CITY NOTES CURATED BY PATRICIA GREENE ISEN Mother's Day Art Openings, New Restaurants & Gift Guide 2026 Welcome to the Mother's Day Gift Guide! One of my favorites! I love choosing fun gifts for you
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CITY NOTES
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CURATED BY PATRICIA GREENE ISEN
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Mother's Day
Art Openings, New Restaurants
& Gift Guide
2026
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Welcome to the Mother's Day Gift Guide! One of my favorites! I love choosing fun gifts for you to enjoy! Happy May! I love May....it's my birthday, some of my closest friends' birthdays. I love a Taurean. I also added some new restaurants & exciting new art shows. I'm hoping to get out and about this weekend. Enjoy the below.... Please note at the bottom of the email you MAY NEED to click 'view entire message" as sometimes the list gets cut off. I don't want you to miss anything. Also please note that if you want to access any old CITYNOTES from the past seven years please click here CITYNOTES
Have a beautiful May. Happy Mother's day!
Enjoy! Be Kind! Be safe!
Much Love to all of you & your families,
xoxoxoxox
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Gifts for the Jewelry Obsessed
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Small Mobile Earring
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hand cut stone earring on 18k gold casting
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Molten Diamond Tahitian Pearl Earrings
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hand carved gold molten castings with set diamonds and a tahitian pearl
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Apatite Serafa Snake Earrings
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Marie-Hélène de Taillac's latest creation, the Serafa Snake earrings, are feminine yet with an ancient touch. Composed of hand-crafted 22 karat gold, using traditional Indian weaving techniques.
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Green Quartz Milady Earrings
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I love these drop earrings. they come in many different colors. i own a smaller drop of 3 stones that I love that Robert bought me a few years ago.
Dangling and elegant, in subtle green quartz Milady Earrings
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Row 7 Organic Green Mix
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A special set of five packaged in a Row 7 gift bag, this assortment ensures you have delicious leafy greens through the season.
Dino Lettuce
Spinach Lettuce
Teagan Lettuce
Winter Bloomsdale Spinach
Delfino Cilantro
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Kitazawa Melon Seed Collection Set
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A curated selection of sweet, juicy, and easy-to-grow melons perfect for home gardens, small spaces, and summer snacking. These hybrid varieties deliver tender, flavorful fruits that are ideal for fresh eating, salads, or chilled desserts.
Korean Melon
Japanese Melon
Icebox Watermelon
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Heirloom Tomato Candle
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I love everything this company makes! They were a go to gift for the Christmas holidays. The first time i was introduced to them my good friend Nanda and my nephew Sawyer gave us a picnic basket with ALL of the veggies and fruits inside! Handcrafted from beeswax harvested at Swarmbustin’ Honey in Chester County, the Heirloom Tomato Candle is molded from a real heirloom tomato picked at Kneehigh Farm in Pottstown, PA. Each candle carries the natural, gentle scent of beeswax.
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Fleurs D'Hiver Herbal Tea Lollipops
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Beautiful handmade herbal tea lollipops, made of honey caramel and flowers. When submerged in hot water the honey melts and the flowers release their aromas, creating a botanical infusion.
Rose & Verbena: The rose delicately unfurls its fragrant petals and mixes with the freshness of lemon verbena.
Cornflower & Lemon Balm: The delicate lemony notes of Lemon balm will relax you before falling asleep.
Marigold: Sunny, floral and beneficial, its sweet bitterness is balanced by the honey.
Elderflower & Mint: The floral and sweet notes of elderflowers meet the freshness of mint.
Jasmin: A calming and soothing floral infusion.
I think these are so great!
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Gifts for Beauty & Wellness
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Nonfiction Hand Cream
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Nonfiction's hand cream is rich in shea butter and vitamin that instantly absorbs into skin, leaving velvety smooth texture and caring your dry hands with revitalizing elements.
SANTAL: Sandalwood, Vetiver, Fig, Cardamom, Ginger, Bergamot
GAIAC: Wild Rose, Guaiac, Oriental, Vanilla, Amber
FOREST: Hinoki, Frankincense, Turkish Rose, Yuzu, Nutmeg
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Wonder Valley Hinoki Bar
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Let this bar of soap transport you to a serene hinoki forest in rural Japan, with the feeling of soaking in the hot waters of an onsen. The Hinoki Bar is made with the cleanest ingredients for a pure cleansing experience to start each day anew. Formulated with our extra virgin olive oil as well as coconut and avocado oils, this bar of soap works into a luxurious, rich lather and effortlessly removes impurities while adding moisture back into the skin. Encased in a waxed paper wrapper with artwork by Logan Maxwell Hagege, tucked inside a gilded paper box with a small poem inscribed by the venerable writer and bath enthusiast, Leonard Koren.
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Susanne Kaufmann Nourishing Lip Balm
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A nourishing lip balm formulated to protect, condition and restore dry or chapped lips.
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Nonfiction Hand Wash
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Your hands are easily exhausted from pollution and drying out and thus, need careful protection. Rich in plant-derived surfactant and calming ingredients, Nonfiction's hand wash soothes hands with its formula made of squalene, avocado, sweet almond, and sunflower seed.
SANTAL: Sandalwood, Vetiver, Fig, Cardamom, Ginger, Bergamot
GAIAC: Wild Rose, Guaiac, Oriental, Vanilla, Amber
FOR REST: Hinoki, Frankincense, Turkish Rose, Yuzu, Nutmeg
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Deans
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Dean’s is inspired by the British pub and from the owners of King..one of my favorite restaurants and definitely Charlies! Dean's will bring that age-old convivial spirit to Soho. The cooking draws from the coastlines and traditions of British heritage cooking: simple, seasonal, and rooted in place.
Pubs have been part of British life for over a thousand years, evolving from early alehouses into the public houses we know today. At their core, they are places of gathering—informal, convivial, and open to all: a place to stop in or stay awhile.
To cultivate Dean’s regulars, they’ll have a never-ending drinking game. People can enter to see if they can drink 500 pints over the course of many visits, which they will track on a visible leaderboard. Those who win will get their own engraved pewter tankard that they can drink out of.
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Or'resh
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Named for light and fire, Or’esh is centered on ingredient-driven, live-fire cooking over coal. Inspired by the Levant, the menu celebrates pristine seafood, flame-kissed meats, and seasonal vegetables sourced from the Union Square Greenmarket.
The owners are behind the Corner Store , the Eighty Six, and The Catch Hospitality Group.
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Saverne
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Chef Gabriel Kreuther built his reputation in Michelin-starred kitchens . Gabriel has just opened Saverne , bringing a refined, modern expression of his heritage to a new dining experience.French cuisine reimagined through the lens of live-fire cooking.
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La Tazzo D'oro
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La Tazza D'Oro, an iconic café originally established in Prato, Italy, in 1984, stands as a timeless testament to quality and tradition. This beloved establishment has long been a gathering place for those seeking authentic Italian flavors and a warm, welcoming atmosphere.
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Gifts for the
DESIGN ENTHUSIAST
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Japanese Indigo Shibori Kit
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The Japanese Indigo Shibori Kit was designed for those who want to explore the world of shibori and indigo dye, this kit comes complete with 10g of Yamato Indigo Dye, enough to create a small vat, and all the necessary tools. With easy-to-follow instructions, you can produce beautiful shibori patterns on any white fabric.
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Kyoto Gondola Soft Pastels 36 Piece Collection
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From Japan’s oldest maker of soft pastels. These are carefully handmade in small batches by a fourth-generation family workshop that adjusts pigment and drying time according to the season. The result is pure, saturated color with remarkable depth and softness.
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Mahjong Board Game
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Another Mahjong Board Game by Printworks is designed for the American version of Mahjong .Is everyone I know obsessed? I certainly am! However it is hard to find a block of time to devote to this!
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Japanese Botanical Paperweights
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Preserved botanicals, suspended in clear acrylic resin, reveal the sculptural forms of the natural world in striking detail. These unique cubes can be used as paperweights or kept as objects of curiosity. Thoughtfully made in Japan, each piece captures a fleeting moment in lasting form.
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LEE UFAN
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Lee Ufan is a founding member of Mono-ha (School of Things), a loosely defined group of artists who worked in a shared sculptural idiom in Japan roughly between 1969 and ’74. In work from that time, rather than asserting or denying authorship over an object, Lee distributed forms across what he called a “system” of material and physical relations that inherently incorporate the viewer. paintings and sculptures produced over three decades of his practice.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
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Gagosian has opened a significant presentation of key works by Marcel Duchamp to inaugurate the gallery’s new ground-floor space in the historic building at 980 Madison Avenue ( right next to Kappo Masa- one of my favorites!) The exhibition, opened on April 25, 2026, brings a selection of works—including all of the artist’s most iconic readymades—back to the location where these editions made their American debut in a 1965 exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. It also coincides with Duchamp’s first retrospective in the United States since 1973, which is on view at the MOMA until August 22.
“It all started with Duchamp, I couldn’t imagine a better artist or a more critical body of work to be the first exhibited in our new gallery at 980 Madison, a building he showed in just over sixty years ago.”
—Larry Gagosian
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FRIDA AND DIEGO: The Last Dream
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Frida and Diego: The Last Dream celebrates Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art—in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera. Organized in conjunction with the Met’s new production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the presentation at MoMA features artworks by Kahlo and Rivera in an elaborate setting designed by Jon Bausor, the set and co-costume designer of the opera. For both the opera and installation, Bausor evokes the artists’ lives and artworks in his theatrical designs.
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MATISSE :The Pursuit of Harmony
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Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony, is an exhibition featuring fifty paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Henri Matisse on loan from museums, foundations, and private collections. On view from April 9 through May 22, 2026, the exhibition traces Matisse’s investigation of form in two and three dimensions, from paintings and sculptures made at the start of the 20th century through the next five decades of his career. Although Acquavella has dealt in exceptional works by Matisse for over sixty years, this marks the gallery’s first exhibition devoted to the French artist since 1973.
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Our family loves Tom Sachs! and of course we LOVE Jeanne & Jackie ...that goes without saying! Salon 94 Design presents a comprehensive full building takeover by artist, designer, Tom Sachs. The exhibition traces the arc of his career, from his formative years in London to exclusive new work spanning furniture, ceramics, lighting, sculpture, and painting – revealing the breadth of Sachs's practice and his commitment to treating every medium with the same material intelligence and experimentation. Showcasing Sachs as a maker in the fullest sense, as comfortable forming a piece of plywood into a chair as he is designing and electrifying a lamp.
In 1987, while enrolled at the Architectural Association in London, Sachs took a class with designer Tom Dixon that challenged students to build furniture from materials scavenged from the street. Learning to use salvaged materials such as Victorian railings and industrial castoffs helped lay the foundation for what would become a defining practice of bricolage. artist since 1973.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Many A Moonlit Caveat
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She is absolutely one of my favorite artists!!
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Many A Moonlit Caveat, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye spanning both New York City locations.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born and based in London) is an artist and writer of Ghanaian descent. She attended Falmouth School of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools. Her work has been shown internationally, with her most recent solo exhibitions being No Twilight Too Mighty at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2023) and Fly in League with the Night, organized by the Tate Britain in 2021, which toured Europe. In 2025, Yiadom-Boakye curated the group show To Improvise A Mountain, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition. The final iteration will open at the De La Warr Pavilion on June 27, 2026.
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No matter what your needs or neighborhood preferences are, we will work tirelessly to find what you want and make it happen for you.
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My mother, Betsy S. Green and I are partners at Douglas Elliman. Together we represent clients in NYC, the Hamptons and Palm Beach. So when looking for real estate—whether you are expanding a family, downsizing, changing residences or relocating from another city—we would be thrilled to be involved in your journey and work with you.
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2 beds, 2.5 baths
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563 Park Avenue
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IN CONTRACT
2 beds, 2.5 baths
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136 Waverly Place
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COMING TO MARKET
2 beds, 2 baths
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While cash sales in Manhattan remained higher than normal, the increase in overall sales was driven by the decline in mortgage rates since the early summer. Median sales price and sales rose year over year for the fifth straight time. Listing inventory fell annually for the first time in four quarters. With rising sales and falling listing inventory, the market felt faster on the ground. One of the drivers of sales growth has been the co-op market, which saw a larger sales increase than the condo market for the first time in more than a year. The decline in mortgage rates by more than 60 basis points since early summer had a greater impact on the lower-priced market, particularly co-ops. While bidding wars were at their highest level in more than a year, they remained within the long-term range. The market share of cash sales for the entire year of 2025 was the highest on record. The months of supply for resales indicated the market was moving at its fastest pace in more than three years. Three out of four buyers purchased their condos with cash, the second-highest market share on record. Luxury median sales price declined year over year for the first time in five quarters. Luxury listing inventory fell to its lowest level in 15 years. The average square footage for luxury resales has been larger than that for new development sales for more than 5 years. New development condo sales surged year over year for the fifth straight time, while listing inventory declined to its lowest level in two years
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The number of sales above the $5 million threshold in the Hamptons was the highest on record. Median sales price increased annually to the highest on record, Sales slipped annually but remained above the fourth quarter decade average. Listing inventory edged nominally higher, still well below the fourth quarter decade average.
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Nearly every Florida housing market monitored through the Elliman Report series showed double-digit sales growth over the previous year. The decline in mortgage rates in the back half of 2025, along with robust conditions in the financial markets relied on by higher-end buyers, brought in more sales to nearly every market. For reference, a comparison was also made with the same quarter in 2019, which showed that, even with the jump in sales, current levels still remain below pre-pandemic levels. Inventory growth is slowing sharply, aided by sales gains across the market.
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I hope you have enjoyed the Mothers Day 2026 City Notes!
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PATRICIA ISEN
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Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
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Office: 212.303.5227| Mobile:610.209.3831
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