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One of Manhattan’s most famed institutions is coming back this month. 

Central Park’s Loeb Boathouse, which shuttered in 2022, is reopening by the end of this month for boating, snacking and classic New York vibes in Central Park near West 74th Street.

Legends Hospitality, which manages food at major events and tourism spaces including Yankee Stadium, Circle Line Cruises, and One World Observatory, took over the lease, promising $3.5 million in improvements to the historic property.

The company will reopen the boathouse with a phased approach, The New York Post first reported.

Stage one of the boathouse includes opening a casual snack bar and bringing back the famous row boat rentals, which will allow boats to be pre-booked online (and you can use credit cards, so no more cash-only boat rides). Later this summer into fall, the dining room and patio overlooking the lake will open with a brand new menu. 

Legends will pay the city $750,000 annually for the 10-year lease, plus a percentage of sales. 

Official opening dates and menus have yet to be announced.  

Loeb Boathouse first opened its restaurant in 1983 and set the stage for many celebrations, weddings and classic rom-com moments, including iconic scenes in Sex and the City and When Harry Met Sally. Prior to its role in the cultural canon, the boathouse was a popular spot for birders, boaters and parkgoers in need of a public restroom, dating back to the original boathouse in the 1870s. The current structure dates back to the 1950s, but has undergone several improvements since. The newest opening promises renovated bathrooms, plus outdoor improvements and more to-be-seen changes. 

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Rockefeller Center has been home to a multitude of powerful and eclectic sculptures from a massive gardening trowel to a crushed solo cup, and now an enormous stack of charcoal!

The sculpture is part of an entire 10,000-square-foot exhibition titled Origin, Emergence, Return from Korean artists Park Seo-Bo, Lee Bae, and Jin Meyerson on view from June 8 to July 26, 2023. Visitors will be able to explore three generations of Korean art with more than 70 works on display at the Rink Level Gallery.

According to the press release, “all three artists investigate and challenge the notions of abstraction through unique materials – Park with hanji (traditional Korean paper), Lee with charcoal, and Meyerson with CG (computer graphics) and AR (augmented reality).” Topics of life and death, presence and absence, and displacement and diaspora are all addressed through the different materials.

But the pièce de résistance is Lee Bae’s 21-foot tower of stacked charcoal that will stand tall in front of Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens. It’s the first time a Korean artist has occupied the sculpture space.

The towering stack of charcoal exists as a spiritual presence to the start of Origin, Emergence, Return. It “evokes the unavoidable memory of disasters heard from around the world, while also creating a contrast to the surrounding skyscrapers and a sense of touching the dimension before or after civilization,” shares the press release. The structure’s abstract appearance made from the natural properties of charcoal “embodies a desire to purify what humans cannot solve.”

The entire exhibition is part of Rockefeller Center’s larger celebration of Korean culture and heritage to come this July. Korean cuisine, fashion, art, music and gastronomy will be showcased on campus from July 19 to 23 through special events, offerings, and pop-ups.

Learn more on Rockefeller Center’s website.

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If stuffing your face on weekend mornings is your thing, this new hotel brunch is here for you.

The Moxy NYC Downtown just launched a nostalgic 1980s- and ’90s-themed weekend brunch in the Financial District. At Recreation, the hotel’s retro-themed bar and restaurant, classic arcade games (think Ms. Pacman, Centipede and Donkey Kong), as well as board and tabletop games are super popular with guests, many of whom are nostalgic for the simpler life of the 20th Century.

So, Recreation launched a new brunch targeted to Gen X and Millennials, complete with an all-you-can-eat cereal bar with all types of milk (plant milks, of course) to choose from, plus a shareable board game charcuterie board filled with sweet and savory options like bagels, waffles, fresh fruit, pastries and more. 

To drink, curated cocktails include the Go For The Gold, which is made with Golden Graham cereal-infused Hendricks Gin plus a honey cordial, lemon juice, orange bitters and an egg white. The drink pairs well with Monopoly, while the Doctored Pepper (Dragon Fruit Bacardi Rum, Lemon Juice and Dr.Pepper) was designed to sip during the tactical game of Operation. The entire cocktail menu is also available batched, as a $95 Get Your Groove On special, served in a disco ball punchbowl. Beer-drinking groups can also buy into a $160 retro rolling cooler rental, filled with ice and 24 cans of beer. 

All this can be enjoyed while Saturday morning cartoons and music hits from the era play across the TVs and speakers, taking guests back to a time long before TikTok. You may even talk to other humans. 

Board Game Brunch is served at Recreation every Sunday from 11am-3pm, with reservations bookable via OpenTable. 

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