Newsletter: Nov. 15

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: AAMANNS-COPENHAGEN
If you’re Danish, welcome to your second home. If you’re not, welcome to the world of smørrebrød, small, open-face sandwiches that, at least at Aamanns, are wonderfully complex. Check out the menu and interiors.

THANKSGIVING AT BUBBY’S
Come to Bubby’s for brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., or join us for a traditional American feast with all the trimmings—free-roaming turkey from Snow Dance Farm, house-cured ham, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes with homemade marshmallows, cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, and more—from 3 p.m. to midnight. Plus pie! $75 prix fixe (not including drinks, tax, or gratuity); proceeds go to the New York City Rescue Mission. Reserve at 212-219-0666. Sponsored.

LOFT PEEPING: ART-LOVING BACHELOR
The September issue of Interior Design featured an apartment in “a former warehouse from 1930″ (it wasn’t hard to guess which one). Come on in and take a look around.

SEEN & HEARD
••• 11/12: Rummage and bake sale. Plus: Roberta Freymann partners with a local mom; sushi restaurant closes; retail spaces in play?; Time Warner outage intel request; free World Financial Center office space for those displaced by Sandy; FEMA pop-up this week.
••• 11/13: W. Broadway renovation. Plus: Sushi of Gari dims the lights; helping the Rockaways; Murray Street cobblestoning; free jazz for locals.
••• 11/14: Let’s make New Amsterdam Market happen. Plus: Franklin Street reopened; “Wolf of Wall Street” filming on Thursday; Kutsher’s anniversary; Capsouto Frères and Pier A.

NOSY NEIGHBOR
“There is a building on the northeast corner of Hudson and Franklin that has had scaffolding up for at least four or maybe five years. Is it ever coming down or is it permanent?” —C. It’s almost halfway down.

IN THE NEWS
••• 11/12: Moving back in. Plus: Steven Alan sample sale; meeting to discuss the Hudson River Park tax; bucket brigade at the Downtown Community Center; staff efforts at P.S. 89/I.S. 289.
••• 11/13: Real estate not suffering. Plus: Update on 10 flooded buildings; damage at FiDi gym and South Street Seaport Museum; Matt Abramcyk branches out of Tribeca.
••• 11/14: Parking garage victim. Plus: First Precinct officer died saving his family during Sandy; Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is more open; Q&A with CB1 chair; 77 Hudson; bike-share equipment damaged in flooding.

JOSH APPLESEED
Josh Levine has a small apple orchard on his Seaport roof—and he can help you set up one on yours, too.

 

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