Alan Linn, ex-manager of English club Blacks, has partnered up with Steve Ruggi to open Norwood this summer. The two operate a Citizens Arts Club in London, and hope to draw a similar crowd to their new private club here in New York. The members-only establishment will be in a rowhouse at 241 West 14th Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), just about two blocks from Soho House. The property was on the market in......

There's yet another interesting bit in this weeks City section FYI column, this time on one of our fair city's old school private clubs, the Century Association. Housed in a land-marked 1891 McKim Mead & White Beaux Arts building on W. 43rd street the association (also called the Century Club) was "originally an arts and letters society founded in 1847." The invitation-only club admitted its first female members in 1988 and currently has around......

Radiohead has offiically left New York City. Thom Yorke has posted some pictures of their time here on their blog though, in a post titled: Grainy New York. Above is one of them. Where is it? Maybe at the Soho House (we heard they like to stay there). Did you catch them while they were in town? We were lucky enough to be at night one. And for those who care, these famous people......

Yes, Daily News, it must be your birthday. After charges of alleged extortion and over shilling certain establishments, Page Six is certainly on a roll: Richard Johnson, the editor of the influential gossip page, was arrested for driving while intoxicated. He was pulled over during yesterday's wee hours in the Meatpacking District and according to the criminal complaint, which can you read at The Smoking Gun, Johnson "had watery and bloodshot eyes, had slurred speech......

HBO is releasing the $299 20-disk DVD set of all Sex and the City episodes tomorrow, and to celebrate that, they've arranged various promotions at different locations Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte visited, which you can see here at the SATC's Put Yourself on the Map website. If you think you're getting a real Sex and the City Experience, you'd be wrong, as Barneys, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, The Soho House, Tiffany, the Hudson,......

Be warned, anyone who works in media or anyone who knows anyone who works in media or anyone who knows anyone who consumes media. Apparently, a line in the sand has been drawn between blogs that cover NY media - a line in the sand, people! Or at least that's what an article in the NY Times City section suggests. The facts: In one snarky corner, there's Gawker with snarky publisher Nick Denton and snarky......

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The Post reports that the New York City Marketing Development Corporation is recruiting different celebrities and NYC notables to explain why they love the city in order to develop ways to drum up tourism. A recent poll that the NYC MDC conducted says that "crime is still the No. 1 reason why tourists stay away," prompting the MDC to go to people like Russell Simmons (Phat), Sofia Coppola, Mark Messier, Dick Wolf, and Ric......

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A new way to get your Anglophilia on in the New York area, without resorting to Soho House or yet another packet of fish & chips: British taxi cabs are coming to a Westchester-area livery cab company. No word on whether the drivers will say, "Hallo, guv'nor!" Okay, it's Westchester, not NYC, but if anyone is making a trip from Westchester to the city, make it in a British taxi. Maybe this will encourage the......

The Daily News spends a day on set of Sex and the City - the day they happen to be filming at Soho House. The News is quick to point out that even though the girls are fabulous, "Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) - plus Stanford (Willie Garson) - are up to their usual tricks: Like most of us, they're club nonmembers, so they just......

Gothamist went to an opening at the Vitra store on Hudson between West 13th and 14th Streets. There was a lot of pretty furniture, but what we remember are the margaritas and being allowed to go upstairs and see the offices, which are supposedly off limits to regular visitors. Plus the opening in question, the exhibit of work and furniture from designers Constantin Boym and Lauren Lyon Boyms, like miniatures of seminal places in history......