BY KAREN REMPEL | Jutting into the Hudson River, Little Island is a bite-sized, low-commitment park. You can follow the path to the peak in…
Posts tagged as “Karen’s Quirky Style”
BY KAREN REMPEL | Love for sale? Last August, I learned the sad news that the Meatpacking District’s last remaining “short stay” hotel, the Liberty…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Marching through Midtown in Wonder Woman attire on my way to work at 7 a.m. on a frosty late-October morning, I…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Ascend the stoop to the Merchant’s House Museum and you might be surprised at what you find. No staid merchants in…
BY KAREN REMPEL | “Girls don’t play rock’n’roll,” 13-year-old Joan Jett’s guitar teacher told her. Two years later, Jett founded the Runaways. Don’t tell a…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Caffè Reggio at 119 MacDougal St. has been a favorite haunt of beatniks and poets and beatnik poets since the Fifties,…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I stayed at the iconic Washington Square Hotel on my first trip to New York, in 2014, because of its literary…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Fifteen years after the final iteration of the infamous Chelsea nightclub in the deconsecrated Gothic Revival church closed, the wild energy…
BY KAREN REMPEL | This corner is obviously the coolest spot in New York City! I’m sitting by a graffitied doorway at the corner of…
BY KAREN REMPEL | This marks the third anniversary of Karen’s Quirky Style, celebrating my love affair with playing dress-up in New York! KQS would…