#lower-east-side

#lower-east-side

If your idea of the perfect book club meeting is drinking wine and chatting with friends without one mention of the book you 'read', then we've found your people.On May 10, the inaugural meeting of the Elizabeth Banks Book Club by Archer Roose will take place at Serafina Ludlow (Lower East Side) between 5pm-7pm - and believe us when we say, this is no normal book club.

In January 2021, New York institution Sammy's Roumanian, known for its Jewish Romanian food and vodka-fueled parties, shuttered on the Lower East Side.Now it seems, the team is plotting a new location for the venue.According to Community Board 3 meeting list, Sammy's Roumanian has a lease in the works at 191 Orchard Street, between Houston and Stanton streets, where it's pursuing a liquor license application.

Several defendants face charges in connection with murders and robberies at Manhattan bars that terrorized the city's gay community, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.The homicides last spring drew wide attention to a danger that has long stalked New York's nightlife: the use of easily obtainable drugs to incapacitate, rob and sometimes kill.

New York City is a food lover's paradise.The 12 best foodie neighborhoods in NYC include Chinatown and Chelsea, but delicious food can be found all over the city.Some people seek out the 10 best pizza places in New York, while others wish to explore NYC's best rooftop restaurants.New York City is also known for its wide variety of restaurants serving up a wide variety of dishes.

Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a fashion designer whose pieces were worn by Lady Gaga, the actress Laverne Cox and dancers of the New York City Ballet, was working on her 27th collection last summer.A few weeks before her sudden death, she posted photos of translucent garments that reflected her Gothic aesthetic and her fondness for somber colors.

It was a dark Saturday night last month on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Saturday nights can get very dark, but Sabrina Brier, in a rhinestone necklace and strapless plaid pantsuit, was agleam onstage at a basement comedy club called Caveat warming up the crowd.You're the butter, I'm the microwave, she announced.

A new dinner series requires patrons to dine without clothes on.The Füde Dinner Experience is "a liberating space that celebrates our most pure selves, through plant-based cooking, art, nudity, & self-love," per a New York Times report.Held on the Lower East Side by Charlie Ann Max, an artist and model, tickets cost $88 per person for the vegan meal, and applications for attendance are required to be submitted through its website.

NYC's food and drink selection is massive, especially when it comes to bars.With new ones opening every day it seems, it's a constantly changing scene that we love to keep our pulse on.Depending on what you're looking for in a bar, you have so many options!Looking to snuggle up in a cozy speakeasy?Or maybe even enter through a hidden door?

In one of the year's most expensive sales, a brand-new penthouse near the top of 220 Central Park South sold for $72 million.The full-floor aerie was acquired in an apparent off-market deal by an anonymous buyer, who also picked up a smaller unit on a lower floor of the skyscraper, which holds the country's record for the highest price paid for a single residence.

Today, the role of Where to Eat writer, usually played by Nikita Richardson, will be performed by an understudy.I hope you'll still enjoy the show, as we have a few exciting reader questions to address.The curtains open on Act I, a request for dishes from Florence, Italy, that can scratch the travel itch.

All 11 books are about or set in New York City.Eleven books set in or about New York City will vie for the Gotham Book Prize, a $50,000 annual award honoring the best new book about NYC.The finalists' books range from a debut novel set in 1990s Harlem to a love story in post-WWII New York to a noir mystery in mid-2000s Brooklyn.

Have you ever submerged a perfect piece of New York pizza into a puddle of ranch dressing?The kind of slice with a little char on the bottom, that folds but doesn't break, wears both cheese and tomato sauce (but not too much of either), and was probably reheated in an electric oven before being served on a paper plate with a piece of parchment paper to stop the flow of grease?

The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying - even during a pandemic - yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives.With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across lots of standout dishes, and we don't want to keep any secrets.

Each year, the Gotham Book Prize recognizes the best NYC-focused books, and this year's finalists are in.Created in mid-2020 by venture capitalist, political strategist, and writer Bradley Tusk and Education program lead of Bloomberg Philanthropies Howard Wolfson as a way to uplift the creative community during the pandemic, the Gotham Book Prize sets out to recognize the culture that makes NYC so special.

We lost Bernadette Mayer in 2022.Mayer was a poet and visual artist associated with the New York School.In this poem, the speaker wonders whether all signs pointing toward an early spring are true, despite it being only February.The poem's syntax traverses the hills and valleys of thought as the mind wanders from image to image in a stream-of-consciousness way.

Smorgasburg, the city's longstanding outdoor food festival, returns next week at its locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.The market will be open for the season on Fridays at the Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center beginning March 31, on Saturdays at Marsha P. Johnson State Park in Williamsburg starting April 1, and on Sundays at Breeze Hill in Prospect Park after April 2.

Here, in no special order, is a year's worth of memorable dishes I ate around New York.All come from places that did not make my list of 10 favorite restaurants: Image Cacio e pepe does not belong everywhere, but it belongs in the rice balls at Cafe Spaghetti.Credit...Adam Friedlander for The New York Times The world does not need cacio e pepe bagels or cacio e pepe breakfast cereal, but it probably does need the cacio e pepe arancini  dry and craggy outside, hot and gooey within  that Sal Lamboglia makes in his little red-sauce joint by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

The Edgewater neighborhood will soon be home to Casadonna, a new Coastal Italian restaurant developed in partnership between David Grutman's Groot Hospitality and Tao Group Hospitality, marking their first joint restaurant between the popular groups.Casadonna - a fusion of Italian words translating to "house of the woman"- is set to debut this summer and will be located in the historic Women's Club building, which is also home to Klaw, and will serve Riviera Italian cuisine with traditional dishes from Naples, Taormina, Bari, Positano, and Gaeta served in a contemporary way.

The brothers Michael Karim Sopariwalla and Amin Himani, busy restaurateurs in Staten Island and beyond, have joined forces for the first time to open this Mediterranean restaurant, offering tastes of Greece and Turkey in Midtown Manhattan.The two came up with the idea while traveling in the region.The result is a fairly compact dining room, mostly with high-top tables and creamy leather upholstered chairs that share the space with the bar.

Alleva Dairy, a 130-year-old cheese store in Little Italy, closed its original location on Wednesday but will reopen in Lyndhurst, N.J.The pandemic dealt financial blows to the shop, which opened in 1892 and became known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella.The cheese store accumulated $628,000 in back rent and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

When Izzy Yanay arrived in New York City in the late '70s, he was stunned he couldn't find any foie gras.After all, New York had stuffy French restaurants, if only a smattering of them.But they were apparently not stuffy enough to serve foie gras.Why won't they eat it?he recalls peppering everyone around him.

New York City has a rat problem, but this holiday season one neighborhood is dealing with the menace: There is a new fearless cat on the Lower East Side, and he can take down an awful lot of vermin.He can also crack wise, twerk and land somersaults, because we are in the wacky land of pantomime, not the 6 o'clock news.

Clubstaurant is a term bandied about in the Eater NY newsroom a lot lately, and I've got to admit to not knowing exactly what it meant.It is obviously a portmanteau of "club" and "restaurant," but beyond that: Did patrons in skimpy clothes dance languidly while balancing plates of food?

Three local food vendors have opened at a new half-acre public park on the ground floor of 550 Madison Avenue, an office tower located between East 55th and 56th streets in Midtown Manhattan, according to a spokesperson.The lineup at the 21,300-square-foot space includes: Eat OffBeat, a local group that works with refugee and immigrant chefs; Local Roots NYC, a market and cafe that started as a community-supported agriculture group; and Manhattan coffee shop, Black Fox.