Alice is the kind of place you tuck into your back pocket and casually gatekeep. Perfect for a cozy date night with your favorite fling in the cityor yes, your long-term partner who still knows how to flirt. You descend beneath a historic Greenwich Village brownstone and suddenly feel like you've entered a velvet-lined jewelry box of small, glittering pleasures. Low light. Oceanic blues. Candle glow. A hum of conversation that feels conspiratorial rather than loud. The prosecco is marvelous, and it knows it.
They should have known right off the bat that they had something special, as the opening night had Dr. John, Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winter performing to the likes of Mick Jagger and Carly Simon in the audience. Over the years, the 400-person capacity club became the place to be to see one's favorite artist up close or catch an up-and-coming unknown.
A bagel upgrade is coming to Greenwich Village-specifically, one stuffed with things we never knew bagels could contain, yet somehow absolutely should. Moonrise Bagels, the Hudson Valley favorite known for baking full-on comfort foods into its hand-rolled dough, will open its first New York City outpost this Friday, December 5, at 58 West 8th Street. Moonrise has been quietly dominating upstate's breakfast culture since 2021, when founders Jeremy Rhodes and Ali Chetkof Rhodes turned a pandemic kitchen hobby into Woodstock's most-talked-about carb.
Everyone knows that a proper boiled-then-baked bagel is best enjoyed with a schmear, a layer of lox, or as a sandwich piled with meats and cheeses. Either path leads to a delicious bagel, but it isn't always easy to eat. A Hudson Valley shop, Moonrise Bagels, decided to maximalize the New York bagel experience by stuffing those ingredients into the bread itself.
Snapple even posted a photo of the setup on Instagram, directly calling out the high-end, culty California-based grocery store Erewhon, which recently announced plans to open a "tonic bar" inside the private padel club Kith Ivy in the West Village -basically only catering to those able to cough up the club's $36,000 membership fee. "Hey Erewhon, we already opened a juice bar," reads the writing on the pop-up's window. "It's called a bodega and everyone is welcome." Good game, Snapple.
The priciest residential deal recorded in New York City was in Greenwich Village, where J. Carey Smith, a Texas-based entrepreneur who founded Big Ass Solutions, his wife Nancy Smith and their son Tristan Smith sold a townhouse at 11 West 12th Street for $26.5 million. The Smiths purchased the home in 2019 for $19.9 million, then put it on the market in June, asking $27 million. The five-story, 25-foot-wide townhouse spans 9,700 square feet and has six bathrooms, a two-car garage.
As legal weed continues to expand across the state, brands that combine craftsmanship with authenticity are standing out. Silly Nice, a Black-Owned and Veteran-Owned craft cannabis brand, has built a reputation for quality, potency, and cultural impact in New York's rapidly growing market. Celebrating its first anniversary in March 2024, the brand has already secured a spot in the Top 150 cannabis companies statewide, outperforming hundreds of competitors in both sales and consumer loyalty.
Police reported that young alleged members of two different street gangs spotted each other amidst the revelry and went to war with one another.
