How to Be Outside, Inside with Statik Selektah

New York will test your patience and overstimulate your soul if you let it — but that doesn’t mean you have to disappear to find peace. We ask culture-shapers and city dwellers how they move through the madness without letting it swallow them.

Okayplayer: Where do you go in NYC when you want to be outside without being outside?

Statik Selektah: I’m a partner owner of Hidden Tiger, on Avenue A. It’s a speakeasy so it’s hidden away through a coffee shop, but you never know who will be in there having dinner or even djing.

We got the best DJs in the world djing a small tucked-away staple previously known as Fat Buddha, reinvented as a more mature, cocktail lounge.

Where do you go in NYC when you want to be around people but not with people?

What would your perfect day in NYC look like?