What event might close many of the top New York Tourist Sites this week?”
It’s that time of the year again! That’s right—the semiannual New York Fashion Week officially starts tomorrow, and will wreak havoc on the Big Apple for seven straight days full of private runway shows which cause models and the international fashion types to overflow into all of the trendy restaurants and clubs, but also a few of the city’s most touristed locations. Let’s take a look at those now, so that you can either avoid or stalk the fashion folk this week. Top 5 NYC tourist sites affected by Fashion Week, after the jump 5. The whole of the Lower East Side: This neighborhood, beloved by tourists for its Tenement Museum and for still having something of the old New York grungy look, is a major after-hours destination for the fashion types as models grab dinner (yes, they eat) at Schiller’s Liquor Bar, stylists sleep at the Thompson LES Hotel, and runway after-parties are held in places like the penthouse of the Hotel on Rivington. It also helps that the LES is filled with lots of
5. The whole of the Lower East Side: This neighborhood, beloved by tourists for its Tenement Museum and for still having something of the old New York grungy look, is a major after-hours destination for the fashion types as models grab dinner (yes, they eat) at Schiller’s Liquor Bar, stylists sleep at the Thompson LES Hotel, and runway after-parties are held in places like the penthouse of the Hotel on Rivington. It also helps that the LES is filled with lots of little (and mainly local) boutiques, for them to make last-minute tweaks to their outfits. 4. Chelsea Market: Although the conventional image of New York’s Fashion Week is all the hustle and bustle around Bryant Park, last season began a split in Fashion Week that took around a quarter of the designers downtown—to Milk Studios in West Chelsea—for their shows. You’ll find the hippest lines down here, like Band of Outsiders, Preen, and threeASFOUR. Before, between and after shows, everyone knows to go to the nearby interior marke
