Read about Sushi Azabu in the Tribeca Citizen Restaurant Guide.
Plus Gigino adds brunch Italiano; The Den adds Sundays; a downtown kid makes custom steak knives for One White.
Plus Congressman-elect Dan Goldman announces district staff; Azabu's shed is open; Jennifer Elster at a new gallery on Leonard.
Plus Book Nook is opening a new location in Brooklyn; Sophie's Cuban is coming to Broadway; Sushi Azabu will open next week.
The restaurant is renovating both floors and will be back open in a few weeks.
The owners of Azabu have activated the space upstairs, opening a charming sake lounge serving Japanese snacks and small bites intended for creative sake pairings.
Police searched a Tribeca restaurant for three alleged perps, and they found two. / 1 comment
Plus: Signs to discourage cyclists from using the Battery Park City Esplanade; Sushi Azabu opening in a Miami Beach Marriott; more on Squadron's decision to resign; Otto Penzler's life; a rash of bike thefts; the Tribeca apartment of an advertising executive.
Plus: Sushi Azabu chef Tasuku Murakami is leaving for the Seagram Building; police arrest man for two armed robberies in FiDi; a visit to the National Archives at New York City. / 1 comment
Plus: Park Place condos now for sale in Qatar; one of the i-Plaza salons changed its name; Pearl Paint conversion unveiled; sad little Walker Street building; the vacancy above Sushi Azabu. / 1 comment
The restaurant above Sushi Azabu—formerly Greenwich Grill, then Daruma-Ya, then Azabu—has closed yet again. / 7 comments
Plus: The Port Authority will pay News Corp. and 21st Century Fox to move to 2 World Trade Center; former Sushi Azabu chef now in Harlem; Gateway Plaza window settlement; Water Street building getting demolished; Seaport District shopping; a heartwarming story. / 3 comments
The lawsuit was presumably a factor. Plus: A developer that likes brickwork; tree-planting at the World Trade Center's Liberty Park; wine lists in peril; Sushi Azabu reviewed; pipe-wielding homeless man arrested. / 1 comment
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