We headed down to our favorite hipster(ish) 'hood, the Lower East Side, for midweek drinks at Happy Ending. Various editors from NYC's publishing spectrum gathered to celebrate the release of Susan Stellin's How to Travel and mixed it up while sipping cosmos and cranberry juice — with vodka, of course!

At Happy Ending, March 15, 2006

Photos by Joe Silva

VOOM editor/producer Matthew Handal, Associated Press editor Natasha Gural and McGraw-Hill senior copy editor Krista Giovacco

Star magazine senior news editor Steven Marsh and Fashion Market Production Magazine Group Luis Paredes and Jason Carpenter

Michael Bradbury and Scholastic associate editor Britt Norlander

Dow Jones Newswires reporter Kristen McNamara, Reuters desk editor Walker Simon and Dow Jones reporter Riva Richmond

HarperCollins editorial assistant Stephen Padnick and Kaplan's Selwa Yousif

mb's Shannon Carpenter, Kaplans' Mason Chapple and Mark Healy

Merger Markets Abby Rogers, YWCA-NYC/Downtown 3 staff editor Shevi Berlinger

NiaOnline editor-in-chief Sheryl Huggins and Real Estate Weekly reporter Dan Geiger

Dow Jones' David Bogosian and Dow Jones Newswire columnist Victoria Knight