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Reservations for Din Tai Fung’s long-awaited NYC location are now open
When is Din Tai Fung opening in New York City? Well, it looks like we finally have an answer: the long-awaited NYC location of the highly acclaimed, Taiwan-based restaurant chain will officially throw open its doors in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, July 18. And in even better news, you can secure a reservation at the Michelin-starred dim sum den as early as tomorrow.
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Yes, Din Tai Fung reservations are going live on Yelp on July 2 for the new location at 1633 Broadway between West 50th and 51st Streets, which will not only be the brand’s first outpost on the East Coast but also its biggest global location yet. (The chain boasts a whopping 171 locations worldwide, from Seattle to Shanghai, from Manila to Melbourne.)
Be sure to set a phone reminder if you want to score one of the 450 seats at the reservations-only spot, given the sheer fervor that’s been worked up over the NYC newcomer before it’s even opened, we have a feeling that booking a table is going to be a digital Hunger Games.
To commemorate the grand opening on July 18, the Din Tai Fung team will hold a ribbon cutting as well as opening remarks before the restaurant kicks off with its usual parade of dumpling steaming, beef searing, soup simmering and the like. Diners will actually see those dumplings being made fresh—over 10,000 daily—via an open kitchen visible behind a glass wall, reports Grubstreet.
The Din Tai Fung brand began as a cooking oil shop in Taipei in 1958 by the late Yang Bing-Yi and his wife Lai Pen-Mei. The popularity of Yang’s xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, however, resulted in the owner phasing out his oil business and turning Din Tai Fung into the full-fledged restaurant that it is today. Those deliberately creased dumplings, known for their golden ratio of “18 folds” made by hand, are still a signature of the franchise.
A new IKEA ‘meeting point’ store is opening on Fifth Avenue
Ingka, owner of the majority of IKEA stores worldwide, has just invested in a massive retail tower at 570 Fifth Avenue by 47th Street in midtown Manhattan alongside city developer Extell, announcing that part of the mixed-use building will be used to debut a new IKEA “meeting point” shop, a destination for customers “making larger and more complex purchases,” according to Pix11.
The 1-million-square-foot property will be open for commercial tenants sometime in 2028.
According to a press release, the iconic Swedish brand will take over 80,000 square feet of space over two large cellar levels, with a corner entrance on Fifth Avenue.
“This next phase of our investment and expansion in the U.S. signals our commitment to bring IKEA closer to people in city centers,” said Javier Quiñones, the CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer of IKEA, in a statement. “While we are in the very early stages of planning for the IKEA location, we can promise to deliver an experience that is full of inspiration and designed to meet the home furnishing dreams of the many New Yorkers.”
At the moment, there only two IKEA stores in the New York area: one at 1 Beard Street in Brooklyn, right by Red Hook Park, and the other on Long Island, in Hicksville.
Back in 2022, the first and only-ever brand shop in Queens shuttered less than two years after first opening—making this upcoming debut by the Diamond District in Manhattan an even more exciting piece of news.
Although not a traditional type of IKEA concept, we’re sure New Yorkers will be taking advantage of the new location when trying to furnish or revamp their apartments.
Here’s why a grove of citrus trees is now growing at the Whitney Museum
A grove of citrus trees growing in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District would be unusual enough. But a grove of live citrus trees growing inside a Meatpacking District museum is even more surprising.
Astonishingly, 18 citrus trees are now in bloom inside the Whitney Museum of American Art, and you can walk through the grove on the museum’s eighth floor through January 1, 2025. The exhibition, “Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard,” was conceived in 1972 by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. This groundbreaking eco-art project is on view at a museum for the first time since its debut more than 50 years ago.
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Back in 1972, the Harrisons were inspired by the growing awareness of vulnerable ecosystems—systems that feel even more threatened today. In response to that environmental momentum, they created several “Survival Pieces,” or installation projects that served as works of art and calls to action. Portable Orchard explores the need for a sustainable food system in an imagined future where natural farming practices are obsolete. The artistic duo imagined the indoor orchard as a survivalist antidote for a potential future devoid of the citrus trees that gave Orange County, California its name.
They sketched out an instruction manual for “Portable Orchard,” which is a part of the Whitney’s permanent collection. Now the exhibition itself lives in the museum—the first standalone museum presentation of the grove since its debut more than 50 years ago.
The Survival Pieces are eerily resonant today, more than 50 years after their making.
“The Survival Pieces are eerily resonant today, more than 50 years after their making,” says Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney. “The Harrisons’s collaborative and community-focused work put ecological research at the center of a unique creative practice that tapped into some of the most urgent issues of their time, from sustainable agriculture to climate justice. A visit to Portable Orchard will be an immersive, unconventional gallery experience, and we hope that it will also spark dialogue and exchange around environmental awareness and climate action today.
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The installation provided some logistical challenges that museum curators overcame. This showing made some small tweaks (with permission) that relate to the Whitney’s environment and ecosystem. Curators sustainably sourced the trees from a family-owned orchard in South Carolina. As for the planter boxes and light boxes, they used recycled wood from former New York City water towers and reclaimed redwood from a local mill.
Over the course of the exhibition, the living sculptures will change and grow harvestable fruit that will be used in public programs. In addition to the orchard, the exhibition features archival documents, books and the original drawing explaining all aspects of building an indoor orchard.
When the exhibition closes next year, the trees, wood and other materials will be replanted, reused and recycled. But it’s worth hoping that even after the exhibition ends, its important environmental message will live on in those who visit it.
As the Harrisons put it, they hoped their Survival Pieces would resonate “first in the mind and thereafter in everyday life.”