Rare vintage
Rare vintage
East Village listings, Beall & Bell Greenport, Employees Only, Belgrade, Rhinebeck, Hot Sauce Expo & Khruangbin tix, best designer vintage, Il Gattopardo, MORE
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REAL ESTATE • First Mover
Three for-sale listings with outdoor space that came to market in the East Village this month.
→ 115 E 9th St #20E (East Village) • 2BR/2BA, NA SF co-op • Ask: $2.15M • two private balconies in The St. Mark • Days on market: 3 • Monthly maintenance: $4917 • Agent: Jay Glazer, Kay (Kholood) Breiche and Jason Breier, Corcoran. Open house Sun 12-130p.
→ 300 E 4th St #5C/5D (East Village) • 2BR/2BA, 1640 SF co-op • Ask: $2.195M • penthouse with 750 SF rooftop terrace • Days on market: 3 • Monthly maintenance: $4052 • Agent: Mark Cavanagh, Cavanagh Properties.
→ 50 Avenue A #2AB (East Village, above) • 3BR/2.1BA, NA SF condop • Ask: $3.495M • 880 SF second-floor terrace • Days on market: 16 • Monthly maintenance: $4078 • Agent: Yesim Ak, Compass. Open house Fri/Sun 12-130p, by appt only.
REAL ESTATE LINKS: Battle brewing over bank opening in The Belnord • Former Mermaid Inn building on UWS to be replaced with 18 story development • In Red Hook, from abandoned to a $4.5M townhouse.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Friday Routine
Everything everywhere all at once
IGOR HADZISMAJLOVIC • co-founder • Employees Only, Corner Table (coming soon)
Neighborhood where you live: Dumbo
It’s Friday afternoon, how are you rolling into the weekend?
I'm picking up my kids and probably heading to Cadman Plaza to kick around a soccer ball. It's the end of the week, so we'll sometimes order an overpriced pizza from Fornino at Time Out Market and eat in Brooklyn Bridge Park. If we're doing that, there's no escaping ice cream, which we will usually get at Sugar Hill Creamery. My four-year-old loves the vegan dark chocolate, which he has no idea is vegan.
Any restaurant plans?
I'm now a stay-at-home dad, so I don't go out nearly as much as I used to. But once in a while we'll have a date night, and I'll text a friend for a table at I Sodi, which we go to much more often since they moved to a bigger space (as it's a little easier to get a walk-in). Artichoke salad and cacio e pepe are our standbys; we like to keep things simple. The restaurant is also perfectly located around the corner from Employees Only, which means pre-dinner martinis.
Our restaurant rotation tends to be dependent on distance from EO, so we love when new spots open in the neighborhood. Jenn Saesue of Fish Cheeks is a good friend of ours and we were ecstatic when she opened Bangkok Supper Club on upper Hudson Street. They have the best chicken dish in the city right now, in my opinion. Date nights usually mean we will bop around to see industry friends — we'll go see James at Katana Kitten or Steve at Sip & Guzzle for a nightcap.
As for the rest of the weekend, we'll often do some sort of day trip revolving around a fun (usually Asian) lunch destination. A few weekends ago we drove to the dim sum Mecca Asian Jewels in Flushing, and earlier this summer we discovered this adorable izakaya, Takumen, in Long Island City. I've been dying to check out Hainan Chicken House in Sunset Park, so maybe we'll do that this weekend. We lived in Singapore for a few years and I get homesick for chicken rice!
We are also big frequenters of food halls, which is my favorite way to eat with two small kids. Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn is our preference because they have so many high quality vendors. I'll get a few hand rolls at Daigo and a Cuban sandwich at El Punto Cubano. The kids will get rotisserie chicken at Fat Fowl. My wife will eat everyone's scraps. Everyone is happy. We also love Japan Village in Industry City — I have a very problematic sweet tooth and will likely indulge in something marketed with the word "Hokkaido."
Sunday nights are my catch-ups with one of my business partners at Inga's in Brooklyn Heights. It's the perfect neighborhood restaurant; they carry Hayman's, my preferred martini gin, and always have a great crudo on the menu. Their burger is excellent as well.
How about a little leisure or culture?
I dislike members' clubs on principle, but my wife will usually take the kids swimming at Dumbo House on weekend mornings and I’ll (begrudgingly) attend. Despite my discomfort with the whole concept, I have to admit that the setup is very nice, and it's the best view from any rooftop in Brooklyn. My kids are very spoiled. As for me, every summer, I obsessively play beach volleyball at Pier 25 in Tribeca every Saturday. I've cultivated a big, eclectic crew over the years — from corporate bigwigs to Brazilian models and everyone in between. We always, always get beers at Ear Inn after.
Any weekend getaways?
Not one I do often, but my wife and I recently went to Belgrade, Serbia, for a close friend's wedding. In New York, we go to Kafana to get our Serbian food fix, which we love, so I was excited to show her traditional local fare. We had a lovely al fresco dinner at Restoran Lovac in the charming, well-to-do neighborhood Vračar. The steak tartare was perfect, and served with bread with rich kajmak on the side. There was an amazing gelato shop nearby called Luff that was open late.
Locally, we will do weekends Upstate or out east in the summer. We spent July 4th in Rhinebeck at my sister-in-law's and had great Indian food from a local spot called Cinnamon. There's also a German restaurant called Jaeger Haus in nearby Tivoli with some of the best schnitzel I've had in the States.
What was your last great vacation?
At the start of the summer we visited friends in Napa Valley and Healdsburg, and took the kids to see the redwood trees in Northern California. It was absolutely majestic, and we were all in awe of the nature surrounding us. It's always hard to make trips with kids super gastronomic, but we were just so happy to spend time outdoors biking on the wine trails, hiking, and playing pretend in the woods. Who needs Disney World when you've got six meter wide tree trunks to jump over?
We didn't make it to The French Laundry or really any nice sit-down meals, but we did have some mind altering biscuit sandwiches at Contimo Provisions in downtown Napa, with the most delicate pull-apart smoked ham and seasonal jam. They were also so kind to our kids, which is something parents don't forget. After breakfast we stopped at the farmer's market and got a few pints of super fragrant berries. Moulin, a highly recommended local bakery, also had a stand at the market so we picked up some chocolate croissants.
More recently, we did two kid-free nights at Sunset Beach on Shelter Island, which on a Monday and Tuesday is the perfect place to disconnect. We took some deep beach naps, swam in the bay, and had fried chicken and fish & chips at Commander Cody's, a homey seafood shack that's legendary on the island. We brought back ice cream from Tuck Shop for dessert and hung out with the Sunset staff while listening to the bullfrogs croak.
What product or service do you always recommend?
I got my first Rimowa suitcase last year and I can confidently say that I'll never go back. I am a very low maintenance person who doesn't typically fuss over nice things, but I appreciate high quality German design.
GETAWAYS • North Fork
Antiques to go
The best antiquing in New York State is hidden in a former Masonic temple on the North Fork, in Greenport. For years, owners Ginger and Ken of Beall & Bell have curated a treasure trove of affordable pieces within the old temple’s sprawling two stories. The collection is made up of largely mid-century modern American, French, and English pieces, from accent lamps and art to simple and elegant dressers, for a fraction of what they might go for in an NYC zip code.
Ginger styles the space playfully and intentionally — a walk through can be as much for interior decoration and styling inspiration as for shopping. Their instagram is also shoppable, and the pieces are shot beautifully.
Take the train out, shop, and hire someone to drive it back to the city. It's a lot cheaper than anywhere west of Roslyn, especially in the offseason (there's an annual 20% off sale every January). A friend in West Philadelphia recently furnished the living room in her new home in one trip to Beall & Bell.
And — while you’re in the neighborhood — if you're down to do some real digging, sometimes you can find a gem for tens of dollars at one of the many tag sales listed in the local paper or at the Eastern Long Island Hospital Opportunity Shop, just down the block. –Dora Grossman-Weir
→ Beall & Bell (Greenport) • 430 Main St.
GETAWAYS LINKS: Hamptons Film Festival announces full slate • Chef Michael White’s second Carribean restaurant will be in Puerto Rico • United plans to add free Starlink wifi across entire fleet • Auberge readies first Italian property, now accepting reservations in Florence • This year’s World’s 50 Best Hotels list.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Stage of Doom
Khruangbin • Forest Hills Stadium (Flushing) • Fri @ 7p, section 501, $112 per
Hot Sauce Expo • Industry City (Sunset Park) • Sat & Sun • VIP, $105 per
Phillies vs Mets • Citi Field (Flushing) • Sat @ 410p • section 107, $148 per
CULTURE & LEISURE LINKS: Top films with tickets still available at 2024 New York Film Festival • How Oh, Mary! became an improbable Broadway hit • The unsung labor of New York’s henna artists • Art sales lag luxury market spending • Why wouldn’t you want to paint Uncrustables? • Did Shohei Ohtani just have the greatest game of all time?
GOODS & SERVICES • The Nines
Designer vintage, Chinatown & Lower East Side
The Nines are FOUND's distilled lists of NYC's best. Additions or subtractions? Hit reply or found@foundny.com.
Superette (Dimes Square), eclectic and colorful pieces from ‘80s and ‘90s icons like Vivienne Westwood, Anne Klein