I have no memory which foreign (I assume?) magazine this was written for, or why.... Maybe I should ask Kieran (NYC native now relocated to Bushwick) to do a 2023-update.... The High Line would be an obvious addition
Love , 179 MacDougal Street , New York, NY 10011
Dark
atmospheric club with possibly the best sound system in Manhattan; home to
dubstep monthly night Dub War and drum & bass party The Secret Night of
Science.
The Frying Pan, Pier 66, New York, NY 10011 (West 26th St. at
West Side Highway )
A cool bar that regularly hosts dance parties as well as
private events, this is a boat moored at a dock on the Hudson River; once
submerged for many years, it was salvaged and restored, but the interior was left fantastically rusted
and corroded from years at the bottom of the sea.
Stuyvesant Town
Apartment block complex, originally built to house WW2 veterans, between
23rd and 14th Street and 1st Avenue to the East River, with many cool recreation
areas, playgrounds, trees and greenery. Literally cool, as the tall buildings create pools of shade that are refreshing to dip inside during a sweltering Manhattan summer.
DUMBO
Short for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass, this formerly
industrial area in Brooklyn between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn
Bridge has been redeveloped with riverside parkways, cafes, book stores, etc,
but still retains the gritty residues of its dockland past. Access via the water ferry from the Fulton Slip at Fulton Landing in Manhattan, or
take the F-train subway to York Street.
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
More rugged and wild than Central
Park, Manhattan, the perfect place for a summer picnic party.
Chelsea
Market
Indoor market with restaurants, cafes, food stores,
patisseries, gelateria, etc, a short walk from the Hudson River and in close
proximity to the formerly squalid, now slightly cleaned up Meatpacking
District. 75 9th Ave (between 14th and 15th Street)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg's Bedford
Street is what the East Village's St Mark's Place and Avenue A were like 15,
maybe even 20 years ago: where the hipsters prowl, grazing at the wares offered
by street vendors selling used books, used records, vintage clothes, etc.
