Upper East Side
Books
When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
The story of New York City’s most famous women-only hotel is also a story of class and sexual politics in the twentieth century.
By Casey Cep
Our Local Correspondents
The Art of Building the Impossible
The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes.
By Burkhard Bilger
Dept. of Hoopla
The Coloring Book Enters Its Baroque Phase
On the Upper East Side, the children of Wendi Deng, Uma Thurman, and others fête the launch of an upscale coloring book.
By Bob Morris
Tables for Two
1633: Strange and Wonderful on the Upper East Side
The effect of the Greek restaurant is as if David Lynch and Marguerite Duras had opened a Mediterranean saloon somewhere in Mitteleuropa.
By Nicolas Niarchos
Dessert
By Colum McCann