Category Archives: Walking in the Garment District

Art & Design Gallery at FIT 227 West 27th Street New York City, NY 10001

Don’t miss this exciting new gallery of art featured at the Art & Design Gallery at FIT.

The new “Art & Design Gallery at FIT” offers revolving shows of contemporary art

Interesting artwork from Alumni, Faculty and Contributors from FIT

Visiting a Museum: The Unique, Unusual, Obscure and Historical

Art & Design Gallery at FIT

227 West 27th Street

New York City, NY 10001

(212) 217-4683/4570

https://www.fitnyc.edu/life-at-fit/campus/gallery/index.php

https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/art-and-design/index.php

Open: Sunday-Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Admission: Free Donations Accepted

My review on TripAdvisor:

The entrance to the Art & Design Gallery at FIT at 227 West 27th Street

The exhibition space showcases the work of students, faculty, and distinguished alumni, as well as invited guest artists. This new gallery space is located at the entrance of the Pomerantz main building and the back room exhibition space. This features smallers theme shows and showcases the talents of the FIT professors, professionals and Alumni. The shows are constantly rotating offering a fresh approach to contemporary art.

The Current Exhibition:

Creative Industry:
The Alumni Journey
Lobby and Gallery

Diverse in medium, this exhibition spotlights the career trajectories of several illustrious FIT alumni, highlighting their innovations and interesting journeys through the creative industries. Co-curated by Troy Richards…

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The Grilled Chicken House

Grilled Chicken House 270 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018 (Closed January 2023)

In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am featuring wonderful restaurants that are reasonable in New York City.

Grilled Chicken House

The Grilled Chicken House closed in January 2023

Grilled Chicken House II

This Garment District fixture will be missed.

Dining on a Shoestring in the New York City area

Grilled Chicken House

270 West 36th Street

New York, NY  10018

(212) 695-3493

Open: Monday-Friday-8:30am-6:00pm/Saturday-10:00am-3:30pm/Sunday-Closed

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60763-d3601233-Reviews-Grilled_Chicken_House-New_York_City_New_York.html?m=19905

The Grilled Chicken House (or Chicken House in some reviews) is a tiny hole in the wall sandwich and fried chicken restaurant in the heart of the Garment District. The menu is has many more food items on it but fried chicken reigns supreme here. It is freshly cooked and placed in the window as the customers walk in.

It does have a diverse menu of fried chicken, grilled chicken, fried crab sticks, fried shrimp all served either with rice, french fries or/and rice and beans. The restaurant even has a selection of Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches to cater to the growing population of Vietnamese  garment workers in the area.

I tried the Fried Shrimp with rice ($6.00) with a Coke ($1.00) the first time I ate there and it was delicious. The shrimp…

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