Table d'hôte is a French phrase meaning "host's table," and starting back in the late 1800s certain New Yorkers would dine this way. Here's what it meant: multi-course meals (with few choices) at a fixed price. Recently the NYPL's old menu project pointed us to this look-back at the time this type of dining was in fashion with the Bohemian set in New York City. more ›

The Gray Lady slums it out to far East Williamsburg to report on the hipster bohemian squalor of the sprawling McKibbin Street “dorms;” two hulking buildings converted from garment factories to lofts in the late nineties by a trio of savvy Stuyvesant alums. It’s since become a filthy, bed-bug ravaged rite of passage for the young DIY arts set, who pile on top of each other in warren-like lofts more crowded than one of Dan Deacon’s dance-a-thons. more ›