“Keep Calm and Stache On“ – Gem Hotels’ Annual Summer Party Rocks at their Chelsea Rooftop Event Venue!

By Sade Jones, Tod Shapiro, and the Flatiron Hot! News Editorial Staff

NYC Seminar and Conference Center’s business partner, The Gem Hotels, hosted their annual summer event last Thursday at the Gem Hotel Chelsea on 22nd Street and 8th Avenue.  The Gem Hotel … Read More

Greensquare Tavern Offers Farm-to-Table Selection in Heart of Flatiron District

Few New York City restaurants take their devotion to locally sourced ingredients as seriously as the Greensquare Tavern. For Managing Partner Leon Bell and Chef Proprietor John Marsh, cooking with locally-sourced ingredients is not simply a matter of capitalizing on the … Read More

The 2013 NFL Draft at NYC’s Radio City: An Outsider’s Perspective

By Samantha Weiss

For three days in April, the area surrounding Radio City Music Hall becomes a sea of jersey-clad football fans, anxiously waiting for their chance to watch the NFL Draft.  The congregation of die-hards is forced to wait … Read More

Artist Orly Genger’s “Red, Yellow and Blue” to Grace Madison Square Park

Hot on the wings of William Ryman’s Bird sculpture, New York City’s Flatiron District will be graced with the work of another renowned artist in the spring and summer months ahead.

From May 2 – September 8, Madison Square Park will serve as a canvas for Orly Genger’s latest creation: Red, Yellow and Blue.  Genger’s stock in trade is using commonplace materials in unique and unexpected ways. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Madison Square Park Conservancy‘s Mad Sq Art, park visitors will have the privilege of viewing her latest colorful work right here in the Flatiron District. Read More

New York Review of Books Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Discussion on Future of Literary Journalism

Is Editing a Lost Art in the Digital Age?

On Wednesday, April 3, in the New York Public Library‘s Celeste Bartos Forum, the New York Review of Books, in collaboration with the Cullman Center for Scholars, marked its 50th anniversary with a panel discussion featuring some of the publication’s most renowned writers. Ian Buruma, Andrew Delblanco, Alma Guillermoprieto, Zoë Heller, and moderators Robert Silvers and Josephy Lelyveld discussed the future of literary journalism. Read More

William Ryman’s “Bird” Sculpture Lands in Flatiron Near Madison Square Park

Let’s welcome artist William Ryman’s “Bird” sculpture to the Madison Square Park area and the Flatiron District for the next few weeks!

The imposing creation, composed of oversized nails, is a welcome companion to the flesh, blood, and feathered avian variety all of us at the New York City Seminar and Conference Center (NYCSCC) fraternize with in our sojourns through Madison Square Park. Along with our fellow New Yorkers, we hope that it is a harbinger of spring. Read More

“Drink Another Bottle” with Indie Rock Duo Pretty in Blue

A music critic walks by an Irish pub called Paddy Reilly’s Music Bar on Second Avenue and 29th Street when something catches his ear. It’s jarring, immediate, clearly live. Bare bones, just guitar and vocals. A sign on a chalkboard next to the entrance reads “Pretty in Blue.”

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Kipsey’s Restaurant Brings Fresh Comfort Food, Laid Back Atmosphere to Kips Bay

For a lot of new restaurants, trendy is the name of the game. “What kind of gimmick can we come up with to get a bunch of impressionable tourists off the street into our establishment?,” you can almost imagine the … Read More

2013 Oscars: The Onion’s High-Tech Lynching of Beasts of the Southern Wild Star Quvenzhané Wallis

During the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony (sorry, the Oscars), satirical publication The Onion set Twitter ablaze with an outrageous – and, many claim, racially-charged – tweet about 9-year-old Beasts of the Southern star Quvenzhané Wallis. And just what were those 17 inflammatory words that sparked such an uproar on the night of the Oscars?

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