January 9, 2014 Arts & Culture, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News
••• Anthony Bourdain has signed a deal to open his first large-scale food market in Manhattan, which will reflect his passion for international street food [….] We’re told Bourdain has teamed up with New York entrepreneur Stephen Werther on [what] could possibly be called Anthony Bourdain World Market.” Not if Cost Plus has anything to say about it. “And it will spotlight ‘cuisines from all around the world’ […] and ‘introduce Americans to Singapore-style street food.” This is locally relevant because the New York Post thinks it’ll be in 3 World Trade Center or Hudson Yards. And Eater got this in a follow-up email: “my hope that an important component of this project will be representatives of Straits hawker masters. My likes are pretty well known: dai pai dong in Hong Kong, Boqueria in Spain, hawker centers in Singapore, street tostadas in Ensenada. To the extent that I can help bring those things home to New York, along with a truly interesting collection of home grown innovators, I will be very, very pleased.”
••• The Dead Rabbit guys got a book deal—”combination cocktail guide, history, and memoir.” —Eater
••• The Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected the proposed addition to 40 Peck Slip. —Curbed
••• Battery Park City resident Linda Anderson Lieberman wrote a children’s book titled The Magical Battery Park. —Broadsheet
••• “A pro-smokers group is fighting for the right to light up in Manhattan’s five-mile Hudson River Park, according to a new lawsuit.” —New York Post
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I am very hopeful that this will be located at 3 WTC. I know that the goal for the WTC Shopping Center was always to have a high end food vendor and this meets that to a tee so I think it will be a reality. Fingers crossed!
Over at FiDi Fan Page suggestions have been made that perhaps the space could be the old Trading Floor at the American Stock Exchange or perhaps the South Street Seaport. It’s possible though I think the WTC is the most likely spot in FiDi.