BY KAREN REMPEL | Caffè Reggio at 119 MacDougal St. has been a favorite haunt of beatniks and poets and beatnik poets since the Fifties,…
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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…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Storefront fortune tellers are almost as ubiquitous as nail salons in New York. Who among us hasn’t succumbed to the lure…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Happy New Year! The days have been cool, gray and rainy in New York City this winter. Not at all the…
BY KAREN REMPEL | Can you spot the dearly beloved, majestic steamship of a building plowing forward toward Madison Square Park? Yes, it’s the Beaux…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I first heard about CBGB at a party in high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. My friends were playing the Talking…
BY KAREN REMPEL | I always have fun on photo shoots for this column, but the shoot outside Chelsea Guitars was exceptionally boisterous. First of…