New York’s Top Power Spots Map

It’s autumn in New York. Saturday Evening Stay is broadcasting its fiftieth season. Movie studios are cropping up throughout city. The Knicks really look good. Assuming you’ll have a purpose to go to Hollywood on the Hudson quickly sufficient, we’ve tapped a community of town’s most lovely to share insider dish on all of the locations it’s essential know, from canine runs to lodge bars to parking garages for the .01 p.c.

1. DOG PARK

Whereas walkers are those who squire most pooches, you’ll spy the house owners sometimes on fast jaunts close to residence, says canine coach Bash Dibra, who has labored with Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Jessica Parker, amongst others. “The true energy hold is Central Park. It’s not an official canine park, however you’ll be able to take your canine off leash earlier than 9 a.m,” he explains. “And house owners hold there within the evenings, as a result of numerous them are Met museum donors. They wish to be within the glow of ‘their’ museum.”

2. PARKING

“Paddock is parking at an elite degree,” designer Melody Weir says of the personal garages based by erstwhile Ferrari worker Justin Lopez, with underground websites on East 86th and East fifty fifth streets (a 3rd will open quickly).

3. PENTHOUSE SUITE (UPTOWN)

Journey agent Jason Squatriglia of Embark Past says the $75,000 per night time for The Mark’s five-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot Penthouse is value each cent — no marvel Drake calls it residence away from residence in NYC and Meghan Markle threw her child bathe there. “They’ll even put an ice-skating rink in your balcony throughout your keep when you’d like,” says Squatriglia. “That was an actual shopper request the crew gladly accommodated.”

4. PLAYGROUND

The Billy Johnson Playground in Central Park, simply north of the Zoo at 67th Road, is “the place networking meets playtime,” says concierge Benjamin Vaschetti of Maison Benjamin — you may spot greater than only a nanny or two idling on the benches, for a lot the identical purpose it’s a dog-walking hotspot.

5. POWER TABLE (UPTOWN)

You don’t simply have to eat at Sette Mezzo at Lexington and 71st, says socialite Gillian Miniter: You could insist on the place you’re seated, too. “Many individuals contemplate the tables as you enter the restaurant earlier than you go down the steps to be the most effective, however actually the entrance half of the restaurant is see-and-be-seen with many well-known folks and billionaires,” she says. “But it surely’s relaxed and in no way pretentious.”

6,16. PRIVATE DINING ROOM

Influencer Zach Weiss says it’s a toss-up between two distinctive PDRs. “Casa Cruz, on 61st Road and Madison, has two off-limits personal rooms that really feel as when you’re in somebody’s residence — I really like them,” he confides. “However Emilio’s Ballato on Houston Road? The again room there feels very mobster in the easiest way.”

7. THERAPIST

Go-to for the elite? Psychiatrist Samantha Boardman, with an workplace on East 67th, has bona fides of her personal (she’s a cum laude graduate of Harvard with twenty years of follow), however it’s her marriage to outstanding developer Aby Rosen that helps cement her standing when you’re an anxious one percenter, says Melody Weir. “That is your gal.”

8,11. DERMATOLOGIST’S OFFICE

It’s a cut up resolution for vogue author Freya Drohan between Dr. Julie Russak’s place on 57th and Park and Dr. Dan Belkin on Fifth Avenue in Flatiron. “Get Fraxel from Dr. Russak — you’ll appear like the elephant man for some time, however it’s value it,” she says. “And Morpheus8 by Dr. Belkin, due to course you’ll be able to belief the person behind Martha Stewart’s everlasting glow.”

9. DIVE BAR

Legendary boxing coach Jimmy Glenn opened Jimmy’s Nook in 1971 on the top of Occasions Sq.’s unhealthy previous days, and — although Jimmy died throughout the COVID pandemic at 89 — little appears to have modified. Robert De Niro shot Raging Bull right here, and Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson have been recognized to cease by (although not on the similar time). Beers are nonetheless $3, because of a sweetheart deal from actual property tycoon Douglas Durst, the proprietor of the constructing and a Jimmy’s common. Stomach up on the bar in your subsequent energy bender. 

10. MSG SEATS

At a live performance, don’t sit wherever aside from sections 108, 109, 115 and 116, says developer Mitchell Hochberg. “It’s the late, nice Ahmet Ertegun’s private suggestions. They’re the Trade seats.” Courtside for the Knicks? Watch who’s sitting subsequent to Spike Lee — that’s Al Palagonia from Apollo Jets. “He offers tickets to his closest celeb pals or greatest shoppers,” says Tony Abrams of 4 Hundred, a concierge service.

12. SUPERMARKET

“Citarella is freeway theft however nonetheless the most effective act on the town,” says Mitchell Hochberg. The buying bag’s an announcement to tote round city — attempt the West Village outpost on Sixth Avenue for max flex (and Seth Meyers shopping the fish counter).

13. WORKOUT SPOT

On the Continuum Membership, contained in the West Village’s Archive Constructing, 250 members pay $10,000 a month to sweat it out beneath Jeff Halevy (under), the previous At this time present health guru. His vacation spot sweatbox combines a gymnasium with longevity protocols (resembling monitoring well being information on Oura gadgets; an in-house flotation tank) and contains on-staff PTs. “Distinctive in all methods,” says inside designer Melody Weir. Rowing Blazers designer Jack Carlson disagrees: “Overlook the flamboyant gyms. Operating on the West Aspect Freeway in a T-shirt emblazoned together with your faculty and your sport — Harvard Fencing, perhaps, or Trinity Squash? That’s the largest flex of all.”

14. PENTHOUSE SUITE (DOWNTOWN)

You possibly can’t discover the penthouse at De Niro’s Greenwich Resort on its web site, and it’s solely obtainable by request, per 4 Hundred concierge Tony Abrams. That’s in all probability why one of many Olsens moved in semi-permanently some time again. “I had the privilege of occurring a bender there, and no different penthouse has in contrast,” provides door guru Frankie Carattini.

15. POWER TABLE (DOWNTOWN)

You possibly can’t discover the penthouse at De Niro’s Greenwich Resort on its web site, and it’s solely obtainable by request, per 4 Hundred concierge Tony Abrams. That’s in all probability why one of many Olsens moved in semi-permanently some time again. “I had the privilege of occurring a bender there, and no different penthouse has in contrast,” provides door guru Frankie Carattini.

17. STREET CORNER

The intersection of Bond and Lafayette streets, says Alexandra Polier, who works for the design company Journey, “has come to outline a brand new downtown and a brand new Noho.” She provides, “Paparazzi don’t know which door to perch on” as they attempt to snap Gigi Hadid or Jeff Bezos — she lives close by, and he’s an everyday at Zero Bond, the most recent boîte from nightlife legend Scott Sartiano, the place Mayor Eric Adams is usually noticed, too. “It’s a 24-hour cycle of fashion and energy.”

18. HOTEL BAR

Go hang around on one of many sofas at The Bowery Resort, says nightclub czar Frankie Carattini. “It’s a who’s who of leisure and vogue. When you’ve ever wished to overhear Chris Rock speaking store with Sarah Silverman or Karen Elson floating by on her technique to the Met Gala, that is the place to witness it.”

19. GAY BAR

“It’s important to arrive late and keep late,” says Alexandra Polier of Membership Cumming within the East Village, a postage-stamp-sized dive with an outsized influence on town’s bar scene. “Actually, you by no means know what’s going to occur. [Co-owner] Alan [Cumming] typically graces us together with his presence, which fills up the five hundred sq. ft fairly rapidly.” 

20. PIZZA JOINT

Ever since Kendrick Lamar talked about Lucali in a Drake diss monitor earlier this 12 months, traces on the Carroll Gardens staple have gotten even longer. Even Ed Sheeran has needed to look forward to 45 minutes. Regulars like Beyoncé and Jay-Z presumably don’t. The final word signal of clout? Having proprietor Mark Iacono’s quantity.

21. Okay-12 SCHOOL

With a mass of Hollywood celebs elevating households in Brooklyn, competitors for unique personal faculties has grow to be cutthroat — nowhere greater than on the nepo-baby magnet that’s Saint Ann’s, the Harvard-Westlake of the East (for pre-Okay and up). Alumni embrace Jennifer Connelly, Lena Dunham, Zac Posen and Maya Hawke. 

This story appeared within the Sept. 19 problem of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.