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REAL ESTATE • First Mover
Three for-sale lofts in Noho that came to market in the last 10 days.
→ 28 E 4th St #4W (Noho) • 2BR/2.1BA, NA SF co-op • Ask: $3.8M • renovated loft w/ whitewashed brick in boutique building • Days on market: 3 • Monthly tax/maint: $2451 • Agent: Robert Varvara, Compass. Open house Sat 10a-1p by appt only.
→ 21 Bond St #3 (Noho, above) • 3BR/2BA, NA SF co-op • Ask: $4.295M • full-floor loft in 1893 Renaissance Revival building • Days on market: 10 • Monthly tax/maint: $3150 • Agent: Esteban Gomez, Compass.
→ 36 Bleecker St #2A (Noho) • 2BR/2.1BA, 1791 SF condo • Ask: $5.595M • currently configured as oversized 1BR in The Schumacher • Days on market: 7 • Monthly tax: $3820 • Monthly cc: $3788 • Agents: Adam Modlin & Andrew Nierenberg, Modlin Group.
REAL ESTATE LINKS: Pssst, Mayor Mamdani: the Upper East Side is more fun than people think • Amenity watch: Brooklyn’s One Williamsburg Wharf debuts private ice rink • The saga of Bushwick Inlet Park rages on • Median Hamptons home prices top $2M for the first time ($5.6M in East Hampton).
GOODS & SERVICES • FOUND Galleries
Art under $10k
The new year means a new slate of shows across the city. If I had ten grand burning a hole in my pocket, here’s what I’d buy this week, from three current exhibitions on the Lower East Side:
MARIEL ROLWING MONTES: Frisson presents a three-person show titled Three of Cups. Each work in the exhibition is priced under $10,000, and among them, Mariel Rolwing Montes’ large paintings stand out. The artist uses combinations of airbrush, acrylic, and oil on canvas to create anonymous but familiar settings with a hint of menace. A junk-strewn garage is haunted by a ghostly presence. A porcelain-filled hutch has its doors flung wide by hobby horses witnesses to — or perhaps instigators of — a conflagration on one shelf. A country road is interspersed with latch hook rug portraits of Raggedy Ann and Andy. Painted as though saturated with light, the works command attention with both their stature and their content.
→ Frisson (Lower East Side, above) • 141 Attorney St • Tue-Sat 11a-6p, through 02/04.
BERNARD BUHMANN: This small exhibition of eight works is intimate, but hardly spare. Hard-edge or geometric abstraction has come back in recent years, but these oil and acrylic paintings on canvas feel fresh, with precisely painted and brightly hued forms layering and intermingling without muddying. Smaller elements make up vaguely letter-like shapes, creating an imagined language or font design, and the longer you sit with them, the more architectural they become, despite being only 50 x 40 cm. They’ll fit almost anywhere, and at $4800, they’ll fit the budget too.
→ Marinaro (Lower East Side) • 1 Rivington St • Tue-Sat 11a-6p, through 02/14.
SADIE BENNING: The artist’s Daily Forecasts exhibition is intimate and calming, even if the stitched-together images in her small watercolor paintings seem frenetic. Each standalone painting is a handmade reimagining of found images that speak to Benning’s meditative mindset on any given day. Titled simply using dates without any other context, the carefully wrought works prompt viewers into their own state of reflection. Neither pop nor pastiche, but carefully toeing the line, the 37 paintings cost $6000 each. –Charlie Davidson
→ Maxwell Graham (Lower East Side) • 55 Hester St • Wed-Sat 12-6p, through 02/21.
CULTURE & LEISURE LINKS: Cash-strapped Met Opera considers selling naming rights, Chagall murals • Miller’s Horse Company plans to bring riding back to Central Park • Light-art installation by Grimanesa Amorós debuting today at Printemps New York • The NJ farm-slash-wellness-center with a waitlist 14K long • Cursive is making a comeback.
RESTAURANTS • Intel
COLD NIGHTS, HOT POTS: Greenpoint’s excellent Vietnamese restaurant, Di An Di, is piloting a special hot pot dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday nights through the first week of February.
At $75 per (minimum two people), the production includes a parade of sauces, a burner warming a big bowl of lemongrass beef broth or vegan tamarind mushroom broth, a dish of the same rice noodles that go into their pho, a massive plate of vegetables, and — depending on the option you elect — another plate of vegan items for cooking (various forms of tofu, more veggies) or Happy Valley beef (brisket, round eye, etc). For $80 (the smart choice!), you get both broths and both plates.
The broths are fantastically aromatic, full of flavor; the veggie plate is robust, and the Happy Valley beef cooks beautifully in the broths. For dessert, a delightful tropical fruit platter. Given that the best hot pot spots in the city are in Flushing, this one is a no-brainer for the Greenpoint set in winter. Given the weather coming this weekend, there’s probably not a warmer seat in North Brooklyn. –Foster Kamer
→ Di An Di (Greenpoint) • 68 Greenpoint Ave • Mon-Thu 5-10p, Fri-Sat 12p-1030p, Sun 12p-10p • Reserve.
COLD NIGHTS, HOT CHEESE: Another port in the storm, Aldo Sohm Wine Bar, which is offering $26 all-you-can-eat fondue on Saturday and Monday to mark the storm. Dare you to watch this promo video with Aldo Sohm and Eric Ripert just once.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Any Gym in Jersey
Michigan State v Rutgers • men’s basketball • Jersey Mike’s Arena (Piscataway) • Fri @ 6p • sec 114, $280 per
Brown v Princeton • men’s basketball • Jadwin Gym (Princeton) • Sat @ 12p • sec 102, $17 per
UConn v Seton Hall • women’s basketball • Walsh Gym (South Orange) • Sun @ 12p • $20 per
CULTURE & LEISURE • Friday Routine
Lounging around
DYLAN GRACE • co-founder • Chelsea Living Room
Neighborhood you work in: Chelsea
Neighborhood you live in: Flatiron
It’s Friday afternoon. How are you rolling into the weekend?
I usually kick off Fridays catching up on emails while grabbing a peach iced tea at Pura Vida. I love to take calls on the go when the weather’s nice, so I always make sure to take a few of those while walking around Madison Square Park. Our newest venue, Celene’s, just opened, so I’ll spend a chunk of the day there with our events and marketing director going through this weekend’s lineup. We’ve got an exciting DJ rotation this month, and I love seeing how people experience the space we’ve worked hard to create. I like to wrap up at Chelsea Living Room by 5p for opening hour to check in with the team and be there as the weekend crowd starts to build.
Where are you drinking or dining this weekend?
This weekend I have reservations with friends at Cote in Flatiron, my go-to for an incredible Korean BBQ experience. Their Butcher’s Feast never disappoints. Other favorites of mine are Pastis for a burger and Martiny’s for drinks.
How about a little leisure or culture?
I’m toying with the idea of training for HYROX this year, so I’ve been weaving in weekly GRIT BXING classes into my routine. It’s an intense workout, but the energy of the instructors and the people is unmatched. I enjoy having a personal challenge to work toward and last year it was training for a half-marathon, maybe this year it’ll be something new.
Any weekend getaways?
Upstate, Wildflower Farms is high on my list to check out next time I want to plan some time away from NYC to recharge and unplug. During the summer, I usually head out east. Montauk is a favorite, especially Gurney’s.
What was your last great vacation?
Last February, I headed out west for Palm Tree Music Festival and stayed at MOLLIE Aspen for a few days. It’s a really well designed spot. I followed that with a full week in Cabo at Chileno Bay. The switch from mountains to beach was the best kind of contrast.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
My Prada Saffiano leather briefcase. It’s sleek, timeless, and fits everything I need for a packed day of bouncing from meeting to meeting.
What store or service do you always recommend?
IV drips at Reset by Therabody’s Manhattan West location. It’s a game-changer for feeling refreshed when I need to bounce back fast after a long night.
GETAWAYS LINKS: In Montauk, bolstered Ditch Plains dune is complete • Catskills equestrian estate owned by Andrew Carnegie’s daughter lists for $11M • New St. Regis Costa Mujeres Resort sets 07/20 opening • On travel and reasons to return.
GETAWAYS • The Nines
Hotels, old guard
Waldorf Astoria (Midtown East), iconic Park Ave. hotel recently reopened after 5+year renovation, $859