Newsweek puts The Dead Rabbit on its list of the nine best cocktail bars in the city. (Not sure why not 10…) Others include Clover Club, Death and Company and Dutch Kills – note heavy on the death theme overall.

 

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The native Irish camel is an elusive beast, found only in the steaming jungles of north Roscommon. The creature is distinguishable by its two humps, which hang on either side of its back, like creels of turf. If startled, these creatures have been known to chase people home from the pub right up to their door, which they’re unable to enter – you know, because of the humps. Now, some people will tell you that pursuit of the Irish camel is a wild goose chase. But around north Roscommon other people may tell you something else altogether. Here’s a less elusive Wild Goose Chase: unaged apple brandy, pale cream sherry, dessert wine, lemongrass, cacao, fennel and mace. You can spot one on our new menu now.

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ONE WORLD TRADE COPY
Georgia-based architect Jeehoon Park’s suit against Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Tishman Construction and the developers of One World Trade, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and The Durst Organization, claims they stole his design – copying it form his 1999 thesis. And a judge ruled recently that the case can move forward. — The Real Deal

NOT A PEACOCK
25 Park Row gets mentioned among the Times’ list of new buildings (sent from G.) trying to get away from the glass box and get closer to the masonry Art Deco buildings of the Upper East Side. That project, a 50-story, 110-unit building designed by CookFox Architects, is being billed as a contemporary interpretation of an Art Deco skyscraper, with available units ranging from about $1.7 million to $25 million for the top duplex penthouse. “We went for the timeless, understated elegance building,” said David Dishy, a partner at L & M Development Partners, which is building the project with the J & R Music family. Not, he noted, “a peacock.”

A REVIEW OF THE CONRAD
Business Insider reviewed the suites at The Conrad in Battery Park City, in case you have folks coming in from out of town.

CELEBRATING DE NIRO’S FATHER’S ARTWORK
Robert De Niro has a new book coming out from Rizzoli on his father’s artwork – he was a prolific painter who worked from a Soho studio on West Broadway. His paintings hang in the Tribeca Grill, the Greenwich Hotel and the second floor of the Tribeca Film Center. Forbes has a Q&A with DeNiro on the subject of his father’s work.

ENGINE 29 FIREHOUSE HAS COOP FOR SALE
The old firehouse at 160 Chambers has a loft for sale, and the firehouse’s tin ceilings and brick walls are still there.