9th Ave. Elevated
By Claudie Benjamin Venchi Cioccogelateria’s pale green gelato is made from Pistacchio Verde di Bronte (nuts grown in a village on Mount Etna in Sicily). This is Venchi US CEO Davide Cravero’s favorite flavor of gelato. It is also, he says, “our...
Advocacy
In Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent State of the State address she outlined a number of ideas to solve the affordable housing crisis. While several ideas have merit and we can fully support them, we are concerned with lifting the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Cap. What...
West 72nd Street
By Claudie Benjamin Located at 141 West 72nd Street, ChatterboxNYC was founded by Tricia Brown, Jackie Dolson-Shewchuk and Julie Silberman in 2008. Since then, they have grown into a vibrant clinic with six speech language pathologists who offer a specialized...
adaptive reuse
By Claudie Benjamin It is the perfect time to celebrate the Victorian building at 891 Amsterdam Avenue. Not so much to mark the building’s 150 + years at this location, but now with the lifting of international travel restrictions into the US, Hostelling...
West 72nd Street
By Claudie Benjamin People rave about the rice balls at Shinbashi 72. The excellence in preparation of the rice – a foundation of Japanese cuisine doesn’t happen by chance. “My Dad, Takeshi Katayama takes care of the rice starting at 8:30am every morning,”...
