In the News: Diner Doomed

••• “One of the Financial District’s last standalone diners may soon be no more. A new 21-floor hotel is set to take the place of the Pearl Diner at 212 Pearl St., according to documents filed with the Department of Buildings on Friday.” —Real Deal

••• More on the Tibetan prayer flags that artist Anne Paterson installed at Bogardus Garden. —Tribeca Trib

••• Frenchette, Shoji at 69 Leonard Street, and La Mercerie make the New York Times‘s list of the year’s top 10 new restaurants.

••• Fascinating article in the New York Times about how someone is calling 311 about signs in Brooklyn and Queens—possibly targeting ones with foreign languages on them—and the city has to respond by investigating, which leads to the businesses being fined $6,000. If I’ve learned one thing in the nine-plus years of doing this blog, it’s that running a street-level business in New York is really hard and the city makes it so much harder. Why can’t the city council remedy this situation ASAP?

 

3 Comments

  1. City knows exactly who is calling, they just can not say.

  2. Re: “If I’ve learned one thing in the nine-plus years of doing this blog, it’s that running a street-level business in New York is really hard and the city makes it so much harder.”

    This is a big cause of all the empty storefronts one sees IMO.

  3. What a bummer to read about Pearl Diner’s closing. For those of us who worked down there, that was a unique lunch spot for multiple reasons. I’m sure the new hotel will offer reasonably priced great lunches and be really cool. Oh wait a minute; I mean, I’m sure it will absolutely suck.

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