Plus: Distilled's menu; R train tunnel to close for a year; Corton chef Paul Liebrandt; Washington Street plaza. / 1 comment
Details (including sample menus and floor plans) on Bill Telepan's restaurant, a chocolate-themed restaurant on Franklin, the pan-Latin place coming to Church, a new restaurant on Murray, and Centrico's and Flor de Sol's replacements.
Not good. Plus: Wetlands founder Larry Bloch died; more ways to help out; Drew Nieporent's losses; uptown restaurants thriving; Chabad of Tribeca's volunteer efforts; 55 N. Moore. / 7 comments
Its place will be taken by a non-Nieporent restaurant called Distilled NY. / 10 comments
Plus: Drew Nieporent; City Clerk wedding photographer; CB1 and the BPCA; New York Harbor School.
Plus: Damon Dash restraining order; new preschool; Lady Gaga dress-up contest; 1WTC grows; Brushstroke; ball fields delayed; restaurateurs on the radio; gallery review.
Seven things I learned during a screening of "A Matter of Taste," the documentary about Corton's chef in the Tribeca Film Festival.
Plus: More ways to help Japan; Mrs. Cupcake's express window; deal on closet organizing and personal shopping; "green" spa treatments; Drew Nieporent. / 1 comment
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Ditto! Thank you! — R. / The new rules for curbside and sidewalk dining