ashion Fiend Rendezvous
As the city turns into one big credit card duel for shoppers, where you shop for rags is increasingly becoming an indication of your dating profile. Bloomingdales for those Upper East Side tight arses, H&M for the fabulously faux chic, the Gap for the shiny-beautiful drones and Urban Outfitters for the drones who are in denial. By the time you make it downtown to Century 21 to mingle with the sexy artists, secretaries and personal assistants to wallow in irregular/out-of-season Jean Paul Gaultier goodies you've finally begun to get a peek at the real shop-a-holic hotties. But if you are really looking for that brains-meets-beauty shopping partner, you'll most likely find them browsing the narrow aisles in the Caravan truck. If you can't find that elusive box, the American Apparel on the Lower East Side is a nice fall back in your quest to score one of those flawed sex gods you see in the ads.
Hottest Geek Mating Ground
It's no secret by now that the Apple Store in Soho has become a place to check your email while snagging the contact info on someone you're interested in. Watching someone drop $3,000 for a computer monitor is a nice and easy way to size them up in New York's money conscious dating game. The only problem is that the place is so crowded with tourists and smug Apple employees, making a move is like stepping on stage. On the other hand, Chelsea's geek magnet Tekserve is a more geek-friendly playground on which to initiate first contact. Littered with a mix of old school tech artifacts and glossy new iPod fashion toys, the location attracts every flavor of nerd from the bespectacled to the buff. Sufficiently obscure enough to attract mostly die-hard New York Mac users, the space has been responsible for connecting some of the city's more interesting couples.
Hottest College Campus For Hooking Up
As the nation's largest private university continues to encroach on historic Greenwich Village with more dorms, libraries and study halls, the academic hegemon is still unable to shield its students from the rest of New York City's corrupting influence. From porn star guest lecturers , to the pot princess turned sex pot diva (www.thej-dia.com), along with a hefty tuition, students get one of the most colorful campuses in the country. When the Olsen Twins wanted to shed their goodie-girl images and shift into sultry woman mode, they enrolled at NYU. The sexy truth about NYU was truly exposed a few months ago when an anonymous student wrote "Confessions Of An NYU Freshman" in New York Post saying, "Most of the upperclassmen use Facebook, also known as the 'hook-up book, ' 'hooker booker' and the 'get face book' to get a look at the hot freshman girls?[NYU] is like Las Vegas and Sodom rolled into one?"
Hottest Summer Accessory
One of the most grotesque spectacles on the streets of New York is the newly accepted trend of dog owners French kissing-literally-their pets in public. Forget the fact that Lassie just finished chomping on two-day old crunchy dog poo at the park and licking (with gusto) his own anus. No, that's not the worst of it. The true crime here is that many of these dog owners who give and take the doggie tongue bath appear to be enraptured in an ecstasy that surpasses anything experienced during a human-to-human kiss. Nevertheless, dogs remain the number one accessory in New York when it's time to find that new (human) lover in a hurry. A few years ago the Jack Russell Terrier was the canine superstar of the five boroughs. Today, the furry bauble of choice is the Japanese Shiba Inu. Walk around town with one of these too-cute-to-be-real dogs and you'll be beating the two-legged lovers off with a pooper-scooper.
Hottest Midday Meat Market
On two recent trips to Whole Foods in Lower Manhattan we spied Kill Bill star Uma Thurman ordering her assistant around while gabbing on her cell phone and Scary Movie staple Shawn Wayans scooping up baked chicken at the food court. In both instances, the stars weren't hiding behind their shades hoping to avoid fans. Rather, both celebs were earnestly flirting their way through the mundane exercise of food shopping by chatting up employees and giving the steamy eyeball to more than a couple of less-than-famous customers. But don't turn them in to the Gawker police, they were only engaging in a new past time-the Whole Foods hook-up. Something about the gourmet food scenery, deadly serious sushi bar area and amiable staff immediately makes you forget you're in the middle of one of the dirtiest, most aggressive cities on the planet. The other odd thing about the space is that unlike most U.S. food markets that play host to the preservative sloths of the 21st century, most of the people you see in Whole Foods are slim and sexy. Such food spa vibes only contribute to the stealth meat market dynamic that plays out in between the soy milk aisle and the artisanal cheeses.