One month until Valentine’s Day! With New York is so full to the brim with romantic possibilities, you have no excuse for not finding something exciting, exceptional or expressive for your main squeeze.
 Chocolate is a Valentine’s Day standby and somewhere in Gotham is just the right sweet for your sweet. Check out our Gotham Guide to the […]

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Since we can’t sit enthralled watching Broadway (including my almost certainly now doomed plans for Tuesday), we might as well wander around a bit and be enthralled by the city that has been tarted up for the holidays. Few cities tart up so well and in so many various ways.
Department store windows are the first […]

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it’s that time of year - gridlock, holiday lights (up since mid-October), clanging of Salvation Army bells, coat drives and of course, shopping! And to help with the holiday shopping (which you should have plenty of time for since you won’t be seeing any Broadway shows just now), I have compiled a new installment of the […]

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How do you know where to get the best food, the best clothes, the best deals, the best . . you get the idea. Luckily for us, there is nothing the New York media love more than “Best Of” lists.
New York Magazine is all about these lists:

Best of NY Food
Best Home and Helpful Services in […]

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Welcome to the continuing saga of the Greater Gotham Shopping Series. This week’s episode is Union Square: The Comeback.

If you had told me 20 years ago that the Union Square and Flatiron districts were going to end up being one of my shopping destinations of choice, I would have told you that you were out […]

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Let the word go out. This is the first of the Greater Gotham Shopping Series.And speaking of words, ’shopping’ may not be the first word you think of when you think of Manhattan’s Financial District but you know - you might consider adding it to the list. Need proof?
South Street Seaport is a good palce […]

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Why a series of posts on shopping districts? Well, you could just walk out the door and wade in but let’s be honest. There’s superb shopping across the whole city and in the surrounding areas but this is a big place with thousands, tens of thousands of shops. You can get almost anything here. A […]

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New York is a book town. We know it. You know it. And even the long gone denizens of Book Row (may they rest among the great bookshelves in the sky) know it. From east to west and north to south, the book lover can find shops to browse, readings to attend and book […]

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Has the Bank-Branch Frenzy Peaked?
Well, here’s hoping anyhow. I’m all for the convenience of having my bank within walking distance but I’d like to have other things within walking distance as well. Lately it seems that everything but Starbucks (and an occasional Gap) has been pushed out in favor of yet another Chase, Bank of […]

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