Places – 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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Campo: Intimate Farmland Chic

Robin Babb — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:43:48 +0000

Campo is the resident restaurant at Los Poblanos Inn and Organic Farm, a quaint institution in Albuquerque, New Mexico that, yes, really is a farm—known for its organic lavender and peacocks that wander the grounds at will. The inn plays host to a lot of the more stylish visitors to the city including the odd Hollywood somebody who’s out here shooting a film. I always bring out-of-town guests to Campo. It’s the kind of place you want to show off. […]

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The Culver Hotel: A Contemporary Time Capsule

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000

Flatiron buildings aren’t common in Los Angeles, a city more known for horizontal mid-century sprawl than for the 1920’s desert boomtown at its true core. A few weeks after relocating from the New York City area to Culver City, a neighborhood next door to Santa Monica and a brief drive south of Beverly Hills, I was stuck in traffic—in true Southern California fashion—and found myself in the shadow of a very vertical flatiron building that looked like a slice of […]

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Arrive Hotel Palm Springs: New Millennium Addition to the Midcentury Scene

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:45:26 +0000

I’m sitting in the leather armchair in the corner of our room at the Arrive Hotel in Palm Springs, clinging to the last hour or so of the three days I will have been here. I’m two days past a major tweak of my back, suffered just after waking on our first morning here. Right now, the back is feeling pretty good, and credit where it’s due—Arrive is a fabulous place to recover from an injury, thanks in large part […]

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A Prodigal Daughter’s Guide to Lexington, KY

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:51:01 +0000

When I was growing up there in the eighties and nineties, Lexington, Kentucky couldn’t have been called a destination. When people did come there, it was for the horse country, the races at Keeneland perhaps, or maybe a basketball game at Rupp Arena. They certainly didn’t come for the food–or the drink, for that matter, despite Lexington’s surrounding countryside holding nearly all of the world’s bourbon distilleries. Before the aughts, in fact, the bourbon industry struggled with the prospect that […]

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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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The InterContinental Robertson Quay: Small Space, Big Impact

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:02:44 +0000

I stayed in Singapore’s new InterContinental Hotel Robertson Quay just a few weeks after it opened last fall. Already, it felt like a well-oiled machine, in its brand new building, shiny in all the right places. It’s an InterContinental, so as one would expect, business needs are well taken care of. The surprise comes in how pleasant a place this is for leisure travelers. All the details below… The Location: The hotel overlooks the Singapore River in the Robertson Quay […]

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