From the East End of Long Island, Claire grew up coming to NYC & now gets to write about the best city every day! Her favorite borough is Queens (living in Astoria for 5 years), & on weekends she can be found at a local brewery, new restaurant, or reading the latest mystery novel.
Coronavirus is taking over the globe, and the news cycle. With one officially confirmed patient in NYC (and another just outside the city in Westchester), it’s natural to start panicking. But the city is on it. Bo...
Gage & Tollner opened in 1879 in downtown Brooklyn, arguably the borough’s oldest restaurant and bar, but closed in 2004 when a T.G.I. Friday took over its space. But this isn’t that particular NYC gentr...
The treasured New York Public Library has spent almost two years working on their first-ever permanent collection, which will bring incredible historical items out from the library’s research archives to the publi...
We love a good interactive art exhibit here in New York City (just a bit of evidence here, here and here!), and this one may be our favorite yet. Entitled “Perpetuum,” this beautiful creation is currently on...
From gardens in abandoned spaces to plastic bans, NYC has definitely gotten a lot greener in recent years, but the buildings themselves haven’t transformed into actual green spaces…until now. Terreform One,...
Though we have every type of food imaginable available throughout NYC, famous chain restaurant The Cheesecake Factory has every type of food imaginable just on its own menu. There is only one location currently in NYC—a...
Cupcakes are already basically just a cuter version of cake…but when you add a bar with old school yard swings you can enjoy your confection at? That just takes the cake! That’s exactly what Molly’s Cu...
If you ask a New Yorker or search for the best chocolate chip cookies in NYC, Levain is always at the top of the list. The bakery was started in 1995 by Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald after they made the perfect chocola...
The name “Studio 54” always evokes the image of a vintage, glamorously wild party, but unless you visited there in the ’70s and ’80s, you may not know the full story behind the iconic nightclub....
Nutella—you either love it or you…wait, there isn’t anyone who actually hates Nutella, is there?! Well even if there somehow is, this guide is for the lovers of Nutella. The ones who could eat Nutella on the...