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REAL ESTATE • First Mover
Three for-sale properties in Williamsburg that came to market in the last 14 days with open houses this Sunday:
→ 585 Union Ave TH (Williamsburg) • 3BR/2.1BA, 2031 SF condo • Ask: $4.25M • duplex in boutique condo w/ wide plank wood flooring • Days on market: 10 • Monthly cc: $1951 • Monthly tax: $2176 • Agents: Grace Terranova & Adrian Noriega, Corcoran. Open house Sun 1130a-1p.
→ 132 S 1st St (Williamsburg, above) • 4BR/3BA, 2400 SF two-family townhouse • Ask: $4.5M • industrial minimalist, ‘no corner was cut’ • Days on market: 2 • Monthly tax: $185 • Agents: Greg McHale & Dillon Knop, Compass. Open house Sun 12-2p.
→ 61 S 4th St (Williamsburg) • 4BR/4.1BA, 4750 SF townhouse • Ask: $8.495M • ‘clean European aesthetic with bespoke industrial-chic elements’ • Days on market: 12 • Monthly tax: $1210 • Agents: Yuval Vidal & Caroline Gruchawka, Compass.
REAL ESTATE LINKS: New plan for 86-story tower at 80 West 67th St. would be tallest on Upper West Side • Renderings revealed for The Morgan, 18-story new development in Murray Hill • Floorplan breakdown: 1040 Fifth Ave #16 • Wider median, fewer car lanes for Park Ave. in redesign concepts floated by city • The debacle that is the fence at The Battery.
RESTAURANTS • First Person
Grandma-style
Burrow is the answer to a question you’ve likely never asked: what would happen if grandmother worked in fine dining in her youth, and now hosts home dinner parties for 30-year-old strangers well into her 80s?
The experience at the new East Williamsburg supper club is unlike any other I’ve had dining in New York City. Inside a residential home, chef Sammy Koolik is turning out ambitious food from a barebones kitchen with only four burners, not even a convection oven, nothing fancy. And he’s doing it with the warmth and generosity of a genuine balaboosta; cooking alone in the kitchen, putting a lot of love into his food.
As soon as you walk into the octogenarian-chic garden-level apartment, you’re handed a house cocktail and immersed in a room full of strangers while classic rock plays from a speaker in the corner. It’s a supper club, stripped of any pretense.
A simple egg custard course topped with royal osetra caviar was a standout, with bits of sourdough and, more surprisingly, spice. I’ve eaten my fair share of caviar but never had it combined with Sichuan peppercorns — as creative as it is delicious. The onion lasagna also blew us away. Everyone knows that the crisp edges of the lasagna are the best part, so naturally, Koolik blowtorched the rolled pasta right before serving it, ensuring we all got our crunchy fix. The final course was a baked Alaska with homemade hazelnut ice cream and feuilletine that had people literally licking their plates.
What makes Burrow special isn’t just the food. It’s the personal, intimate format without the aura of the tryhard that sometimes comes with experiences like these. No complicated menu decisions, no upsells, no check at the end (everyone has prepaid). You show up, sit down, eat, drink, talk, and go home, just like you might at any other dinner party — except also, unlike any you ever have. –Adam Fern
→ Burrow (Williamsburg) • $245 per (inclusive food, drinks, gratuity) • DM for reservations.
WORK • Friday Routine
Cat’s meow
VERONICA DEL ROSARIO • co-founder & chief brand officer • Smalls
Neighborhood you work in: NYC
Neighborhood you live in: Olivebridge, NY
It’s Friday afternoon, how are you rolling into the weekend?
It’s my first week back from maternity leave, so I’m feeling especially grateful for Smalls’ four-day work week. I had one call with the board earlier today, but my schedule is otherwise clear, so I have time to clean up slides I’m presenting next week, and most importantly, get some qt in with Alma (the baby) and Joe (the baby daddy). Then, we’ll head to the city for the weekend, which we often do.
Any restaurant plans?
I have a big extended family, and we’re celebrating a cousin’s birthday this weekend with dim sum at Ocean Bay on Queens Blvd. We also have dinner booked with friends at the new Falansai in Greenpoint.
Any weekend getaways?
We’re at our place Upstate most of the time, so I have many, many recommendations in the Catskills/Hudson Valley. Close to me, for a nice night out, Chleo is my favorite restaurant: they do. not. miss. I’m also a huge fan of Ollie’s Pizza —we go at least once a week, followed by a root beer float with coffee ice cream from Cherries. A little farther out, in one direction, there’s Brushland Eating House, which I first visited in 2016 (proudly) and will always return to, and in the other, there’s Stissing House, whose vibe is undefeated.
What was your last great vacation?
I feel ridiculous saying this, but I’ve been to Palm Heights three times in the past year. The beach is stunning, the hotel is aesthetically the greatest, it’s only 70-something rooms (so it’s intimate and lovely), the food is so so good, the Garden Club is unlike any other spa I’ve been to, and their staff is incredible. I’ve never returned to a single place so many times in such short order, but it really is the freakin’ best. And every time I go I feel like it’s no one’s first time, their repeat-visit rate must be insane — for good reason. Literally we’re making an annual Palm Heights budget for this. My one tip is definitely to go off-season.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
How big a ticket are we talking? We got a Rivian a few months ago and it feels like a major life upgrade from our Muskmobile. If a bit smaller, these Overland sheepskins made such a cozy difference in our house through the winter. So did our Carepods in our bedroom and the nursery! One more thing: we got this Alice Waters Tuscan Grill to do some fireplace cooking.
What store or service do you always recommend?
In the city, Spencer’s Spa, 10/10. Upstate, a small store I have long loved is Maple Lawn Antiques in Stone Ridge.
Where are you donating your time?
I’m on the founding team of Upstate Color aka UPCO, an incredible, thriving community of BIPOC folks living in the Catskills/Hudson Valley, and hope to spend as much time on that as I can give. Join our monthly meetups at Camp Kingston every first Thursday of the month!
CULTURE & LEISURE LINKS: Previewing Stylus, ‘listening room to end all listening rooms’ on the LES • Moonrise, giant new spa in development in Tribeca, ‘looks absolutely nuts’ • Inside Gagosian’s power move to street level • The death of the art school • Will TikTok’s ‘fine art’ category disrupt the art market?
CULTURE & LEISURE • Art Under 10K
Three Tribeca shows closing soon, with works worth seeing before they come down.
EVE BIDDLE (above): Biddle, a co-founder of FOUND favorite Wassaic Project upstate, is a multifarious artist, but her solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters presents only her painstakingly handmade silkscreens on oval panels. Each one depicts the natural world (grass, flowers, water) in stark monochrome, like an overexposed negative. The singular focus of each image and their mirror-like shapes invite viewers to slow down and confront the world around them, even amongst the white-washed walls of the gallery. They’re serene, simple images, serious and undeniably beautiful. There are three monotypes, each $8500, while the editions of three are $5000.
→ Sargent’s Daughters (Tribeca) • 370 Broadway • Tue-Sat 10a-6p, through 05/02.
KEN RESSEGER: Resseger’s work is intimate to say the least: each painting in this exhibition is 9 x 7 inches, including the frame. That said, the small works are expansive, holding masses of information and emotion. There are impressionistic landscapes with Gauguinesque trees as well as quieter interiors reminiscent of Degas’ subdued light-filled rooms. Roiling storms and erupting volcanoes are juxtaposed with sunsets and silent kettles in display cases. The most successful paintings are the glimpses through trees at the land below, as though the viewer was stopping along a hike for a glance at a temporary and secret vista. $6000 each.
→ Canada (Tribeca) • 60 Lispenard St • Tue-Sat, 10a-6p, through 05/09
DEBBIE KENOTE: The shaped canvases in Kenote’s solo exhibition blend texture and color into joyful abstract forms. In particular, two smaller triangular paintings hold small visible brushstrokes that vibrate with leaf-like shapes in warm tones, that radiate and vibrate at different frequencies, peacefully, as if blown in the wind. The works have a defined light source, causing undulation which, when paired with Kenote’s visible hand, prevents any flatness. The majority of the work falls outside of the budget, though the two aforementioned triangles are $4000 and $6000. –Charlie Davidson
→ Cristin Tierney (Tribeca) • 49 Walker St • Tue-Sat 10a-6p, through 05/09.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Boss
Sugar • Webster Hall (East Village) • Sat @ 730p • pref balcony, $157 per
Maya Hawke • Bowery Ballroom (Lower East Side) • Sat @ 8p • GA, $38 per
Springsteen • UBS Arena (Elmont) • Tue @ 730p • sec 104, $323 per
GETAWAYS • Hudson Valley
Diner delight
On a recent drive up to Vermont, we made the short detour off the Taconic to check out Doves Diner, newly opened in the former West Taghkanic Diner space.
Co-founded by hospitality veterans Lauren Stanek and Emma Rosenbush, Doves strikes a careful balance between preservationist instincts and the reflex for a refresh. The classic interiors haven’t changed dramatically: chrome accents gleam, counter stools line the bar, and red vinyl booths remain intact. It looks exactly like a diner should. And (like any good diner) Doves is built as a place for the people, a true third space where locals, travelers, and everyone in between can gather, caffeinate, and eat well.
You can keep it simple with some toast, eggs, orange juice, and a solid cup of drip coffee. Or you can turn to the specials for something more playful, like toasted coconut-almond pancakes, or trout and eggs topped with roe. There’s also a tight bar menu if you’re in the mood for a drink — mini beers, Bloody Marys, mimosas, and a house white and red. Although the endless vinyl menu offers that classic diner illusion of anything, anytime, the more concise menu at Doves is a reflection of a kitchen focused on doing a smaller range of things really well. Still, the staples are there: French toast, tuna melt, Cobb salad.
I went classic with a strong coffee and the Doves #2, scrambled eggs, sausage, crinkle-cut fries, and buttered wheat toast with a side of jam. It was generous and reasonably priced, the kind of straightforward breakfast you expect at a diner, but executed a few notches above the norm. And of course, I ordered a pancake for the table: squidgy, with a malty sweetness, soaking up the maple syrup almost as soon as it hit the surface.
Doves honors the inclusive spirit of a classic diner while expanding what that experience can be. For locals and those who periodically make the drive up and down the Taconic, it’s a stop worth building into the routine. –Phoebe Fry
→ Doves Diner (Ancram, NY) • 1016 NY-82 • Thu-Sun 9a-3p.
GETAWAYS LINKS: In Sag Harbor, new Babe’s Diner opens today • Secret Paul Rudolph house hits the market in Bucks County • JetBlue says new domestic ‘mini-Mint’ first class to arrive by end of year.
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