Our ten favorite bookstores in Manhattan, from the breathtaking Rizzoli to the booze-friendly Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, to the secret, speakeasy-esque Brazenhead.
At The Park in Chelsea, enjoy your meal in a lush indoor garden that used to be a 10,000 square foot taxi garage.
Want to visit Chelsea's art galleries but have no idea where to start? The Municipal Art Society's tours show visitors and seasoned New Yorkers alike the latest from local talent and some of the most important contemporary artists in the world.
Darren Waterston recreates the universe at DC Moore Gallery with paintings that seem to meld East Asian artistic traditions and science fiction.
In a retrospective survey at (Art) Amalgamated, Masami Teraoka confronts social issues such as AIDS, female sexuality, and consumerism, and lines up an attack on the Catholic Church.
A look into the city's nautically inspired architecture--there's more than you think, from the Jane Hotel to St Vincent's Hospital to The Maritime Hotel.
Tonkonow Gallery's current exhibition pushes us to reflect on the intellectual discourse surrounding sexuality in art.
An afternoon in Chelsea: pop-up shops, tiny art galleries, fake Davids, vintage jewelry, and curvaceous architecture.
Borrowing pens from MoMA visitors, interviewing pimps in Harlem, and drawing cops at Occupy Wall Street are just some of the ways artists challenge our ideas about urban life in NYC.
The 2012 Chelsea Music Festival closed with a jazz finale smooth enough to engender nostalgia for hot summer nights and tree lined roads.