SOUND: ASMR sound bath in a Bushwich church basement
I first discovered ASMR one evening as I was standing in my then boyfriend’s kitchen, idly rolling a grapefruit across his marble countertop. It
MULTISENSORY: Urban forest bathing
The buildings of Central Park West rose beyond the treetops as Brooke Mellen, the owner of Cultured Forest, a local forest bathing and nature
MULTISENSORY: A two-vine winery on a Carnegie Hill brownstone rooftop
When Latif Jiji was twelve years old, he would pass by his father’s wine barrel near their kitchen in Basra, Iraq, lift the lid, and
SIGHT: The weed-eating goats of Riverside Park
One recent weekday morning, a group of goat enthusiasts gathered at the intersection of Riverside Drive and 120th Street to see five of their
SIGHT: Seven sights for the seventh month
In Sense & the City tradition, I present seven of my favorite sights from the past year in honor of the seventh month. Only in
TASTE: Chive momos at a secret Tibetan food counter
Much as snippets of chive are hidden within the folds of a momo, a dense Tibetan dumpling, the restaurant Lhasa Fast Food is hidden within
TOUCH: International Pleating
Once you start looking, you’ll start seeing pleats everywhere in the city. In the plastic awnings on Queens rowhouses. In the air filters stacked at
SMELL: The Alley Pond Giant, the oldest living organism in New York City
A few steps from the diesel roar of the Long Island Expressway, at the edge of Flushing’s Alley Pond Park, there grows a tulip poplar
SOUND: The “current of silence” at the Writers Room
Sense & the City has written before about finding silence and solitude in New York City: in the hush of the New York Public Library’s Rose
