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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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RESULTS FOR "West Village"

Retail

Photo: Courtesy of Charmingwall

Charmingwall

Nestled on the busy street of West 4th in the West Village one wouldn’t expect to find a gallery as charming as this one. read more »

Photo: Staff

Greenwich Letterpress

Sisters Amy Salvini Swanson and Beth Salvini combined their talents in graphic design and fine art with their printing pedigree to form Greenwich Letterpress. read more »

Dining / Bars

Photo: Courtesy of Tea & Sympathy

Tea & Sympathy

This tiny English outpost in the West Village has been going strong since 1991 and shows no sign of slowing down. read more »

Photo: Courtesy of Perilla

Perilla

Dine at the bar or at one of the few tables in Top Chef season 1 winner Harold Dieterle’s sparsely elegant restaurant. Though you might walk in skeptical given all… read more »

Photo: Courtesy of Blue Ribbon Downing Street Wine Bar

Blue Ribbon Downing Street Wine Bar

The Blue Ribbon empire includes a bakery, sushi restaurant and brasserie, but this tiny bar (serving wine and cocktails) might be our favorite of the lot. There are just a… read more »

Blog

Part of Jack Spade's Readymade project taken from the window of the Mercer Hotel

Photo: Jack Spade

Jack Spade

Though Andy Spade is no longer with the company that he founded, Jack Spade is attempting to carry on Andy’s creative marketing projects through a new store. The new location… read more »

<i>One Deck of Playing Cards</i> by Tauba Auerbach

Photo: DZEK New York

Randomness 12.11.09

Tauba Auerbach recently designed a deck of playing cards for DZEK New York. The set is elegantly housed in a linen slipcase. Only 250 produced One Deck of… read more »

Lawrence Weiner at home

Photo: Dwell Magazine

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner despises Helvetica, he finds it authoritative and prefers Franklin Gothic Condensed. This text based conceptual artist has influenced Barbara Kruger and is a founding figure of Postminimalism. Though… 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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