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Beauty Health

Pisterzi: Cutting Through the Chaff

Pisterzi Italian Grooming Art changes the way New York men look at grooming with a unique approach to the barbershop experience.

  

An unlikely shelter hides in the heart of downtown. Freezing winds, erratic snows, and city stress fall away in Pisterzi Italian Grooming Art’s latest Atelier, an authentic Italian barbershop in SOHO that brings new levels to the barbershop experience. Italian Master Barber Gian Antonio Pisterzi, the company’s founder, created Pisterzi Italian Grooming Art to make his own mark with an Italian style unique to the city with locations in Milan and NYC. His newest location, at 367 W Broadway, is the first to match with the colors and textures of his brand, a space that he can claim as his own. The new space embraces an intimate boutique feel of a sanctuary, which Pisterzi aims to enhance with the shop’s two private rooms where clients can enjoy one-on-one services and get pampered by the expert hands of Pisterzi barbers. Pisterzi wants to create a bubble that lets both parties focus on the barbershop experience, and to let all else fall to the wayside. 

“The grooming market has grown in the past years” says Gian Antonio Pisterzi. “More men are now taking time for themselves and do not look for a simple haircut anymore. Throughout my experience, I came to know and understand better the desires and needs of customers and I have been trying to translate them into the services we provide at the ateliers. Opening a second location in the Big Apple was a step that I was longing to take, and doing it in the energetic heart of New York, felt like the right choice to make.”

Pisterzi Italian Grooming Art has also launched a new line of high-end products, which includes gels, serums, conditioners for beard and hair, cosmetics with multiple functions, and more specific treatments. The launch will also include three fragrances entirely created and produced in Italy. Born within an elegant and sophisticated Italian lifestyle, the products will also be sustainable: they will use 100% recycled paper, post-consumer aluminum, and will have reusable, refillable containers. 

Pisterzi is a graduate of the prestigious Steiner Academy in London and a beholder of extensive experience as an international Master Barber in luxury brands such as Dolce & Gabbana and Acqua di Parma. Just recently, he added to his board Andrea Pirlo, the Internationally renowned soccer champion. Pirlo, who is a big aficionado of cosmetic products for personal care and well-being, faces this new challenge with enthusiasm: “I had the pleasure of personally meeting Gian Antonio Pisterzi in New York and I was struck by the culture expressed by his know-how and unique care that Barberia Pisterzi offers to its customers. I immediately wished I could be the protagonist of this enterprise which, today, evolves through a range of high-level products and a restyling of the barbershops in a sustainable way.”

Pisterzi’s other NYC atelier is located at Cipriani Club 55 in Wall Street. Check out their website for more.

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Featured NYC Real Estate

The Real New York with Emanuele Fiore

“Emanuele identified a real estate niche market amongst his fellow models who had moved to Milan”

At the age of 18, Emanuele Fiore, left Torino, Italy for Milan to start what would be a very successful modeling career, and he did just that and more.

While in Milan, Emanuele identified a real estate niche market amongst his fellow models who had moved to Milan from around the World to try their luck in the Fashion Capital. Emanuele started a real estate agency chain “CASA IN” handling rentals and sales throughout Italy as well as partnering with other agencies throughout Europe.

Having traveled the world for work as a model, Emanuele established a very strong and successful network in the fashion world, celebrities, politicians, and business leaders who are keen to be in the New York Real Estate market.

Being fluent in 4 languages, Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Emanuele has successfully par-laid that international experience into a discerning NY real estate career. Emanuele now with over 10 years of experience in the USA real estate market, can guide you through notable condominiums, cooperatives, and townhouses. He has worked with private individuals and developers to identify a townhouse for purchase, renovation, and resale at significant profits in addition to working with individuals to identify townhouses as long-term homes.

He is adaptive to client needs, discreet, and known for his careful negotiations on their behalf.

DOWNTOWN had the opportunity to interview Emanuele Fiore

DTM: What do you like most about being a broker in New York City?

EF: Being a broker in New York City, is probably the most difficult and competitive city in the world.. a good thing is that the price point of real estate is high compared to everywhere else, so once the hard work is done and the deal is sealed, the commission is worth the immense effort. I very much like being a broker here in New York, the properties are spectacular!

EF: Casa Cipriani,Piccola Cucina, 6 bond Street

DTM: What is your go-to place to just hang out on the weekend in New York City?

EF: Dumbo House

DTM: Share some of the properties this week?

EF: Unit 56 at 23 East 22nd Street in Flatiron entered contract this week, with the last asking price of $16,995,000. Built-in 2009, this gut-renovated condo spans 3,310 square feet with 4 beds and 3 full baths. It features a 360-degree park, river, and city views, a private foyer with a south-facing view, a primary suite with an en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet, hardwood floors, and much more. The building provides a full-time doorman and concierge, a state-of-the-art fitness center, an indoor pool, a steam room, a parlor room, and many other amenities.

Compass – Unit 56 at 23 East 22nd Street

Also signed this week was Unit 36B at 15 Central Park West on the Upper West Side, with the last asking price of $15,250,000. Built-in 2007, this condo spans 2,367 square feet with 2 beds and 2 full baths. It features unobstructed park views, floor-to-ceiling windows, custom white rift oak shelving and storage throughout, a paneled wall that accommodates a gas fireplace, an open eat-in kitchen with high-end appliances, a west-facing primary suite with an en-suite bathroom, and much more. The building provides a large fitness center, a lap pool, a private restaurant/catering, and many other amenities.

Unit 36B at 15 Central Park West
 
Looking for the perfect broker, while finding just the right home, look no further!

Emanuele Fiore
Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
M: 516.653.8279
efiore@compass.com

Cover photo – https://richardsteinbergteam.com/properties/36-e-69th-street-unit-4-ab-newyorkcity-ny-10021-olrs-1968085

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Culture Dining Featured NYC

Fall Festa with Eataly Downtown

Fall with Eataly Downtown

Fall is in the air and let’s get ready for all the festivities at Eataly Downtown, begin!

As the temperature begins to drop and the leaves change color, we’re welcoming the autumnal season with a Harvest Food & Wine Festa! Join Eataly on Friday, October 22nd from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Eataly Downtown as they celebrate the bountiful fall season all’Italiana.

Showcasing more than 20+ wines from various regions of Italy, their Festa will be centered in the heart of their stunning marketplace where you can eat, drink, dance, and learn directly from Eataly’s producers and experts. Enjoy live music while you sip along and indulge in a selection of authentic Italian bites. From fresh pasta and savory paninis to housemade cannoli, this Festa is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the season – get your tickets now!

Fall Festa with Eataly Downtown

Note: this is an in-person event, and tickets will be limited allowing more space for social distancing. Proof of vaccination is required to attend this event.

 

It’s simple – 

1. GET YOUR TICKETS

These events sell out quickly, so be sure to buy your tickets online in order to secure your spot. All-access bracelets are $75.

2. PICK UP YOUR ALL-ACCESS BRACELET

On the day of the event, you will receive an all-access bracelet at check-in, which will allow you to explore the various stations located throughout our marketplace. Early check-in will open on their second-floor landing at 5 p.m.

3. TASTE AWAY

There is no limit – taste as many dishes, wines, and cocktails as you’d like. If you like a particular dish or drink, go back for more!

4. LEARN WITH EATALY’S EXPERTS

Curious to know more about a dish or wine you’re tasting? Just ask their many experts during the event. We believe the key to learning about food is tasting it, and there is no better place than one of our favorite Italian locations, Eataly Downtown.

 

 

Fall Festa with Eataly Downtown

 

This event takes place at Eataly NYC Downtown, located just steps away from the Oculus at 4 World Trade Center, 101 Liberty Street, Floor 3, New York, NY 10007. Questions? Contact us at 212.897.2895 or dt-privatedining@eataly.com.

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Chefs Dining Featured Restaurants

Downtown Highlights: Senza Gluten – 100% Gluten-Free

Welcome back to Downtown Highlights on Gluten-Free

The series in which we take the opportunity to “highlight” businesses in NYC, like the dedicated gluten-free Italian eatery, Senza Gluten.

As a result to this unpredictably tumultuous year and a half we’ve had, brick and mortar locations like this one have taken a hit thanks to the pandemic.

It is important to us here at Downtown to make sure that we’re serving the places that serve us. 

For this episode of Downtown Highlights, we paid a visit to the esteemed Senza Gluten in Greenwich Village. The name Senza Gluten has Italian origins, of course, and translates to “without Gluten”.

 

Tiramisu

 

The restaurant was created in 2014, by Chef Jemiko Solo.

Chef’s goal in opening Senza was simple: to ensure a 100% gluten-free atmosphere. Guests can enjoy a gluten-free meal, devoid entirely of gluten or any risk of cross-contamination. You won’t find a spec of gluten inside the entire facility. 

Our own host of Downtown Highlights, Marley Gifford, has celiac disease herself, visiting the facility was a euphoric experience as it is for many visitors of Senza Gluten with gluten intolerances.

 

Calamari

 

A Restaurant Made for those with Gluten Intolerances – Gluten-Free

Chef Solo does not have any gluten intolerances himself. However, many of his friends and relations suffer from various food allergies.

Chef made it his mission to help his friends, and all clients enjoying their food, and life, to the fullest.

He dedicates his work to ensure that his guests can again enjoy delicious dishes that disguise themselves as tasting just like the glutinous dishes we know and love.

Having the ability to eat glutinous dishes allows Solo to taste his dishes with an advantage, and gets him closer to the real thing.

The gluten-free possibilities don’t stop at the restaurant. Just down the street from the restaurant is the Senza Gluten Cafe & Bakery, which was opened in 2018.

 

Shortbread Cookies

 

This location allows the restaurant to expand its menu of different kinds of bread, pastries, and other baked goods. It is there that they also bake some of their savory dishes, like their arancini and mushroom ravioli, both Senza must-try.

 

Gnocchi

 

Pay a visit to Senza Gluten and bring both your gluten-free friends and ones that aren’t. We bet they’ll barely be able to tell the difference.

To see the last Downtown Highlights episode, click here.

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Dining NYC

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
photo: iStock

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INDOOR DINING.

 

The day restaurants citywide have been waiting for is finally here. Governor Cuomo announced Wednesday that indoor dining can resume in New York City on September 30.

 

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
Malibu Farms Seaport

 

The announcement comes with a list of restrictions and rules intended to prevent further spread of COVID-19. Restaurants will start at 25% capacity. If the citywide infection rate stays low, restaurants can increase their indoor capacity to 50% on November 1.

But if the infection rate goes back up, restaurants may be forced to shut down again.

Still, the announcement is good news for local restaurants. For months, establishments have been pleading with the mayor and governor to release a plan for a return to operating indoors, particularly since the infection rate has remained below 1% for the past month.

 

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
Da Claudio

 

The service and hospitality industry has suffered considerably due to COVID-19, and the push for indoor dining was a push for its continued survival. The pandemic has been especially tough on bars and restaurants, an industry that recently employed more than 315,000 New Yorkers but has been operating at a fraction of its usual business since the city reopened. Thousands of establishments, including some of New York’s most storied diners and watering holes, have shuttered for good or shouldered a huge financial burden since the pandemic started.

 

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
The Fulton

Here are the restrictions for when indoor dining service relaunches at the end of the month:

 

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
Nobu Downtown

—25% occupancy limit 

—All patrons must get their temperature checked at the door 

—At least one member of each party must leave contact information for potential contact tracing if an infected person is linked to the establishment 

—Service must end at midnight 

—No bar service will be allowed; table service only 

—Masks must be worn by diners at all times except when seated

—Tables must be 6 feet apart 

—Establishments must adhere to enhanced air filtration, ventilation, and purification standards, though specific details on these standards are not yet available

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
Senza Gluten

It’s unclear how many bars and restaurants closed so far, but a New York Times report in August said as many as one-third of small businesses may have been lost for good. Expanded outdoor dining, which was introduced in June, is currently slated to last through October — it has been a hit with patrons, and some hope it will get extended indefinitely. Still, industry leaders have complained, the governor’s restrictions and enforcement have been too severe, causing even more financial problems.

 

INDOOR DINING IS RETURNING TO NEW YORK CITY
Cut, New York

 

If you’re planning to do some indoor dining, remember to wear your mask when talking to your server and tip generously. It’s going to be a long recovery.

 

Downtown Alliance 

photo: iStock

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Business Fashion Featured

Luxury retail as reimagined by Aldo Carpinteri’s vision

To establish any brand, it takes years of market understanding and zeal to bring only the best to the customers. Luxury retail reimagined –

 

Modes by Aldo Carpinteri has ascertained an eminent place in the fashion retail world, with its curated collection and accessible designs. The sharp vision of the founder, Aldo Carpinteri, has taken the brand to a global stature, impacting the fashion industry positively. Right from brick and mortar stores to online doorstep facilities, Modes has taken over the market with a modern approach and reimagination of the former brand, Stefaniamode.

 

 

Fashion strategy

Modes by Aldo Carpinteri is a multi-brand retailer. Currently, 300 designers are stationed at Modes to serve the customers, giving the brand an international dimension. They are dedicated to collaborating with both established and emerging brands, to create a healthy space for the discourse on fashion. 

 

 

Collaboration with emerging brands

The initiative of collaboration with emerging brands is creating a vast opportunity. His vision is to alter the fashion industry to enhance the experience of the customers. Recently, they have come on board with ‘Youth in Balaclava,’ a fashion collection group based in Singapore. Their DIY designs, with matching accessories, have tapped onto the right nerves of the youth. This Moods×YIB is dedicated to embracing the unique and attractive dressing style of youth in Singapore.

 

Online and offline sales

Keeping up with technological integration in the fashion realm, Modes by Aldo Carpinteri now delivers to 180 countries across the globe. Their brick and mortar stores in Italy and Switzerland have extended to new openings in Sardinia – with the acquisition on the Donne boutique – and in Tuscany – with the openings of a Men and Women Balenciaga store. Together, the online and offline stores are giving a huge boost to the sales of Modes original and collaborative brands, transcending the physical boundaries. Mode catalog includes exquisite collections according to the occasion and season; all of them can be found on the website modes.com, which provides a unique experience to users thanks to the many online services it offers. This is why Modes can proudly boast a real omnichannel experience for its customers.

 

 

Customer service

Aldo Carpinteri of Modes understands the need for customer loyalty and nurturing a healthy bond with them. Therefore, his company offers multiple innovative services. They include taking suggestions from the customers, allowing exclusive access to designs and home services for VIP customers to try and buy. This encourages booking appointments with a shop assistant so that customers can enjoy unique shopping experience. This scale of valued servicing helps its customer retention and builds brand loyalty, as envisioned by the founder.

 

 

Future expectations

With further plans on expansion, Modes is thriving in both men’s and women’s fashion apparel industries. Being based in one of the most beloved fashion destinations in Europe, Milan, the future is very promising for Modes. With their advanced ecosystem and full customer support, it is the farsightedness of Aldo Carpinteri, which has helped establish Modes as one of the major market players in fashion retail.