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
MULTISENSORY EXPERIENCE: The Dreamery
Just a few steps off Mercer Street in NoHo, there is vast, darkened loft spangled with stars. Arrayed among the Corinthian pillars are tubular pods,
TOUCH: Mother Pigeon’s touchable street pigeons and rats
Mother Pigeon, a.k.a. Tina Trachtenburg, makes soft sculptural pigeons and rats out of fabric and wire. You can sometimes find her in Union Square
SIGHT: Christmas decorations at Rolf’s German Restaurant
Rolf’s German Restaurant, on the corner of Twenty-second and Third, is unremarkable in most respects: bland and overpriced food, surly staff, a phone
SIGHT: The House of Collection
Oil cans. Propellers. A box of desiccated rodents and a row of crop dusting tins. Antique locks and tire chains. A tangle of discarded toe shoes. Chemistry glassware. Tugboat
TASTE: Charlotte Russe from Holtermann’s Bakery
Once an iconic New York City street food, the Charlotte Russe is a Push Pop–style confection encased in a cardboard shell with a movable bottom.
