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Whipped Baccala at Caffe Storico, Dish #41

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Fresh Churros and Hot Chocolate | Revisiting John Brown Smokehouse]

Ritz-Carlton Soon to be Occupied by Auden

The Ritz-Carlton Central Park is about to get ritzier with a new restaurant opening: BLT Market, which previously occupied the space closed a few months back. The luxury hotel chain recently announced that Auden, with executive chef Mark Arnao, will be taking over on September 28. The restaurant's ... More >>

Happily Ever After?

Amy Adams stars in Into the Woods

Live: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Give A Master Class In Percussion At Central Park

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo w/SMOD Central Park SummerStage Sunday, July 22 Better than: Air conditioning in a heat wave. There's a shopping list of fine pop bands from throughout the African continent listed on one page of drumming major John Miller Chernoff's esteemed 1979 ethnographic study African R ... More >>

Gary Clark Jr.+Givers+Alice Smith

Vote For a Couple To Get A Free Wedding

There's a contest whereby various couples are competing for the public's approval, the one that gets the most votes earning a wedding in Central Park. Want to vote? Want to throw your support to the only gay couple in the bunch?

Earth Day Is Sunday! Here's What To Do!

*Ride your bike. It works for me! I could give a shit about the environment, but if it's helping, I have no problem with that. In fact, I'm willing to accept all prizes. *Recycle something. Even an old boyfriend. Everything--and everyone--is reusable once you've gotten over the initial thrill.

TAKE A HIKE

Find new treasures in Central Park

BLT Market Gets Slapped With a Not-So-Ritzy 'C' Grade

The latest fine-dining establishment to get slapped with a C grade from the Health Department is BLT Market, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South.

WALK THIS WAY

See the fall colors and get in shape

BIG LOVE

Cuddle up for Poly Pride

Central Park Boathouse Workers Walk Out

Yet another embattled Central Park restaurant.​Dean Poll, whose inability to come to an agreement with restaurant workers at Tavern on the Green eventually led to its closure, is still butting heads with workers now. According to Crain's, a couple dozen staffers at the Central Park Boathouse g ... More >>

Man Enjoys Brief Dip in Central Park Reservoir, Is Lassoed by Firefighters

​Yesterday, by many accounts in the tri-state area a "gorgeous day" absolutely "perfect for swimming" was that moment of the summer in which a white 40-year-old male gazed out at the cool waters of the Central Park Reservoir. As if compelled by a seeming mirage, he scaled the chain-link fence ... More >>

Central Park Booting Buskers From 'Quiet Zones'

​If your last walk through Central Park felt eerily quiet, you can thank the NYPD. Over the past few weeks, they have started enforcing eight quiet zones within Central Park, where music and loud noises are prohibited. The zones include the Bethesda Fountain, Shakespeare Garden, Sheep Meadow, ... More >>

Food Trucks Can Now Sell Booze. Go Figure.

turkspot.wordpress.comFood trucks and cocktails -- together at last!​Food trucks seem poised to take over the dining scene. And now, one of the few perks of eating in a brick-and-mortar establishment has been co-opted by mobile food vendors, too. Well, one such vendor, anyway. So far. The Pera ... More >>

Perfect Picnic to Pack Your Lunch, New York

A perfect picnic, delivered.​Summer may not be here yet, officially speaking, but picnicking season is already in full swing. Perfect Picnic, a new food shop and picnic-delivery service based on the Lower East Side, has you covered for all your packed-lunch needs.

Topless Woman Went to Midtown and Central Park, Too

via @olidub​The lady we wrote about earlier this week, the bare-breasted one who was completely legal in her toplessness, by the way, unless she's doing it as part of a "commercial enterprise," was spotted later by various sources in Midtown and also at Central Park, Bowery Boogie reports. Som ... More >>

Horse-Lovers Rejoice! Horses (and Horse Crap) to Return to Central Park

​The city is planning to bring horseback riding back to Central Park, reports the New York Post. After Claremont Riding Academy closed in 2007, the 4.2 miles of bridle paths in the park had been used mostly by joggers and dog walkers. Now Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe says that riding will ... More >>

Central Park Cyclist Gets Speeding Ticket, Then an In-Person Apology From Police

​Cyclists in Central Park have been issued over 200 tickets so far in 2011 for traffic violations as the city works to crack down on riders not stopping for red lights. But on Tuesday morning, the NYPD took it to a new level, setting up a speed trap, radar gun and all, at the bottom of a Centr ... More >>

There's White Stuff on the Ground! Related: Wear a Coat.

via isardasorensen/twitpic​It's happened a couple times before, but this time it stuck -- there's a layer of snow over cars, Central Park, our backyards that are only so because our windows happen to look at them...While some of you may legitimately dislike snow, we feel that it's nice and coz ... More >>

M. Wells Will Open for Dinner Tonight to Serve a Mushroom Menu

CHOW.comThe lovely lobster mushroom.​Although there's still no sign that M. Wells will be opening for dinner anytime soon, the restaurant will be extending its hours tonight in order to serve its customers a menu featuring mushrooms harvested from the Gaspé peninusla, Québec, and ... More >>

GET MOVIN'

Start the weekend right

Five Pavement Songs They Should Pull Out For Their Last Night In Town

C'mon, Steve, indulge us.​So Pavement Week ends tonight, with one more show in Central Park. We all had a good time, though, right? Dredged up some memories? Sung a few half-remembered choruses? Got rained on? Made some money? (Actually, no, we didn't make any money.) And though the set lists ... More >>

Scenes From Last Night's Lightning-Filled Pavement Show in Central Park

Pavement Central Park Wednesday, September 22 Well, if nothing else, last night's lightning-delayed, rain-soaked Pavement convocation in Central Park (only two more to go!) was a great opportunity for Stephen Malkmus to say a bunch of ridiculous, borderline offensive stuff about the weather. Upon ... More >>

Map Quest: The Restrooms of Central Park Southwest

​I should probably mention that I've been cross-referencing different sources to figure out which restrooms to scope out in the city. There's Nyrestroom.com, Thebathroomdiaries.com, and, for this week's big bathroom occasion, I used Centralparknyc.org, the official website of Central Park, to ... More >>

JOLLY GOOD FUN

Learn the British sport of lawn bowling

Latest New York City Bomb Scare at the American Museum of Natural History

​Tensions are running understandably high and everyone is on alert. Sunday, the NYPD bomb squad was called to a questionable SUV parked near the American Museum of Natural History on 79th Street and Central Park West. As of 2:45 p.m. EST, the New York Post, CNN and the New York Times have no ... More >>

Help the Police Find These Men

​The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance in identifying three suspects (pictured) wanted for an armed robbery that occurred in the Central Park Precinct.

Cheer Up, You Might Still Get a Valentine!

Try Central Park! Or go to YouTube, leave Molly of Rocketboom a comment or video response, and she may just send you a homemade card. The odds are long, as over a hundred lonely souls have commented since she put this up about an hour ago. But love always finds a way.

Valentine's Day Poetry Hike

Fallen Trees in Central Park are a Warning: Chop Them Before They Conk Us

We warned you and we warned you and we warned you and we warned you and we warned you about the trees. But did anyone listen? Now, just weeks after a Google employee was bashed into a coma by a falling oak limb in Central Park, Wednesday night's storm left the Park littered with fallen trees and b ... More >>

Interview: Juana Molina on Her Last Record, 2008's Una Dia, and the Joys of Playing Outdoors

"People still ask me, 'Oh, when are you coming back on the screen? We miss you.' Blah, blah, blah. But I wouldn't feel very good if I had to do that again." The beatific Argentinean singer/song-writer Juana Molina began playing music in 1996, after she abandoned a very successful television car ... More >>

Central Park Sound Tunnel, Now Playing Back That Argument You Had In the Zoo A Few Months Back

Photo of John Morton by Kathy KearnyJohn Morton, the New York musician famous for his elaborate music box-aided compositions, has apparently talked the city and Central Park into allowing him to use the pedestrian tunnel just north of the zoo as a site for an audio installation, Central Park Sound T ... More >>

'Zizek Club'

Republicans Demand Removal of Central Park Statue Already Being Removed

There's a statue of what appears to be Che Guevara in Doris Freedman Plaza in Central Park. The sculptor, Christian Jankowski, says it's actually a statue of a guy playing Guevara -- two nearby Jankowski statues also portray "professional street performers who strike poses as historical or fantastic ... More >>

On The Chopping Block

It's been three episodes and now we're definitely able to say with complete certainty that we don't care. Eat me daily reported that the show is getting hammered in the ratings, and after last night's Central Park episode - was the Black team's pigeon from the park, too? - we're going to have a har ... More >>

Obamas Get a Garden

Michelle Obama will enlist the help of 23 fifth-graders to dig up a patch of the White House lawn in which an organic vegetable garden will be planted. The garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt's WWII victory garden, will be visible to passers-by. [NY Times] Some of the city's A-list restaurat ... More >>

Shacking Up For Spring

MIND-TRIP

David Blaine attempts to be Batman—no joke

Please Don't Shoot at the Big Glowing Thing in the Sky

City Creates Seven-Mile Car-Free Path for 'Summer Streets'

WHEN YOU’RE GOOD TO MAMA . . .

. . . Mama Earth, that is

Darfur in Central Park

"Try to imagine that your whole way of life destroyed"

Show Me the Money

Trump continues to claim that he's not a worthless human being

Planet of the Ape

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

The Worst Week in Gossip History!

Dancing Shoes at Home

The Write Stuff

Gotham Writers' Guide Teaches the Fine Art of Fabulism

The Whys of Grope 'Sex'

Exploring the Psyche of the Crowd

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