collectors who say that online and virtual exhibitions are not the same as personal, visual interaction with the art and artists. More gallery options also means additional venues for emerging artists to showcase their talent; in crowded city spaces, it was hard to compete with famous names.

In the Hamptons, for example, collectors are coming out of lockdown to explore the newly opened gallery options popping up along the tidy, quiet streets. While the area used to be where the city’s dealers, artists, and collectors vacationed, now that they have spent most of the pandemic living here, there is much to discover. Since early June, five major art shops, headquartered in New York City, have set up spaces: Pace, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe, Michael Werner and Sotheby’s.

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Hell’s Kitchen: New York City’s Trending Travel Destination

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Not too long ago, Hell’s Kitchen was a New York City neighborhood to be avoided. Named for the squalid living conditions experienced by 19th and 20th century immigrant residents and the trendy Meatpacking District once home to 250 slaughterhouses, was ruled by gangs and seedy businesses. Today, Hell’s Kitchen is a fun, safe, and fascinating place to visit on any trip to New York.

Towering skyscrapers, glossy office buildings, and lavish condominium projects have taken over the neighborhood.  Hudson Yards, the largest private development in U.S. history, has made Hell’s Kitchen one of New York’s most coveted addresses. Alongside the new corporate, retail, and living spaces in Hudson Yards, the site is also emerging as a cultural landmark with the Shed Concert Hall, a half-billion-dollar dynamic venue that can be opened or closed depending on the weather and type of performance. The Edge, a sightseeing observatory on the 100th floor of the tallest Hudson Yards tower, is set to extend 65 feet over the edge of the building and feature a partial glass floor. While that skyscraper is still under construction, high-end shops, including luxury department store Neiman Marcus, are already open for business. Several chic new restaurants such as the pricy and lauded Queensyard and Wild Ink, serve delicious meals with international flair.  

The parks are packed with New Yorkers and tourists, all taking selfies with and in the city’s newest icons and backdrops. Art museums, fashion designers, and chic galleries host millions of visitors each year. The High Line, a popular green trail on the now-defunct railway platforms, sweeps across 15 blocks as a beautiful swath of native plants and wild grasses, colorful flowers, and blossoming orchards.

Stretching between 34th to 59th streets, from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River, Hell’s Kitchen offers endless tourist opportunities from sunrise to sunset. It is packed with must-see attractions and must-try eateries. Enjoy!

Belleclaire Hotel

Central Park Tour

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In this video, the NYC Traveler begins his tour in Central Park, Manhattan. Located close to Shimmie Horn’s Hotel Belleclaire, the NYC Traveler takes us inside one of the world’s largest museums – the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).

The museum features 28 interconnected buildings which have 45 permanent exhibition halls, a planetarium and a library. There are more than 33 million specimens[5] of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts; only a fraction of these are on show at any one time, occupying over 2,000,000 square feet.

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Manhattan Model

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With an incredulous attention to detail, an amazing model of Manhattan’s skyline has been created using old computer chips, damaged mobile phones, defective batteries and other such discarded items.

The brain, creativity and implementation behind this is Zayd Menk who worked on the project for around 3 months.  through his art class project, the Zimbabwe born 17-year-old fashioned a .0635:100 scale model of Manhattan.

The project used the following:

  1. 263 hot glue sticks,
  2. 11 CPUs,
  3. 27 motherboards,
  4. 10 CRT monitor motherboards,
  5. 15 batteries,
  6. 13 floppy disk readers,
  7. 4 watches,
  8. 4 audio cards,
  9. 3 hard drives,
  10. 3 graphics cards,
  11. and 2 clocks to bring the city to life.

Menk explains the inspiration for the project as follows:

“Under my topic ‘Man-made’ I was already studying cities,” Menk tells My Modern Met. I was also studying electronic waste. I’ve always thought that the tiny components on a PCBs [printed circuit boards] look like small cities, so I think It was some sort of subconscious thing that just clicked in my head… I’m absolutely ecstatic that my artwork has gained some attention. Hopefully, it will inspire other artists to come up with some creative ideas.”

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Cookies and Good Deeds Collide in New NYC Bakery

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A tiny new bakery has opened on Wall Street, in a space barely larger than a closet. What’s even more interesting, though, is that this space is actually a significant step up for the Feed Your Soul Café, a boutique cookie shop which grew from infancy in a small studio apartment.

Fast forward 10 years and it’s now a popular online retailer for baked goods and cookie dough with a philanthropic twist: for each order that is placed, a freshly baked cookie is donated to The Coalition of the Homeless. These cookies play a significant role in their everyday milestones and special events like birthday parties.

Owner Mya Zoracki has said that while the brand has big dreams for the future, it will never lose sight of its primary goal: “to inspire and help everyone it can along the way.” The new Manhattan location is the first Feed Your Soul Cafe, and serves babkas, brownies, sticky buns and cookies.

 

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Is Denny’s Going Upmarket?

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DennysDenny’s was always the local breakfast bar, fast, not particularly healthy and very kid-friendly.  Now, however, its presence in Manhattan might be giving it a whole new name altogether.  The new Denny’s, set to open in Manhattan’s Financial District, is to offer its wares on a whole new level – $300 breakfast, upscale, with champagne.

The Grand Cru Slam has basically the same stuff as other traditional Denny’s breakfasts, but this time with a twist. The 2004 Dom Perignon Premier Cru Champagne comes with the breakfast, but for those looking for something different yet still upscale, cocktails beginning at $11 will be on offer too.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Belgian Waffle Slam, costing $10.99 will fare with hungry Manhattaners stopping by for breakfast.

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Manhattan’s First Commuter Ferry: Water Taxi

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NY-water taxiThis week sees the first commuter ferry travel on the Hudson River to Manhattan.  Far West Side residents will be able to take advantage of this new mode of transport, that, until now, has not been available to the midtowners.  In addition, tourists in the neighborhood – such as those staying at Shimmie Horn’s Iroquois Hotel – can benefit from the New York Water Taxi.  These boats will transport people between the World Financial Center and West 44th Street, every quarter-of-an-hour during morning and evening commutes.

For those who catch the taxi the first week of travel mid-June, no payment is required.  From the second week on  however, a round trip will cost $8 with a discounted rate offered for frequent users.

This is the first Manhattan-to-Manhattan ferry service.