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Tribeca Plate at Bogardus Plaza will close Friday
No shocker for those who travel regularly through Bogardus Plaza, yet still a big bummer: Tribeca Plate, which operates out of the kiosk on Chambers and West Broadway, will be closing Friday, Dec. 6.
The Friends of Bogardus is looking for a new tenant and has issued an RFP. There will be a pre-proposal conference held on site at the kiosk on Dec. 9 at 11a; the due date is Jan. 6. The use can be food & bev OR merchandise, and the proposals will be chosen based on the applicant’s plan for annual fees, their expertise, and the quality of the operation. (The construction of the kiosk was funded by local patrons with the idea that the rent will support the maintenance of the plaza.)
Can one of you creative folks come up with something cool for this thing?? Not that I know anything about the food business, but it seems to me you have to offer one thing that’s really good — and nothing else — so it becomes a destination, like Magnolia Bakery or Los Tacos. Ooo! Maybe they would do their breakfast tacos there all day! (and all night)
Or maybe it’s a year-round pop-up shop that has seasonal offerings?
Zucker’s first took the sublease on the kiosk in June 2022. They left after their one year lease ran out, and the folks from Benvenuto, who operate several kiosks around the city, took over the lease in October 2023.
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Such a shame that so far the business model hasn’t worked, but I think you’re right — it has to be something unique that isn’t available close by elsewhere. Benvenuto’s menu just wasn’t different enough from the coffee cart/Starbucks (depending on your price/quality preference). And the price point probably needs to be a bit lower to serve the student / nanny crowd who hang out there.
They should sell cannabis . . .
The coffee vendor by the subway doesn’t help either.
The coffee vendor, Mohammed, has been there for years but he is illegally parked according to city rules. He is too close to the crosswalk and the entrance to a building. Sanitation controls carts these days but seem unable to get him to move down the block. He is a good guy but it definitely creates competition for the kiosk
There are tons of places to get and have food.
It is oversaturated and they end up cannibalizing each other.
Not everything can and should be food.
East Village dog cafe Boris and Horton just called it quits.
Vesuvio is closing its Hell’s Kitchen location.
Plus not everything can and should be food.
This summer hosted various family and work visitors to NYC. They all observed that after a while it became numbing seeing food everywhere and “everyone” sitting around outside having “brunch” or Starbucks etc, leaving trash and looking at their phones…generic urban NYC
Couple of suggestions:
The food cart vendors (like Mohammed and the fruit guy on Greenwich) can maybe rent out. Or the bike guy can rent out. Perhaps a specialty bakery like frenchette or magnolia.
How about an outpost of the Smacking Burger? It’s far enough from the gas station in the west village and would be delicious.
Taste of Tribeca should sponsor it (since those tickets are so expensive). Then have different restaurants in the neighborhood rotate using the kiosk with a limited menu
You mean the public schools should rent it?
All-day Martinis?
Takahachi should open an all-day grab-and-go handroll kiosk.