Ikea Says New Yorkers Actually Like Cooking; Get Inside 125 Sacred Sites This Weekend

• Ikea’s latest Life at Home report focuses on the kitchen. Turns out, 46 percent of New Yorkers cook almost every weekday and 81 percent enjoy the art of cooking. But, no surprise here, we hardly ever eat in our kitchens or dining rooms. [IKEA]
• Photos of ’90s newsstands show a grittier and cheaper New York City. [Daily Intelligencer]
• This Saturday and Sunday is the 5th annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend, where you can tour over 125 churches, synagogues, and meeting houses. [Landmarks Conservancy]
• Past and Present: The International Cork Company of Greenpoint. [Brownstoner]
• A diary of trying to walk 32 miles around Manhattan in one day. [Racked]
• New documentary short “The Collector” takes you inside a Brooklyn apartment packed with $10 million in African art. [Gothamist]

Images: 4-2 via photopin (license) (L); Eldridge Street Synagogue (R)