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Plantoir, Red and Architect’s Handkerchief in New York

Mar 25, 2026 2 minutes

The gardening season is just around the corner, so let’s talk about… garden trowels! One of them — five meters tall — stands right next to Lever House on Park…

Lenin in New York

Mar 25, 2026 3 minutes

New York is an extraordinary city — perhaps the only place where people from around 200 different countries can feel at home, even if they don’t speak English. I’m one…

New Museum Reopens to the Public in New York

Mar 25, 2026 3 minutes

Today, New Museum — one of New York City’s leading and arguably most avant-garde contemporary art institutions — reopened to the public. I recently shared the story of why it…

Vipp Pavilion — a boutique retreat in New York

Mar 25, 2026 3 minutes

Vipp Pavilion is a boutique retreat located in upstate New York — a hybrid between a showroom for the Danish design brand Vipp and a typical Airbnb-style guest house that…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York

Mar 25, 2026 6 minutes

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is the only contemporary art museum in New York City with free admission year-round. It is located on the Grand Concourse in the South…

Vodka ad in New York

Mar 20, 2026 1 minutes

I waited until Friday to share this photo. Everything about it is perfect: I wonder what the occasion would be to finally grab a bottle…

The world’s first glass skyscraper — the UN Building in New York

Mar 20, 2026 2 minutes

Fun fact about the UN building in New York: it’s considered the very first glass skyscraper in the world, where most of the façade is made entirely of glass. Even…

Gem Home in New York: a café, home goods shop, and grocery store

Mar 20, 2026 2 minutes

Fans of ultra-trendy coffee shops and low-sugar bakeries (that is, all of us) are always recommending places like La Cabra and WatchHouse to each other. But hardly anyone knows the…

New York spent $81,000 per homeless person in 2025

Mar 18, 2026 2 minutes

Last year, New York spent about $81,000 per person living on the streets. For comparison, that’s nearly equal to the city’s median household income ($81,228) and almost twice what the…

Jean Austin at the Intrepid Museum

Mar 17, 2026 1 minutes

One of the most remarkable things about museums in the U.S. that I’ve come across is that on museum ships, the guides are often people who once actually served on…

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