10 Great Things to See and Do in Flatiron

By day, the Flatiron District is an exciting destination for design buffs, shoppers on the hunt for quirky items and foodies—hard-core types willing to brave Shake Shack's line, especially since it's open year-round. Named for the Flatiron Building—the gorgeous 1902 skyscraper whose Beaux-Arts three-facade design conspicuously presides over the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, and still creates that infamous wind tunnel—the neighborhood is swathed with glorious cast-iron architecture. That's only fitting, considering the artistically minded consumers who venture there for the area's well-known design, photography, clothing and stationery stores. (Contemporary sit-down restaurants are, naturally, de rigueur, too.) But when night falls, the Flatiron District takes on a character of an entirely clubbier kind. The area's multiple after-work bars offer a friendly sort of loosened-tie camaraderie, but where the neighborhood really heats up are at its lounges, clubs and cabarets, each of which provide ample reason to return time and again.

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