The hotel opened here in 2007 and added to the local restaurant scene with Graffiti Earth / 11 comments
Plus: Chipotle and Blaue Gans have reopened; Peanuts murals by various artists; bubble tea shop now open on Chambers; celebrate mushroom sustainability at Graffiti Earth; when Grand Banks will start serving food; "Big Bank Attack" shoot.
Plus: Cops helped a Duane Reade stanch the flood of stolen merchandise; Q&A with the owner of the 180 store; Korean restaurant opening in the Seaport; Graffiti Earth's sister appears to have closed. / 1 comment
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: Graffiti Earth temporarily closed; checking in on the Flea's new building; exterior window shades; City Winery organizing a big music festival in Queens. / 2 comments
"I want to work with anyone who is doing good," says chef Jehangir Mehta of Graffiti Earth, his restaurant opening tonight in the Duane Street Hotel. "Good is a relative term, of course, but this is how I see it." / 5 comments
Coming up at Brookfield Place. Plus: Graffiti Earth restaurant opening pushed back a week; Soho home decor store Aero is moving uptown; pedestrian passageways at construction sites; Miss Paradis lounge. / 2 comments
Plus: Duane Street Hotel's revamped façade; 443 Greenwich partly revealed; rowing for heart health at Current; Pirch and Planet Blue opening on Lafayette in Soho; half-converted Broadway building put on the market.
Plus: Raccoon Lodge's anniversary party; the Django jazz bar now has music earlier in the evening; Caviarteria has closed; a neat installation at Front Art Space; concrete treatments for the new building at Franklin and Sixth. / 1 comment
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