Four years after founding her “dinner party essentials” store Big Night in New York , Katherine Lewin has opened her third and biggest location on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The new store, officially now open, joins the Greenpoint and West Village stores, online shop and cookbook in the Big Night brand.

“I’ve been Upper East Side curious for years,” Lewin says during a recent walk-through of the new store, located on 73rd Street and Lexington Avenue. “I think it’s so sexy and classic up here.”

Lewin opened the first store in Greenpoint in 2021 after six years at The Infatuation, leaving as its editorial director. Prior to that, she’d done merchandising and copywriting at J.Crew during the “Mickey [Drexler] and Jenna [Lyons] era.”

“When COVID-19 happened, I spent a lot of time thin

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