In the News: Drinks on boats started here

A FLEET OF FLOATING RESTAURANTS
Eater has a feature on Alex and Miles Pincus, who started a fleet of restaurants on boats with the Grand Banks, tied to Pier 25, in 2014. “All we wanted to do was find a cool place to drink and eat oysters on the water,” Alex told Eater’s critic Paul Greenberg. “Having a restaurant on a boat is a whole different thing than having one on dry land.” (Though of course they also have Holywater on Reade Street…)

ANOTHER GALLERY FOR THE TRIBECA DISTRICT
Artnet has a feature on Isabel Sullivan’s new gallery on Lispenard, whose first show is Neil Jenney. From Artnet: “Sullivan seems too young to be called a veteran of the gallery scene, but she has nonetheless spent the last decade working in New York galleries, most recently as a partner at Chase Contemporary… ‘Opening my own space wasn’t necessarily something that I always dreamed about,’ she said in an interview. ‘The move happened organically, as I began to grow and develop an understanding and a vision for the type of gallery and organization I wanted to create.'”

A LOOK AT LONDON’S CONGESION PRICING PROGRAM
This video from the Wall Street Journal is from last September — the tolling rates have since been decided and passed by the MTA board — but still this video on congestion pricing is interesting to watch. It sums up the NYC plan and compares it to London’s congestion pricing program, which has been in place for two decades.

THE LATEST ON THE GREENWICH
Yimby has an update on The Greenwich, the Rafael Viñoly-designed supertall at 125 Greenwich just south of the World Trade Center. It’s a whopper.

 

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