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amNY and NY1 are reporting that Fashion Week is expected to leave Bryant Park for Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in 2010. Except for one season at the Chelsea Piers, Fashion Week has been headquartered at the park behind the Fifth Avenue Library since 1993. Earlier this week Vera Wang and Betsey Jo ... More >>

Grim, Downscale Fashion Week Starts Today

The early reports on Fashion Week, which today begins its final stand at Bryant Park (they move to Lincoln Center next year), are less festive than usual. "FASHION WEAK: WHERE HAS ALL THE GLAMOUR GONE?" says the Post. "The current crop of beer and fast-food labels look like they belong at Talladega, ... More >>

Fashion Week: Reem Acra Gives Sophia Bush Jet-Lag; Thuy Skips a Beat; Erin Fetherson Has a Rhinestone Menagerie

Stacey AndersonBling bling! Silk is good. Flat champagne is bad. We are learning many rules at Fashion Week, but one seems more ironclad than all the rest: namely, the rage inside the photographer pit is inversely proportional to the playfulness of the clothes on the runway. Style photogs, it appea ... More >>

Fashion Week: Amid Bright Colors, Nanette Lepore Speaks the Grey Truth

Stacey AndersonNanette Lepore: partly cloudy Yesterday, while interviewing dance-rockers Metric, I couldn't resist gushing about one of their songs, "Front Row." Of all the tracks on the dark and disenchanted upcoming album, Fantasies, this one seemed especially poetic for its jaundiced look at the ... More >>

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Stacey AndersonNanette Lepore: partly cloudy Yesterday, while interviewing dance-rockers Metric, I couldn't resist gushing about one of their songs, "Front Row." Of all the tracks on the dark and disenchanted upcoming album, Fantasies, this one seemed especially poetic for its jaundiced look at the ... More >>

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Open & Closed--Say Hello to Superdive; Goodbye to Pere Pinard

Aureole, along with chef-owner Charlie Palmer and executive chef Christopher Lee, has relocated from its Upper East Side home to Bryant Park. A four-course prix-fixe for $115 is available in the main dining room, and a parallel a la carte menu is on offer in the bar room. [NY Times] Gus and Gabriel ... More >>

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Fashion Week in Review: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart, Tracy Reese, Erin Fetherston

​ From the Jill Stuart show. Photo by Graham Rayman. What makes the fashion industry such an elitist, exclusory world? Vogue's Anna Wintour attempted to explain it in the moderately sympathetic new documentary The September Issue; she insisted, with clipped British finality, that the unstyli ... More >>

A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve

NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at the airport, and stuck in train stations, we think those of you who are left in town should make the most of i ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​OK, it's vaudeville and it's silly, but your brain has probably had a rough couple of days. The Muppets Take Manhattan, all weekend at Symphony Space (Adults $11; Children $9; Members $8)

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Wall & Water; Goodbye to The Telephone Bar and Grill

Wall & Water has opened in the new David Rockwell-designed Andaz Wall Street hotel, helmed by Chef Maximo Lopez May from Buenos Aires, who says he will aim to source his ingredients from the Hudson Valley. [NY Times] The one Group's steakhouse, STK Midtown, will open a 9,000-square-foot restaurant ... More >>

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Fashion Week Wrap-Up Exit Polls: Look Who We Met on the Street

​ Fashion Week wraps up today, and sadly bids adieu to its Bryant Park home of nearly 17 years. We took a camera out earlier this week to interrogate the show goers and sidewalk spectators. Here's who we met.

Project Runway: Scary Clowns, Scarier Stripes

​And so it has come to this. After a season of sequins and spangles and bitchery--oh my!--the last challenge before Project Runway's Bryant Park finale has to be epic, a worthy encapsulation of these ragtag dreamers' weary journey to the white tents and glory beyond. It must be in deference t ... More >>

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Shoeshine Guy Scorned

In happier times.​Remember how somebody kept burning down that shoeshine stand at Bryant Park under cover of night? Which seemed random the first time, but then really suspicious when the replacement stand went up in flames? Police now have a confessor. John Swain, a 71-year-old shoeshiner ... More >>

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​Herewith, your talking points for this Friday... • If you're trying to fly out of Europe, think again: "60 percent of European flights were not operating and delays will continue into Saturday," according to European traffic control agency Eurocontrol, which sounds like an early '90s elect ... More >>

New York Parks Have Gotten Too Fucking Nice

via Cresny​A few years ago, I started noticing that Central Park was getting too, you know, nice, with its perfectly groomed flora and flawless looking landscaping.

'Wichcraft's Marinated White Anchovy Sandwich

​The marinated white anchovy sandwich swarms with contrasting flavors; it's like a wild party in your mouth. Whatever your opinion on his far-flung restaurant empire, and career as actor-chef, you've got to admit that the least of his projects -- covering the city with 'Wichcrafts -- is one o ... More >>

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Investigating New York's Contestants for "America's Best Restroom"

​Last week, we informed you that the finalists for America's Best Restroom had been announced -- with two New York bathrooms making the cut! But the pictures provided on the site just weren't enough for us. So this week, we decided to take a break from our usual gritty public restrooms reporti ... More >>

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Fashion Week Day One: Nicholas K; Michael Kors, Heidi Klum, and Jessica Simpson at the Extra-Long Project Runway Show

​We've been counting down the days until this very moment: the first day of Fashion Week at its new location. And although Bryant Park is a mere two miles away from Lincoln Center, it feels like we're in another world. We take our first glimpse of the new setup and see no sign of white tents or bi ... More >>

Bryant Park Has America's Third Best Bathroom

​America's best bathrooms have been decided by the "Internet public," and our own Bryant Park public facilities -- investigated by Runnin' Scared's Annie Werner back in July -- alas, did not take the top prize. But it came in third for its "Beaux Arts design, full-time attendant, fresh cut flo ... More >>

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1970: The Women's National Strike for Equality

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 3, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 36 Women on the March: 'We're a Movement Now!' By Mary Breasted ...There was no great unity of styles or goals in the Women's National Strike for Equality. There were the three basic demands: free abort ... More >>

Bryant Park Ice Skater Is Surprisingly Quick Study

Here is a tale of courage on ice, via Improv Everywhere. A slightly chubby fellow who can't skate is left alone in the middle of the Bryant Park rink to the amusement of everyone watching, until...there's a surprising twist. Of course, it's less surprising when the music comes on and it becomes cle ... More >>

Inevitably, Another Grilled Cheese Truck Is Coming

​ A couple of weeks ago, Keith Klein, the owner of the Milk Truck, told us he was hoping to hit the road in three to four months. When he does, he'll have some competition for his excellent grilled cheese sandwiches.

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Bryant Park Holiday Shops: the Best Eats

Lauren ShockeyWhat to eat while admiring the neon blue Christmas tree?​Of all the holiday markets in the city, the one at Bryant Park offers the most entertainment. You can go ice skating, ride a carousal, play chess, and much more. Food-wise it's a little hit-or-miss, though it's certainly ... More >>

Four Suspected in Swastika Graffiti Incident

​At least four perps were involved in the Sunday graffiti spree that left four Midtown storefronts vandalized with swastikas, cops say. Now, police want your help finding them: Cops say that four suspects (pictured above)are responsible for what's now the most recent incident in the rash of ... More >>