JWM Magazine - Fall 2014

FRIDAY

The Center of It All

Breakfast at JW Marriott Essex House New York

Breakfast in the aptly named Southgate restaurant makes perfect sense: It’s a portal to Central Park, which forms the hotel’s front yard, and the city beyond. You might want to go back for seconds.

You have a full day ahead.

Hidden Central Park

There’s nothing as eye-
opening as a new look at
an old favorite. Most people
know the Wollman Rink,
the Sheep Meadow and
the Reservoir, but Central
Park has unexplored nooks
and crannies that are worth
checking out. Shockingly
close to the bustle of the
hotel and the midtown
streets is the Hallett Nature
Sanctuary, a four-acre gem
on the west side of the Pond.

It’s not crowded, so you can listen for birdcalls. As you head north and east, you will pass by one of many huge rocky outcroppings: Look up, because there’s an Adirondack-style gazebo perched there called the Dene hut. It’s a great place to sit and people-watch.

Neue Galerie

1048 Fifth Ave.

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The country’s top stop for
German and Austrian art
is housed in this restored
Fifth Avenue mansion, just
off the Park. It’s small
and well-edited, the true
jewel-box experience.

This fall brings a show of the famously tortured Austrian artist Egon Schiele, one of the 20th century’s best draftsmen.

Café Sabarsky

1048 Fifth Ave.

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After all that Sturm und
Drang, it might be time for
the city’s best apple strudel
and a coffee mit schlag.

Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner has been operating the top-notch Sabarsky inside the Neue Galerie since it opened, and it’s beloved by museumgoers as well as people who have no intention of seeing paintings.

Fivestory New York

18 E. 69th St.

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Tucked into an elegant townhouse on one of the

SIGHTSEEING.

Entering Green-Wood Cemetery, previous page. This page, clockwise from above: breakfast at JW Marriott Essex House New York;

the goods at Fine & Dandy; the Museum of Art and Design;

Central Park. Opposite page: an art lover at Neue Galerie.

The cool crispness of a New York City autumn clarifies the mind, and it even makes the stuffed- to-the-gills smorgasbord of cultural options seem approachable. No place in the world has more going on — uptown art to downtown cabaret, soignée midtown shopping to avant-garde Brooklyn restaurant — but when the leaves are falling, you can just join the glide path and bounce elegantly among the options.