Will 100 Franklin Become “One Avenue of the Americas”?

From Community Board 1…. I tried something new this time: Instead of underlining my comments, I indented them on the line below. Might be easier to  read this way.

Please note that this is a preliminary list. Be sure to check the agenda page on our website at for any changes to agendas prior to the meeting dates. (ID is required to enter building)

NOTE: CB1 has moved to the Municipal Building (1 Centre St.), so most meetings are now there.

9/1 Battery Park City Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) US Postal Service – Update by Wanda Santos, New York District Manager, Marketing
2) 225 Liberty Street, application for liquor license for WFC Bagel Ventures LLC (d/b/a Black Seed Bagels) – Resolution

Surprised this isn’t a wine/beer license…. Are they really going for booze?

3) 
BPC Parks Enforcement Patrol – Update by Sergeant Phuchong Srisuro
4) BPC Parks Conservancy – Update on update on median and eastern border maintenance and planting
5) Battery Park City Authority – Update on rat problems
6) Ritz-Carlton Hotel Status – Residents report by Sol Reischer
7) New Business
8) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits:
—225 Liberty Street, 18-20th floors, application for removal of restaurant liquor license 
for Aramark Corporation (corporate catering)
—250 Vesey Street, 3rd Floor, application for catering liquor license for Restaurant 
Associates, LLC
—4 World Financial Center, application for a renewal of a restaurant liquor license for 
PJ Clarke’s on the Hudson LLC

9/2 Financial District Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Broadway Reconstruction – Update by Eirik Rundhovde, Resident Engineer and Liz Baptiste, Community Construction Liaison
2) Elizabeth Berger Plaza renovation – Presentation by George Vellonakis, Landscape Architect, NYC Parks Department
3) 
Governors Island Alliance Activities – Update by Connie Fishman, Executive Director
4) Proposed Expansion of No Vending Zone – Presentation by Captain Leighton Myrie, Executive Officer of the World Trade Center Command – Resolution

Presumably a reaction to the annoying tourism vendors that are gathering at the plaza outside of the PATH station/7WTC.

5) 
Earth Matter – Presentation by Marisa DeDominicis, Co-founder, President and Director & Wylie Goodman, Advisory Board, Development
6) Street Co-Naming application, submitted by Bowling Green Association, to co-name Bowling Green Plaza as Evacuation Day Plaza – Possible resolution

Don’t people have a hard enough time finding their way around FiDi without giving places more than one name?

7) NEC Barclay St. and W. Broadway, application for a newsstand – Resolution

As if that area (see #4, above) isn’t congested enough!

8) 
85 Broad Street, application for a liquor license for LPQ 85 Broad INC, d/b/a Le Pain Quotidien – Resolution

Held over from July.

9) 
17 Trinity Place, application for a beer license for 18 Pizza LLC, d/b/a Bravo kosher – Resolution
10) 
130 Water Street, application for a wine and beer license for New Water Café, Inc – Resolution
11) 108 Greenwich Street, application for a liquor license for Suspenders and Belt LLC, d/b/a Suspenders Restaurant – Resolution

That’s nice the pub found a new home. It had been at 111 Broadway.

12) 
388 Greenwich Street, application for removal of catering license for the sale of beer, wine and liquor from 399 Park Avenue to 388 Greenwich Street for Aramark – Resolution

388 Greenwich is for the Citi headquarters and consequently this belongs on the Tribeca Committee agenda.

13) 
1 Battery Park Plaza, application for a wine and beer license for Coffee House Holdings, Inc, d/b/a Starbucks Coffee #7244 – Resolution

In case you hadn’t heard, Starbucks is starting to sell wine and beer. (See below, too.)

14) 55 Broad Street, application for a wine and beer license for Coffee House Holdings, Inc, d/b/a Starbucks Coffee #7416 – Resolution
15) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits
—54 Pearl Street, renewal for an unenclosed sidewalk café for The Porter House at 
Frances Tavern
—Castle Clinton, Battery Park, renewal application for a liquor license for Statue 
Cruises LLC d/b/a Miss Getaway
—17 John Street, renewal application for a liquor license for The Irish America
—85 West Street, renewal application for a liquor license for Marriott Hotel Services, 
INC & CCMH FIN Center, LLC
—55 Stone Street, renewal application for a liquor license for 55 Stone Street
—79 Pearl Street, renewal application for a liquor license for RET Ventures LTD, d/b/a 
Route 66 American BBQ
—114 Liberty Street, renewal application for a wine and beer license for Dronto Pizza
—10 Murray Street, renewal application for a wine and beer license for Empire Asian 
Cuisine
—3 Hanover Sq., Store 2 & 3, renewal application for a wine and beer license for Taste 
of Tokyo Inc.
—87-89 Greenwich Street, renewal application for a wine and beer license for Rector 
Street Food Enterprises LTD, d/b/a Georges
—72 Nassau Street, renewal application for a wine and beer license for Zaitzeff Corp

9/8 Youth & Education Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Agendas to be determined

349 Greenwich9/9 Tribeca Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Volunteer at Hudson River Park’s Submerge: NYC Marine Science Festival, Saturday, Oct. 3rd, 2015, Hudson River Park’s Pier 26 – Announcement
2) 
Manhattan Borough President’s Office Small Business – Report
3) 93 Worth Street, application for a Board of Standards and Appeals special permit for a Physical Culture establishment for 93 Worth Street Gym, LLC – Resolution

That’s I.C.E. NYC, as covered here.

4) 281 Broadway, application for a Board of Standards and Appeals special permit for a Physical Culture establishment for CrossFit TriBeCa – Resolution

This Crossfit studio (right word?) has been there for a while now.

4) 
Application to rename the block of Sixth Avenue from Franklin Street to White Street to Avenue of the Americas – Resolution

This baffled me for a while—because what New Yorker would ever prefer “Avenue of the Americas” to Sixth Ave.—and then I realized the applicant must be DDG, the developer planning the building on that block. Indeed, I got clarification from CB1: DDG wants to use “One Avenue of the Americas” as the building’s address.

5) 349 Greenwich Street, application for restaurant liquor license for 349 Greenwich Street Restaurant LLC – Resolution

That’s the old Dean’s space, and this promises to be interesting: Is it celebrity chef Tyler Florence opening a second outpost of his Wayfare restaurant (the other is in San Francisco), or is it something else?

6) 
20 Warren Street, application for tavern liquor license for 20 Killarney Tavern Corp. d/b/a Tara of Tribeca – Resolution

It’s takes megaballs to ignore CB1 the first time you need their approval, instead going straight to the State Liquor Authority—and then come back to present again.

7) 221 W. Broadway, application for alteration of restaurant liquor license to permit use of a sidewalk cafe for North of Houston LLC d/b/a White Street – Resolution

Held over from July. I still wonder if they mean tables on W. Broadway (in front of that set of stairs?) or on White Street (the committee historically opposes café seating on side streets).

8) 
211 W. Broadway, application for new liquor license for Maman Tribeca LLC – Resolution

As covered here.

9) 175 Franklin Street, application for restaurant liquor license for entity to be formed by Jean Dupuy – Resolution

After I posted about how Sushi Tatsu had put a public notice in the window of 175 Franklin saying that its liquor-license application would be discussed at the Community Board 1 Tribeca Committee meeting, the CB1 agendas came out—including this. It’s possible that someone named Jean Dupuy is opening Sushi Tatsu. (The only Jean Dupuys I find online are a pro hockey player and a 90-year-old artist.) It’s also possible that CB1 got something wrong. And it’s also possible that the landlord is playing two potential tenants against each other…. UPDATE 8/30: Someone named Jean Dupuy is indeed opening Sushi Tatsu, with a former chef from Sushi Yasuda. The full details are here.

10) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits:
—249 W. Broadway, application for renewal of tavern wine and beer license for 
Anotheroom Inc.
—339 Broadway, application for renewal of beer and wine license for Mon Cher Market 
Inc.
—145 Duane Street, application for a renewal of a wine and beer license for the 
Takahachi Tribeca Restaurant
—88 Reade Street, application for renewal of restaurant wine and beer license for 
Tribeca Hummus, Inc. d/b/a Nish Nush
—124 Chambers Street, application for renewal of liquor license for Ecco Restaurant
—429-435 Greenwich Street (AKA 62 Laight Street), application for renewal of 
restaurant and tavern liquor license for LKS Concepts LLC d/b/a Dylan Prime

Kind of doubt it, since the restaurant has closed, but if some percentage of the ownership wants to open a new restaurant there, a renewal would be more applicable than an application for a new license.

—77-79 Hudson Street, application for a renewal of a liquor license for Zutto
—281 West Broadway, application for a renewal of a liquor license for Pepolino
—6 Harrison Street, application for a renewal of a liquor license for Juna Sik

(Or whatever)

—59 Murray Street, application for a renewal of a liquor license for New York Dolls
—222 W. Broadway aka 6 Varick Street, application for renewal of restaurant liquor 
license for Terra
—34 White Street, application for a renewal of a restaurant liquor license for Bancone 
LLC d/b/a Petrarca
—131 Duane Street, application for a renewal of a restaurant liquor license for 
Radiante, LLC d/b/a City Hall Restaurant
—211 W. Broadway, application for alteration of liquor license for B & D Again, LLC, d/b/a Distilled NY
—135 Watts Street, application for renewal of liquor license for China Blue

9/10 Landmarks Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) 27-A Harrison Street, application to legalize existing rear yard fence – Resolution
2) 140 Franklin St, application for storefront renovation – Resolution

That’s where Douglas Elliman is moving to.

3) 60 Hudson Street, applications for expansion of four louvers on 11th floor and new 
generator on 19th floor setback – Resolution

Ugh, just say no. Haven’t they ruined the old Western Union building enough?

4) 399 Greenwich Street, application to approve existing awning and gooseneck lights at 
Greenwich Street Tavern sidewalk café – Resolution
5) 6 Varick Street, application for storefront renovation and installation of canopy and 
platform – Resolution

That’s where Franklin Cleaners is.

6) 130 Beekman Street, application for new building entry door and canopy on Beekman 
Street between Water and Front Streets – Resolution

9/16 Executive Committee – 6:00 PM

Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Capital and Expense Budget Requests for FY 2017 – Resolution
2) Calendars for January-June 2016 – Discussion
3) Committee reports

9/17 Quality of Life Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) NYC Department of Transportation construction update
2) WTC Health Program for Survivors – Update by Terry Miles, Executive Director
3) Rats and garbage issues in CB1 – Discussion with City agencies and the Downtown 
Alliance

9/21 Planning Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Lower Manhattan Resiliency & Sustainability – Update by Dan Zarilli, Director, Mayor’s 
Office of Recovery and Resiliency
2) National Disaster Resiliency Competition, NYC Phase II Application – Resolution
3) Ben Strauss, Ph.D., Vice President for Sea Level and Climate Impacts, Climate Central
4) Citywide Ferry Service Draft Scope of Work for a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
– Discussion & Resolution

9/24 Seaport/Civic Center Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room, 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
1) Howard Hughes Corporation – Quarterly construction update & culture district
2) 200 Water Street, application for proposed bus stop location – Presentation by NYC DOT
3) Seaport Museum Gets $10.4M in FEMA Funds Nearly 3 Years After Sandy – Update by 
South Street Seaport Museum & Representative of Congressman Jerrold Nadler (invited)
4) AIGA/NY–Presentation by Laetitia Wolff
5) 11 Fulton Street, application for restaurant liquor license for iPic-Gold Class 
Entertainment, LLC d/b/a iPic Theaters – Resolution

That’s the fancy waiter-service cinema coming to the Seaport.

6) The following notices have been received for renewal, upgrade, or transfer of wine and beer or liquor licenses or sidewalk cafe permits
—121 Fulton Street, renewal for a restaurant liquor license for Burger Fulton LLC d/b/a 
121 Fulton Street
—15 Gold Street, renewal of a hotel/restaurant liquor license for NYC Serenade Lessee 
LLC & Thompson Hotels LLC & Felice Gold Street LLC d/b/a Gild Hall and Felice 15 Gold Street

9/30 Public Hearing on CB 1 Capital and Expense budgets for FY 2017 – 6:00 PM
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor

9/30 CB 1 Monthly Meeting – 6:00 PM
 (Please note date changed from our regular meeting date)
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor

All documents relating to the above agenda items are on file at the Community Board 1 office and are available for viewing by the public upon written request to man01@cb.nyc.gov. At all meetings, additional items may be raised as “New Business”

 

3 Comments

  1. Since you asked, Cross Fitters call their gym/studio a box.

  2. Would be very interested in the update on the work being done on Broadway, south of Vesey. Technically, that may be outside TC’s area of interest, but as the traffic flow often backs up Broadway for blocks during busier times of day, I would think there are many in the area who might share my interest.

    • Agree 100% that the construction is maddening (I live on Broadway), but I don’t think I can brave a second CB1 meeting this month. If anyone goes to the FiDi Committee meeting and wants to share the Broadway construction update, fantastic. Or we can try contacting CB1 afterward to see what the news is. It may be simply that the work is progressing on scheduled, but given the way the Chambers and Hudson reconstruction projects went, it’s more likely that the project will take much longer than estimated.

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