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Sep 10, 2010

Fashion's Night Out  

Hundreds of locations, all over NYC

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Combine Fashion Week, chic celebs, stylish editors, amazing retailers, and parties and you're guaranteed an amazing time. This year the participants list includes nearly 1,000. This year, on September 7, Fashion's Night Out is also putting on a huge public fashion show at Lincoln Center.

Ongoing

Scene

After Work Fridays at Hudson  

HUDSON, 356 WEST 58 STREET, MIDTOWN
212 554 6217
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Every Friday from 6pm - 10pm. Both Library and Hudson Bar offer Leblon Caipirinhas for $9. RSVP is required HudsonBar@morganshotelgroup.com and table reservations are available by calling 212 554 6217.

Bar 44  

Royalton, 44 West 44 Street, Theater District
212 869 4400
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Nearly hidden. Leather-padded walls. Killer scene. Emphasis on vodka.

Hudson Bar  

Hudson, 356 West 58 Street, Midtown
212 554 6000
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The ultimate scene. Cop a squat on tree stump outside or stay inside and admire the gorgeous ceiling painted by Francesco Clemente. Peace and privacy? Seek out the Hudson Library.

Janis  UrbanDaddy Recommendation

139 W 10th Street, West Village

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After all the years. All the late nights. All the rum-induced dance soirees. There's still something about walking down a few stairs into a dark room, releasing any thought of the outside world and letting loose in an actual basement. And since we're always on the lookout for the next such subterranean pleasure palace, allow us to take you there... Presenting Janis, a new no-frills West Village lounge in existence to satisfy your late-night underground drinking/dancing/mingling quota, open now for weekend revelry.

Library Bar  

Hudson, 356 West 58 Street, Midtown West
212 554 6317
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The perfect hideaway for intimate gatherings, secret meetings by the fire, or a long, lazy round of backgammon.

Must-Sees

The High Line  

Gansevoort Street to 34thth Street, Westside
212 500 6035
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Beautiful park that runs through three great neighborhoods: the Meatpacking District, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen. Beautiful views of the city and easy access to much that the westside has to offer.

Restaurants

Villa Pacri  UrbanDaddy Recommendation

55 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking
212 924 5559
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Every once in awhile, something comes along that just makes sense. For instance: start with a five-story chateau. Add a yachtload of champagne. Insert supermodels. Light the roof on fire. And set it all up in nowhere else but...the Meatpacking District. Introducing Villa Pacri, the MPD's latest self-contained metropolis of excess, from the Euro hedonists behind PaCri St. Barth and Bagatelle. You'll get in on the ground floor (not your usual point of entry, we know) when the open-air rustic Italian café, dubbed La Gazzetta.

Asia de Cuba  

Morgans, 237 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill
212 726 7755
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Things don't get any more NYC posh than Asian-Cuban food served in a Starck setting.

Goods

Blind Barber  UrbanDaddy Recommendation

339 E 10th Street
212 228 2123
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Every now and then, something truly magnificent happens around us. Something without precedent, match or rival. Something like a little storefront in the East Village called The Blind Barber, that just so happens to combine the charms of an old-fashioned barber shop with the delights of a vintage cocktail lounge, opening this weekend for those rare moments in life where you require the service of both a hot shave and a dry martini. Like many of life's extraordinary gems, it doesn't look like much from the outside. Just a plain white door and barber pole spinning alongside.

SCOOP NYC  

473-475 Broadway
212 925 3539
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The fashion victim's preferred pit stop, stocks all the latest (Kors, Sevens) from basic essentials to lavish indulgences.

TopShop/TopMan  

478 Broadway
212 966 9555
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The Brits have taken over SoHo with their new invasion, the extension of the ever-popular TopShop. Offering the latest in fashion-savvy yet wallet-friendly clothing and bobbles, this new SoHo resident is sure to draw more people to an already chic area (especially if the two hour wait the morning of its opening last week is any indication of its potential!).