New York City :

Drive You Crazy

02.26.2009

Submitted by bdisylvester on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:00am.
The Bite:
Overcrowded Herald Square shops making you cuckoo? Save your sanity at Auto. Owned by a hubby and wife team (they live upstairs), this bright, airy Meatpacking shop sells kinda-pricey-but-totally-original jewelry, bags, and home stuff made by local designers – it's like museum meets shopping, if you’re "just looking" these days. New this season: glass cuff links and colorful tiered hoop earrings from Brooklyn-based Jane D'Arensbourg, and a brown leather purse with an old English bridle handle from Gramercy-based Lucia Nenickova. For home: a funky utility light dripping with vintage crystals and a retro-style, yellow and orange argyle vase made right in Brooklyn. All of it saves on high-CO2-emitting shipping from catalog shopping (and from stuff shipped to H' Square, for that matter). Mad.
Wanna Try: 
Auto, 805 Washington St. Map It (212-229-2292). Jane D'Arensbourg Earrings, $180.
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Cocktail Fact

On September 17, 2007, American magician Matt the Knife set the Guinness World Record for the fastest escape from a straitjacket – 16 seconds.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 NY Biters buy a pair of locally made earrings instead of nonlocal ones we’ll avert the CO2 created by eight cars in a year.

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