The Monkey Bar and Hotel Elysee
Lit Nerd Wednesday! I have mixed feelings about Midtown — like the rest of the city, I find some of the modern architecture kind of awful but I really like the […]
The House of Scribner
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Who knew that the Sephora at the bottom of the gloriously old building on 497 Fifth Avenue had a lot in common with writing. Authors like Dawn […]
George Bellows’ House
Across from the House of Fantasy, lived the great New York painter, George Bellows. From 1910 to 1925, Bellows lived in the townhouse, and worked in a studio in the […]
Chumley’s
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Remember the faux-speakeasy craze of the early aughts? For a while I dug this rehash of the 1920s but then it became a hassle — if it […]
VIDEO: Jay McInerney and F. Scott Fitzgerald
LitNerd Extra! If F. Scott Fitzgerald characterized the reckless spirit of New York in the 1920s it’s safe to say Jay McInerney owned the one of the 1980s — here […]
