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Sales tax lifted on clothes, shoes up to $110
 As of April 1, shoppers in New York get a sales-tax exemption on clothes and shoes that cost less than $110, according to the Department of Taxation and Finance.
“Sales of eligible clothing and footwear costing less than $110 per item or pair are exempt from the state’s 4% sales tax and local tax in those localities that enacted the exemption,” according to the rule, which also applies in New York City.
As the New York Times notes, NYC already exempts items under $110 from its 4.5 percent city sales tax and will continue to do so.
For non-exempt items, the combined city and state sales tax remains 8.875 percent.
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April 2, 2012 2:19 PM Comments (0)
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Barneys confirms Warehouse Sale dates: Feb. 16-26
 The next Barneys New York Warehouse Sale is set for Feb. 16 through 26, the store’s official Twitter feed confirmed today.
Earlier today, the Racked NY shopping blog posted a story with those dates attributed to inside sources. When the @BarneysNY Twitter feed linked to that story, NewYorkology asked if that should be read as official confirmation of the dates. “Why, yes indeed! Mark your calendars! xx,” read the reply.
Twice a year the Barneys Warehouse Sale offers designer clothes and shoes at deeply discounted prices.
The store’s Warehouse Sale webpage has not yet been updated with 2012 dates and hours.
Update as of Jan. 28: The 2012 Barneys Warehouse Sale webpage has been updated with the sale hours. On Feb. 16 and 17, doors will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Feb. 18 and 19, doors will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. On Feb. 20 and Feb. 24, the sale opens from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. From the 21st through the 23rd, doors will open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. On the final two days, Feb. 25 and 26, shopping will be allowed from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Barneys Warehouse is located at 255 W. 17th St., between 7th and 8th avenues.
Update as of Feb. 24; The sale has been extended through March 4, according to the Barneys website.
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January 23, 2012 3:13 PM Comments (0)
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Racked blog names NYC's 38 top shops
 The Racked blog last week updated its shortlist of NYC’s 38 definitive shopping experiences.
It ranges from the likes of Barneys and Bergdorfs to Housing Works thrift shop and the Brooklyn Flea and One Hansen.
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January 12, 2012 8:17 PM Comments (0)
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Haring's Pop Shop ceiling lands at NY Historical Society
The $70 million renovation of the New-York Historical Society brings a lot of light into the lobby of the old institution, including the work of pop artist Keith Haring.
Hanging above the new admissions desk is a section of the ceiling from Haring’s downtown shop. The Pop Shop, which was located at 292 Lafayette St. from 1986 to 2005, was covered floor to ceiling with a giant black-and-white mural painted by Haring.
“During its 19 years in operation, the floor and walls of the shop required extensive repainting, making the ceiling the only original portion of the mural in existence,” according to the wall plate at the New-York Historical Society. “Today the historical importance of the Pop Shop in blurring contemporary lines between culture and commerce, high and low art, public and private spaces continues to expand.”
 Upstairs in its Henry Luce III Center, the Historical Society also has a case of Haring drawings, photographs, buttons and other items related to the Pop Shop.
The Pop Shop lives on as an online store operated by the Keith Haring Foundation.
Haring’s public art can still be found in a few places around NYC, including the “ Crack is Wack” mural in Harlem River Park.
The Pace Gallery on West 26th is currently showing an exhibition of Haring’s prints and small-scale multiples created between 1983 and his death in 1990.
And in March, the Brooklyn Museum will open a large-scale exhibition focusing on Haring’s work from 1978–1982.
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November 18, 2011 3:29 PM Comments (0)
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Open on Thanksgiving: Broadway, ice rinks, museums
Although the parade will be the main attraction, a lot of other New York City places will be open Nov. 24, 2011 on Thanksgiving Day. Here is the list of New York City ice rinks, museums, Broadway shows, movie theaters, restaurants, shops and zoos that have so far confirmed they’ll be open on Thanksgiving Day:
 The 85th anniversary of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at Central Park West and 77th Street and run south until Columbus Circle where it will head east along Central Park South. It will turn onto 7th Avenue, pass through Times Square and turn east at 42nd Street, making another turn on 6th Avenue to pass Bryant Park and head down to Herald Square. The last stretch will see the parade march in front of Macy’s along 34th Street, wrapping up at 7th Avenue.
OpenTable has reservations for restaurants open Thanksgiving Day. See Thanksgiving meal suggestions from Eater, New York magazine, Manhattan User’s Guide, the NY Times and Serious Eats.
Thanksgiving brunch will be served at The Carlyle at 1 p.m. with Chris Gillespie on piano.
Bubby’s in Tribeca will once again do a traditional, family-style pay-what-you-like buffet, including pie, from 3 p.m. to midnight. “Guests will set their own price for dinner with a generous portion of the proceeds going to the New York City Rescue Mission, the oldest homeless shelter in America, and a Tribeca neighbor, providing help to people in crisis since 1872,” according to Bubby’s blog.
Grandmothers dining with at least four family members get a free Thanksgiving Day Dinner at The Garden Café Restaurant at The Kitano New York Hotel from noon to 8 p.m. (Reservations are required.)
The Thanksgiving Celebration dinner at The Beard House will begin at 6 p.m.
Radio City Christmas Spectacular has performances scheduled at 2, 4:30 and 8 p.m.
The Broadway Thanksgiving Day schedule includes Thanksgiving Day performances of “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” “Private Lives,” “Godspell,” “Chicago” and “Phantom of the Opera.”
The Times Square TKTS discount ticket booths will open from 3 to 8 p.m.; the Seaport location will open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Brooklyn will be closed.
Big Apple Circus has a 2 p.m. performance
Empire State Building will open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. (Last elevator goes up at 1:15 a.m.) “Holiday hours may vary,” but no changes have yet been announced.
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock opens from 8 a.m. to midnight. (Last elevator goes up at 11 p.m.)
Ferries for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island will depart Manhattan hourly from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from New Jersey on the hour from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Liberty Island is open but the interior of the Statue of Liberty is closed for repairs.)
The Bronx Museum will open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The always-free National Museum of the American Indian will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring Dead Sea Scrolls and CSI: The Experience will open from 11 a.m. with the last admission at 4 p.m.
Madame Tussauds wax museum will open at 10 a.m. with the last ticket sold at 8 p.m.
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November 13, 2011 5:04 PM Comments (0)
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Wired and CNET to open holiday pop-up shops
 The holiday tech pop-up scene is getting bigger this year as the Wired Store will take over the Times Square space formerly home to the ESPN Zone and CNET will open its own shop downtown, company officials told NewYorkology.
Now in its seventh year in NYC, the Wired Store will open Nov. 18 at 42nd Street and Broadway, stocked with electronics, games, art and design fixtures, clothes and luxury items selected by the magazine’s editors. (The online shop opens Nov. 14.)
As in the past, visitors will be able to get their hands on the season’s new gadgets and then order them online, but not walk away with items from the pop-up shop. The store will be open Wednesdays through Sundays from noon to 7 p.m. until Dec. 24. The shop will close on Thanksgiving Day. It’s open to the public and free.
Further updates will be available at @WiredInsider.
CNET will get into the game this year with its first CNET GOTHAM holiday pop-up opening this Wednesday in Nolita at 201 Mulberry St. at Spring Street.
The free five-day pop-up will be open Nov. 9 through 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Like the Wired Store, gadgets selected by editors will be available for hands-on testing but no items are physically sold in the store.
CNET will offer daily giveaways plus a good amount of free food. The Sweetery Truck will be parked at the CNET pop-up Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with freebies and Korrilla BBQ will be on hand Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to as late as 3 p.m. (or earlier if their free-food supply runs dry.)
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November 8, 2011 8:17 AM Comments (0)
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Barneys Warehouse sale returns Aug. 25 to Sept. 5 7
 Barneys has posted the summer dates for its twice-a-year designer discount sale.
The Barneys Warehouse Sale will run from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5 at 255 W. 17th St.
Update as of Sept. 1: Racked NY reports the warehouse sale has been extended to Sept. 7.
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August 2, 2011 2:04 PM Comments (2)
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Andy Warhol in LEGO at Rockefeller Center
Since it opened in June, the LEGO Rockefeller Center store has continued to occasionally tweak its version of New York City.
The waist-high mini dioramas have changed up in recent months. While you can still see LEGO people lined up for the Apple Store cube on Fifth Avenue, a new subway platform features a train car discreetly covered with graffiti, a theater marquee touts a performance by the “Yellow Man Group” and Andy Warhol walks the floor in front of his latest masterpiece.
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May 17, 2011 5:37 PM Comments (0)
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Harlem Restaurant & Retail Month includes $20 prix fixe
 Harlem Restaurant & Retail Month kicks off today with $20.11 three-course meals at the likes of Red Rooster and Sylvia’s or a week of Bikram Yoga classes for the same price as the prix fixe.
Other participating locations include Levain Bakery, Bier International and MODSquad Cycles.
Harlem Restaurant & Retail Month runs from April 15 through May 15.
Related: Harlem Week begins in July.
(Thanks for the tips from DNAinfo, NYC Audio Tours, Everything NYC and @harlemparktopark.)
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April 15, 2011 10:01 AM Comments (0)
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NYC artifact shopping: doors, boardwalk planks, anchors
 Architectural salvage company Olde Good Things has conveniently added a new section to its website specifically for famous building artifacts.
Current offerings include fireplace mantels from The Plaza hotel, Andy Warhol studio doors, windows from Cooper Union and the Toy Building, the sign from Barrymores Restaurant, a Staten Island Ferry anchor, and light fixtures from the recently renovated Morgan Library & Museum.
Items can also be found from the Coney Island Boardwalk, the New Yorker and Pierre hotels, Lamb’s Theater in Times Square, Penn Station, the old New York Times building and a Stanford White mansion.
Pictured: “A green Grueby tile doorway from the original Con Edison plant in New York City,” on sale for $4,500.
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March 23, 2011 1:37 PM Comments (0)
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