I think my camera surprised her

LIQUOR-LICENSE APPLICATION: WOODROW’S (43 MURRAY)
Biddy Early’s has indeed bitten the dust. A woman who may or may not be named Erin Garmont wants to turn it into a “great value steak restaurant” called Woodrow’s. The space will be dark for around a month, reopening with a fresher, brighter façade; fewer knickknacks; no jukeboxes; no live music; and no drinking games. The neighbors have to be pinching themselves. Garmont was hoping for a 4 a.m. closing seven days a week, which went over badly; her reasoning was that Biddy Early’s has a 4 a.m. closing, so why shouldn’t Woodrow’s? She may not have realized to what extent the neighbors have been trying to make Murray anything but the Pace University drinking gutter, and while she may expect a more sophisticated clientele, exactly who was that going to be at 4 a.m.? Normally the committee explains that they’ll grant 1 a.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends, and the petitioner can come back in six months and try again. For some reason—a short agenda?—the discussion went on and on. A highlight for me was when a committee member talked about the problem the neighborhood has had with “supper clubs.” Anyway, the standard hours passed 8–0.

SIDEWALK CAFÉ: SUPER LINDA (109 W. BROADWAY)
I didn’t attend last month’s meeting, so I may have this wrong, but apparently, the Tribeca committee approved Super Linda’s sidewalk café, only to have the full CB1 committee reject it—which is pretty unheard of. Evidently, there were noise complaints about Warren 77 (also owned by Matt Abramcyk), allegations that Super Linda’s basement would be a club, and concerns that striped awnings [clutches pearls] were installed without the Landmarks Committee’s approval. Abramcyk wasn’t at the full board meeting, so he said that he couldn’t defend himself, and at the this meeting he said the downstairs won’t be a club, it’ll be a private dining room, as well as (?) having “areas” for eating and drinking. The chair—a vocal fan/friend of Abramcyk’s—also wasn’t at the full board meeting, but he argued on behalf of a compromise: Super Linda would close its Reade Street windows at 10 p.m. and its W. Broadway windows at midnight. The chair pointed out that Edward’s closes its café seating at 1 a.m. and unlike Super Linda’s, it’s not even enclosed. (The question of whether Edward’s patrons will resemble those at Super Linda went unasked.) The new hours passed 8–0. P.S. Abramcyk told me afterward that Super Linda is now scheduled to open in December.

SIDEWALK CAFÉ: EDWARD’S
Passed 8–0.

STREET ACTIVITY PERMIT: CB1 BLOCK PARTY
If I understood this correctly, both CB1 and the Sons of Italy were planning to have street fairs in Zuccotti Park this Saturday (or maybe it was a joint affair?), and heaven forbid the city kick anyone out. So they’ve been told by the city that they can have the events on Church between Canal and Franklin—i.e., the part of Church that’s to the east of the Tribeca Grand. Seeing as how that’s the New Little Italy™, it sort of makes sense.