Author: Editor-in-Chief
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Windham’s Hotel War Comes With Charcuterie
The Windham Mountain Club wants a 26-room, $1,200-a-night hotel. A rival hotelier, a petition, three recusals and a torn-up newspaper stand in the way. A Catskills land-use fight, New York style.
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Thomas Straker Has a Passport and a Lot of Butter
The London chef with two million followers per platform has opened Straker’s in Keith McNally’s old Lucky Strike, a year late and $2 million over budget. Start with the mussel flatbread.
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Midtown’s Old Offices Are Learning to Sleep Over
Three Manhattan office buildings, on East 57th Street, East 59th Street and Wall Street, moved toward a second life as apartments in a matter of days. The money behind them says the conversion boom is now a line of business.
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Three Japanese Restaurants Walk Into a Bank Tower
KwangHo Lee’s One Bryant Park has replaced Charlie Palmer’s steaks with $175 kaiseki, a 14-seat sushi counter and, improbably, the most talked-about bread basket in Midtown.
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Eric Ulrich’s Day in Court, Without a Jury
Three years after five indictments, the Adams-era buildings commissioner goes on trial Monday before a single judge. Two co-defendants have already admitted handing him $4,000 in an envelope.
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The Speaker Pulled Out Her Phone
Subpoenaed into testifying, Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI told the City Council that Grok has ‘strict controls.’ Julie Menin produced a sexualized image of herself it had made in under 30 seconds. Then the whistleblower spoke.
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The Last Ride Around the Park
Romanch’s Law, the Central Park horse carriage phase-out, comes to a Council vote Thursday with 29 co-sponsors and the mayor’s blessing. The drivers’ union is promising a lawsuit; the horses have until June 2028.
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Clubland Has Run Out of People to Exclude
A fourth Soho House sharing a roof with The Ned, The Wolseley moving into The Lambs’ old clubhouse, and a Qatar-linked mansion club on Fifth Avenue. New York’s members’-club boom is a real estate story in a dinner jacket.
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Tribeca’s New Status Symbol Is a Cold Plunge for Four
SCHWET’s Budapest-by-way-of-Franklin-Street banya, SweatHouz’s private suites and Bathhouse’s new Brooklyn backyard: a dispatch from the sauna wars, where heat and cold are sold at very different volumes.
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171,000 New Yorkers Went to Look at Trees
Metro-North is adding still more Leaf Peeper trains after a record-crush Saturday. A field guide to escaping the city this foliage season without standing all the way to Beacon, and where the smart set is sleeping.
