As spring approaches, your children’s summer plans are likely on your mind! If you are looking for a camp or sports activity to put them in, consider Asphalt Green! Asphalt Green offers different types of camps and sports programs like swimming, soccer, baseball and martial arts. With a location uptown and downtown, Asphalt Green is convenient for all Glenwood residents.

Summer Camp Options

The Asphalt Green provides four different camp options for you this summer!

If you are interested, there is a summer camp open house Sunday March 8th from 11am-12pm at 555 E 90th Street.

Mini Camps

• The mini camps are offered for children 4.5 years old to 12 years old. Camp begins at 8:45am and ends at 3:15pm. There is an optional pre-camp that begins at 7:45am and a post-camp that runs until 5:15pm. It is held at the Upper East Side location.  Swimming, sports, arts and crafts, music, and martial arts will be the focus of this camp along with an emphasis on learning great sportsmanship! This is a “mini” camp because it runs for a shorter time. If you live in Glenwood uptown buildings, the UES Asphalt Green location is perfect for you!

Summer Day Camp

• Asphalt Green summer day camp is offered for 4.5 year old to 13 year old children. Similar to the mini camp, there is a focus on swimming, sports, arts and crafts, music, and martial arts. The camp is held at both the Upper East side (555 E 90^thSt) and downtown (212 North End Avenue) locations. Call 212-298-7900 to find out more information on the camp. You can click here to register or request additional information.

Swim Camp

• Swim camp at Asphalt green is held for children ages 8 years old-15 years old at the Upper East Side location. Asphalt Green has an exceptional swim program that has sent many of its team members to collegiate level swimming and even the Olympics! If you child loves to swim, they will have a blast here learning from the very best! The swim camp is Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm.

Soccer Camp

• Soccer camp is offered for children 6-14 years old at the Upper East Side turf field. If your child loves soccer, make sure to check this camp out! It takes place Monday through Friday 9am-4pm. If you would like more information call 212-298-7900.

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About Asphalt Green

Asphalt Green is such a great facility! Aside from offering camps, it provides free and low cost programs to close to 50,000 children and seniors annually! It also offer scholarships to talented individuals with financial need. Asphalt Green gives back to its community with programs like Waterproofing, which is a free swim instruction class for public NYC school students. Click here to find out more about the Waterproofing program. During the year Asphalt Green hosts special events like The Big Swim and Big Kick to help its efforts to provide free and low cost options! I

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Ladurée

World famous Parisian macaron and pastry shop Ladurée, founded in Paris in 1832, has one of the best hot chocolates in all of New York City! This is for the true chocolate lover who craves that thick, silky hot coco. Grab a seat in the beautifully decorated pastry shop and order some macaroons too! The Marie Antoinette-like decor is just emanating through the bakery! With two locations, on 864 Madison Avenue and 398 West Broadway, whether you live uptown or downtown, there is a spot near you.

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Sant Ambroeus

Sant Ambreous is a great Italian restaurant with locations both uptown and downtown. They have delicious hot chocolate that is very rich and creamy! I highly recommend trying it! You can also grab a small panini to go as well! Their uptown location is 1000 Madison Avenue and they are located downtown at 259 W 4th Street.

Starbucks

This holiday season, maybe giving up caffeine is one of your New Year’s resolutions! Don’t fret, you can still enjoy the Starbuck’s holiday cups by ordering a hot chocolate with whipped cream! The holiday cups are here, and thy add that little extra winter cheer during long winter work days! Starbucks also has cute and tasty winter snacks like the red and white cake pops to pair with your hot coco! Your kids are sure to love the cake pops as much as you do!

In the comfort of your home!

Sometimes you just want to curl up at home with a good book or movie and a hot chocolate! With a little secret tip, we are sure to help you enjoy a great at home treat! To avoid a watery flavor, use milk or milk substitute like soy milk as the base of the drink. If you want that extra silky chocolaty taste, put a Hershey kiss in the bottom of you mug and let it melt before adding in the hot coco powder. Now you have a perfect at home mug of hot chocolate! This is great for those times you are stuck in your apartment due to a snowstorm! You and your entire family are sure to love this at home winter treat!

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New York City becomes magical during the winter with all of the holiday lights adorning trees, street lights, and buildings. Some restaurants even transform their décor to create a perfect winter ambiance. If you want to find a unique winter oasis with great food and spirited drinks, keep on reading!

Below, we have noted some of the best restaurants that embrace this wintertime spirit easy to reach from Glenwood buildings whether you are uptown or downtown.

Baita By Birreria

Baita by Birreria, the Italian Alps pop-up Restaurant, is located on the roof of Eataly. It is sure to be the perfect sport if you are looking for a restaurant with great food that specializes in seasonal charm. The décor certainly creates the perfect feel of a winter chateau sitting atop lower manhattan in a snow globe.  The menu features traditional winter drinks and plates that you would find if you were traveling the Italian ski alps this winter season. Be sure to check it out! Baita is open 11:30am to 11pm from November 3rd through April. If you live in Glenwood midtown west buildings like Crystal Green, Emerald Green, or The Sage, Baita is a great spot to check out!

L’Avenue

If you are looking for a great winter spot with a cozy, ski chalet bar vibe and an exquisite dinner menu, you should try L’Avenue at Saks 5th Avenue 8 E 50th St. The restaurant has a separate entrance from Saks, where an elevator will take you directly to L’Avenue. Arrive a little early to have a drink at the bar downstairs that is decked with fabulous rustic winter chalet decor! You will automatically be transported out of the city! This is a great spot for Glenwood’s midtown residents to try.

Ophelia

Ophelia, located on top of Beekman Tower, is a great lounge that has 360 degree views of Manhattan. Ophelia features a fantastic cocktail and food menu with items like truffle tries, beef sliders, and Maine lobster spring rolls. During the winter, Ophelia transforms its bar area into a winter wonderland! Located on 1^stAvenue between 49^thSt and 50^thSt, this is a great spot if you live in any of Glenwood’s midtown east buildings. The Bamford, The Belmont, The Bristol and Paramount Tower are all close by! Make sure you check Ophelia out this winter season.

The Lodge at STK Meatpacking

The Lodge is made to make you feel like you are, eating, drinking, or enjoying your friends’s company in a rustic snow globe overlooking the city. With cozy throws and blankets to meet the perfectly curated rustic décor, you and your friends can step right into a ski lodge in the heart of Manhattan’s meatpacking district. The menu reflects this winter charm as well with great seasonal options. Open from 5:30pm to the bar’s closing at 2am, you will be sure to have a fun filled winter night! If you live in any of Glenwood’s downtown buildings, be sure to check The Lodge out!

Park Avenue Winter

This seasonal restaurant changes its decor and menu depending on the season! Originally located on the Upper East Side, Park Avenue Winter has relocated downtown to 360 Park Avenue South. If you are looking for a menu that is catered to the specific chilly weather outdoors, you will be wowed! From pumpkin ravioli to long island duck you will be sure to find something delicious. This restaurant is located closest to Glenwood’s downtown residents.

Igloo Bar NYC at 230 Fifth

The rooftop of 230 Fifth transforms to a special winter food and beverage with their heated igloos! While reservations are not accepted, with 17 igloos for you to enter, you are sure to have a great time! Select from great winter drinks like hot chocolate, a boozy hot chocolate, Godiva hot chocolate, virgin or spiked ciders to sweet treats like red velvet cake and fried Oreos. This unique experience is open from November to May. If you live in Emerald Green, The Sage, or Crystal Green and are looking for something fun and unique that is just a quick cab ride away, make sure you stop at the Igloo Bar!

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The Standard’s Winter Garden

As it begins to feel like winter in NYC, the Standard’s garden transforms into the perfect winter oasis filled with private yurts! Reserve a yurt and step into a truly magical experience featured around fondue! Fondue lovers, this is for you! Each yurt is decorated perfectly and heated! Yes, heated! You can enjoy this great winter time activity in the comfort of your heated yurt! The plates and drinks are perfect for that seasonal charm you most definitely are looking for! This truly unique NYC winter fondue experience is sure to leave you wanting to return. If you live in any of Glenwood’s downtown buildings, be sure to check these yurts out!

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For Family Fun

Parents with kids in NYC sure know the importance of a good outdoor festival. It’s a way to get the kiddos into the sunshine and fresh air (and away from electronic devices!), it’s allowing everyone to appreciate this beautiful city they call home, it’s entertaining for all members of the family, and extra bonus points when it’s free…leaving more money for a nice dinner afterwards! The High Line is hosting several family festivals this summer, the first being “Go! It’s A Family Festival” on Saturday, June 30th from 10am to 1pm, at the High Line between 15th and 16th Streets.

The festival celebrates all the different cultures, dreams, and stories we have in the different neighborhoods and boroughs of NYC. Diversity at its finest! Through storytimes, dance parties, movement workshops, art creation, super heros, and plants, kids and their caregivers can plan for a day in the sun full of fun! The program is held rain or shine, so mark your calendars!

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For Great Music

If you love music and dance, join the High Line on Thursday, July 5th from 6pm to 9pm for “Arriba: Latin Dance Party With Sonido Costeno”. It will be held on the High Line at 16th Street, and you can enjoy an open dance floor, with a killer sunset, and then an open “rooftop” under the stars! A DJ will kick off the festivities, and then NYC’s hottest Latin bands will do live performances, bringing the best of the salsa world straight to the heart of NYC.

For Meditation

Self-care seems to be the buzzword of 2018, and you can’t get more into caring for yourself than with a guided hour of meditation! Every other Tuesday, June through September, join the High Line at 22nd Street from 8am until 9am for a guided meditation from the pros at Integral Yoga Institute and Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. You’ll start your day off feeling more focused, centered, and ready to tackle whatever NYC throws at you.

For Tours

Tours in NYC are most certainly not just for tourists, why should they get to have all the educational insights and fun?! The High Line is offering a tour called “High Line Tour: From Freight To Flowers” Tuesdays from 6:30pm to 7:45pm as well as Saturdays from 10am until 11:15am. You’ll meet at the High Line at Gansevoort St, and learn all about the park’s history, design, and landscape from a professional docent. Tours will be happening through September.

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You can RSVP for all of these events online ahead of time on the High Line’s website. Residents at Tribeca Bridge Tower and Emerald Green will love their close proximity to all these fun summer events.

A few tips before you head out:

Being an elevated park, the sun shines down fiercely! Even on days that may look overcast and cloudy, do your future-self a favor and lather on the sunscreen, and bring hats and water bottles for everyone in your party. Nothing takes the fun out of an evening of salsa dancing or morning meditation quite like waking up the next morning with a killer sunburn!

If you are heading to the High Line with a stroller or wheelchair, check out their accessibility points ahead of time online to save yourself headaches once you get there. Not every street has elevator access, so you’ll want to plan ahead and go directly to the closest one to your event that does.

While it’s a park, the High Line is NOT pet friendly. If you show up with your pooch (no matter how adorable and small he may be), you will most likely be asked to leave by park security. Leave Fido at home this time, and save Central Park trips for him!

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Charlie Bird, the wildly successful Itailan-ish spot that somehow comfortably crams a city’s worth of scenesters every night into its awkward narrow space, was at or near the top of just about every “best new restaurant” list last year. People love the casual atmosphere, the wine list, and the food. Anchoring the western end of what is possibly today’s most exciting restaurant “neighborhood,” the Houston Street corridor, Charlie Bird and NYC are having an intense love affair at the moment. But for various reasons (it’s a tough table, it’s a little pricey), I hadn’t been to Charlie Bird until finally getting the opportunity just last week… and man am I glad I took it.  

Friendly Service and Boom Box Prints Create Atmosphere

Even at 6pm on a Tuesday, the place was hopping, buzzing with an impeccably dressed, expensively accessorized crowd. The music is great–mostly old school hip hop, with a couple of wild cards thrown in. The service is impressively warm and friendly. The room fells much more spacious than it reall is, with a short bar and some tables on the lower level, and the main dining area taking up all of the upper tier, which is dominated by large prints of boom boxes. You can see why people want to linger here long after the feasting is done.                      

Charlie Bird’s Lives Up to the Hype

And feasting is most certainly appropriate at Charlie Bird. I tried more than a half dozen dishes on this night and there wasn’t a clunker among them. The Razor Clams with fennel and chilis lived up to the hype, a terrific briny/spicy/salty/licorice-y/slippery/crunchy mash up. The Farro Salad is a must-order as well, the chewy grains paired with pumpkin, pistachio, mint, and parmigiano, and the Blood Orange and Radicchio Salad is pretty first-rate, too.

A Feast Worthy of a Crowd, Which You Can Expect

I’ve heard that all of the Charlie Bird pastas are excellent, but I can only vouch for the Spaghettini Nero, with its hefty chunks of crab, fiery chilis, and deeply inky noodles. By the time we got to our entree–the famous Roasted Chicken stacked atop an intense “crispy bits salad” and a scoop of amazing chicken liver; plus a side of crunchy roasted Brussels Sprouts–we were already full, but that didn’t stop us from polishing it all off anyway, Nor did it prevent us from ordering dessert, which was an excellent Coconut Panna Cotta. Charlie Bird feels like a special occasion sort of place to me, or, say, a fourth-date spot. Though we were seated immediately as 5:30pm walk-ins, don’t expect to get a non-reserved table much later than that. But if you enjoy this sort of scene from time to time (and it can be energizing), this is the place.

Charlie Bird Location and Hours

Charlie Bird is located at Sixth Avenue and King Street, just south of Houston, and is open every day at 5:30 for dinner (until 11:00 Sunday through Thursday; until 12:00 Friday and Saturday) and for lunch/brunch on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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The New Amsterdam Market, located right by the old Fulton Fish Market in the South Street Seaport area, reopened last Sunday for the season, which is good news indeed for all New Yorkers, but especially for downtown Glenwood residents (in both the Barclay Tower and Tribeca Bridge Tower), and especially ESPECIALLY for Glenwoodians fortunate enough to live in the luxury rentals of LIberty Plaza, just a few blocks away. The New Amsterdam Market is one of our favorite such markets in all of New York City, because it combines the on-site fun and feasting of a good snacking/dining destination (think: Smorgasburg) with the take-home, locally grown or produced pleasures of a solid farmer's market. 

The vendors at the New Amsterdam Market vary slightly from week to week (though many of the best will be there for duration), but on opening day we particularly enjoyed such old favorites like the Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels at Liddabit Sweets; the smoky, chewy Classic Jerky at King's County Jerky; the creamy frozen treats at La Newyorkina (on this day: a scoop of spectacular Arroz con Leche ice cream); and the juicy, crackling piggy sandwiches at Porchetta. Also of note: Pie Corps is back with their awesome savory delights; the Moroccan "sandcastle" cookies at Black and Blanco are unique and, if you opt for the Marzipan variety, totally delicious; the Fire Cider will, no question, wake you up in a hurry (ask for a sample); and the Queens County Farm has a booth this year, and though they were "only" selling lovely flowers and herbs on Sunday, their fruits and veggies are always among the best at the Union Square Market, so this is an excellent addition for downtown residents.   

Downtown NYC Food Artists? Not Quite But New Amsterdam Market Entertains Every Week!

Want another reason to visit the New Amsterdam Market? Every week they host some sort of special, thematically-organized mini-festival, with a pop-up "pavilion" of purveyors as well as as workshops and demonstrations. Last Sunday, for example, the New Amsterdam Market featured all things made from grain, with 16 of city's top bread-bakers selling their wares and a pizza-making exhibition, complete with wood-burning oven, by Jim Lahey and his superb Co. pizzaiolo Matt Aita. And this week's special sounds possibly even better: a celebration of "International Meats" from the likes of Solber Pupusas and Guadelupes Tamales. See you on line. 

Lower Manhattan's New Amsterdam Market 2012: the details

The New Amsterdam Market is located on South Street between Beekman Street and Peck Slip and is open every Sunday between now and late fall from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. For more details and a list of vendors on any particular week, please see the New Amsterdam Market website, here.  

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Fifteen, twenty years ago, if someone asked you to go downtown to the Bowery to see an exhibition at a place called The Hole, you would be forgiven if the invitation gave you pause. Today, of course, things are different–WAY different–on NYC's one-time Skid Row, as time has given way to luxury highrise manhattan apartment and condo developments, high-end clothing stores, scads of excellent restaurants, and a burgeoning lower Manhattan art gallery scene…including the aforementioned Hole. But even though the Bowery neighborhood has gotten a lot less wild, The Hole doesn't do bland art. Witness E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler's jaw-dropping collaboration, Giverny, Monet's garden and muse.

Photography Like Classic Claude Monet Paintings With a Twist: Kembra Pfahler

The story is this: in 2010 artist/designer E.V. Day was awarded the opportunity to live at Giverny, the famous estate of Claude Monet's garden, which the great impressionist used as his muse for many of his most iconic paintings. Not surprisingly, Day was also inspired by Giverny's grounds, and so enlisted Kembra Pfahler to don her signature performance garb–bright body paint, bondage-y boots, crazy black wig–and come pose for photographs in the Monet's garden at its August peak. And THEN, best of all for downtown NYC gallery-goers in the Barclay & Tribeca Bridge Towers, the Hole convinced Playboy to foot the bill! They recreated the Monet garden Giverny within their Bowery space, the better to show off E.V. Day's photographs, complete with live flowers, gravel pathways, and signature green bowed bridge.

The result of all E.V. Day, Kembra Pfahler, and The Hole's efforts is a true art-show spectacle, and certainly the most fecund lower Manhattan exhibition we've seen…well, maybe ever. As sensational as the paintings by Monet, the photographs themselves are terrific, with Kembra Pfahler looking like some sort of insane neon-pink flower amid the botanical explosion of Monet's garden. But it's the transformation of space itself that really makes this an exhibition worth going out of your way for (or combine it with a visit to the New Museum, or a movie at the Sunshine, or a meal at any number of the first-rate restaurants within a few blocks of the Hole). Adding to the other-worldliness of the show: E.V. Day commissioned an artist to stand at-easel during Giverny's run, and paint the lush landscape. Great fun, all of it.      

Experience "Giverny" by E.V. Day & Kembra Pfahler The Hole

E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler's Giverny will be at the Hole through April 24. The Hole is located on Bowery between Houston and Bleecker Streets, and is open Tuesday through Saturaday from 12:00 noon until 7:00 p.m. For more information, please see the Hole's website, here.  

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New Museum NYC Goes Global: 34 Artists Converge Downtown

A nice counterpoint to the upcoming, always-heavily-hyped Biennial at the Whitney Museum, the much-appreciated if too-often-underwhelming New Museum on Bowery just unveiled The Ungovernables, a triennial survey of the state of global contemporary art, opening up all of its gallery space to some 34 artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives (for a total of more than 50 individual participants), all of whom were born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, and many of whom have never before exhibited in this country. In other words: they're young, their life experience is likely different than yours, and you've probably never seen, or even heard of, any of their works before in New York City art museums. Most important, after an afternoon spent wandering all of the New Museum's five exhibition floors, we're pleased to report that there are many more hits than misses at the New Museum Triennial this time out.    

2012 Triennial Exhibition is Bringing Young Artists to Lower Manhattan

The central theme of The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial couldn't be more timely: a look at how this generation of 25- to 35-year-old artists are reacting to and helping shape our current climate of civil disobedience, protest, revolt, anger, and demands for self-determination, as well as a concurrent, nagging sense of impermanence and uncertainty about the future. We like many of the pieces here, but clearly the show-stopper at the New Museum Triennial is Adrián Villar Roja's mammoth sculptural work, "A Person Loved Me", which looks to be not only some sort of fearsome, futuristic military machine, but also, with its cracking facade and cumbersome stature, like a relic of some increasingly irrelevant past, a once-mighty giant on the verge of collapse. Great stuff. 

And there are many more interesting, amusing, provocative, weird pieces here as well. Other highlights at The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial include Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado's wild video "O Século", in which unseen "combatants" hurl and smash all manner of debris–fluorescent light tubes, chunks of brick and concrete, wooden bowls, chairs–from the left side of the screen to the right, and then the image reverses itself, so the right now attacks the left; Pratchaya Phinthong's pile of clearly-worthless paper money, called "What I learned I no longer know; the little I know, I guessed", and which features stacks of 50 TRILLION Zimbabwe-dollar notes; Pilvi Takala's pranksterish "The Trainee", documenting via video and paperwork, the month she spent deliberately, blatantly NOT working at the accounting giant Deloitte (one whole day, for example, was spent riding the elevator); and Abigail DeVille's appropriately forbidding "Dark Day" which makes the best use we've ever seen of that tiny "gallery" half-way down the New Museum's grand stairway. There's a lot more, too. It's been a long time since, given the New Museum's $14 admission fee AND relatively (as compared to, say, the MoMA) small space, that we've felt comfortable giving our friends an unqualified "go" to an exhibition there, but The Ungovernables earns just that.   

The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial details 

The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial will be on exhibit through April 22. The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery, at the eastern end of Prince Street, and is open on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., and on Thursdays until 9:00 p.m. Admission is free from 7:00 until 9:00 every Thursday night. Closed Monday and Tuesday. For more information, please the New Museum website, here.

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Part bakery, part hot-chocolate bar (there’s coffee, too), part sandwich spot, and all with the distinct flavor of Spanish cuisine, the new La Churreria on Mulberry Street does a great job of offering weary Soho and Nolita shoppers and on-the-go quick-bite seekers cozy relief on a dreary February day. Opened in December by Jesus Manso, aka Lolo, of next-door Socarrat renown (by the way, one of our favorite meals and nicest nights of 2011 was spent at the bar here, falling in love with a platter of paella), La Churreria has a pedigree that should at least get you in the door. And though La Churreria may specialize (and, mostly, excel) in frying up its namesake doughy, chewy, cinnamon-y sticks, there are also enough other things on the menu here, both sweet and savory, to earn it a permanent spot among our top picks for snacks and treats.

We stopped in to La Churreria on one of the coldest, rawest afternoons of this so-far mostly fake NYC winter, and had a very pleasant hour or so chatting and sipping and snacking. The space at La Curreria is tiny–just a few elevated tables, a few stools before a narrow counter on which to perch your food and drink–but we’re guessing that a good deal of the business comes from on-the-go “breakfast rolls” (the Huevos Con Chorizo sounds especially appealing) and take-out lunch baguette-built Bocatas, or, to the laymen, sandwiches. If you do stay, the La Churreria staff is friendly and flirty (not inappropriately), the seats comfy, the neighborhood ideal for people-watching.

Anyway: the food. We were hungry, so split one of La Churreria’s “Pierna De Cerdo En Adobo Pan Blanco” sandwiches, which featured mounds of juicy shredded pork, caramelized onions, melty manchego, and was salty, spicy, and completely satisfying. And, of course, we had an order of Churros, a six pack which, while fine texture-wise, definitely needed the thick cup of, in our case, Double Dark dipping chocolate (you can also get hazelnut or “spicy aztec” flavors) to achieve the proper sugar intake level such a snack requires. And so, properly fueled, we left La Churreria re-energized and ready to take on the rest of our day.

Stop by La Churreria in Downtown

La Churreria is located on Mulberry Street just south of Houston Street, and right next door to Lolo’s Soccarat paella restaurant (the original Soccarat, in Chelsea, is smaller than the one here but, we hear, just as good). La Churreria is open on Sunday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday until 11:30. For a look at the complete La Churreria menu, please see the restaurant’s MenuPages page, here.

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