TASTE: Staten Island home-cooked maple syrup
Most people associate maple syrup with snow-flanked sugar shacks in New England or Canada, sweet steam wafting from a wooden cupola, a cast iron wood
March 16, 2025
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TOUCH: WhisperWave ASMR therapy session
As unlikely as it might seem, WhisperWave—so far, New York City’s only ASMR spa—provides exactly the service its name suggests. Rebecca Benvie, the proprietor and
February 19, 2025
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SIGHT: Hart Island
Hart Island, in the Bronx, is a place of contrasts. It’s a beautiful, flat expanse of land with copses of trees and a wind-swept shoreline.
January 17, 2025
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TOUCH: A crystal from the Times Square New Year’s ball
For the first time ever, in 2025 each of the 2,688 crystals on the ball that drops to the roof of One Times Square each
December 26, 2024
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SOUND: Stickball Boulevard
On a side street off White Plains Road in the Bronx—just past the Jimmy Jazz and the Lot Less and the Five Below—you might
November 21, 2024
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SOUND: Music in a Queens sewer tunnel
The sign read “Attention Shoppers! Our shopping carts will lock if taken beyond the parking lot perimeter. While distinctive yellow lines mark normal exits,
October 24, 2024
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TASTE: Holy water from Our Lady of Lourdes grotto
Our Lady of Lourdes grotto is an unlikely sight on a quiet street corner in the East Bronx. A craggy mountain of rocks rises from
September 23, 2024
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TASTE: Berliner Weisse mit Schuss at Heidelberg Restaurant
There comes a stretch of days in the peak of summer when you want to step off the sidewalks’ pulsing heat waves into not just
August 13, 2024
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7 sights for the seventh month
In an annual Sense & the City tradition, I offer seven of my favorite sensory experiences from around this city—this time, sights—that didn’t make it
July 29, 2024
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