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      My ideal day in New York: Architectural Digest’s Amy Astley

      The publication’s global editorial director and long-time Tribeca resident likes to keep it local, from Pilates to post-prandial drinks — via her favourite shops, galleries and eateries in the district

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
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      Autumn watch: where to see New York’s most beautiful fall foliage

      Escape the city and head upstate for the time-honoured tradition of ‘leaf peeping’

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      Curator’s pick: Marsden Hartley’s ‘Painting, Number 5’ at New York’s Whitney

      Barbara Haskell dives into her favourite work for FT Globetrotter’s new series on must-see current exhibitions

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      Kazuko Miyamoto’s highly strung New York show leaves us wanting more

      The Japanese-American artist tantalises with works that subvert minimalism

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      Chef Daniel Humm’s perfect Saturday in New York

      Taking on chess hustlers, catching Daniel Craig in ‘Macbeth’ and sampling exquisite Japanese plant-based food: how one of the world’s top chefs is enjoying his adopted hometown right now

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      Jacques-Louis David at the Metropolitan Museum — a French revolution in art

      A New York exhibition of David’s drawings and sketches shows how his radical style developed through the republic and Napoleon

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
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      FT readers: the spaces that make you feel good in your city

      We asked you to share your ‘happy places’ around the world — and you’ve whisked us everywhere from an Alaskan ice-cream parlour to a Singaporean Eden, via a magical Roman ruin . . . 

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      Jennifer Packer at the Whitney in New York — paintings both decorative and deep

      The artist makes luminous work that is filled with strong emotion and political weight

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
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      A day in New York with five-star hotelier James McBride

      After a run around Central Park’s reservoir, the luxury-hospitality guru likes to shop for Belgian shoes, treat himself to a ‘deconstructed’ tiramisu and take in some jazz

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      Contemplation in the Catskills

      A new ‘landscape hotel’ in the woods of upstate New York offers a pared-back take on the spa experience

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
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      Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

    • Monday, 27 December, 2021
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      Cities on screen

      In this series from FT Globetrotter, our film critic selects the best movies in which the city plays a starring role

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
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      Made in Manhattan: the best New York films

      In the first of a new series in which our film critic selects the movies that most brilliantly evoke FT Globetrotter’s cities, here are 12 of the Big Apple’s lead roles

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      Portrait of a park

      Green spaces in our cities have become more cherished than ever. In this series from FT Globetrotter, our correspondents and writers tell their stories

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      Portrait of a park: ‘New York in a nutshell’ — Tompkins Square Park

      Gentrification might have softened its edges, but this longstanding counterculture haven remains a site of protest and play — particularly, come Halloween, for costumed canines

    • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
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      Leading Hotels of the World chief Shannon Knapp on the best of Brooklyn and beyond

      The head of the independent luxury-hotel group likes to enjoy her home borough’s excellent food offerings and explore its green spaces with her family — followed by a night in Manhattan

    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
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      Brooklyn breakout: the best of Williamsburg’s music scene

      Move over, Manhattan — for treasure-trove record shops and up-tempo live venues just head over the river

    • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
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      New York getaway: a weekend in Montclair, New Jersey’s leafy ‘oasis of culture and good living’

      Just a short train ride from Manhattan, the Garden State’s mecca for New York media types offers superb food and arts scenes and a historic boutique hotel

    • Monday, 6 September, 2021
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      Fast exit to Brooklyn: four bike routes around the New York borough

      The best way to take in all that Brooklyn has to offer — from spectacular cityscapes to hipster havens — is on two wheels

    • Monday, 23 August, 2021
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      New York state of ride: the best bike routes around Manhattan and beyond

      With the number of cyclists soaring in the increasingly bike-friendly city, here are four stunning — and safe — routes that take in everything from Central Park to Randall’s Island and criss-cross NYC’s iconic bridges

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
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      Hot town: New Yorkers celebrate a special summer in the city

      Travel restrictions are lifting but many are choosing to stay and rediscover the joys of urban living

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
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      Tips from the top

      In this series from FT Globetrotter, leaders across a range of industries, from food to finance to fashion, share guides to their cities, with top spots to eat and drink, exercise, explore — and more

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
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      Interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud’s guide to Chelsea, New York

      The hospitality-design guru relishes the creative and culinary nourishment on offer in her neighbourhood — stunning starchitecture, cool galleries and her favourite brasserie

    • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
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      Dawoud Bey at the Whitney — quietly spectacular

      From collaborative portraits to allusive landscapes, the photographer’s often tough themes are composed with elegance

    • Friday, 30 April, 2021
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