New York has been hit so hard by unemployment, particularly in the finance and dot-com industries that drive trendy night life.
Yiu Wa Street consists of one long, curved block, but in the past year it has become a center for high-end shopping and trendy night life.
Mr. Blum had been planning to capitalize on the trendy night life on the Lower East Side by opening a restaurant that would face his courtyard on Houston Street.
Although new restaurants and bars are being added, there is no scene at Jay Peak -- no trendy night life, no gym, no fancy spa -- just a ton of snow, and the people who seek it.
Nightclubs such as Fabric and Turnmills pioneered the area's reputation for trendy night life, attracting professionals from nearby Holborn, Clerkenwell and the City on weekdays and, at weekends, the clubs and bars in the area, having late licences, draw people into the area from outside London too.
"She is moody, romantic, but a very shrewd businesswoman," Hung Huang, a hai gui friend of Zhang's and the publisher of several trendy Beijing life-style magazines, said.
They up-cycle T-shirts headed to the landfill into trendy, hipster, life-giving skirts and scarves.
LOCATION Nestled in the area's trendiest night-life strip on the oceanfront side of Collins Avenue alongside other velvet-rope destinations, this hotel may leave you feeling underdressed, which in South Beach can mean that you're too covered up.
The shooting interrupted an otherwise-typical Tuesday evening in an area known for its night life, trendy bars and restaurants.
