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Author: Brian Niemietz
Contributors: Erin Wylie & AnneLise Sorensen
ISBN: 0-9766013-1-1
Price: $17.95
Web Direct Price: $9.95
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NIGHT+DAY NEW YORK
Whether we’re talking about celebrity mixologists, skyscrapers, three-star restaurants, or the heights of hedonism, New York has always set the standard by which everything else is measured. But with so many enticing options, choosing where to go can overwhelm even the savviest traveler. Enter Night+Day, which delivers the best of the city in an accessible format for the time-pressed visitor.
September Love Letter
As much as we lament the end of summer, September is one of our favorite months in New York City. The weather goes balmy, the crowds thin out, and there’s a certain back-to-work gumption in the air.
Get creative for the weekend and explore New York on a Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunt. These hunts take you deep into New York’s neighborhoods, testing your knowledge of all that’s weird and wonderful about the city. Walk in the footsteps of Mafiosi on a “Gangsters Hunt” through Little Italy and Chinatown. Or learn about the historical bars of the East Village, like McSorly’s Pub, one of the oldest in New York. (Sample trivia question: What did you not see in McSorly’s before 1970? The answer: Women!) Also popular: The Naked at the Met Scavenger Hunt. But don’t go losing your shirt too quickly. This tour offers more modest thrills, as participants scour the museum for its many nude paintings and sculptures (watsonadventures.com).
Finish the day in the Meatpacking District with a chilled cocktail atop The Standard. Since opening, the hotel has developed a giddy following with its swank rooms and inviting restaurant. This summer it also made a name for itself as the go-to rooftop lounge in Manhattan. The scene? Astro-turf, pink waterbeds, whitewashed deck chairs, and plenty of scantily clad revelers ( standardhotels.com).
AnneLise Sorensen
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NEW YORK (2009/10):
Keith McNally (Restaurateur)
 What’s the secret to longevity in a city that changes with every New York minute? Ask prolific restaurateur and Urbie recipient Keith McNally, whose restaurants aren’t just stylish, but also have serious staying power. Spend a weekend in New York, and chances are you’ll dine and drink (and flirt) at least once, if not several times, in one of McNally's perennially popular hangouts. And, like most New Yorkers, you’ll return again and again. Although he claims not to have any formula for his success, he says "I just build places that I'd like to go to—simple as that. But I hate snobbery and everything that's connected to it in the restaurant world."
McNally has unveiled his savvy formula—plush, lively venues oozing European character, reasonably priced brasserie fare, and expertly mixed cocktails—across Manhattan, from the elegant, Parisian-tinged Balthazar in Soho, the grande dame of his empire, to the happening Schiller's Liquor Bar on the Lower East Side, to his latest creation, the breezy, buzzy trattoria, Morandi, which opened in 2007 in the West Village.
He says,
McNally's forte also lies in predicting the rise of trendy neighborhoods: His hip French Pastis was one of the first top-notch restaurants to open its doors in the Meatpacking District. "When I opened Pastis, the area was desolate. There was no one on the streets except transvestites and hookers (and various well-to-do people picking them up). But I liked the area enormously because of its bleakness and because it very much reminded me of Europe." Now, nearly ten years on, it's still the hottest restaurant in what has become the hottest after-dark district in what many would say is the hottest city in the world. Not bad.
London-born McNally’s success could well lie in the fact that he’s done it all, from oyster-shucker to maitre d', until he introduced his first restaurant—the Odeon—in 1980. Proof that this Urbie winner has made it? Every restaurant McNally has opened is still operating. In fickle New York, that’s nothing short of a miracle.
Check out our choice for the
world's foremost Urbanistas in other cities:
The Urbie Awards.
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