A museum dedicated to all things illustrated, including comics, cartoons, and children’s book art.
Conceived by two readers and artists calling themselves the House of Screwball, the Tarot Society is an art gallery, alternative performance space, and divination room in Brooklyn. They combine special events with Tarot, Astrology, and Palmistry readings in their unique space, as well as appearing at other events around town.
4 Charles Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Gallery hours & walk-in readings: 12-8 Wed – Sat / 12-6 Sunday
Hell Phone is a retro-chic cocktail bar and crêperie that you get to by entering through, you guessed it, a phone booth. Specifically, a red phone booth inside of the Ange Noir Cafe in Bushwick.
247 Varet St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
American & French Fusion, Live Music
Murder house? No! An axe throwing club located right across the river! Established in 2015, Stumpy’s styles their alternative group activity as a “social throwdown.” They’ll teach you how to handle an axe and provide the gear during 2 hour sessions. There are also theme nights, leagues, and a hatchet happy hour twice a week. Oh, and did I mention that it’s BYOB?
22 Meridian Rd #5, Eatontown, NJ 07724
$40 / 2 hour sessions, $20 / happy hour
A “secret” restaurant. Fine dining. At Bloomingdale’s. Inside of a recreated train car of the 19th-century luxury French night express train, the Calais-Mediterranée Express.
1000 3rd Ave, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10022
Lunch, Brunch, & Dinner. ~$30
An artist-run venue, the Slipper Room was the first space built to showcase performers in the burgeoning Burlesque and neo-Vaudeville scene. Oh, and it’s traditional to take a picture in the gutter outside.
167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Tickets $5 to $30, 21+
Russian banya comes to New York! The Russian & Turkish Baths in the East Village is an institution. Built in 1892, the authentic Russian bathhouse offers five different steam and sauna options ranging in temperature, including an oven-heated granite sauna, a Finnish cherry-wood sauna, and an aromatic white-tiled Turkish steam room, as well as an icy plunge pool and roof deck.
Don’t come expecting glitz and glamor, but this is the real Russian bathhouse experience. You bring: yourself, a bathing suit, and a sense of adventure. They provide: robes, towels, shorts, slippers, and lockers with locks.
268 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009
$40 day-pass. Memberships available.
Kenny Shopsin first set up shop in the Village, operating an eclectic neighborhood deli and grocery on Bedford & Morton Streets. Nowadays, Shopsin’s is a tiny diner counter / restaurant in the corner of the Essex Street Market. His family helps run it and everyone in the place swears like a sailor. And they have some firm rules. No parties larger than four. No additions, no substitutions, and no special requests. But you shouldn’t need any, since the menu is over 900 items long.
120 Essex St, Stall No. 16, New York, NY 10002
If you sit down, order food. Don’t expect to be mollycoddled.
Like the name might suggest, the walls of this bar are covered in – who guessed it? – gold. The most famous part is the glowing “ossuary” of gold skulls, but everything from the paintings to the tables are gilt with the precious metal.
Slide through the non descript telephone booth at Crif Dogs to access this speakeasy.