D’Artagnan is the last sort of restaurant you’d expect to find in this dour, businesslike part of town, right near Grand Central Terminal. It’s the kind of authentic bistro you picture in a French village, steeped in centuries of tradition, where no one in the kitchen has heard of a frothed sauce or fusion cuisine. Read More
It was pouring, and two pretty young Brazilian women in furs stepped forward eagerly as we alighted from our cab under the awning of L’Actuel. They jumped in, unaware that the driver, an Indian on his first night on the job, knew Manhattan even less than they did. Only a minute or two earlier, in Read More
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, a bugler sounded “Taps” in the vast expanse of Grand Central Terminal. The mournful notes drew a crowd of slightly puzzled passers-by. The power was out on the Lexington Avenue line, and fuming subway riders who were looking at their watches and cursing Read More
You may have heard, no doubt to your horror, that a midlevel employee of the Taxi and Limousine Commission is suspected of accepting gifts of cash money in exchange for providing answers to the questions posed in the city’s rigorous exam for would-be taxi drivers. This news created something of a stir, inspiring fear that Read More
The whole point of an automat used to be that what you saw was what you got. The Globe restaurant looks like an automat from the 40′s and offers a similarly wide selection of dishes (although they are not designated for a Horn & Hardart shelf life and they don’t come out of tiny coin-op Read More
When it was completed in 1981, Boomerang , a sculpture that is cantilevered from the south side of the 32nd floor of the McGraw-Hill building on West 42nd Street, was compared to “a pterodactyl in a Japanese horror movie or perhaps the struts of a stunt plane that will never finish its loop-the-loop.” The only Read More
