New York City Travel Blog

“Rachel’s Featured Gems” is written by (you guessed it!) Rachel Greenberg, NileGuide’s Marketing Coordinator. Her opinions may be biased, but her taste is impeccable. New York sure isn’t short on amazing art. Between the finest of the fine art galleries and dudes on...

Earlier this week, New Yorkers in the know came out in force for the launch party for the 2011 Not For Tourists Guide to New York City. For those of you who’ve never picked up an NFT guide, the pocket-sized book with its chic black cover is one of the best resources around for making your way around...

We’ve talked before about iPhone apps that can help you decode the subway, but that’s just scratching the surface of the great apps available to help you during your trip to New York City. As if I needed more fuel to throw on the fire of my iPhone envy, I decided to round up some of the top...

Not one, but two tornadoes hit New York City right around the afternoon rush hour on Thursday, causing significant amounts of damage in Brooklyn and Queens with more than 1oo mile-per-hour winds. There was one human fatality, a Pennsylvania woman who was killed when a tree fell on her car on the Grand...

We’ve talked about Woody Allen’s New York City, but what about the New York of another quintessential Big Apple filmmaker, Nora Ephron? In the spirit of this post featuring style inspired by everyone’s favorite romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally… (written by Ephron and directed...

The stylish and beautiful are flocking to Lincoln Center, where New York Fashion Week will kick off tomorrow (it runs through September 16). Mayor Mike Bloomberg will officially open the ceremonies tomorrow, though things already got started last night with a public fashion show held to rev up excitement...

September 1st marked the eagerly awaited opening of The James New York hotel in Soho, a Big Apple branch of the popular Chicago hotel The James. The James New York, Grand Street in Soho Located on Grand Street at Thompson Street, the James New York has 114 guestrooms and suites, as well as a lobby and...

It’s the last weekend of summer, and it looks like it’s going to be a nice one in New York City (once that hurricane clears out). Though many New Yorkers are on their way out of town for a last gasp of summer fun, there’s plenty of it to be had for those who stay in the city, or for...

With some 1.5 billion annual rides, the sprawling New York City subway system (first opened in 1904 and now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week) is one of the biggest and most heavily used public transportation systems in the world. As of 2009, only Tokyo, Moscow and Seoul had busier subway systems;...

New Yorkers are famous for their avoidance of cooking. Some order take-out every night of the week; still others use their ovens to store their sweaters. After giving the city a whole list of ways to avoid cooking (including Babbo, Lupa, Otto and Del Posto, among other great restaurants) the Croc-loving...