Now that we are a one-grocery-store town I've been observing the shifts and adjustments at Whole Foods, and wondering what changes you all have noticed. / 23 comments
Plus the Museum of Chinese in America gets a city grant; shows at Bartolomi closing this weekend; a speakers series at SoHo Photo; 180 The Store goes digital.
The store was opened at the Broadway and Maiden Lane location in 1992 by Jimmy Wu, who founded what he called Comics Underground in 1989 while he was in college. / 2 comments
Plus Manhattan Youth honors local kids and adults; Torly kids hosts a kids book swap; a new family club proposed for Greenwich and Hubert; Washington Market Park celebrates Earth Day. / 2 comments
Yvonne Fox wasn't ready to say goodbye to the store she opened 27 years ago, but she's resigned. And one by one, her customers and their owners are coming by to sneak in a last chat and a last treat. / 17 comments
Plus Frankly Wines is expanding; Pen Parentis presents a panel discussion on individualism; a study of Jack the Ripper at the Mysterious Bookshop; get a dose of Bach at lunchtime at St. Paul's. / 1 comment
As S. and J. first reported, the fashion designer Cynthia Rowley has indeed taken over the space at 8 Jay – on the corner of Staple, for an office-slash-showroom. / 1 comment
Plus happy hour on a rooftop bar in the Seaport; local kids speak up at a meeting for Pier 40; a new store for the space at Jay and Staple; a peek inside a loft in 165 Duane, the former coconut factory. / 9 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 gardening for kids in BPC parks starts this week; the Holocaust museum hosts a discussion; Whole Foods hosts a beauty product swap; R&Co. shows bentwood from South Korea.
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
Plus lots of news in Fidi: Justino's open on Fulton; Blue Bottle to open soon; Elysium Health to open in WTC; Primp NYC open on Beekman; Purim parties for this week.
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