A recent surge in members’ clubs is reshaping New York City’s social fabric to look a lot more like London’s: Stratified and exclusive. New clubs like Maxime’s, San Vicente and Crane Club have replaced the hottest restaurants as the place where everyone wants to be seen. And legacy brands like Core and Casa Cipriani have … Read more
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
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
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