NEW RESTAURANT FROM JUNGSIK
Chef Jungsik Yim, the founder of the two-starred Jungsik on Hudson, has opened SEA along with executive chef Jun Hee Park on West 30th Street. Chef Yim has traveled extensively through Southeast Asia, and has opened the new restaurant as a tribute to its diversity of exciting flavors: pungent, salty, sweet, spicy. SEA has a raw bar, small plates and shareable plates, along with a beverage program. They will expand to the downstairs next year with an open kitchen and a 15-seat counter for special dinners, The Times said.

A DIEHARD METS FAN AMONG US
Tribeca Grill’s Tracy Nieporent gets interviewed by New York Mets historian and long term public relations director Jay Horwitz at Citi Field. He’s been a fan since the very very beginning — even before Shea Stadium. (Tracy is so quick and so fun, it’s worth a watch, especially if you are a fan of the orange and blue yourself.) His father took him to a double header at the Polo Grounds when he was 9 years old on August 4, 1962; the second game went into the 14th inning and he never left his seat. He’s been dedicated ever since. “I have a natural inclination to root for the underdogs,” he says. “We all have a met-abolism [get it?]… I take a medication to maintain my sugar called Metformin. If they called it Yankeeformin, I wouldn’t take it.”

E-WASTE COLLECTION EVENT ON SEPT. 15
The LES Ecology Center will host an e-waste collection event outside Washington Market Park on Sunday, September 15, from 10a to 2p to offer responsible disposal of unwanted electronics. The group will assist people dropping off their unwanted electronics and package everything by category onto the wooden pallets for transport at the end of the event. See more info here and see what they take in the flyer below.