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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Brooklyn Bridge looking towards DUMBO

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Spoonbill & Sugartown

Spoonbill & Sugartown is an authentic independent bookstore and a destination for new ideas. You’ll appreciate that every title here feels hand-selected. read more »

Tours

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The Bacon Tour

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 more »

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The Tenenbaums

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… read more »

Features

25th and Park Avenue Location

Photo: Taka Anai

The Vendley Brothers

For the past several years the Vendley brothers have been setting up their Mexican food cart on the corner of Prince and Wooster Street in SoHo. Their specialty mix of… read more »

Textile & Objects shop 1961

Photo: Todd Webb courtesy of máXimo

Meet the Neuharts

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 »

Valentine's Day cards

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enormouschampion

Communication between friends these days has been reduced to brisk emails, text messages, and IM’s. In spite of these trends, enormouschampion understands the meaning and pleasure of sending a hand… read more »

Videos

Michael and Rick Mast of Mast Brothers Chocolate

Photo: Mindy Best

The Mast Brothers

The life of a mariner is one given over to wanderlust—the quest for adventure, crossing unseen horizons to secure precious goods—only to bring them back to their home port. This… read more »

Blog

1941 postcard found at the Brooklyn Flea

Photo: Unknown

Welcome to The Scout

Welcome to The Scout, we found this great postcard circa 1941 from the Brooklyn Flea Market several weeks ago. It’s missing a few of the boroughs that we… read more »

Vladimir Kagan

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The Scout

We are not alone. After launching our site last August we started noticing other scouts. Most likely due to our hyper awareness of the word being used these days. We… read more »

T-shirts by Natas Kaupas for LA, Jose Parla for Miami, and Eric Haze for NYC

Photo: The Standard

The Standard T-Shirts

The perfect shop for The Scout would be one that is inside a hotel, combining everything that we love; leisure, travel, and retail. The experiments a hotel proprietor can have… read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

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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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