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Fifth Avenue, Midtown to Downtown

Posted on September 8, 2006 by admin
Going south from 57th Street to Washington Square, with a brief stop in H&M to check out the racks and racks of tomato red clothes.
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Bamn! Automat

Posted on September 7, 2006 by admin
CLOSED I was shocked and awed by the sight outside my taxi window. An automat! Restyled for 2006! It was exciting! No wonder they put an exclamation point in the name! I never got to...
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It’s All in the Mix: St. Mark’s Place

Posted on September 6, 2006 by admin
No new trend goes untested on St. Mark's Place. Many of the original 80's punk looks that started here are creeping back in the form of outlandishly bright stripes, plaids, and prints mixed with black....
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Leggings: The Trend That Won’t Go Away

Posted on August 30, 2006 by admin
I walked into Barneys, and there they were. Lurking under sweater tunics, hovering above ankle boots. Leggings! They were everywhere! Leggings on mannequins, leggings on racks, leggings on shelves, leggings on salesgirls! It was the...
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Momofuku Ssäm Bar

Posted on August 28, 2006 by admin
Intriguing news hit the downtown culinary scene recently: David Chang of the revered Korean fushion place Momofuku Noodle Bar, a favorite of off-duty chefs and off-expense-account restaurant reviewers, was opening a new restaurant. The offshoot,...
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I Love Lamb

Posted on August 27, 2006 by admin
Once considered the lowly stuff of schwarma joints, lamb has been popping up in haute cuisine recently. The quality has improved: the gamey taste once in lamb dishes at second-tier French bistros has morphed into...
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Roll and Dough

Posted on August 25, 2006 by admin
CLOSED You've gotta love a place with an Atkins-be-damned name like "Roll and Dough." It pretty much says: no focus groups were involved in the creation of this restaurant. And, since this is not a...
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Black Is the New Black: Greenwich Village

Posted on August 25, 2006 by admin
Bill Cunningham was right: Black is the new black. Fashion is swinging back to the somber minimalism of the mid-nineties, when Kate Moss first appeared on billboards across New York. Now that her image is...
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