Antiseptic New York, Bohemian's Secret Reservations, and Rao's

• 18:41New York has become antiseptic and homogeneous, with transplants in finance and advertising pretending to be hip while actually being conformists.
• 19:14The city used to be special because everybody had a different story, but that's completely gone now.
• 19:57Tim questions whether a city can be made both safe and exciting at the same time.
• 20:20Great restaurants from the nineties like Union Square Cafe and others charged $100-150, but surviving ones now cost $350 and many don't take reservations anymore.
• 20:57Bohemian, a secretive restaurant with no published phone number behind a meat market in Great Jones, requires knowing someone who's already been there to get in.
• 21:54Taking someone to Bohemian makes you look like you're really in the know, which works for trying to impress a date.
• 22:08The food at Rao's is average at best, but the atmosphere is genuinely chewable because the clientele are real people who've witnessed and committed serious crimes.

New York City gentrificationJonathan LarsonRayo'sBohemianTracyGoldman SachsBrooklyn