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Gogobot is an innovative planning tool that tailors recommendations for places to stay, eat and play to your specific tastes. It also allows you to share your great experiences with people who have the same interests as you; people in your “tribes”. Gogobot’s ‘GoGo This Week’ feature empowers you to discover and take advantage of great events, openings and exhibits throughout the city each week. Here are some exciting events and sites to check out in downtown New York this week, courtesy of Gogobot. Visit the website or download the app for more GoGo This Week upcoming events.
The Waterfront (Chelsea)
Tues, Nov 10th from 6-9pm
A carefully curated event by the food editors at New York Magazine, Taste brings together chefs and mixologists from over 40 top New York restaurants and bars for a night of decadent menus and innovative drinks. In attendance are celebrated chefs and mixologists from REbelle, Pegu Club, Upland, Aureole and many more. General Admission tickets are sold out, but VIP tickets get you dibs on the goods before the general public, VIP lounge access and gift bag. Definitely worth the splurge!
2. Odd Warm Ice Cream Sandwiches
Odd Fellows (East Village)
Daily
It’s November and technically ice cream season is over, even if the temperatures have been mild, however we are making an exception to the rule since Odd Fellows, which has recently (re)opened as an ice cream sandwhich shop, is now serving warm ice cream sandwiches. The “Odd Pockets,” is a toasty warm brioche packed with ice cream, sprinkled with toppings and heated on a panini press. Come try the “savory” Bacon sandwich, stuffed with bacon ice cream and topped with candied pecans and spice maple syrup.
3. Steven Alan Sample Sale
Steven Alan Showroom (Tribeca)
Thur, Nov 12th-Sun, Nov 15th; Thu 8am-8pm, Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 12pm-6pm
Steven Alan’s trendy monochromatic minimalist pieces are always flattering and elegant, even when boxy and loose. With up to 80% off, we are going to go to town at the sample sale which will also have well stacked racks from designers like Arpenteur, Acne Studios, Norse Projects, APC, Filson, Band of Outsiders and others alongside its house line. Not to be missed!
4. Beer Run
26 locations throughout Lower Manhattan
Sat, Nov 14th check in from 12-2pm until closing
Going on a beer run was never this much fun! Twenty six different bars spread out across Lower Manhattan will be offering a 6oz tasting of their specialty beer. If you make the run to all 26 bars, it will mean that you will have consumed 1.2 gallons of beer! Doable? Either way, we are up for the challenge. Join the run to to meet new people, enjoy the entertainment and check out some new and old watering holes. $65
The Whitney Museum
Fri, Nov 13th from 11am-10pm-Sat, Nov 14th from 11am-finish
The two-day marathon reading of one of the greatest literary canons of all time, Moby Dick, coincides with the spectacular Frank Stellar Retrospective at the Whitney and the novel’s 164th anniversary. If you haven’t been able to crack open the white whale tome, hearing the novel read aloud by a group of writers and artists is a good way to finally get this baby off your dusty shelf. Readers include: Salman Rushdie, Kurt Anderson, Trisha Baga and many many many more…. FREE with museum admission ($22).
6. Vanashing New York
Jonathan LeVine Gallery (Chelsea)
Through Sat, Nov 14th Tues-Sat 11am to 6pm
In a series of large scale paintings, “This Land is Not for Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures,” Brett Amory brings back the Lower East Side, the pre-gentrification “wasteland” with long gone storefronts and establishments. Some of the portrayed places like Moishe’s Bakery and the Pyramid Club are still standing, a testament to one the most alternative neighborhoods in NY. To illustrate the LES’ uncertain fate, Amory installed a construction site underpass at the entrance to show the ongoing chiseling at the neighborhood’s facade. FREE
-Courtesy of Gogobot
If you know of great events happening in your neck of the woods that might be a fit for a future GoGo This Week column, please feel free to email details about the event to events@gogobot.com.
