With time, the story of New York’s 1975 fiscal crisis has narrowed into a tale of the Three Wise Men: Felix Rohatyn, the banker; Richard Ravitch, the real-estate developer; and Governor Hugh Carey—all rich, powerful, and civic-minded figures who teamed up to rescue the profligate Gotham from bankruptcy. Certainly, those three did a lot. But a new documentary, Drop Dead City, casts a wider net, giving voice to the cops, firemen, city officials, union leaders, and ordinary citizens who also did their part to help (and actually had a lot more to lose). The film’s title references the infamous New York Daily News headline, but what the grainy film footage conveys is a time when middle- and working-class people could still live in the city—not well (graffiti-covered subways, grime, and drugs) but vibrantly and with a sense of ownership. The fiscal crisis was averted, but New York changed forever. (ifccenter.com) —Alessandra Stanley

It’s hard to beat Moss Hart’s Act One for best Broadway memoir, but Jeffrey Seller’s Theater Kid is very much in the running. Yes, reading about the man who has produced three Tony Award–winning shows (Rent, Avenue Q, and Hamilton) is interesting enough. But what makes Seller’s story sing is his vivid recollection of a deprived childhood with demanding parents, his first job as a booking agent, and his coming out during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The heart of the book—nurturing Rent into the phenomenon it became—will both lift your spirit and break your heart. (How Seller managed to make the stage adaptation of the Brady Bunch TV show into a cliff-hanger is still a mystery to me.) Even success can bring distress. Let me put it this way: telling David Geffen that Ahmet Ertegun has made a higher offer for recording rights is not a call you want to make. Even so, like Hart’s classic, Seller’s book ends on a high note. ($29.99, barnesandnoble.com) —Jim Kelly

There’s no need to leave men languishing in a comfy chair outside the fitting room in Prada’s women’s-wear flagship on Fifth Avenue anymore. Heroically, the Italian maison has now opened a dedicated men’s boutique at 720 Fifth Avenue. Spanning more than 13,000 square feet, it’s bursting with ready-to-wear, footwear, leather goods, and accessories, along with a few specialty pieces and lifestyle essentials. The Made to Measure service, which ensures perfect-fit suiting, sits side by side the Made to Order service, which will customize certain pieces from the collection. Holidays, birthdays, Father’s Day—buying gifts for the men in your life no longer needs to be so maddening or mysterious. (prada.com) —Ashley Baker

In New York, spring has arrived in full force, especially at Rockefeller Center for Fifth Avenue Blooms, where Van Cleef & Arpels has transformed its Channel Gardens and Summer Rink into a glorious garden, full of engaging, interactive installations by the French artist Alexandre Benjamin Navet. Each weekend for the first three weeks in May, the garden will host poetry readings and contemporary-dance performances, which will be open to the public. (vancleefarpels.com) —Ashley Baker

If your idea of a men’s scent is more James Bond in black-tie than Lil Baby in chains (as he appeared in an ad for Axe), then step right this way. Habit Rouge, the sophisticated fragrance from Guerlain, is celebrating its 60th birthday by partnering with Hennessy to infuse the classic scent with a taste of cognac. The perfumer achieved this alchemy by steeping Habit Rouge in wooden barrels that previously held the pedigreed French brandy. The result is a rich, romantic blend, leathery and woody, called Habit Rouge Spirit. Wear it neat, not shaken, not stirred. ($200, guerlain.com) —Linda Wells

When Randall Poster—the music supervisor of choice for Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and, among countless others, AIR MAIL—released his Grammy-winning 20-LP boxed set, For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, it seemed unlikely that there would be a follow-up anytime soon. The project, which comprises songs, poetry, and artwork by everyone from Yoko Ono and Jonathan Franzen to Alice Coltrane and Jarvis Cocker, is just that prodigious. Then again, so is Poster’s love for birds. Which is why, less than three years later, he has produced a follow-up in the form of a new album by peerless jazz saxophonist David Murray. Out now on Impulse! Records, Birdly Serenade features eight new compositions that pay tribute—either directly (“Capistrano Swallow”) or indirectly (“Bird’s the Word” is an homage to Charlie Parker)—to a species that had improvisation down pat millennia before mere mortals tapped the veins of jazz. And even though Murray’s quartet is made up of a younger generation of musicians, when you hear him blow alongside them, you immediately catch their drift: birds of a feather flock together, and to spectacular effect. ($38.98, ververecords.com) —Nathan King