FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

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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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

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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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

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…

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Retail

Photo: Staff

Moon River Chattel

Moon River Chattel has the appeal of an old general store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Co-owners Christine Foley and Paul Sperduto have created a warm environment influenced by their love of… read more »

Dining / Bars

Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain

Take the first sip of a frothy egg cream at Brooklyn Farmacy, and you instantly recognize the taste of good medicine. It helps that you are seated at a classic… read more »

Features

Oliver and Evan Haslegrave of hOmE in their Greenpoint studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

The Brothers Haslegrave

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 »

Alex and Companies

Alex Calderwood has a history of turning nothing into something. He looks at unloved and abandoned spaces with an optimistic eye, seeing potential to infuse them with new life, art,… read more »

Joshua Vogel in his studio in Kingston, New York

Photo: Rose Callahan

Of Life and Limb

Joshua Vogel’s relationship with wood is nearly symbiotic. As a sculptor he listens to its sounds, knows the story of each piece intimately, and understands how different species behave. In… read more »

Blog

A Visit to Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain

Take a trip back in time to your grandparent’s youth at Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain. The ice cream shop couldn’t have opened at a better time. At… read more »

2010 Grain Edit Holiday Giveaway Bash

Photo: Grain Edit

Randomness 12.08.10

Grain Edit returns with another one of their giant giveaways. Their holiday edition will be just as big as their previous. Posters, prints, and publications. Our buddies from… read more »

Somewhere over Texas

Photo: Staff

Marfa, Tx

The word epic may have lost its punch due to its over usage, but my trip to Marfa over the weekend was nothing short of that. After flying 7 hours… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

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,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The 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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