Maybe La Colombe should just open a second café, given the lines across the street.
Plus: Racines NY menu; haunted house for Valentine's Day; Wichcraft redo; Urban Outfitters opening date; any volunteers to attend CB1 Tribeca meeting? No?
"We're handcrafting in small batches throughout the day," says Aimee Follette of her new takeaway restaurant, where nearly everything is vegan and gluten-free. "When people create food with their hands, that energy goes into the food." / 3 comments
When for one, where for another. Plus: Sweet Green progress; mysterious storefront to be condo sales office; Dylan Prime washroom; Canal Street T-shirts.
Plus: 4 World Trade Center as event space; China Blue review; Wogies debut; Downtown Lunch hiatus; graphic-novel cocktail menu; Cómodo spinoff.
Plus: Diane von Furstenberg store; Gilded Age store in the Seaport; Tres Carnes opening date; new head of Downtown Alliance; Wilpon at 37 Warren. / 2 comments
Plus: Checking in on 56 Leonard; Tutto il Giorno progress report; 1 World Trade Center's spire; FiDi construction report. / 2 comments
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Plus: Canal Room has closed (and work has started on its replacement); Garbage Garage almost done being glassed; Krappy Kamera contest winners; 279 Church's facelift. / 3 comments
Plus: Two schools cut pre-K programs because of overcrowding; chicken enchiladas.
Plus: Meet the owner of the new Denny's; Brooklyn Robot Foundry opening date; Hotel Particulier exhibit and party. / 3 comments
Also on February’s Community Board 1 agendas: The NYPD stables that used to be on Varick; Spring Studios; the blight that is Denny's; Lispenard landmark; a million street-activity and street-fair permits; more. / 2 comments
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