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Lofty Goals Choosing a Rooftop for Your Next Party

01 Tuesday May 2012

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Your all-time, no-limits party-spot wish list goes a little something like this:


1) The Fortress of Solitude.
2) Madison Square Garden.
3) The Nestlé Toll House, circa 1930.At least one of these is totally doable today…

Introducing Eventup, a site where some comically amazing fantasy party venues are yours for the booking, available now in New York.

Before you throw the Earth Day fete they’ll tell the grandkids about, you’ll go here. They’ve got a solid chunk of New York’s finest restaurants, celebrity pads, cultural landmarks and criminally underutilized rooftops available for your merrymakings. Little hovels like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Radio City Music Hall.

But if your guest list is just a shade under 20,000 (you do have standards, after all), you can grab places like 21 Club, the Modern or the Breslin for a more intimate affair.

All you need to do is decide what kind of place you require. Maybe Bob Dylan’s old residence for a little blonde-on-blonde-themed double entendre action. Maybe Birreria for the rooftop launch of your new eponymous fragrance. From there, just choose a date, book online, and the city is your oyster.

You can also feel free to rent out your own place to Eventup if it’s got, say, a view of the High Line.

Just make sure to write your name on the chips.

Watches, They’re Everywhere

30 Monday Apr 2012

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Published April 27, 2012 | URBAN DADDY

Your wrist.

Strong. Stable. Capable of a McEnroe-esque ping-pong forehand.

One problem… It’s just not nearly as Swiss as you’d like.

But help has arrived.

Give a warm welcome to IWC, an imposing monument to watches and leather with the occasional flight suit, now open in New York for the first time.

You’re aware of IWC. Swiss gods of timepiecery. Well, this is where you’ll go to immerse yourself in their perfectly wound glory. Naturally, they’ve gone all out with all the things you’d expect from a fine watch shop: world-encompassing leather chairs. Racing bikes. A flight simulator. You know, classic watch shop.

You’re working your way through five mini rooms here—one for each collection. Shifting seamlessly from checking out the Portuguese in a nautical-themed den to lusting after the Portofinos in a library. You’ll end up in what looks like an Air Force locker room as imagined by Ernest Hemingway: chronographs surrounded by studded leather, modernist aircraft statuary and the occasional five-foot, remote-controlled French WWII plane.

And lest you think they’re a little too horology-obsessive, there’s also some handsome leather luggage and the supple fruits of a collaboration with Cockpit. We’re talking the same calfskin bomber jackets that Navy fighter pilots wear. And, in case you know someone with a Goose fantasy, an actual flight suit.

God, you miss that crazy bastard.

VITALS

IWC
535 Madison Ave
(at 54th)
New York, NY 10022
212-355-7271
official website

 

One World Trade Center, Now New York’s Tallest Skyscraper

30 Monday Apr 2012

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This afternoon, One World Trade Center will pass the Empire State Building as New York’s tallest skyscraper, reclaiming the city’s skyline and reviving the race for height that originated in Manhattan but which was resolved with the building of the World Trade Centerover 40 years ago. In just a few hours, workers are scheduled to install the first column of the 100th floor of the tower’s steel frame, which will rise 1,250 feet in the air, peaking just 21 feet over the crest of the Empire State Building’s observation deck.

 Upon its expected completion in 2014, One World Trade Center will stand 1,776 feet and will become the country’s tallest structure, a title which currently belongs to Chicago’s 1,450 foot-tall Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). Much jubilation greeted the announcement for many reasons–the director of the Port Authority giddily anticipated the views from the tower’s future observation platform, while architect David Childs welcomed the progression of construction as a sign towards the eventual rehabilitation of Lower Manhattan’s urban life. Yet, today’s events can hardly be seen as a milestone, says author and chronicler of New York’s skyscrapers Neal Bascomb, who told the NYTimes that the construction is “kind of like competing against a ghost.”

STAR PARTY

23 Monday Apr 2012

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ASTRONOMY 101 — IN SESSION ON THE HIGH LINE

Manhattan is usually low on the list of places that comes to mind when the topic of star-gazing (of the celestial type) is broached. There’s too much light pollution in major cities to see more than a few dozen stars, much less planets or other galaxies. But given the right equipment, your odds improve significantly.

Every Tuesday night, the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York invites you to use their high-powered telescopes stationed near the 14th street entrance of the High Line park, just south of the Standard Hotel. Under favorable conditions, you can get a close-up view of the moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mars, and the brighter stars like Sirius. You’ll have to plan around New York’s fickle weather, but even under cloud cover, your consolation prize is handsome: a stroll along the newly expanded park with spring coming into full bloom.

Star-gazing on the High Line is a free public program that takes place every Tuesday from dusk until 10pm, weather permitting. Follow @highlinenyc for updates.

Images courtesy of Karen Blumberg/SpecialKRB.

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