The New York City Traveler

One of my all-time favorite stores in Manhattan has to be Pearl River Mart.  All of the silk robes and lacquerware remind me of my trips to Hong Kong and the endless rows of shopping finds at Stanley Market.
Pearl River Mart was founded by Chinese immigrants over thirty years ago and was branded the first Chinese-American department store.  It was popularized as a second-floor store on Canal Street in the heart of Chinatown.  My first trip to the original Pearl River Mart was very memorable.  There were plates and bowls stacked from the floor to the ceiling, boxes of …read more

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A number of museums and shows are ending soon to make run for the new spring exhibitions.  Here is my short list of shows and exhibitions you shouldn’t miss.  
“Unmonumental” | The New Museum of Contemporary Art  The opening show at the New Museum on Bowery.  Ends today, March 30.
“Goodbye Coney Island?” | Brooklyn Museum  Tracing the evolution of Coney Island with more than 50 photographs.  Ends April 6.
“Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt” | Museum of the City of New York  Iconic photographs of New York’s landmarks and its people.  Ends April 13.
“Madame Gres: Sphinx …read more

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We’ve all reached that moment in our lives.  For me it’s been a rough day, finally escaping work at 6 p.m., and absolutely having to do the laundry…not a clean sock left that my shoes will tolerate.  For you, it’s probably been a long day pounding the NYC pavement with an inexorable enthusiasm to see it all…it’s 7 p.m., you’re flopped on the bed, empty stomach growling.  The last thing we both want to do is scare up some grub.  But where to call for some no frills honest to goodness food delivered pronto?  Consider Zaitzeff.  If you’re in the …read more

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It’s hard to imagine that you can actually canoe or kayak in the waters surrounding NYC isn’t it?  Just hang over the railings lining the Hudson or East Rivers and you’ll quickly get the impression that the swiftly moving currents are laced with toxins, sewage effulgence, or are at the very least extremely brackish.  What you might not know is this condition is slowly turning around thanks to groups like Going Coastal, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club as well as New York’s Department of Parks and Recreation.  For years, urban paddlers have plied Queens marshlands, the Hudson River’s waterfront all the …read more

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This Monday, March 31st the Yankees begin the 2008 season with a home- opener against the Toronto Blue Jays.  This will be the final year the Yanks will be playing in the 1923 “House That Ruth Built.”  The new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium (as seen being constructed in the above photo) is nearing completion and will host the Yankees beginning the 2009 season.
Photo credit: flickr 
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Want to see the largest borough in New York City?  Fuggetabout Manhattan! Take the 7 train into Queens and you know you’ve arrived when you burst out of the subway tunnel high onto elevated tracks built mostly by immigrant laborers in the early 1900s.  Extending seven miles from Times Square to Flushing, you’ll traverse what first appears to be unremarkable industrial urban scene. But hidden beneath the tracks of this “The International Express”, the streets brim with over 150 nationalities. Get off in Sunnyside and visit a Romanian grocery store or spend an evening at a Latin theater; get off in …read more

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On a narrow cobbled lane ensconced from street traffic in Greenwich Village, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York’s oldest, continuously running Off-Broadway venue has played host to a stellar lineup of productions over the last 80 years. Scripts by greats including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passo, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Beckett, and Mamet have been put into motion here. A-list actors and directors, including John Malkovich, Barbara Streisand, James Earl Jones, Gene Hackman, Kevin Bacon, and Dennis Quaid have also popped into the mix over the decades.
From March 21 thru April 19, 2008, The American Dream and The Sandbox …read more

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Nearly 200 personal photographs are on display at The Newark Museum’s new exhibition, Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection.  The images are from a collection of over 500 dating from the 1920s to the 1960s–the “golden age” of snapshot photography. 
Guest curator Marvin Heiferman, who has organized exhibitions for The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, the International Center of Photography, Exit Art andP.S. 1, explains that the Now is Then exhibition “invites visitors to consider snapshots not as simple or inconsequential little pictures but as compelling and complex cultural artifacts.”
In addition …read more

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Uniqlo speaks to the Type-A side of my personality.  From the moment you walk into the store you notice the rows of clothing, arranged by color, neatly folded and stacked from floor to ceiling.  Shopping is once again easy! 
The fashionable Japanese clothing retailer opened its first store in the famous Harajuku district of Tokyo in 1998.  The retailer’s sales quickly took off and it now has over 700 stores in Japan as well as stores in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and the flagship store in Soho, New York. 
The Soho Uniqlo, which opened in late 2006, …read more

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If you travel frequently between New York and Washington DC, you have a new transportation option.  Boltbus, a division of Greyhound Lines Inc., will begin operating Thursday, March 27, making daily trips between DC and Manhattan. 
The new Boltbus will run between Metro Center at 11th and G Street NW in DC and two stops in New York City — near Penn Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue and in south Manhattan at 6th Avenue and Canal Street.
Boltbus is using first-come-first-serve incentives to lure customers into purchasing tickets early.  The tickets are available online and fares start at only …read more

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