The Met Quietly Reopened One of Its Most Inviting Rooms This Week — and Almost Nobody Noticed What’s on the Walls

Mike Mishkin June 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has quietly reopened one of the few corners of its encyclopedic galleries where anyone can pull a book off the shelf, sit down, and stay … Read More...

As Donohue’s Steak House Closes This Week, Its Owner Is Working the Bar Alone — and Wants No Goodbye Party

Mike Mishkin June 17, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

After 76 years, the lights go out at Donohue's Steak House on Friday night — and the woman who's poured drinks there for nearly five decades has no interest in … Read More...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Old Lenox Hill Townhouse Just Sold for $16.5 Million

Mike Mishkin June 17, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

A five-story Lenox Hill townhouse that once belonged to Ghislaine Maxwell traded hands again this week, fetching $16.5 million and topping the list of New York City's priciest residential closings … Read More...

An Iconic Blonde Is Bringing Her Origin Story to the Upper East Side This Week

Mike Mishkin June 16, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

Anyone walking the low 70s near Central Park on Thursday may notice an unusual amount of commotion — trailers lining the curbs, parking spots roped Read More...

Encore Creativity’s Summer Singing Sessions Return, and Adults 55+ Are Invited to Join

Mike Mishkin June 16, 2026 Sponsored No Comments

For most New York choirs, summer is the off-season. Encore Creativity for Older Adults has a different idea — and it’s just opened the doors Read More...

21 Inches of Trouble at the ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Townhouse

Mike Mishkin June 16, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

169 East 71st Street has spent more than six decades as one of New York’s most recognizable addresses — the Tiffany-blue door where Audrey Hepburn’s Read More...

Business Openings: Yoga on Lex, The Sleep Loft, WTHN, The Formula X Meredith, EmmaBelle’s

Mike Mishkin June 14, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

Make sure to sign up for our free email newsletter for more UES openings. Yoga on Lex will soft-open Wednesday, June 17 at 965 Lexington Avenue (between Read More...

71st Street Pedestrian Ramp Reopens Monday — Plus, More Esplanade Updates

Mike Mishkin June 12, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

Next week, neighbors who have spent years turning back at the barricades finally get a little of it returned to them. Read More...

The Frozen Yogurt That Ruled the 2000s Is Back on the Upper East Side — With an Ancient Twist

Mike Mishkin June 11, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

There was a stretch, not so long ago, when it felt like a self-serve frozen yogurt counter sat on every other corner. Read More...

Business Openings: Jo Malone, Thom Sweeney, The Gyro Project

Mike Mishkin June 10, 2026 Shopping No Comments

Make sure to sign up for our free email newsletter for more UES openings. Jo Malone has signed a lease for the ground-floor retail space at 200 East Read More...