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mini guide: the garment district...

Posted by cherrypatter in manh: below 42nd street, manhattan, midtown west, mini guides: new york on 10 9th, 2009 | No Comments

everyone has to come close to the garment district, at least if you ever have to use the ugliest train station ever — penn station. it still is hard to believe that the city allowed the old amazingly beautiful one designed by mckim, mead and white to be destroyed. oh right, i forgot, madison...

interview: ann cantrell, annie’s b...

Posted by cherrypatter in boerum hill, brooklyn, brooklyn heights, carroll gardens, interviews on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments

i’m very happy to announce addition number two to cherrypatter (last week was the long awaited map) – again a long time in coming — will be a series of interviews to find out where some of the people behind my favorite places like to eat and shop. i’ll also be featuring...

dear fieldbinder: the beauty on smith st...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, carroll gardens on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments

although atlantic avenue has a bunch of fancy clothing shops, the rest of south brooklyn doesn’t really see that much in the high end range, or at least my interpreation of high end which is where the range is often around $200 or more. for me, especially that i no longer work in a law firm...

posteritati: for the film obsessed...

Posted by cherrypatter in art, chinatown, gifts, home, manhattan, shops on 10 7th, 2009 | No Comments

posteritati is an unassuming shop at the very bottom of chinatown (or soho according to some) just where it starts to bleed into the city hall and wall street area. usually, i wouldn’t think of roaming around there but there actually seem to be quite a few cute shops there including saturdays,...

yerba buena: great cocktails, good latin...

Posted by cherrypatter in brunch, cocktails, east village, food, latin american, manhattan, west village on 10 6th, 2009 | No Comments

yerba buena has been on my list since it opened last year, and we finally made it — en famille - just a few weeks ago. we came at an ungodly hour (i won’t admit how early) but it’s a good thing we did as it’s not really a child-friendly restaurant though the waiter did a really...

der schwarze kolner biergarten: almost l...

Posted by cherrypatter in beer and wine, brooklyn, food, fort greene, german/austrian, snacks on 10 5th, 2009 | No Comments

j. spent more than 7 years living in germany before i met him, and understandably he was very excited for me to visit his adopted homeland. i, on the other hand, couldn’t have been less enthusiastic. of all the european countries, we were going to spend lots of time in stuttgart and frankfurt ...

atlantic antic: amazing, a street festiv...

Posted by cherrypatter in boerum hill, brooklyn, brooklyn: south, happenings, ideas on 10 2nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

i am no lover of street fairs, and usually when i see them coming i run the other way. i don’t actually understand why new york city supports them. the same stuff all the time, blocking up the streets, producing lots of garbage and i don’t actually know who enjoys them. i know, this is...

mini guide: atlantic avenue...

Posted by cherrypatter in boerum hill, brooklyn, brooklyn: south, mini guides: new york on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

photo from auster*events there will be plenty going on along atlantic avenue with the atlantic antic, but just in case the street fair shopping is not doing it for you, there are so many excellent shops lining atlantic avenue within boerum hill that it was very difficult to pick which ones to highlight. ...

goldy + mac: a quick and affordable pick...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, park slope on 10 1st, 2009 | No Comments

when we moved back to park slope way back in 2004 and we were living at the corner of 4th avenue and president, it was bizarre. definitely not like the old hood had been in the late ’80s, and it was all good. instead of passing by the incredibly expensive but alluring anik or searle, i had diana...

john derian: maybe my favorite store eve...

Posted by cherrypatter in east village, furniture, gifts, home, kitchen, manhattan, miscellaneous, shops, stationery, super useful on 09 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments

i know it may be hard to believe, since i do try to talk about the best this or that, but the john derian company inc. is really truly one of my very very very favorite stores of all kinds. i think that i have only held off writing about it for so long because i was worried the shopkeepers wouldn’t...

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with two small and darling kids and one lovely husband who all occasionally need some amount of tending to as well as a full-time job, this blog is an excuse for me to explore the streets of new york, with a focus on brooklyn -- my home -- and manhattan, for those great little finds that seem to appear randomly on all sorts of blocks around new york but are sometimes hidden from plain view. i gravitate toward small, beautiful, independent places with interesting things, fantastic and friendly service and mostly affordable stuff (or at least an excellent value) and food that is extremely tasty, reasonable and in a great space -- though taste will trump design every time. to help put all these ideas in one place, i also will provide a series of new york mini-guides. in each of these, i will highlight something fun to do and then give some food, shop and doing suggestions nearby. these mini-guides, soon to be accompanied by mini-maps, will help to fill an afternoon -- where to pick up a snack, what shops to check out nearby and is there a really sweet little park along the way for a much needed rest. and i am always looking for ideas -- so if you have any suggestions for where to eat and shop or what to do please let me know. . you can also follow me on twitter at cherrypatter.

and for those of you more interested in the photos, i have absolutely no photography training and while i have been picking up a few tidbits here and there, mostly i think the credit for the photos goes to my lovely camera. it is a canon rebel xti, and the lens i use most of the time is the 50 mm 1:1:8. i also have a 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 for longer views.

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mini guide: the garment district...

interview: ann cantrell, annie’s b...

dear fieldbinder: the beauty on smith st...

posteritati: for the film obsessed...

yerba buena: great cocktails, good latin...

der schwarze kolner biergarten: almost l...

atlantic antic: amazing, a street festiv...

mini guide: atlantic avenue...

goldy + mac: a quick and affordable pick...

john derian: maybe my favorite store eve...

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