Where Jake Shane Shops, Walks, and Gets His Brows Done When He's Back in New York

The ballad of Jake Shane goes something like this: Grow up in Washington Heights, wishing that you lived some dozen blocks south on the Upper West Side instead. Move to Los Angeles and find it an easy place to call home. Find career success posting comedy videos on your Instagram, @passthatpuss, which you initially founded to review octopus dishes. Stay true to your roots and keep that handle intact even as your remit expands to podcasting and socializing. Return to New York when Broadway comes knocking. Realize, after the time away, how much you really do love the Big Apple, and the far-north neighborhood that raised you. Turns out, what his mama told him when he was young—that it was way cooler to be from Washington Heights than the Upper West—was true, then and now. Shane, whose run in All Out at the Nederlander Theater ends March 8, took some time to show Condé Nast Traveler some of his favorite Manhattan haunts—from a five-star hotel to a tawdry nightclub to the first brow aesthetician that put him at ease. A view of Washington Heights as framed by the George Washington Bridge Tell us about where you grew up in New York. Washington Heights! I love it there because that'