At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.
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Photo: Tuukka Koski
At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.
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Photo: Michael A. Muller
The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…
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Photo: Michael A. Muller
On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…
Read MorePhilip Johnson once said that “architecture exists in time.” By this he meant that a great piece of architecture should unfold before you in procession, and reveal itself in surprising… read more »
We were first smitten with the work of Marilyn and John Neuhart upon discovering the handcrafted, colorful dolls that Marilyn created on commission for Alexander Girard’s Textile & Objects Shop… read more »

Photo: Rose Callahan
One afternoon in late winter, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, the brotherly design duo behind half a dozen New York City restaurants and shops including the Manhattan Inn, duckduck and Goat… read more »
We heard Spencer Finch speak last spring about his anticipated installation for the High Line, The River That Flows Both Ways, and really liked his thinking…. read more »
Tickets go on sale today for the 2009 Glass House tours and Chanel Mobile Art. The Mobile Art is free while the Glass House tours offer… read more »
The Scout recently took a weekend road trip up to the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. We walked in Philip Johnson’s footsteps and imagined for a minute that our… read more »
Case Study House #22, the Stahl House, is truly an icon of mid-century modernism. The 1959 masterpiece by Pierre Koenig for C.H. “Buck” Stahl is the perfect west-coast counterpoint to… read more »
From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…
Read MoreThe Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…
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