Delivery to your Door

New York offers the ultimate convenience with everything you could ever want within a block. But if you're too lazy to even leave your home. Gothamist covers some of your best delivery options. Besides the obvious seamlessweb for restaurant delivery, they highlight Wakozi a delivery service that seems to specialize in liquor store delivery and allows you to peruse inventory, and maxdelivery which has an impressive array of stores ranging from supermarkets and drug stores to dvd's and including some New York specialty store favorites such as Murray's cheese shop, Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery, and Sullivan Street Bread Bakery. Throw in freshdirect if you actually feel like doing some cooking, and you're all set!

Now you never need to leave home.

First Rooftop Roundup of the Year

This one might be jumping the gun a little, but I like the way they think. Gridskipper's NYC rooftop bar roundup . I'll fill out the list with the rest of my recommendations later in the year so as not to be a tease.

Gourmet Free Bar Snacks Roundup

Grub Street has a roundup of free bar snacks of a slightly higher standing than the cheese and crackers at McSorley's or the hot dogs at Rudy's.

Behind Closed Doors

Gridskipper covers New York's "semi-private nightlife scene". So far I've only made it past the doors (phone booth?) of PDT, which was pretty awesome, so I can only hope the others live up to the hype.

Values of a Family Watch Company

In honor of the new Patek Phillipe salon on the 5th floor of the Tiffany's store, April 24th-25th they are hosting the Values of a Family Watch show demonstrating the proud history of one of the finest watch companies in the world.

Brooklyn Restaurant Week

March 24th through March 31st is Brooklyn's Restaruant Week. A 3-course meal is $23.00. More than 175 restaurants are participating.

The Elephants are Coming! The Elephants are Coming!

Late Tuesday, March 18th and Early Wednesday, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are walking their elephants through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Madison Square Garden (just like every year!) You can watch them anywhere along 34th St. between the tunnel and MSG starting somewhere around 12pm (last time I went they didn’t show up until closer to 1 or 1:30am. It’s a very surreal experience seeing elephants walking down the block and I highly recommend doing it at least once.
Check out the video Gothamist took last year.

Celebrities and Poetry

Goldstar events has discounted tickets to this tribute to American Poetry on April 1st. Readings of America's best-loved poets will be given by Meryl Streep, Liz Smith, Katie Couric, Candace Bushnell, John Guare, Jonathan Demme, Philippe de Montebello, Robert Caro and other luminaries.

Foody

All White Castle locations are giving away two free sliders to anyone who comes in between 1 and 2 a.m. this Sunday, in honor of daylight savings time. via Grub Street

Lombardi's, Naples 45 and Zero Otto in the Bronx made Forbest Traveler's list of best pizzerias in the country.

There'll be an erotic cooking workshop at sex toy purveyor, Babeland in Soho Sunday night.

Billionaires Abound in New York

There are 71 billionaires in New York according to the new Forbes richest list
Gothamist comments

Wowee Whoawee!

A new Shake Shack is coming to the upper west side. Lucky bastards, first a new Magnolia's and now this? Danny Meyers discusses his reasons here.

Dessert Truck Battle!

Tonight an epic battle goes down in front of the Whitney in honor of the first night of the Biennial. The Treats Truck and Dessert Truck will be standing off for 5 hours! via Eater

New York Wine Expo

This weekend (March 7-9), the Javits center will be hosting the New York Wine Expo, a trade show for the wine industry. The good news is there are special consumer hours that allow you to sample over 600 wines from over 170 winemakers.
Consumer show hours are Friday 7-10 and Saturday 2-6 tickets are $85 on friday and $95 on Saturday with $10 off if you buy before March 7.

20 at 20

Through March 9, you can see any of these 20 off-broadway shoes for only $20 (if there are seats left 20 minutes prior to the show). There are a few fun ones if you haven't seen them (Stomp, Jump), but overall nothing too exciting.

New York Magazine Best of...

New York Magazine just published their "Best of New York" list for 2008. It makes for some interesting reading and debates. Even when "best" isn't the right superlative, what they say is "best" is always at least VERY good.
Gothamist commentary here
Grub Street here (obviously biased considering its from the same magazine)