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A pop-up bookstore just opened in the back of this Brooklyn brewery

A pop-up bookstore just opened in the back of this Brooklyn brewery

“It’s giving Scholastic Book Fair,” says Shasha Leonard, the newly-minted proprietor of Backroom Books, a pop-up book shop at Strong Rope...

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Gator

Gator

5 out of 5 stars

March 15, 2024: A short menu that I have a hard time choosing from is a rare thing. There are usually a few obvious standouts, but at Gator, which opened last...

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari

3 out of 5 stars

February 28, 2024: Union Square Park seems quieter than I can ever recall seeing it in the evening, even pre-pandemic. On a recent walk along its eastern and...

Gator
5 out of 5 stars

March 15, 2024: A short menu that I have a hard time choosing from is a rare thing. There are usually a few obvious standouts, but at Gator, which opened last...

Gator

Gator

5 out of 5 stars

March 15, 2024: A short menu that I have a hard time choosing from is a rare thing. There are usually a few obvious standouts, but at Gator, which opened last...

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari

3 out of 5 stars

February 28, 2024: Union Square Park seems quieter than I can ever recall seeing it in the evening, even pre-pandemic. On a recent walk along its eastern and...

Naks

Naks

3 out of 5 stars

February 21, 2024: The hospitality group Unapologetic Foods has been a local industry leader for several years, and about as many restaurants. Its original...

Breeze

Breeze

3 out of 5 stars

February 13, 2024: New York City is just rich with restaurant openings. Big, splashy openings with TV-repeat celebrity chefs, intimate neighborhood affairs...

Café Boulud

Café Boulud

3 out of 5 stars

February 2, 2024: A hundred dollars is a lot of money, until it isn’t. When the regulars at the idyllic West Village restaurant where I once worked used...

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    The 50 best bars in NYC right now

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    NYC's 12 best first-date restaurants

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    Chinatown

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    The 23 best cocktail bars in NYC

    New York has enough bar categories, themes and conceits to fill the Gowanus Canal, but none dredge up as many connotations as the cocktail bar....

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