Forget Carbone and the Corner Store, the hottest reservation in NYC is a sports bar

Forget Carbone and the Corner Store, the hottest reservation in NYC is a sports bar

Forget scoring an 8 p.m. dinner reservation at Carbone or the Corner Store. Getting a table at popular NYC sports bars to watch the big game on Sunday is now just as difficult a play. If you want a prime position to watch football, you have to reserve weeks and even months in advance, “know … Read more

Move over, Carbone — this new NYC Italian hotspot has the best meatballs

Move over, Carbone — this new NYC Italian hotspot has the best meatballs

Tucci is the city’s hottest new Italian restaurant in many a moon. Beautifully built atop fine 19th-century bones, it’s the first place that might give reigning boldface-magnet Carbone a run for its money — and for less money than that notoriously hot spot. Tucci — or TUCCI as they prefer to stylize the name — doesn’t … Read more

Basquiat’s former NYC studio renting for $60K-a-month

Basquiat’s former NYC studio renting for K-a-month

Struggling artists need not apply. The former Noho studio and digs where the late, great Jean-Michel Basquiat spent the last five years of his life is on the rental market — for a cool $60,000 a month. Basquiat, who died in 1988, leased the funky space at 57 Great Jones Street from mentor Andy Warhol, … Read more