In the News: Pier A Funding Blocked

••• “Comptroller John Liu has rejected the Battery Park City Authority’s plan to pay for $5 million in extra construction costs at the pier using funds that would otherwise go toward building affordable housing in the city.” —DNAinfo

••• “Soho’s Cherrywood Kitchen Closed.” That location—on Spring, just west of Hudson—is starting to feel cursed. —Grub Street

••• “BPC Parks Conservancy Retains Outside Consultant to Weigh Fate of Esplanade Trees.” (Many have fallen in recent storms.) —Broadsheet

••• Open Kitchen has opened in the William Beaver House, and it sounds like a deli. —Downtown Lunch

••• You missed your chance to win Curbed‘s “Cornerspotter” game.

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  1. We stopped in Open Kitchen last night. It’s a big, clean, shiny deli with some coming soon” signs where there will be various ethnic foods.

  2. An astonishing picture of the Western Union Building before it was butchered with generator pipes and air circulation fans in the 1990s. And it shows a beautiful building at the northeast corner of Worth and Hudson Streets, next to1 Worth, now gone.