Discussed at this month’s meeting: How to get some authority over sidewalk cafés in the neighborhood; the cabaret license for Haus nightclub; American Flatbread's efforts to reach out to its neighbors; Church Street School event. / 3 comments
After 13 years, the breakfast and lunch spot at 49 Beach is no more. / 4 comments
Plus: Another diner has closed; Concepts sneaker store appears done; Chick-fil-A shoot; big Hudson rental building update. / 3 comments
Plus: Conversion to be half condo, half hotel; more on L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon's plans; work finally to start on new Greenwich Street building; 56 Leonard from a distance. / 3 comments
Plus: A first impression of Beaubourg; the Tribeca location that Trader Joe's passed on; about that April Fool's post; rent-stabilized apartments at risk; CSA sign-up; why Barbra Streisand didn't invest in Tribeca Grill; Dita eyewear store in Soho. / 7 comments
And Basics Plus has six months to live. The question remains about how big someone can build in that spot. / 18 comments
But most of Le District is not. Plus: Cobblestones get scalped by bike path; Babesta's bandanna bibs; North End Grill winemaker dinners; Il Lee's prints; 39 White restoration. / 1 comment
Howard Johnson has plans for a "heritage American food hall" in the soon-to-be-former Canal Street post office—and a 14-story hotel on top. / 24 comments
Plus: Modell's sporting goods rumor; Boomerang Toys Easter egg hunt; inside the Jungwon raincoat pop-up; new FiDi hotel's façade lights up like a clock; Underground Railroad tour; Good Stock soup. / 3 comments
Plus: AT&T Long Lines plaza used for parking; Duane Reade gets a new storefront; Imperial Coffee House's temporary closing (and likely fate); cork recycling. / 4 comments
Plus: Landscape designer Signe Nielsen; rendering for 27-story Stone Street hotel; 50 West's grand restaurant plans; a Battery Park City family's neighborhood app; Industry Kitchen to open on East River; the Flea's new artistic director.
There's not a whole lot of excitement: Battery Park City's Chipotle, Amada restaurant at Brookfield Place, the Peck Slip boutique hotel, cabaret license for Haus, mysterious Front Street liquor license.... / 3 comments
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