Billy Gray

Billy covered New York culture, nightlife and events for years at digital outlets including NBC's The Feast, Guest of a Guest and Nerve before happily landing online and in print at Haute Living. He particularly loves films festivals, concerts and debates about which NYC pizzerias belong on the Haute Top 5 list.

Posts by Billy Gray

Hotel Madness NY: Vote Now To Determine The Finalists

Cast your vote for your favorite NYC hotel before Round 3 closes on Tuesday.

Haute 100 NY Update: Developer David Edelstein Snaps Up The Raleigh in South Beach

David Edelstein, owner of the W South Beach in Miami, is said to be purchasing neighboring hotel the Raleigh. The Collins Avenue property was revamped last summer for $20 million, two years after hotelier (and Edelstein’s fellow NY Haute 100er) Andre Balazs (of The Standard empire) sold it to a private equity firm for $30 million.

Long-Dormant Nightclub Pink Elephant Reopening in New Location This Week

Pink Elephant, once among the many nightspots crammed onto West 27th’s “Club Row,” is coming back to a new location removed from the Meatpacking District-Chelsea party zone.

Hotel Madness NY: Round Three Voting Is Now Open

Cast your vote for which hotel will make it to the finals.

‘Lovely, Rich Family’ Buys Huguette Clark’s 5th Avenue Pad for $25.5 Million

Hedge funder Boaz Weinstein and his wife Tali have purchased one of the three apartments that belonged to intensely reclusive heiress and philanthropist Huguette Clark at 907 Fifth Avenue.

Haute 100 NY Update: Mayor Bloomberg Proposes Ban on Large Sodas, Diet Sodas Spared

Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the latest and perhaps biggest step in his crusade to make New Yorkers healthy with a proposal to ban supersized sugary drinks starting as early as next March. The measure would prohibit the sale of any sweetened drink larger than 16 ounces. That’s less liquid than you’d find in an average soda bottle, not to mention the monstrosities served in movie theaters and fast food outlets.

New York’s Top 5 Desserts

The last several years have seen a slew of standalone cupcake shops, bespoke chocolate purveyors and artisanal frozen banana stands turn dessert into a meal of its own. No longer a voluntary coda to your main course, sweets, pastries and custards now command center stage. Here are a few of the best, whether consumed on their own or on the fly.

Chloe Sevigny Puts East Village Garden Co-Op on the Market for $1.7 Million

Actress Chloe Sevigny has put her East Village co-op on the market a month after extolling it’s dark, low-ceilinged, “womb-like” virtues in New York magazine’s design issue.

Hotel Madness NY: Here Are Your Semi-Finalists

Round 3 voting kicks off at midnight tonight.

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