NYC's Martha Washington Hotel Offers More Than a Slice of Great Design -- There's Pizza, Too

The architect Annabelle Selldorf has made her reputation in the art world, designing and restoring some of the world's top museums and galleries. Her firm, Selldorf Architects , has designed the polished concrete headquarters of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York from the ground up, restored the subtly ornate Edwardian Hauser & Wirth Gallery in London's Picadilly, and completely renovated buildings for Le Stanze del Vetro, a new museum devoted to glassmaking on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

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General Assembly Will Turn You Into a Well-Paid Coder in Three Months

... hub for the early New York start-up scene. Their first shot at this was to establish a space in the Flatiron District for tech start-ups to work together in a collaborative way, an early example of co-working, a complementary business technique in ...

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New Turn-of-the-Century Style Beer Hall Opens Next to Columbia

Elaborate porcelain German beer steins are stacked high in a dark antique cabinet, turn-of-the-century lamps glow and sepia-tone photos of carousing New Yorkers line the walls of the cavernous new beer hall Bernheim & Schwartz. The 250-seat venue - from the operators of other big beer halls in the West Village and Flatiron District , as well as five Heartland Brewery outposts - The space harkens back to an early 1900s haunt with a full lunch and dinner menu, wine, cocktails and 10 beers brewed at Greenpoint Beer Works in Clinton Hill.

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INABA Wins First Ever Flatiron Plaza Holiday Design Competition

The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and Van Alen Institute announced the winner of the first-ever Flatiron Plaza Holiday Design Competition , in which top designers and architects proposed dynamic structures to be installed in front of the famed Flatiron Building during the 2014 winter holiday season. Designed by INABA, the winning installation New York Light will illuminate the plaza as a backdrop for public events and provide visitors with a special view of the Flatiron building and the Madison Square skyline during the holiday season.

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C. Wonder has big opening in Flatiron District

Welcome to Wonderland. The colorful, preppy clothing and accessory brand C. Wonder, created by Tory Burch's ex-husband Chris Burch, is expanding to the Flatiron District with a three-day party starting today.

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How Kira Kazantsev went from Cronut blogger to Miss America

... Hill with her best friend and began waiting tables at Hillstone and, later, hosting at Harding's in the Flatiron District while studying for the LSATs. "You gotta do what you gotta do to make it. Miss New York is a full- time job, but you don't make ...

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Chef Jesse Schenker On Drugs, Cooking and How to Make a Bed When You're Homeless

Jesse Schenker , 31, the gifted chef behind Recette in the West Village and The Gander in the Flatiron District, has a wild memoir due out at the end of this month, All or Nothing: One Chef's Appetite for the Extreme . He details how he began smoking pot at 12, lost his virginity at 13, got arrested at 14, then went from heroin to halfway houses to redemption.

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