New York – Flung

Christopher Wool’s New Show Redefines Disused Office Space

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:02:18 +0000

In 1967, while covering the proposed plan for a cross-Manhattan expressway that would have cut straight through the lower portion of the island, the New York Times described the structures that would be sacrificed for the project as “grimy loft buildings west of Lafayette Street. The buildings, most of them 5 to 10 stories high, are occupied largely by manufacturers and wholesalers.” At the time, a handful of artists were also living and working in those buildings, which comprised an […]

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Public Spaces for Extrovert Faces: The Ace Hotel in Brooklyn

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:46:02 +0000

On my first night staying at the new Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, I returned around midnight and, having realized that I’d forgotten to pack toothpaste, stopped by the front desk to ask for some. (It would be promptly delivered.) As I chatted with the night clerk, I remembered that I’d also been unable to find coffee in my room. He confirmed that indeed, as a policy Ace Hotels don’t provide coffee beyond the ground floor. It’s one of the […]

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A Look Back at the New Yorker’s ‘Bar Tab’

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:32:46 +0000

Way back when I was too young to legally get into one, I went to my first bar. It bestowed an immediate sense of a door opening, of magic being unleashed. Going forward, I’d sidle up to any one that would have me—a suburban Chicago spot that didn’t start carding until 9pm, a honky-tonk place on the outskirts of Tampa, the bar in my college town where I was friends with the bouncer. Little alternate universes, all of them, with […]

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The New TWA Hotel: An Overnight Stay in Pictures

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 21 May 2019 19:08:17 +0000

After spending years as that amazing abandoned building I strained to see from Terminal 5 every time I flew jetBlue from JFK, this past weekend the airport’s Saarinen-designed former TWA Terminal became the site of my only-ever staycation in New York City. It’s a holdover from when this huge swath of land was still called Idlewild Airport, but it’s now the TWA Hotel, which mostly does justice to the spectacular piece of architecture that contains it. Two friends and myself […]

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The Best Restaurants You Never See on a ‘Best of NYC’ List

Callie Baker — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:04:06 +0000

There are certain restaurants that perennially make the ‘Best of NYC’ lists, and there are those that, inexplicably, never seem to get a mention, despite their worthiness. To do our small part in righting the wrong, we reached out to some of our favorite New York-based travel professionals to find out where they love to eat. These “neighborhood joints” are simultaneously flying under the radar and changing the dining game. Liza Wenger, Owner of Shop Dialogue: Fancy Nancy | […]

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LAX –> JFK in JetBlue’s Mint Class

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:59:29 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. LAX —> JFK on JetBlue Flight 524 Flight: JetBlue 524 from Los Angeles LAX to New York JFK in Mint class (the airline’s equivalent of business class) Scheduled Date and Time: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018 at 12:43pm Check In and Security: I checked in online before arriving and was not […]

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JFK –> New Orleans on jetBlue Flight 775

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 27 May 2018 23:50:10 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. JFK —> MSY on jetBlue Flight 775 Flight: jetBlue 775 from New York City to New Orleans Scheduled Date and Time: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 at 9:45pm Check In and Security: I checked in online and had no luggage to check, so breezed right through into the security area. I have […]

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Buttermilk Falls Inn: A Carefree (and Carfree) Getaway from NYC

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:57:56 +0000

New York is not only the largest city in the U.S. by far, it’s also the only one with more carless households than those with at least one vehicle. And no one likes to feel trapped, that’s human nature. So, in addition to obsessing over the cacophony within our city limits, we New Yorkers also spend a fair amount of time figuring out how to escape the place, just for the weekend. Enter the Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa, a […]

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The Roxbury Motel: Imaginations Unleashed in the Catskills

Katrina Woznicki — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:02:25 +0000

The beauty of walking into the Catskills’ Roxbury Motel is that whatever was weighing you down that day—money, parenting, traffic—vanishes instantly. Roadside lodging rarely offers jaw-dropping moments, but as soon as you slide that key into one of the lime-green doors and step into your assigned room you’ll have one, and be too enchanted to wallow in your daily stresses. And it doesn’t matter which room you walk into: MaryAnn’s Coconut Cream Pie (room 27) or Miss Kitty’s Saloon (room […]

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Bar Room at the Beekman Hotel: Fashion and Financiers

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:14:49 +0000

When I happened to stop by the Bar Room in the Beekman Hotel last week, the Dow had just fallen another 1,000 points and Fashion Week was underway. I took a table for one in this perfect storm of Manhattan-ness, five minutes by foot from Wall Street, just as the afternoon runway shows wrapped up—one of them in the basement below me. Normally, the convergence of financiers and fashionistas would send me running, or at least rolling my eyes, but […]

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