Plus: The De Blasio administration has jacked up commercial real estate taxes (and an acclaimed West Village restaurant is closing partly as a result); Cut has Sunday brunch and a lunch deal; when Broadway was Typewriter Row; East River Esplanade logjam cleared.
Plus: Cute façade uncovered at forthcoming Canal Street café; signage for new manicure/blowout salon; checking in on the St. Nicholas National Shrine; child star.
Plus: Happy hour and holiday celebrations at the Duane Street Hotel; when "external guests" can visit the Four Seasons spa; soupmonger opening brick-and-mortar shop within walking distance; 111 Murray lit up like a Christmas tree.
Plus: How New York Dolls was spared the wrecking ball; the New York Times reviews Cut; Summons Court is now in the Municipal Building; opening forecast for Humble Fish poke restaurant. / 7 comments
Plus: More on the Taylor Swift shrine opening next week; Tift Merritt concert; clarification about La Colombe and Chobani; the NYC Street Tree Map; Arlo hotel's bar. / 1 comment
Plus: The opening of Canal Street Market was pushed back; Pier A ditched its fine-dining restaurant; "The Affair" and "Power" shoots; Greenwich Street tower; pretty light at the World Trade Center Oculus. / 4 comments
Plus: Planting at the Four Seasons plaza; Racines NY introduces happy hour; a furniture store's "huge huge sale"; shut out of the Municipal Building cupola tour; tawdry colored lighting; Skin Laundry façade. / 17 comments
Almost every other new restaurant in recent years has gone for the hand-crafted, artisanal aesthetic, but this outpost of the Cut chain is far more Vegas than Brooklyn. / 5 comments
Plus: Washington Market Park will be closed several days this week; 24-hour food carts; the big annual sale at Joseph Carini Carpets; the new subway entrance on Park Place; monster-themed tsunami art show; Crock-Pot disposal. / 4 comments
Plus: Cut restaurant at the Four Seasons is open (spa to follow next month); noisy event on Broadway yesterday; Tracy Anderson's new studio opens this week; do delivery-only restaurants get health grades? / 7 comments
Plus: The Cosmopolitan cocktail was more-or-less invented at the Odeon; replica of Syrian arch destroyed by ISIS installed in City Hall Park; review of Concepts skatewear store.
Plus: A visit to the Four Seasons; new subway entrance; World Trade Center mall update (and concerns), including the good news that Grom is open; the inaugural show at the China Institute's gallery. / 7 comments
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