THE AGE OF THE DINER
Time Out does an analysis on the proliferation of the modern diner: “In 2019, it’s become a go-to shorthand for an ethos meant to project accessibility, telling us a lot about where our culture is at at the moment. Customers and chefs alike are moving away from the buttoned-up pretense of fine dining.” They jump off from the Soho Diner and the Golden Diner and of course hit a few outside the neighborhood, but make no mention of Au Cheval? Maybe not dinery enough…

25 PARK ROW IN THE SPOTLIGHT
New York YIMBY has some of its excellent closeups of 25 Park Row, which looks like it’s wrapping up.

100 CENTRE AS A LANDMARK?
The Broadsheet has an update on the landmark appeal for 100 Centre, and it sounds like the Landmarks Preservation Commission decided that the building “may merit consideration as a potential New York City landmark.” (That and a token will get you on the subway?) “The building was erected in the late 1930s with federal funds from the Public Works Administration. One of the architects who help design 100 Centre Street was Harvey Wiley Corbett, who also worked on Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Life North Building, adjacent to Madison Square, which is widely regarded as an Art Deco masterpiece.”

TOURING A 56 LEONARD PENTHOUSE
Business Insider tours a penthouse at 56 Leonard. (There is a lot of scrolling involved to get to the interior shots.)