Photo: Ericka McConnell
Two decades ago the East Village was the last place you'd want to investigate with kids. But then the hipsters living in those tenements grew up—and started alternative public schools for their children, helped transform empty lots into community gardens, and opened galleries and cafés in the former no-man's-land of Alphabet City.
Read the articleDestinations: Manhattan · East Village · Lower East Side
Themes: Family
Inspired by: Secret NYC | T+L Family — by Jane Margolies, Published Aug. 2007
1 - 2 of 2 Results
A cross between a bed and breakfast (except there’s no breakfast) and a hostel, East Village Bed & Coffee is the creation of Anne Edris. Since Edri
... More
A high-design (and high-profile) herald of change in a once-grubby neighborhood, the glass-façaded Rivington soars above the old brick tenements of
... More1 - 2 of 2 Results
1 - 6 of 6 Results
Positioned on the corner of Ave. A and East 9th St. in Alphabet City, this café is filled with mismatched chairs and makeshift tables arranged over
... More
1 - 6 of 6 Results
1 - 12 of 12 Results
Run by the Lower East Side Girls Club, Sweet Things Bake Shop offers you not only fun homemade goodies, but the chance to make a difference--when y
... More
Founded by Paolo DeRobertis in 1904, the tradition of DeRobertis is maintained today by his grandchildren. According to the New York Times, to ente
... More
Window displays packed full of furry stuffed animals, wooden play sets, and handmade clothes draw those young and young at heart into this East Vil
... More
Searching for a place to house a museum honoring American immigrants, Ruth Abram unearthed 97 Orchard Street, a historic apartment building that wa
... More
Located in the East Village on Fifth St. between Aves. C and D, El Jardin del Paraíso was created in the early 1980s after nearly a dozen tenement
... More
The East Village’s “backyard” is a humble patch of reclaimed swamp land where urban dwellers come to play chess, play with their kids, watch birds
... More
1 - 12 of 12 Results
1 - 22 of 22 Results
New York City, Midtown East, Upper West Side
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, when residents head for the beach, most big cities empty out, enabling you to score tables at top-notch restaurants, snag choice theater tickets, and take advantage
...
Manhattan, Union Square/Flatiron, Midtown West
NYC hot-dog carts, meet the competition: inspired by Danny Meyer’s wildly popular Shake Shack, in Madison Square Park, snack bars are dishing out quick, pedigreed fare in the Big Apple’s green spac...
New York City, Manhattan, East Village, SoHo, West Village
It’s not especially modest to call New York City the center of the modern world—but then, as New Yorkers are the first to admit, their hometown has never been shy about tooting its own horn. The bu
...
New York City, Manhattan, Upper East Side, Midtown East, Midtown West
With its Park Avenue triplexes, brass-buttoned doormen, and Madison Avenue boutiques, the Upper East Side is the Apple at its most polished. And this pricey territory east of Fifth Avenue is certai
...
New York City, Manhattan, Chelsea, Union Square/Flatiron, Meatpacking District
The art dealers started it all. Priced out of Soho in the 1990's, they migrated to the old industrial area north of West 14th Street and transformed warehouses and garages into stunning showcases f
...
Manhattan, Midtown West, Upper West Side
It's almost like a suburb within the city—a kid-centric community of extra-wide sidewalks and Saturday morning soccer games, of outings to the Museum of Natural History and sippy cups in every café
...
Rye, Upper East Side
Take a walk on New York's other wild side—by scoping out the city's 250 bird species, visiting nearby nature conservancies, and learning about balancing city life with concern for the environment.
New York City, Manhattan, Lower East Side, Midtown West
Catch a show or two—along with a great meal and a few z's—around New York's Great White Way.
Boston, Cambridge, New York City, Manhattan, The Bronx
Three days is all you need to check out the contemporary design highlights of Manhattan and Boston—and to stop along the way to visit pieces of iconic modern architecture in Connecticut.
Manhattan, Battery Park/Financial District
The cobblestoned streets and historic buildings around Manhattan’s former Fulton Fish Market—near the historic South Street Seaport—are home to a new wave of cafés and boutiques.
Manhattan, Chelsea, Union Square/Flatiron, Midtown East, Midtown West
Re-used concepts, obsessive attention to detail, hyper-seasonal ingredients, lectures on salt, fickle chefs and corporate packaging aren't enough to stop people from paying top dollar and sampling ...
East Village, SoHo, West Village
Small-scale dining rooms don't mean small-scale taste sensations. As the bar dining craze has hit New York by storm, a slew of chefs have hit their stride, serving everything from kimchee-zapped oy
...
Manhattan, East Village, Chelsea, Lower East Side, Midtown East
New York City truly is a melting pot and you have to look no further than the vast array of cuisines from other countries available in some of the city's best restaurants as proof.
West Village, Lower East Side
Ready for your taste buds to be tickled and tackled, bewildered and charmed?Order a degustation menu at New York City's WD~50, Wylie Dufresne's stylish laboratory of experimental cuisine. The unsto
...
SoHo, Upper East Side, Lower East Side
Whether you like to really fortify yourself for the day with maple-butter slathered pancakes or kugelhopf (raisin-studded yeast cake), or you prefer a flaky apple gallette or a dainty serving of ro
...
East Village, West Village, Upper East Side, Meatpacking District, Upper West Side
For culinary thrill-seekers and casual chowhounds alike there's never been a better moment to dine out in Manhattan. The Great Restaurant Boom that began a few years ago shows no sign of abating, a
...
West Village, Midtown West, Gramercy Park
In a city like New York, restaurants come and go. Among the bumper crop of new openings, these are generating the loudest buzz.
Manhattan, East Village, West Village, Midtown West
Just as designer Isaac Mizrahi plays limbo with high and low, designing for both Bergdorf's and Target, he lives in the West Village and splits his time seamlessly between Uptown and Downtown. A su...
Barcelona
From the high-end boutiques of Passeig de Gracia to hidden shops in the Barri Gòtic, here is an exhaustive guide to getting your shopping fix in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. Be forewarned, how
...
Chelsea, Upper East Side, Battery Park/Financial District, Midtown East, Midtown West
Although hotels with significant residential components are on the rise around the world, living in hotels is still more common in New York City than anywhere else. Whether it's the room service, t...
New York City, Manhattan, East Village, Chelsea, Battery Park/Financial District
Welcome to one of America's most exciting, sophisticated, and expensive destinations. But don't let that last point put you off a family trip. Here, the best low-cost hotels, restaurants and attrac
...
New York City, Upper East Side, Midtown East, Midtown West, Gramercy Park
The Big Apple can't be beat for dramatic moments: shopping on Madison Avenue, strolling hand in hand through Central Park, or basking in the megawatt glow of Times Square.
1 - 22 of 22 Results
