The Jazz Record Center, Chelsea, NYC

The Jazz Record Center has attracted devoted jazz fans since 1983 despite its out-of-the-way location on the 8th floor of a commercial building in Chelsea with no commercial signage. Thousands of vinyl records can be found once you open the door and are meticulously organized by owner Fred Cohen (seen in photo) in bins that sit on industrial metal shelving with handwritten dividers listing the artists names. A wide offering of rare and reissued jazz LPS, including a large selection of Blue Note records as well as CDs, DVDs, books, posters, magazines & enpgenera are also for sale.

Jazz Record Center is one of the fabulous NYC indie record stores which we feature in our book “Vinyl NYC: 33 1/3 of the Best Record Stores Across All Five Boroughs” which is available at your local bookseller and online today.

NYC Christmas 2026 Macy's Holiday Lane Full Walkthrough Best Christmas Decor 2026 Shop 4K

We show a full walk-through tour of Macy's Holiday Lane Christmas shop inside the flagship Herald Square New York City store which is open for Christmas 2026. We walk through the entire top-floor (9th floor) Christmas shop and visit every themed room to see the Christmas trees, ornaments, snow globes and home decor and the special MacKenzie-Childs holiday collection and also take a ride on Macy's 100-year-old vintage wooden escalators. -Filmed at Macy's Herald Square: 151 W 34th Street New York, NY on October 30, 2026.

O. Ottomanelli & Sons Prime Meat Market on Bleecker Street was founded in 1935 by Onofrio Ottomanelli, a butcher from Bari, Italy 🇮🇹 and is currently being run by his sons.

This wonderful shop is featured in our book "Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present."

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Spring Lounge at the corner of Spring & Mulberry Streets in Little Italy of Manhattan.

Although this bar originally opened in the 1920s as an illegal speakeasy and still retains its original horseshoe-shaped bar, it wasn’t until the 1970s that it became known as Spring Lounge. For many years it has also been known as the Shark Bar thanks to a shark mural & taxidermied sharks adorning its walls.
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Spring Lounge is also featured in our book “Great Bars of New York City” and is one of the three bars we included in our book which opens at 8 AM (on Sunday it opens at 10 AM).
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Let us know if you have visited this neighborhood gem whose motto is “Life is Short…Drink Early”and despite its homey feel, has had its share of star visitors including singer John Mayer who was a longtime regular.

We tour the new Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Shop!

We tour the new Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Shop in New York City Herald Square to celebrate the 100th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In this 4K walk-through we see the amazing displays and merchandise including special limited-edition 100th Parade collectibles, apparel, ornaments, decor and collaborations including Disney Mickey Mouse & Friends, Marvel Spider-Man, Hello Kitty and Billie Brightpaw, the new balloon character debuting for the 100th Parade.

Watch the 50th Annual TCS New York City Marathon LIVE from Mile 17 in Manhattan and cheer all the runners on with us!