A high-profile French chef will soon bring his first New York restaurant to Park Avenue, accelerating the boom in high-end restaurants setting up shop in premier office towers. Michelin-honored Cyril Lignac signed with Rudin for his first Bar des Pres in New York at 345 Park Ave. at East 52nd Street. The French-East Asian eatery … Read more
Park Avenue’s grandest hotel has the splendid spa it deserves — along with a brand-new beauty boutique in its iconic lobby. The Waldorf Astoria New York reopened last summer after a dazzling eight-year, multibillion-dollar renovation; several months later, the Guerlain Wellness Spa debuted on the fifth floor — and it’s just as impressive. One of … Read more
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel’s September reopening, five years later than first planned, will be well worth the long wait. The magnificently restored, reborn Waldorf-Astoria brings back the Big Apple’s “grand hotel” style, with glorious public spaces open to everyone and worthy of the inn’s iconic legacy. New York City’s great hotel lobbies fell one by one … Read more
When Park Avenue doorman Stephen Bruno sorts through the building mail and sees an envelope with sexually suggestive images, he and his colleagues immediately know who it’s for. “We don’t have to look at the name, because we know whose it is,” he told The Post of a certain resident who also had a habit … Read more
Famed chef Jean-Georges Vongrichten’s new Park Avenue restaurant has become the epicenter of a new, post-pandemic phenomenon for Wall Street’s movers and shakers: the power hour, Side Dish has learned. As soon as the closing bell rings, traders, investors and C-suite executives flock to Four Twenty Five, which opened last December at 425 Park Ave., … Read more