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Francis Morrone, Park Slope
***BEST CRABCAKE:
Recently I had the crabcake at Del Frisco's, at Sixth Avenue
and 49th Street in the McGraw-Hill Building. It's baked, not
fried, which sounds like no fun, but it's all meat, and
totally delicious. Expensive, but delicious.
***BEST COFFEE/TEA HOUSE
Once upon a time, if you wanted espresso you had to go to
Berkeley or Greenwich Village. Caffè Dante on MacDougal
Street still makes the best espresso I've ever had.
***BEST MUSEUM:
The Frick Collection, Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, is the
greatest place in the world. Everything--every painting,
every piece of furniture--is a masterpiece. And it is
magnificently set off by the rooms so carefully designed by
Sir Charles Allom.
***BEST HOTEL:
I haven't stayed in many New York hotels. But the St. Regis,
Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, is the most beautiful both
inside and out, and has the best tea service I've ever had.
I did stay there once, before it was refurbished, and the
room, though small, was perfect.
***BEST MOVIE ABOUT NEW YORK:
The World of Henry Orient (1964), My Man Godfrey (1936)
***BEST VISTAS:
The shorefront parks of Bay Ridge, in southern Brooklyn, are
pretty terrific. Robert Moses built these back when he
believed that his roadways--"parkways" he called them
then--should always be built along with strip parks. These
harborfront parks and esplanades came in with the Belt
Parkway in the 1930s. The open view out onto the harbor is
soul-stirring. The parks themselves--be sure to see the
"Narrows Botanical Gardens" (www.narrowsbg.org)--are good,
and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is gorgeous--especially at
night. And steps away are some great Italian restaurants
like Areo on Third Avenue.
***BEST ARCHITECTS:
Edward Palmer York and Phillip Sawyer. See the Bowery
Savings Bank (42nd Street across from Grand Central), the
Greenwich Savings Bank (Broadway and 36th Street), the
Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street, the Brooklyn Trust
Company on Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights,
and the Central Savings Bank on Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd
Street.
***BEST MONUMENT:
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza,
Brooklyn.
***BEST GENERAL BOOKSTORE:
Labyrinth, 536 West 112th Street.
***BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BOOKSTORE:
Seventh Avenue Books, Park Slope.
Book Court, Cobble Hill.
Recently I had the crabcake at Del Frisco's, at Sixth Avenue
and 49th Street in the McGraw-Hill Building. It's baked, not
fried, which sounds like no fun, but it's all meat, and
totally delicious. Expensive, but delicious.
***BEST COFFEE/TEA HOUSE
Once upon a time, if you wanted espresso you had to go to
Berkeley or Greenwich Village. Caffè Dante on MacDougal
Street still makes the best espresso I've ever had.
***BEST MUSEUM:
The Frick Collection, Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, is the
greatest place in the world. Everything--every painting,
every piece of furniture--is a masterpiece. And it is
magnificently set off by the rooms so carefully designed by
Sir Charles Allom.
***BEST HOTEL:
I haven't stayed in many New York hotels. But the St. Regis,
Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, is the most beautiful both
inside and out, and has the best tea service I've ever had.
I did stay there once, before it was refurbished, and the
room, though small, was perfect.
***BEST MOVIE ABOUT NEW YORK:
The World of Henry Orient (1964), My Man Godfrey (1936)
***BEST VISTAS:
The shorefront parks of Bay Ridge, in southern Brooklyn, are
pretty terrific. Robert Moses built these back when he
believed that his roadways--"parkways" he called them
then--should always be built along with strip parks. These
harborfront parks and esplanades came in with the Belt
Parkway in the 1930s. The open view out onto the harbor is
soul-stirring. The parks themselves--be sure to see the
"Narrows Botanical Gardens" (www.narrowsbg.org)--are good,
and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is gorgeous--especially at
night. And steps away are some great Italian restaurants
like Areo on Third Avenue.
***BEST ARCHITECTS:
Edward Palmer York and Phillip Sawyer. See the Bowery
Savings Bank (42nd Street across from Grand Central), the
Greenwich Savings Bank (Broadway and 36th Street), the
Federal Reserve Bank on Liberty Street, the Brooklyn Trust
Company on Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights,
and the Central Savings Bank on Amsterdam Avenue and 73rd
Street.
***BEST MONUMENT:
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza,
Brooklyn.
***BEST GENERAL BOOKSTORE:
Labyrinth, 536 West 112th Street.
***BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BOOKSTORE:
Seventh Avenue Books, Park Slope.
Book Court, Cobble Hill.
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