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New guard hotels, water views, Shtick NYC, Bycelette, Oroboro, art under $10K, Elbi Paris, Knicks tix, MORE
REAL ESTATE • First Mover
Here, three properties around Wall Street on the market in the last 30 days, with water views.
→ 70 Little West St 32E (Fidi, above) • 3BR/2.1 BA 1681 SF condo • Ask: $2.85M • move-in ready corner unit with full-length glass windows • Days on market: 11 • Monthly maint: $2,998 • Monthly taxes: $2833 • Agents: Daniel Jenner, Fredrik Eklund & John Gomes, Douglas Elliman.
→ 333 Rector Pl, PH6S (Fidi) • 3BR/3 BA 1956 SF condo • Ask: $3.25M • south-facing penthouse with private terrace • Days on market: 24 • Monthly maint: $2901 • Monthly taxes: $2957 • Agents: Jill Camac & Brandon Trentham, Compass.
→ 134 Beekman St (Fidi) • 2BR/1.1 BA 2295 SF townhouse • Ask: $5.95M • 4-story landmark dating to 1825, renovated in the last 2 years • Days on market: 4 • Monthly taxes: $2,853 • Agent: Richard Ziegelasch, Corcoran.
REAL ESTATE LINKS: The ongoing nightmare that is 432 Park Ave • The man who sells New York’s unsellable apartments • Extell’s proposed very tall tower on Upper West Side annoying Tony Danza • City wants to redesign Chinatown’s chaotic Chatham Square • Row of Downtown Brooklyn’s oldest townhouses might be doomed.
WORK • Friday Routine
Shticking landings
JACQUELINE LOBEL • founder • Shtick NYC
Neighborhood you work in: Lower East Side
Neighborhood you live in: Carroll Gardens
It’s Friday afternoon. How are you rolling into the weekend?
Fridays are for hosting dinners for 60 new and old friends at Shtick, my weekly supper club celebrating NYC’s Jewish culture that’s open to all. After two years bouncing around underground spaces, we (soft) opened a permanent home in the heart of the LES, so I basically live there now. By Friday afternoon, I’m usually receiving wine deliveries, arranging florals, or trading brisket for who-knows-what with a neighbor.
Where are you drinking or dining this weekend?
We’ll often pop over to Le Dive or Time Again for a nightcap after service. Since moving into Shtick’s new space at the corner of Hester and Orchard, I’ve been re-exploring this special little pocket of the LES, aka Dimes Square/Two Bridges. Cervos, Bridges, Wu’s Wonton King — all 10/10 for dinner. I haven’t made it to Sunn’s yet, but it’s high on the list. Elbow Bread is my nourishment every Friday morning. Their whitefish bialy is a savory hug. For lunch, Regina’s is a consistent comfort. I don’t eat pork, so I usually go for the Grandma Lucy or Cousin Anthony.
If I’m staying local in Carroll Gardens, mornings are spent stocking up: croissants and fresh bread from Bycelette, meats from Paisanos, fishy things from Fish Tales, and produce from Union Market, K&Y Grocery, or the Carroll Park Farmers Market on Sundays. Saturday or Sunday is usually the only time I get to slow down and cook or host a nice, lingering midday meal. For dinner, lately it’s been a quick bike ride to Red Hook for a seat at the bar at Pitt’s (shoutout to Ben, the best bartender in the city) or a stroll to Petite Crevette, a stubbornly charming BYO neighborhood gem from a bygone Brooklyn era that remains deeply unfussy.
How about a little leisure or culture?
I love an afternoon of small luxuries on the Upper East Side. A few hours at The Met. A snack at Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue. Martinis at Bemelmans (tip the manager to skip the line and get seated).
Another perfect day would start with a slow morning in Brighton Beach with snacks from Tashkent or NetCost. From there, I’ll walk the boardwalk to Coney Island for a Nathan’s hot dog and a ride on the Ferris wheel (maybe not in that order). Then back to Brighton to wrap the day with a big, family-style dinner at Skovorodka.
Any weekend getaways?
I grew up escaping city summers in the Catskills, so for me it’s always mountains > beach. Scribner’s is my forever favorite. It’s a perfect all-in-one getaway with mountain views, a pool, and everything you need right on property — especially if you’re lucky to snag one of their new rooms at The Rounds. That being said, I’ve been doing more staycationing at the Rockaway Hotel lately. Sneaking off on a quiet weeknight when the beach is calm, and (unlike in summer) Tacoway doesn’t have a line. The hotel itself is owned by art lovers, and their collection is sprinkled throughout the rooms and hallways. It’s a luxury hotel and spa, but with a staff and clientele that feel deeply local and Rockaway-rooted, which, as a bridge-and-tunneler myself, I truly love.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
My biggest splurge lately has been on floor tiles for the new space! I was on the hunt for jade and white stone in a checkered pattern, and my friends at Manes Design helped source the perfect option at a fraction of what other vendors were quoting. I also recently scored a beautiful antique mezuzah via LiveAuctioneers, which felt like a very lucky find.
What store or service do you always recommend?
Yesterday’s News and Humble House for antiquing in Brooklyn. Cute, curated retail I’m loving lately: Oroboro and La Garçonne.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Sec 107
Celtics v Knicks • MSG (Midtown South) • Fri @ 730p • sec 107, $667 per (lowest avail $229)
Billie Eilish • UBS Arena (Elmont, NY) • Sat @ 7p • sec 107, $443 per (lowest avail $278)
Sabrina Carpenter • MSG (Midtown South) • Sun @ 7p • sec 107, $840 per (lowest avail $335)
CULTURE & LEISURE LINKS: New Princeton Art Museum is an ‘architectural triumph’ • Surrealism show at The Whitney is a mindfuck • Giant designer lava lamps drop today • Is it true that no one knows how to party anymore?
CULTURE & LEISURE • Art Under $10K
The only safe way to invest in art? Buy what you love. To that end, If I had ten grand burning a hole in my pocket, here’s what I’d buy this week from three exhibitions I saw on the Lower East Side:
LUCIA VIDALES: The Monterrey-based Vidales is going through a bit of a stylistic shift. Her newer paintings take on a spooky-funny air that’s perfect for the season. That’s not to say they don’t work as year-round art. The paintings use traditional methods (oil paint, rabbit glue, and charcoal on linen) to depict quasi-nightmarish bodies and limbs mingling with memento mori and bug eyes, owing as much to Jim Henson as they do Goya. Expert use of color and a honed balance between sinister and humorous keep the works from veering into unseriousness. They’ve sold well already, but the remaining pieces run $4700-$8000.
→ Proxyco (Lower East Side) • 88 Eldridge St • Tue-Fri 11a-5p, Sat 12-6p, through 11/01.
MIKE LEE (above): At first glance, Lee’s greyscale paintings look like black-and-white photorealistic images of the American dream: cars, houses, assorted scenes of domesticity. They give the feel of half-remembered photographs and incomplete excerpts from catalogs and manuals whose visual legibility shatters as you get closer. The more you look, the more of Lee’s allegorical melancholy emerges. The smallest paintings are $5000 and $8000.
→ Half Gallery (Lower East Side) • 235 E 4th St Tue-Sat 12-6p, through 11/01.
JOEL WYLLIE: Wyllie’s gorgeous works on paper demonstrate the artist’s incredible control over his materials. With a couple of exceptions, the drawings are quite small (the largest is around 30 inches). But their contents play with scale in a cinematic way — recalling masters such as HR Giger and Moebius — with haunting depictions from the artist’s imagination that come oh-so-close to looking like real-life objects while simultaneously alien. Color is used sparingly, but where it’s employed, it glows amongst the graphite and rose-colored pencil figures. Works run $1000-$7000. –Charlie Davidson
→ Foreign & Domestic (Lower East Side) • 24 Rutgers St • Wed-Sun 12-6p, through 11/09.
GETAWAYS • Paris
Classical comfort
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The Skinny: After earning acclaim for inventive (but very polished) contemporary French cooking at his eponymous restaurant in Les Halles, young chef Omar Dhiab cooks from the heart at this minimalist space in the 10th. The resulting comfort food dishes at Elbi reflect his identity growing up in France as the son of an Egyptian father and a Tunisian mother.
The Vibe: The sprawling space with Formica booths, tables, and a big table d’hôtes immediately pulled an eclectic crowd of Parisian creatives, along with Egyptian and other North African expats proud to see their childhood comfort foods rendered by a chef trained in classical French haute cuisine.
The Food & Drink: Start off with a Karkadé cocktail, named for Karkadé, the delicious spiced hibiscus juice and citrus drink served at Egyptian weddings. After that, plan on two or three small-plate dishes per person. The menu is divided up into sections by cooking method — room temperature, steamed, fried, grilled, and roasted — so set up your table with the chopped tomato, onion, and cucumber salad and some homemade harissa. Then, tuck into dishes like succulent octopus-stuffed ravioli in a creamy sauce seasoned with couscous jus; an Egyptian-style Scotch egg (soft-boiled, wrapped in falafel, and deep fried); tempura grape leaves with a spicy chickpea condiment; hawawchi, a flaky grilled flatbread stuffed with ground beef; and maybe the lacquered pigeon with fried almonds and an apricot-and-pepper condiment. There’s an ambitious and pricey list of natural and organic wines.
The Verdict: A poignantly delicious ode to the multicultural childhood of a talented young chef, Elbi shows off just how cosmopolitan modern French cooking has become. –Alexander Lobrano
→ Elbi (10th arr) • 54 Rue de Paradis • Mon-Fri 630p-12a, Sat-Sun 12-230p & 7p-12a • Call to reserve: (33) 01-42-26-40-14.
GETAWAYS LINKS: In time for the offseason, pizza is back at Nick & Toni’s • After 29-year run, Bridgehampton’s Golden Pear Cafe closing after service this Sunday • Kingston market Fletcher & Lu shuttering next week • Food lineup introduced for new JFK T6, including PJ Clarke’s • The carry-on club.
GETAWAYS • The Nines
Hotels, new guard
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The Surrey (Upper East Side), chic newish spot that’s home to NYC outpost of Miami private club Casa Tua, intel here, $1640