Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Monday 5 March
Cities should use the water around them
Think of a city spread over an archipelago, where four out of its five boroughs are located on islands surrounded by over 836km of shoreline.
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Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 November
New York’s latest obsession: macarons
Almost a decade after cup-cakes conquered New York City, the delicately delicious macaron is emerging as Gotham’s newest gourmet indulgence.
Design / Property
Living large
In Monocle’s dream residential building, we would include the features and proportions of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments, with a few additions of our own. Attention developers: ven…
Culture / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 15 March
It's up to you, New York
As our New York bureau chief packs her bags ready for an equivalent posting in the Far East she has some parting words of criticism – constructive, of course.
Edits / Small Business
Filling a gap
Smile To Go’s healthy but tasty breakfasts and lunches with a Mediterranean influence are a big hit. Here’s how you can make them too.
Design / Urbanism
Breaking the rules
The codes of good urban planning are common sense. But sometimes those rules are there to be broken and, as in these five examples, the results can work surprisingly well.
The Urbanist, episode 26
The temporary city: author Peter Bishop joins us to look at transient urban trends in Manhattan and Tokyo.
Affairs / Society
Americas Briefing
The challenges facing Bogota's new mayor, a Canadian waterfront drama, and a Q&A with the head of the group spearheading Manhattan's transformation.
The Urbanist, episode 13
Monocle editor Andrew Tuck asks how diasporas shape our cities, visiting Manhattan’s Little Italy and talking to Sao Paulo’s Japanese residents.
Edits / Travel
Sweet harmony
With its artfully mismatched interiors, Manhattan’s NoMad hotel is combining character with comfort. Be it in the products they sell or the type of aroma wafting from the kitchens, a sense of discovery is key.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 22 June
Weekend agenda, 23/24 June
This weekend’s highlights include London’s Festival of Architecture, Carlos Suarez’s new restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village and the latest album by Peaking Lights.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 November
Hurricane Sandy and a wind-up radio
One week ago, life in Manhattan was very different from what it is today. There were no rumbling subterranean subway sounds nor beeping taxi cabs.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 February
The Italian restaurant invasion
Last year there were many restaurant closures in Manhattan. Across Gotham more than 500 establishments from ambitious upstarts to legends such as Tavern on the Green shut their doors due to the economic downturn.
Design / Industry
Monocolumn
Sunday 15 May
NYC series – Disused railway transformed into ambitious parkland
This evening in New York, guests will gather for the High Line’s annual Spring Benefit — the most important fundraising effort of the year for the city’s elevated park built on a disused railway, around 10m above Manhatt…
Edits / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 17 May
NYC series – Up on the roof
The opening of Manhattan’s many rooftops is one of the city’s most distinct harbingers of summer. After months of navigating pavements flanked by piles of snow or battling harsh winds straight off the Hudson river, New…
Culture / Radio
Art International Radio
Art International Radio is an internet radio station based in the Clocktower in lower Manhattan, a building famous for having been at the centre of New York’s art scene in the 1970s and 1980s. At the helm is Alanna Heiss…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 September
Can we have the Bill please?
Bill Clinton schedules his annual Clinton Global Initiative for the same week that the United Nations General Assembly convenes each September in New York. Naturally, it’s a time when Manhattan’s streets are jammed with the…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 October
Mayor Bloomberg should leave well alone
Last week, it was announced that before leaving office next year New York’s Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, would be putting a final architectural stamp on the city he has governed since 2002