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Here's one thing we know: a serious hurricane is due to strike New York City, just as one did in 1821 and 1938. Experts predict that such a storm would swamp lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Jersey City, N.J., force the evacuation of more than 3 million people and cost more than twice as much as Katrina. An insurance-industry risk assessment ranked New York City as No. 2 on a list of the worst places for a hurricane to strike; Miami came in first. But in a June survey measuring the readiness of 4,200 insured homeowners living...
...were saying was worth writing down. He then published those quotes for the whole world to see. Friedman and his "trusted spies" of five friends combed the streets of New York listening for interesting and entertaining bits of conversation to post on OhinNY. One recent favorite, overheard in downtown Manhattan: A tourist asks a cop for directions, and he replies, "See that naked Chinese guy? Walk down to him and make a left." Since 2003, OHinNY has expanded into two other blogs, Overheard in the Office and Overheard at the Beach, and the spy network of five friends has turned...
...preprandial tour of the center, which includes not only the eponymous barns (they now house the restaurant, the education center, an espresso caf? and a vegetable market) but also a working farm, which grows much of the food for the restaurant and its sister Blue Hill outpost in Manhattan. The center cost David Rockefeller - the last of John Sr.?s six grandchildren, he is now 91 - about $30 million...
...ever eaten"; "tomatoes so fresh and tomato-y that they taste like a pure idea of tomato, not the thing itself"; "delish corn"; "a peach poached, perfumed so beautifully it seems to be solid, liquid, gas at once." After I paid, I took the train back to Manhattan. I was still wearing Barber's clothes and was now filled with his food. I'm not sure I was "impregnated with nutrient density," as he had promised, but I was heady with his agrarian dream...
...bars offer them. Paris remains the best place on earth to sample one. Should you be there, visit La Muse Vin in the Bastille, Le Verre Volé near the canal St. Martin and Le Baratin in the 20th arrondissement. In New York City, Yuva, Bette and Bao 111 in Manhattan and Ici and 360 in Brooklyn feature natural selections on their wine lists. Good representatives can also be found at Crémant and Le Pichet in Seattle, the Slanted Door in San Francisco and Lou in Los Angeles...