Seen & Heard: Powell Building gets preservation award

POWELL BUILDING GETS LANDMARKS AWARD
The New York Landmarks Conservancy has granted the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award to the Powell Building, aka 105 Hudson, along with the Edward Mooney House, The Twenty Two and the New York Stock Exchange. This is the conservancy’s highest honors for excellence in preservation for buildings that demonstrate outstanding and challenging preservation projects. The ceremony will take place April 22 at the Edison Ballroom. The building currently has Beef Bar as the ground floor restaurant.

DAN GOLDMAN VIRTUAL TOWN HALL TOMORROW
US Rep. Dan Goldman is hosting a virtual town hall on Wednesday, March 26, at 7:30p to discuss the first nine weeks of the Trump administration, and the actions he has been taking both in New York and Washington “to combat his lawless power grab.” Register here for the Zoom meeting, or leave comments here on his office website.

DOWNTOWN LITTLE LEAGUE WILL OPEN APRIL 4
Downtown Little League’s Opening Day Ceremony will be held on Friday, April 4, after 5:30p, at the Battery Park City ballfields.

PARIS CAFE HAS CLOSED…AGAIN
Paris Cafe at the Seaport, which is one of the oldest bars in the city, has closed again. The website says its temporary, but the place looks pretty cleaned out. It closed during the pandemic, then got a new lease on life in July 2020. I will keep an eye on it…

 

2 Comments

  1. Recalling another oldest bar has anyone heard of any updates on The Bridge Café?

    • It was supposed to reopen after filming of the Netflix series “The Black Rabbit” ended in the fall, but so far that has not happened. I am trying to find out more.

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