Fort Greene Nonprofit Kitchen, Chelsea Piers Fitness’ new space, and more NYC events

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion awards, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and popular cultural events in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the best things to see, buy, taste and experience around town.

What’s making our luxury list this week? Flatiron gets a new luxury gym, a Miami wellness brand migrates north to NoMad, and a nonprofit restaurant debuts in Brooklyn.

Chelsea Piers Fitness has opened their fourth location in New York at the One Madison Avenue building in the Flatiron. The 60,000-square-foot space spans four floors, including one dedicated to co-working, with interiors by AD100 designer Dan Fink that integrate elements of the original Pier 60 location (like stained glass windows that incorporate hues of the Hudson River). The rest of the massive facility features top-of-the-line equipment, steam locker rooms, saunas and Malin + Goetz equipment, Himalayan salt and infrared studios, and the Evolve lounge, complete with life-size trees. ChelseaPiersFitness.com

Fans of all-day cafes and wellness brand Pura Vida Miami, rejoice. Now you have 2,500 square feet of their health-conscious offerings, located a little more conveniently on Broadway in NoMad. For those who don’t know, Pura Vida Miami was founded more than a decade ago as a “space where health-conscious living and delicious food coexist.” The almost guilt-free menu includes superfood smoothies, organic acai bowls, salads, sandwiches, a dedicated kids’ menu and a true New York favorite: All Day Breakfast. PuraVidaMiami.com

It looks like the experimental theater trend shows no signs of stopping. Last Entry: “Life and Faith.” It’s a “site-specific theatrical experience that realizes the Faustian legend in New York on the eve of the Great Crash.” And it takes place in Conwell Tower, a 1930s building in FiDi designed by Cross & Cross (who also designed the original Tiffany & Co building on 5th Avenue). At some point the building became the First National City Trust Company, hence the location chosen for the show. Participants wander at their own pace as “the lines between reality and performance blur.” LifeAndTrustNYC.com

New restaurants seem to open every day in New York City, but a non-profit restaurant? This is news. The restaurant in question is a 12-seat kaiseki-inspired restaurant in Fort Greene called Ikigai, which translates to “sense of purpose” in Japanese. It’s owned by Dan and Paige Soha, and run by chef Rafal Maslankiewicz, with a 12-14 course menu for $165 per person. The offerings “look beyond Japan for inspiration… The chef draws on his Polish heritage, world-class dining experience at MASA and Eleven Madison Park, and time spent cooking alongside his grandmother.” All monetary profits benefit the New York City-based national organization Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, which redistributes surplus food to people experiencing food insecurity. Ikigai.NYC

There isn’t a single piece of clothing on the first level of this Vancouver, BC-based brand’s first US store. Why? To highlight its “role as an experimental space for music recording, DJ sessions and podcasts”. Purple, for the uninitiated, is a men’s and women’s fashion brand founded seven years ago with the goal of creating “an accessible product with high-quality fittings, designer fits and innovative details.” Back then, that meant denim and sequins; the collection now includes pieces to cover shoppers from head to toe, including jewelry. Which will supposedly be found on other levels of the Howard Street space. Purple-Brand.com