Holiday lights reflect from Portale’s front window. Photo: Deborah Fenker Portale at the Forefront This summer, Eater reported that over one thousand restaurants in New York City had closed due to economic hardship as a... News 19 Nov 2021 | 11:01
Left to right: Mary Lane Owner/Chef Mike Price, General Manager Alan Pinkard, and Chef de Cuisine Andrew Sutin. Photo: Deborah Fenker Full House at the Mary Lane Don’t go Google-mapping Mary Lane as some obscure street in Manhattan you’ve never heard of. Power-team Mike Price (The Clam,... News 22 Oct 2021 | 07:05
Bar Veloce in Chelsea. Photo: Deborah Fenker Bar Veloce Returns in Its Own Sweet Time For a bar named Veloce, they sure have taken their own sweet time reopening. But good things are worth waiting for, and owner... News 17 Aug 2021 | 03:01
AT the Edie Windsor SAGE Center in Chelsea. Photo: Deborah Fenker A Pride Reopening A dynamic, top-tier professional athlete coming out of the closet, or a celebrated actor disclosing their true gender identity... News 18 Jun 2021 | 04:52
A bucolic feeling at Rosemary’s East near Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Photo: Deborah Fenker A Focus on Food and Family Opening up a restaurant during a pandemic is bound to garner some buzz. Even just staying open warrants such. So when Carlos... News 04 Jun 2021 | 05:01
Top hats and characters in Optimo’s mural. Photo: Deborah Fenker The Optimo-zation of a Chelsea Eyesore For anyone even remotely familiar with the heart-wrenching inertia of 210 Seventh Avenue, the story isn’t even worth talking... News 30 Apr 2021 | 04:15
Holly Diamond and Mia Oh. Photo: Deborah Fenker From Oregon to Mista Oh Depending on who you ask, you’re a New Yorker once you’ve lived here three years. Some say three months. Some probably have... News 03 Mar 2021 | 11:41
The author’s apartment door. Photo: Deborah Fenker “Bah, Lovebug!” “It’s a made up holiday.” “I buy my wife flowers when I want to ... not when some florist tells me to.” “We celebrate our... Voices 07 Feb 2021 | 05:20
Counter & Bodega in Chelsea. Photo by Deborah Fenker. How to Relocate a Restaurant On the off chance anyone needed evidence to prove opening a restaurant in New York city in the midst of a pandemic and economic... News 27 Nov 2020 | 03:36
Leon Feingold with the House of Good Deeds bus. Photo: Deborah Fenker The House of Good Deeds “Good thoughts, good words, good deeds,” Freddie Mercury’s father reportedly said. This quote is perhaps what made the House... News 08 Oct 2020 | 03:35
Chris Toto on 18th Street and Eighth Ave. Photo: Deborah Fenker Transforming the Tree Pits of Chelsea One sunny August afternoon, I found myself trekking home up Eighth Avenue for no real reason other than a change of scenery... News 30 Aug 2020 | 12:58
The Thrifty HoG. Photo by Deborah Fenker. Fashion as Community One might think that for being a Black female entrepreneur, this would be your moment, but Deborah Koensigsberger is the... News 23 Aug 2020 | 08:16
( Photo: Deborah Fenker) Motel Morris al Fresco Glimmers of life are beginning to sparkle again in Chelsea’s restaurant scene. Soon, Motel Morris’s stars will shine again... News 06 Aug 2020 | 04:33
Random mini stuffed bunny on a grocery store shelf. ( Photo: Deborah Fenker) Things are Good Made you look, didn’t I? No, things are not good right now, generally and comprehensively speaking. In fact, pretty much... Voices 16 Apr 2020 | 11:36
Chama Mama, 149 West 14th Street. ( Photo: Deborah Fenker) Open for Business No one is not struggling these days, in one way, another, or many. Financial, physical, emotional, existential. But one category... News 09 Apr 2020 | 05:06
