Fancy Girl
Step outside your money comfort zone and splurge on these majorly luxe treats. If you can’t fork over the cash, you can at least “pet the pretty things” as Alex would say. Dreams can come true, but until they do, pretend you’re Cinderella for a day. Prada or Manolo Blahnik just might have a glass slipper out this season.
C.O. Bigelow Chemists
Eschewing the indistinguishable mordern aesthetics of a drugstore - including the word “drugstore” - Bigelow Chemists makes shopping for toothpaste or a hairbrush a complete joy, especially for the modern girl. It’s a real live old-timey apothecary, carrying modern products in a vintage space. You’ll feel you’ve stepped into a black-and-white 40’s movie [...]
Bar Veloce
Not quite ready for the trendy Chelsea nightclubs, plush velvet ropes and snarly bouncers on Ninth Avenue or you’re tired from hauling Loehman’s and Williams & Sonoma bags down Seventh? Relief is here in the form of tasty three-finger sandwiches, a resident sommelier, and a vast collection of award-winning and downright delicious wines.
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Cafe Fiorello
So, being a culturally literate girl, you’ve just spilled out of a matinee at the New York City Ballet, or the Met, or the Symphony, or even an artsy movie at the Walter Reade theatre. And you’re hungry for something with a touch of class.
Stand at the Lincoln Center fountain and look across the [...]
