Plus: City council candidates debate; new chef at Benares; Black Tap launching milkshake trucks; Shopkins pop-up on N. Moore; Chalait tea café opening on Houston.
Plus: Alleged gigolo headquartered in FiDi; Black Tap's big new basement dining room; more on the new mall; the history of 6 Stone Street.
Plus: Renderings and floor plans for 70 Vestry; FiDi fire now under control; Black Tap expansion; World Chess Championship coming to the Seaport; the Battery Dance Festival starts next week. / 3 comments
Plus: Three other stores that pulled out of the World Trade Center mall; Community Board 1 wants the Sphere out of Liberty Park; Black Tap on the Lower East Side; China Blue owners to open Williamsburg restaurant. / 1 comment
Plus: Citigroup exercised its option to buy its Greenwich Street headquarters; more ineptitude from the Cuomo administration regarding its fiefdom; a petition for local representation in Battery Park City; Laura Poitras's upcoming Whitney show; thieves on bikes steal phone; the Clinton SoulCycle benefit. / 4 comments
Plus: Gristedes could be leaving Battery Park City; recapping northeast Tribeca development; the director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage has resigned; new Greek restaurant in FiDi; Black Tap opens a second location.
Plus: Demolition and construction on Park Place; the Chambers/Church stench; Black Tap's expansion plan; it's Taylor Swift's world (we're just living in it).
It calls to mind the kind of places that used to be all over the city, or at least below 14th Street: fifteen seats, a lone counter, two staffers, no attitude. Plus: the best veggie burger around. / 1 comment
Plus: Ex-Telepan Local chef's new American-Filipino pop-up; Peter Tunney's giant Polaroids; new burger place on Broome; "radical and rare lighting"; World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus curtain wall. / 1 comment
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