Newsletter: Apr. 17

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: JUICE PRESS
The healthy chain’s sixteenth location is the first with a salad bar. You may be surprised to learn that you don’t need to like “rawmesan dressing” to have a satisfying meal. Take a look around.

SOULCYCLE IS OPENING IN FIDI
The indoor-cycling company’s tenth location will debut this fall.

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IN THE NEWS
••• 4/15: Police officer on the rampage. (“Bitch, I know where I’m going!”) Plus: 22 River Terrace housecleaning; J&R allegedly stiffing vendors; more World Trade Center security breaches; Brushstroke offers à la carte; 11 Beach pricing; Pearl Paint layoffs.
••• 4/16: Four-story addition planned for Duane Park building (right). Plus: Another Battery Park City building could go condo; courtroom drawings on display; 70 Pine hotel operator; Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift hanging out.

NEW PLANS FOR 27 DESBROSSES
The plans for a clubby-sounding restaurant paying homage to New York City restaurants of the 1920s are out. Instead: Return of the Angry Lobster!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: DARUMA-YA
The transformation of the “Tokyo-Italian” Greenwich Grill into Daruma-Ya, an izakaya and soba restaurant, is complete. So what’s it like?

SEEN & HEARD
••• 4/14: FDNY double-parking. Plus: The Loopy Doopy rooftop bar is back for the season; Daruma-Ya serving lunch; shows by artists DAIN and Robert Janz; El Vez looking ready; Juice Press; July 4 fireworks.
••• 4/15: Peeking inside Tutto Il Giorno. Plus: 56 Leonard starting to loom over the neighborhood; Debra Messing TV shoot; World Trade Center keeps wailing away; yesterday’s fire at All Good Things; fireworks tonight; the 30 Park Place crane.
••• 4/16: Mother’s Day pop-up flower shop. Plus: Warren Street windows finally unboarded; Franklin Place construction update; film shoot on Broadway; any intel on the 101 Leonard storefront?

MAKEOVER ON WEST BROADWAY
A rendering has surfaced of what the building at the northeast corner of W. Broadway and Worth will look like—it has a contemporary storefront and a very interesting window up top.

 

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