Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip?

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( monday, july 19 in store [Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip?]( Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown. Photo-Illustration: by Curbed; Photo Getty Images In early June, the record store Rough Trade, which grew out of London’s 1970s punk scene and had, until last year, run its New York location out of a former warehouse in Williamsburg, moved its bins of LPs to Rockefeller Center. Later that month, the very hip Lower East Side housewares store and speciality market [Beverly’s followed](, joining several other recent arrivals: Côte à Coast, a men’s-lifestyle shop whose other location is on the Bowery, and Jill Lindsey, a Fort Greene boutique and community space that offers tarot-card readings. Frenchette is coming, as are Dough Donuts and [Caffè Lodi](, the next project of Ignacio Mattos, the founder of Spring Street hot spot Altro Paradiso. Rockefeller Center is, arguably, the most elegant office-and-retail complex in New York. But cool? That’s not a word most would associate with the Art Deco behemoth. [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [25 Ways to Make the Post-Pandemic City More Livable, Prosperous, and Just Free subways, feminist housing, a “Department of Care,” and other proposals by Jeff Zucker, Bjarke Ingels, and other thoughtful New Yorkers.]( [A Live-in, Surf-Out Rockaways DIY Design Lab Daniel King and Emma Hastil started their company, Locus of Occult, at home by the beach during the pandemic.]( By Wendy Goodman [Watching Perfectionist Restorers at Work Is Incredibly Soothing It’s good to see someone bring rusty junk back to better-than-new condition.]( [‘I Saw My Best Friend All Covered in Black, and Her Face Was Red With Blood’ After the LAPD fireworks explosion, this South L.A. resident is demanding answers.]( [A Thorny Table, Max Lamb’s Newest Chairs, and Other Things I Liked This Week Plus a café with seating inspired by brownstone stoops.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [subscribe to our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman and the [Listings Edit newsletter](, a digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved