The pop-up store that opened at 49 Warren between West Bway and Church last summer, now has a real lease and offers unique products made in Japan, or made by Japanese artisans living in New York.
Plus Frenchette staff helps arrest a very bad man; updates on the city's efforts to ban development voids; land use process to start for proposed White Street jail. / 3 comments
Plus One Beekman Street rising; Star sightings at Frenchette (mais bien sur); Brookfield gets a smell-full tenant; Instacart gets pushed out of Whole Foods / 3 comments
Plus Dead Rabbit in the running for James Beard award; 443 Greenwich penthouse sale; more on filling in the Seaport; comparing real estate value across the city.
Plus some stats on commercial rentals; Escape Games rises to the top of its genre; the Flea gets a feature; DeNiro's mail bomber pleads guilty; dog runs as an example of the city's class divide. / 1 comment
The national hospitality chain Convene will take 73,000 square feet and use it for two large catering halls that will seat 500 people each, plus several other smaller meeting rooms. / 4 comments
City Winery has (almost) secured a new location, but won’t have it fitted out and ready till January, meaning there will be a few dark months without the concert space in the neighborhood. / 4 comments
The Times and Crain's report that the case against the developers of 108 Leonard to protect the building's clock tower -- a rare city interior landmark -- is pending in the state's highest court. / 3 comments
The group that dug the large hole in the ground at Greenwich and Desbrosses that was scheduled to be the "Hotel Barriere Le Fourquet" filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
A 4,500-square-foot townhouse that has an entrance right off the second cutest street in the neighborhood (assuming we would all vote for Staple as #1). / 4 comments
Plus Taylor's stalker says he has no ragrets; plans to fill in the East River; Wolf of Wall Street sells his Hubert Street apartment; penthouse for sale in American Thread building; Architectural Digest features artist's loft / 5 comments
Plus Fuku adds fries at its Wall Street location; the Bean is coming; YES broadcaster hangs at SoulCycle and the Hideaway; Fraunces Tavern moves into the 19th Century. / 7 comments
Seppe is quite good. And the wait staff is super nice. — Dee / Carbs are back in the neighborhood
None of these new places are sit with friends type of places. They are all grab and go. I don’t... — Dee / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
To the Olio e Piu owners, sincerely: please do not blight this location with fake flowers. We will welcome you... — Cw / Mr Chow is indeed closing
Seeing as Starbucks and other chains tried and failed to replace the bagel place, that is a reasonable hypothesis. — James Bogardus / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
I think the bagel place is replacing Starbucks and other coffee chains as a place to grab coffee and a... — Amy G. / Apollo Bagels is getting closer…
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! Here is the link to sign up if... — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I'll see you then!!! — HB / Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White