Good Morning & Hello Friday!

• New favorite restaurant – ate there twice this week!! Kudos to Daniel Boulud for installing Le Gratin into McNally’s old Augustine space. The food, the scene, the staff, the room – all fantastic!! (#2 below).
• Also, raves for the Vuitton + Nike + Abloh experience at the Greenpoint Terminal Building (#1). If you’re in NYC, you must check it out this weekend (running thru 5/31).
• My recap video is at the end of the blog this week (#10) with a not-so-great update on my Green Card saga. Total screw-up by my immigration lawyer! Looks like I’ll be only traveling domestically for a good while longer. Send me recos for cool spots to hit up!!

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Good Morning and Hello Friday.

Big thanks to my friend Richard Degnan for inviting me to check out the Field+Supply Makers Fair up in Kingston on Saturday. MAJOR trend scouting and celeb spotting! (#2 below).

Then on Sunday, I was woken up at the crack of dawn, by the sounds of engines popping. At first, I thought it was those pesky, insanely loud souped-up cars and ATVs that often take over the Bowery on the weekends. But it seemed a little early for those guys. At around 8 am, I got up to investigate. WHOA! It was a commercial shoot for Red Bull F1 open-wheel racing (#5 below). So cool and so LOUD!! [But not as loud as the gunshots I heard earlier, at 3 am, also from the Bowery. Watch the video for more details.]

And finally, an update on that Benjamin Moore/NY Rangers pop-up situation from last week’s post. They opened the pop-up on Tuesday. It’s to celebrate Rod Gilbert (“Mr. Ranger”) who recently passed away. I asked why they selected this neighborhood and the best I could gather was that they want to attract younger fans. Let me just say, this is possibly the LAMEST pop-up ever. It’s totally corporate and stuffy and absolutely no fun. I doubt anybody from this neighborhood will turn into a Rangers fan based on this experience.

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Good Morning and Hello, Friday!

This has been a jam-packed week filled with new discoveries and experiences including the potential for new friendships.

On Sunday, while at the MET’s rooftop exhibition, Joe S. and I serendipitously ran into a wonderful French woman who appears to be a kindred spirit when it comes to art and urban exploration (see #1 below).

After running into each other in several galleries throughout the museum and after following each other on Instagram, I realized just how much I have missed these kinds of random social interactions. It’s what has always made NYC so extraordinary.

Based on this recent experience, it looks like friendship circles are about to expand exponentially!!

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What a week!!

And even though we are in the midst of a new covid spike, news of the vaccine makes it all so much more bearable. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Plus, there is so much exciting news from retail to luxury to travel.

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