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Take Heed: New York Fashion Week is Coming

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Plans are well underway for New York’s winter Fashion Week scheduled for February 6-13, 2020 in Spring Street Studios, a venue in lower Manhattan.

With its glamorous cast of models, exuberant palette of colors, and high-energy environment, Fashion Week is always an exciting time to be in New York. And there is good news for all the fashionistas and style trendsetters who haven’t been invited to the main event(s). Whether looking to experience the marvel of New York in the winter, or staying in the cozy comforts of home, New York Fashion Week is only as far as the nearest smartphone. Heed, an app offering real-time, closeup glimpses of the looks and designs on the runway this winter.

Once reserved for fashion insiders, big-name stars of Hollywood, and models, New York Fashion Week is now accessible to any Heed user. The app allows users to watch the models backstage and on the runway, buy certain pieces immediately after the show, chat with industry leaders and stylists, and get opinions from fashion mavens.

Triumph Hotels

Garden Parties, Movie Nights and More

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Near to Shimmie Horn’s Triumph hotels – spanning Tribeca, Upper East Side, central New York, etc. – are fabulous spots for enjoying some superb summer events.  Here, we take a brief look at three of them.

The Spring Garden Party – hosted each year by The Frick Collection – opens itself up for locals to check out.  Once a year the amazing garden becomes accessible to those invited to the event.  To get an invite to the event featuring a live jazz band, pop-up bars and more, you have to have made a bit of a name for yourself as a fashionista, musician, restaurateur, or philanthropist. Once you get it, check out the official “off-limits area” on the second floor.

For something lower key that requires you to have zero recognition or award-winning qualities, the  Bryant Park Movie Nights series this year has a wonderful lineup including such classics as Driving Miss Daisy and When Harry Met Sally.  Enjoy the best vendors the city has to offer via the Hester Street Fair offering music, biking, art and film. With a secret show, cinematic shorts, BMX display, a Joyride Art exhibition and more, the annual event that in now in its 18th year, continues to be a “major catalyst for the urban bike movement, one of the most powerful and culturally relevant forces of the last decade.”

Cosmopolitan Hotel – Tribeca

Frederick Feature

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Shimmie Horn’s Frederick Hotel was recently featured in the UK’s About Time Magazine.  In an article by Angelica Malin article entitled Perfe4ct Weekend 48 Hours in New York, the Frederick was said to be a “vibrant…fantastic boutique hotel in Tribeca.”  It was further described as being “home to a 24-hour fitness centre, restaurant and cocktail bar [featuring a] vintage and Art Nouveau style, with flashes of colour and touches of minimalist design, for something rather unique to the area.”

Located at 95 W Broadway, the Frederick also offers a 24-hour fitness room, Pret A Manger and Starbucks in the hotel, Serafina Tribeca (a top Italian restaurant) and its own cocktail bar.  Built in 1838 it is one of Tribeca’s “longest-running historic hotels” in the area.

For those booking a suite from now until March 31, 2018, they will receive a $50 American Express Card.

Restaurants

Eating with a Difference in Tribeca

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berriesFor those looking for a menu with a difference in the Tribeca neighborhood, they might be pleased to hear that Maman is opening a third restaurant at 211 West Broadway. Get something that is simultaneously delicious, aesthetically pleasing and healthy, such as the spaghetti-squash “à la carbonara.” This dish features a poached egg, roasted pastrami, pumpkin seeds and rosemary on top of gluten free corn spaghetti and spaghetti squash. Quite delicious and very pretty.

It is hoped that this restaurant will succeed since just over a year ago the first one opened on Centre Street. Next one opened in Toronto and this is the third one. It will be open seven days a week from 7am to midnight.

Tribeca these days is becoming quite well known for its alternative food fare. For example, A. B. Biagi with its organic milk based ice cream, featuring Brazilian flavors and tastes such as basil pine nut and acai berry. If you want a creamy soy milk panna cotta, check out Brushstroke and then for freshly ground Japanese buckwheat, kobe beef and more, Daruma-ya is perfect.

Tribeca certainly has a whole slew of new and veteran restaurants offering alternative food fare to its customers.

The Evelyn

See ‘The Nomad’ when in Nomad!

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For those who happen to be visiting one of Shimmie Horn’s luxurious hotels – like The Evelyn (located in Nomad, Manhattan) or the Tribeca Grand Hotel, it could be a good time to take in a show that is appropriate for the area.

“The Nomad” is currently showing at Manhattan’s Flea Theater (located in the TriBeCa neighborhood on 41 White Street) and has to date received rave reviews.

The musical – with book and lyrics and Erin Courtney and Elizabeth Swados – is not for the slow-paced. The production is quite quick and has a lot going on. It combines both musical theater tradition and Middle Eastern sounds, telling the tale of Isabelle Eberhardt, a romantic and Swiss writer who meets her premature death before reaching the age of 30.

Check it out. It’s definitely something different.

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Young Talent Comes to TriBeCa

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jazzEleven-year old Joey Alexander is about to bring his talent to New York City. The super top child pianist – who lives in Indonesia – taught himself to play piano at the tender age of six. Now, he is all set to make his debut at the Apollo Theater and the Lincoln Center.

A couple of weeks ago, Joey was playing in Tribeca (close to Shimmie Horn’s Cosmopolitan Hotel – Tribeca), with Julliard students double his age with twice his experience! He was playing in order to raise money for a visa so that he could stay in New York City. He said that he likes music, but in particular he pointed out that “the music of jazz is here in New York.”

Well, he’s right there since New York certainly has a name for its jazz.

Shimmie Horn

TriBeCa – The Venue for Culture

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soul-foodFor anyone looking for a bit of extra culture, north of TriBeCa (which also is located right by one of Shimmie Horn’s luxurious hotels – the Cosmopolitan – Tribeca), they will find the bohemian West Village.  There, visitors will be treated to an intimate yet buzzing atmosphere.  The area boasts a variety of eateries, stores and nightlife to thrill even the most adventurous seeker, for hours.  More than that, Harlem has quite an impressive history and today offers something a bit different that has lovingly become known as “soul food restaurants.”

Soul food does not actually traditionally hail from New York.  It originates in the Deep South and arrived on the East Coast via waves of economic migration.  It dates back to slavery during the time African-American families were basically taking whatever food they had access to and then made something with it.  It was a bunch of anything no-one else wanted or stuff from the ground they found.  Since at that time pork scraps were left, today one of the traditional “soul food” dishes to be found in Harlem’s soul food restaurants is pork flavors imbuing collard greens.  For sides, candied yams are quite common too.  It’s definitely food with a difference so worth checking out.