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Cafe Boca Ciega Is Closing
As expected, the redevelopment of 353-357 Broadway (and likely 351 Broadway, too) has another casualty: Cafe Boca Ciega, the Cuban kiosk that opened in February, is closing in four weeks. It’s a shame, because not only did people really like the café, but it was one of the few businesses with style on Tribeca’s stretch of Broadway. One has to assume that No Romance Galleries is meeting the same fate.
Related: Tina Ramchandani, who sent me the update on Cafe Boca Ciega, also says that New Fancy Food’s last day is Friday.
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Such a shame to hear we are losing these stores on Broadway. The coffee here was great and it had some panache! Also tough to lose the only nearby 24 hour deli (and this was a good one).
Cafe Boca Ciega has been fantastic, my new favorite around the corner latte. We need more cool merchants like them over this way. Sorry to see them go. Three punches left on my loyalty card to get my last free drink.
It is a damn shame to lose Boca Ciega. I often stop by for a cortadito. When the news of the building’s sale first came out I asked the barista about it. He said they believed they’d have a year before any work began. Ai. I hope they manage to find a place nearby.
especially great for all the dog owners in the neighborhood, sad to see them go, that and the loss of the deli is going to be sad and also where to get stuff at the last minute? especially because we all know the site will be ugly depressingly scaffolded and left alone for a while before anything actually happens…i get so tired of people saying that all this “Progress” is good for the neighborhood and the city, how about the daily quality of life, which in eastern tribeca is a disaster and getting worse not better.
Too bad. Love their cordatito!! Here’s hoping they find another place to open up.
It’s a real shame. Another small business falling by the wayside due to large developments. If you haven’t noticed, this is a bad trend going on in TriBeCa. Fortunately, there are organizations fighting to make it more difficult for development, especially inappropriate ones, in the neighborhood…. I believe the TriBeCa Trust is doing a lot of good work along these lines… check it out / get involved… http://tribecatrust.org/
for what? another bullshit development that blocks out the light and no-one can afford to buy? the neighborhood has gone to shit in the past couple of years it’s full of idiots with strollers….time to move!!