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And now for some positive news about a longtime local business: NY Cake is back, supersized 🎂🎂🎂.
While it never truly went away thanks to its online business, the Flatiron storefront shuttered in June while the owners — Joan Mansour and her daughters Lisa Mansour and Jenny Kashanian — worked to reopen a much bigger space across Sixth Avenue. The result: expanded classes (ovens = baking!), plus more room for customers to peruse the extensive collection of cake stands, sparkly sugars and unicorn cookie cutters. And brand new to NY Cake is a cafe, with housemade treats supplemented with wares from Du’s Donuts.
“We’re trying to find the best from whatever we don’t make,” Lisa says.
NY Cake’s history extends back well before the 25 years spent in its current neighborhood. Joan’s love of cake decorating dates to the 1970s, and she eventually moved her business, The Chocolate Gallery, to midtown in 1980. So, this is essentially Phase 4, launched during a time when many of us find the myriad baking shows and Cake Bosses inspiring enough to try the science of baking ourselves.
“I don’t think there’s a place in the whole world that has this selection,” Lisa says. “If you can’t find it here it doesn’t exist.”
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Snap selfies courtside at MSG? Check.
Take a (virtual) step onstage with Billy Joel? Check.
A new All-Access Tour at Madison Square Garden lets you live it up like a VIP, without shelling out the $$$. The experience, which launched Monday, takes you through five floors, from court-level to Chase Sky Bridge seats.
We know what you’re thinking: City venue tours are loaded with tourists. But this updated version looks to appeal to New Yorkers by providing the chance to experience something new at the venue, even if you’ve been there dozens of times.
Exhibit A: Sitting in a “celebrity row” seat that’s previously been occupied by the likes of Spike Lee, Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones, Dave Chappelle and other A-list Knicks fans.
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