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Before Gourmet Garage, before Whole Foods discovered New York, (and also before D&D had a coffee joint featured prominently in nearly every shot you ever see of the Rockefeller Center storefront set...
Before Gourmet Garage, before Whole Foods discovered New York, (and also before D&D had a coffee joint featured prominently in nearly every shot you ever see of the Rockefeller Center storefront set of the Today show) there was Dean and Deluca, the original Soho food mecca. Okay, the original was on Prince street, but the current incarnation has the same roots. And nuts and seeds and veggies. But I digress. D&D is expensive and pretentious and crowded as all get out especially on the weekends when you need to shop since who can get there during the week? But if you're all about ambiance when you shop, if you're willing to pay a premium because your produce is beautifully displayed or if you just want to see how the other half shops, visit Dean and Deluca. More like a gallery than a grocery, this is still where le tout Soho goes to see and be seen shopping.
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Daffy's lacks the niceties of a large department store. Although a few have gotten the idea and installed semi-private cubicles in the dressing rooms, this is not a place for modesty. You'll...
Daffy's lacks the niceties of a large department store. Although a few have gotten the idea and installed semi-private cubicles in the dressing rooms, this is not a place for modesty. You'll probably be changing in a room with a cast of characters worthy of a Sex and the City casting call. Daffy's is like a box of choc'lates. You never know what you're going to find. One week it's turquoise suede high heeled cowboy boots - just a size too small, another, a pair of Italian jeans that fit EXACTLY RIGHT. Or a Les Copains coat for a fraction of what you know it sells for at stores with chicer shopping bags. The lingerie is especially inspiring. What Daffy's lacks in ambiance it more than makes up for when it comes to delivering the goods
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Soul Fixin's is a tiny restaurant way west on 34th street but worth the schlep. The lemonade's cool and so is the music - as befits a restaurant so named. This is the place if what you're fixin' to...
Soul Fixin's is a tiny restaurant way west on 34th street but worth the schlep. The lemonade's cool and so is the music - as befits a restaurant so named. This is the place if what you're fixin' to taste is homemade finger licking good fried chicken with collards, candied yams and cornbread, whiting fried in cornmeal and potaot salad. The staff is laid back, the ambiance is comfy, and the prices are reasonable. If you've trucked all the way west to buy camera equipment across the street at B&H you have no excuse not to go.
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One of the best museums in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is best visited when you have time to lose yourself. Don't go with a preconceived agenda (and try not to go when there's a...
One of the best museums in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is best visited when you have time to lose yourself. Don't go with a preconceived agenda (and try not to go when there's a "blockbuster" show). Climb the steps at 82nd and Fifth, get your bags inspected - it's inevitable these days - and check you coat. Then pay your admission (the sign says that the suggested entry fee is $15 but the operative word here is suggested. Don't feel guilty if you pay less.) and enter. Chose a direction and just amble through the place at your own pace. Stop when something strikes your fancy. Medieval sculpture? Early Romanesque painting? Japanese scrolls? Egyptian sarcophagi? This is a museum that truly can be all things to all people. Don't say you know nothing about art - surely you know what you like. Find things you like. Enjoy them That's what they're there for.
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This small storefront nonprofit organization is dedicated to teaching children from ages 10-17 more than just how to create art with glass. Through the process of learning to make beads, tiles and...
This small storefront nonprofit organization is dedicated to teaching children from ages 10-17 more than just how to create art with glass. Through the process of learning to make beads, tiles and jewelry, those who participate in Glass Roots' programs also learn about business. While making art enriches their lives it also enhances their self esteem. Marketing their goods - giving them prices, packaging them and selling them - offers valuable lessons in responsibility, perseverance and how the world works. Glass roots is also open on weekends for anyone who wants to learn the art of making glass beads.
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden can seem as if it's never crowded. If you avoid the cherry blossoms and the roses blooming - prime visitation times - this urban oasis is as serene as a private garden...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden can seem as if it's never crowded. If you avoid the cherry blossoms and the roses blooming - prime visitation times - this urban oasis is as serene as a private garden inhabited only by locals and intrepid tourists willing to travel "all the way to Brooklyn". Each season brings new wonders and there's always more to explore. Summer is lush, autumn is vivid and Spring has it's obvious beauty. But for me, the dead of winter, branches bare against a gray sky, snow covering the cherry esplanade, has a vastly more satisfying, uncommon beauty. Chilled to the bone, you can seek dry warmth in the desert garden or the damp pleasures of the jungle habitat at the Steinhardt Conservatory.
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The Washington Square Hotel must be listed in New York City Guide books in every country in the world. The lobby is an international terminal, with half a dozen languages being spoken at any given...
The Washington Square Hotel must be listed in New York City Guide books in every country in the world. The lobby is an international terminal, with half a dozen languages being spoken at any given moment. It's website can be accessed in French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Portugese as well as English. And there's a good reason that tourists from all over keep returning here - it may not seem like a bargain - rooms start in the $150 range and go up - but considering the location - in the heart of Greenwich Village - and by NYC standards that's pretty good.
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Wandering into Leekan off Mercer street in Soho is stepping into another, far more elegant and relaxing, world. If you don't know where to look first in this vast emporium of furniture, ethnographic...
Wandering into Leekan off Mercer street in Soho is stepping into another, far more elegant and relaxing, world. If you don't know where to look first in this vast emporium of furniture, ethnographic art from the far east, jewelry and small home accesssories, you might start at the enormous bead table, poring over beads of glass and metal and clay, bone and plastic and wood, eventually making your way to the counter to ogle the more expensive jewelry making paraphernalia and the thousands of strands of beads behind it, waiting to be fondled. The staff will help you choose the findings to create your own minor work of jewelry art.
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Ricky's
Category:
Cosmetics
466 Ave of the Americas
New York, New York 10011
(212) 924-3401
Anything and everything you could possibly need for your personal toilette you can find at Ricky's. Need false eyelashes, flip flops, lip gloss, a straightening iron, a platinum wig and a gag gift...
Anything and everything you could possibly need for your personal toilette you can find at Ricky's. Need false eyelashes, flip flops, lip gloss, a straightening iron, a platinum wig and a gag gift in a hurry? Done. Peruse the shelves of Ricky's carefully because you never know what you'll find that you didn't know you needed. An elusive brand of hand cream? A specical color of glitter? A makeup line you didn't think you could find this side of the Atlantic? Pacific? No Prob. Seventy three types of hair brushes, perhaps? Or the latest in self tanner. Candles in any scent you can imagine and some you don't wanna know about. You can't come out of Ricky's without something. It wouldn't be right.
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This is fantasy land for the house obsessed - a veritable disney theme park of tchochkas and trinkets from every corner of the globe. A museum of beautiful things that you can not merely covet, but...
This is fantasy land for the house obsessed - a veritable disney theme park of tchochkas and trinkets from every corner of the globe. A museum of beautiful things that you can not merely covet, but fondle, not merely hold but own. For a price. ABC is not cheap, and even when things are on sale, well, it's still no bargain. But go to experience the main floor. It's like an international souk where you can lose yourself in the sensual delights. You've stepped through the looking glass into a world of crystal chandeliers and silken pillows, exotically scented candles and elaborately decorated vases, exquiste estate jewelry and huggable stuffed toys.
Step out of the world for an hour and into a dream
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