June 21, 2012
The Perfect Manhattan Cocktail Recipe
The Manhattan is one of the most famous cocktails ever. It is another cocktail that first originated here in NoMad, as many believe it was created at the Manhattan Club for the first time in the 1870s. Ingredients: 3/4 oz. Sweet… | Read full post.
June 21, 2012
NoMad New York Cocktails: The Perfect Rob Roy Recipe
Want to learn the perfect Rob Roy recipe? The Rob Roy is one of the most famous New York cocktails, and it was an integral part of the early cocktail culture here in NoMad. Below you’ll find a classic Rob Roy… | Read full post.
June 21, 2012
Hoffman House Fizz Recipe
This is how you make the perfect Hoffman House Fizz, a classic NoMad Manhattan cocktail. Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz Scotch 2 oz. Gin 1 oz. Lemon Juice 1/4 oz. Maraschino Liqueur 1/4 oz. Cream 1 tsp. Sugar Fill Club Soda
June 21, 2012
The Hoffman House Cocktail Recipe
The platonic ideal of the Martini type cocktail. Ingredients: 2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (1 dash Fee’s Orange Bitters, 1 dash Regan’s Orange) 1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth) 2/3 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin) Mixing instructions:… | Read full post.
June 11, 2012
Why is it Called NoMad NYC
Over 13 years ago, the area running roughly from Sixth to Lexington Avenues, from 23rd to 30th Streets was first identified as NoMad, but over the years, the area has had varying geographic definitions. In 1999, New York City formally… | Read full post.
June 9, 2012
Drinking in NoMad
NoMad has always been one of the best neighborhoods when drinking in New York. As Robert Simonson of the New York Sun points out: At the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries, “this was where the action was — socially, theatrically, politically… | Read full post.
May 4, 2012
NoMad New York in Assassination Vacation
NoMad New York is featured in Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation… Edwin (John Wilkes Booth’s brother) would have loved his statue in Gramercy Park—the first statue of an actor in the city. He warranted a stained-glass window too—a multicolored Shakespearean portrait… | Read full post.
The NoMad District neighborhood has always been home to the creative types of New York City. As we explore the New York history of the 19th and 20th Centuries, most of the country’s important music publishers had offices on… | Read full post.
May 3, 2012
NoMad is Sobering up the Tenderloin District
Manhattan Unlocked is a great blog for finding about New York history — in depth. Recently in an article on the Haymarket and NoMad, Manhattan Unlocked noted that the New York City neighborhood of NoMad is on the rise and… | Read full post.
The NoMad District is featured in New York literature like O. Henry’s “The Sparrows in Madison Square”… The young man in straitened circumstances who comes to New York City to enter literature has but one thing to do, provided he… | Read full post.