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One of the most enjoyable stores that I’ve discovered recently is Le Labo, located in a very tiny storefront in the NoLIta district (North of Little Italy).
To call Le Labo a perfumerie, would be doing it a major injustice. It reminds me of what an old apothecary must have looked like — lots of bottles, [...]
In yesterday’s post about money saving tips, I suggested taking public transportation to and from the airport. The subway is frequently the cheapest way to do this.
A reader passed along information about the Subway Navigator, a website that claims to have information and routings for every subway system in the world. I checked it out [...]
Some things just go together: soup & sandwiches, love & marriage, macaroni & cheese, horse & carriage, and a martini & a manicure.
Okay, so I thought those last items were only on my togetherness list, until I went to the Beauty Bar, on Manhattan’s lower east side.
It’s a bar. It’s a beauty parlor. Wait, it’s [...]
Here’s another FREE event for those of you living or traveling in Manhattan:
A FREE concert, Stars in the Alley, June 7th, at 11 am in Shubert Alley. Enter on 45th Street, west of 7th Avenue.
This annual event features stars from currently running Broadway shows, and is an end-of-season celebration and thank you to theater patrons. It [...]
If you’re going to be in Manhattan next week, June 6th-9th, it might be a good time to go the movies.
Drive-In Movies returns to Rockefeller Center as the summer season of events gets underway.
The Plaza is turned into an outdoor movie festival for four days of independent film screenings. This years selection: I want Someone [...]
For a long time, the only thing I knew about New York City was what I saw in the movies. Now that I’ve visited many times, it was fun to take a look at MSN Travel’s list of the Top Ten New York movie locations.
Can you name movies that featured scenes from these recognizable NYC [...]
Now that the weather is getting warmer with each passing day, I hate to pass up an opportunity to miss out on the sun and warmth that is summer. And, it’s far more pleasant to catch up on email, write for this blog, and read the blogs of my friends and the travel industry, when [...]
If the New York Times runs an article about the top rooftop bars in Manhattan, you know that it must be summer!
This weekend’s Times lists 28 rooftop bars around the city, including some just opened spots, some perennial favorites, and places where the young and hip will go just to be seen.
The list includes:
A60, the [...]
75 years ago, on May 1st, 1931, the Empire State Building opened to the public.
The idea for the skyscraper came from John J. Raskob, whose goal in the project was merely to outdo his former competitor, Walter Chrysler, and the Chrysler Building. Raskob, and then Governor Al Smith, conspired to make sure that the new [...]
Bordered on the north by 51st, to the south by 47th, to the east by Fifth Avenue and to the West by Seventh Avenue, Rockefeller Center occupies prime real estate in midtown Manhattan.
A mix of indoor and outdoor facilities, Rock Center is home to Radio City Music Hall, the GE Building, NBC Studios and the [...]
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Written by Mary Jo Manzanares [email] for b5media.
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