In the News: AKA Wall Street closes permanently

AKA WALL STREET HOTEL IS SHUTTERED
Crain’s reported — and I sat on for a while — that the AKA Wall Street hotel at William and Maiden Lane has closed permanently. The hotel group, owned by Korman Communities, now has five locations left in the city, and the Tribeca location extended its temporary shutdown, according to Labor Department filings. (I was in touch with them as recently as Sept. 22 when they said they had no updates for the Tribeca location, but clearly we will have to watch that.)

LUNDQVIST MOVES TO THE CAPITALS
Tribecan and longtime Rangers goalie and Swede and Tiny’s owner Henrik Lundqvist signed a one-year deal with the Washington Capitals. See more here at ESPN or here at The Ringer. His tweets from Sept. 30, when the Rangers bought him out of the final year of his contract, made me a little teary. It’s hard to say goodbye to this town.

MORE ON OVER-THE-TOP SOHO COFFEEHOUSE
Surface has more photos of Felix Roasting Co.’s new Greene Street outlet, designed by Ken Falk, which they call “a lavish cafe that blends SoHo’s sartorial sensibilities with the comfort of an English garden.”

LEO’S GETS A SHOUT-OUT
The Times follows a 20-something’s post-pandemic hunt for a place of her own and she lands in a $2550 (!) Fidi high rise studio that is walking distance from Leo’s Bagels.

 

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  1. Henrik isn’t leaving New York for good. His family is staying in Tribeca, so he will be back and forth.

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