New York Magazine: September 1, 2008 Issue

Stephanie Schweitzer, Tour Guide

“…when you have a really fun tour, you know they walk away and really remember that experience…”

The Best Bet

The anticipation around Topshop’s first U.S. store is, safe to say, feverish.

The Expanding Store Universe

Browsers, take your marks: Fresh sources for dresses, jackets, chocolate, luggage, diamonds

New Stuff From the Old Guard

A random mix of cheap, cool merchandise.

Quirk Sells

This fall, three retail giants try thinking indie.

Tiny Love

Enthusiasts of the small luxury building have quite the selection this season.

Dover Soul

Team Spotted Pig tries its hand at proper English fish cookery.

Prediction: A Very Fatty Fall

After a slew of far-flung consulting projects, Zakary Pelaccio returns to a smaller stage.

Where the Underground Gourmet Will Be Eating

Kefi gets bigger, Kampuchea goes takeout, and Saxelby Cheesemongers comes to the City Bakery.

David Bouley, Culinary Cartographer

Few chefs are as closely associated with a neighborhood as David Bouley is with Tribeca.

This Year’s Vintage

What does the determined restaurateur do when he wants to give a well-known, long-lived property a new identity?

Best of the Rest: Food

Shake Shack moves indoors, the Oak Room gets renovated, and Colin Alevras cooks Cuban (and brunch).

Issue Contents

Table of Contents

September 1, 2008

Fall Preview 2008

Features

Joe Vengeance

Where the Urban Dream Life Is Going Cheap

Intelligencer

Smoking Out the State Budget Crisis

‘Gossip’ Guy Hates Snotty Billboards

Natty Albert Hammond Sizes You Up

Wigstock Takes a Powder (Again)

The Chugalugability of Hope

No Rezoning for Chinatown Protesters

One Moment in Time

Wonder Wonk Unmasked

Conventional Wisdom

Agenda

Fall Open House

Fast Food With an Eco-Conscience

Columns

The Hill-Bill Show

Departments

Comments: Week of September 1, 2008

Artifact: The Nanny State

Strategist

Stephanie Schweitzer, Tour Guide

The Best Bet

The Expanding Store Universe

New Stuff From the Old Guard

Quirk Sells

Tiny Love

Dover Soul

Prediction: A Very Fatty Fall

Where the Underground Gourmet Will Be Eating

David Bouley, Culinary Cartographer

This Year’s Vintage

Best of the Rest: Food

Issue Contents

Table of Contents

September 1, 2008

Fall Preview 2008

Features

Joe Vengeance

Where the Urban Dream Life Is Going Cheap

Intelligencer

Smoking Out the State Budget Crisis

‘Gossip’ Guy Hates Snotty Billboards

Natty Albert Hammond Sizes You Up

Wigstock Takes a Powder (Again)

The Chugalugability of Hope

No Rezoning for Chinatown Protesters

One Moment in Time

Wonder Wonk Unmasked

Conventional Wisdom

Agenda

Fall Open House

Fast Food With an Eco-Conscience

Columns

The Hill-Bill Show

Departments

Comments: Week of September 1, 2008

Artifact: The Nanny State

Strategist

Stephanie Schweitzer, Tour Guide

The Best Bet

The Expanding Store Universe

New Stuff From the Old Guard

Quirk Sells

Tiny Love

Dover Soul

Prediction: A Very Fatty Fall

Where the Underground Gourmet Will Be Eating

David Bouley, Culinary Cartographer

This Year’s Vintage

Best of the Rest: Food

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