Photo: The Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, located at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, is an architectural gem in New York City.
Photo credits: personal collection
10 Comments"In the Know" New Yorkers Know of this Secret Hideaway
Its not too often I recommend a chain-hotel as a must-see destination in New York, but knowledgeable New Yorkers and tourists have been patronizing this hotel bar for years and it is time to let the secret slip.
Mé Bar is pronounced “May Bar” and can be roughly translated as “mountain bar” in Korean. The name is only fitting seeing as the bar is located on the 14th floor rooftop of the La Quinta Inn in Koreatown.
The indoor bar, featuring high tables, barstools, and skylights, is little different from any hotel bar. However, the outdoor seating area is the real …read more
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Watch the Feathers Fly at Union Square
This Saturday marks International Pillow Fight Day as well as the Third Annual New York City Pillow Fight. Make your way down to Union Square armed with your pillow and join in on the party.
All attendees are encouraged to bring their softest pillow (feather is better!) as well as don a fun outfit or costume. At the sound of the whistle the feathers will fly!
Check out the video below of the First Annual NYC Pillow Fight in 2006.
2006 NYC Pillow Fight
Location: Union Square (map)
Subway: L, N, Q, R, W to Union Square-14th Street; 4, 5, …read more
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A Closer Look: Portraits of the Homeless in New York City
These are not people from another planet or another world. These are your neighbors. We tend to avoid looking at these people when we walk down the street. We step over them or around them. We don’t really want to see them. We don’t want to see their faces.” Bill Bernstein
There are an estimated three-quarters of a million homeless people in the United States and photographer Bill Bernstein gets personal when he matches faces to this number. About Face: Portraits from the Bowery Mission is Bernstein’s newest exhibition featuring a striking series of 43″x62″ portraits of some of …read more
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MoSex: New York City’s Museum of Sex
Though it sounds like a place for cheap thrills, don’t let the name deceive you— The Museum of Sex (MoSex) is more museum than sex.
This Manhattan institution is where you will find historical artifacts and displays on prostitution, burlesque, obscenity and fetishism that were once too controversial to be displayed in their own day. The museum also explores several subcultures while focusing on the history, evolution, and the cultural significance of human sexuality.
Current exhibitions include:
Sex in Design/Design in Sex From the blatant to the subtly sensual, sex is in most of the design that is …read more