Carrie Bradshaw’s house in Sex and the City to have a gate to deter photo-taking tourists

Carrie Bradshaw’s house in Sex and the City to have a gate to deter photo-taking tourists

Thinking about toasting Carrie Bradshaw with a cosmo while posing on the front steps of her Manhattan brownstone from Sex and the City? Think again. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved an application for a gate after Barbara Lorber, who has owned the building since 1978, lamented “the endless presence of interest in my … Read more

Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

When John Jobbagy’s grandfather immigrated from Budapest in Hungary to the United States in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers called the Meatpacking District. Jobbagy and the other tenants in the district’s last meat market have accepted … Read more