Nabe News: August 17
Desperate brokers are still using the CBGB halo to sell their real estate. Such is the case with the former CBGB Gallery soon-to-close Morrison Hotel Gallery [EV Grieve]
The Orchard Street Hell Building back on the market. New jaw-dropping renderings show a 25-story glass hotel building. “The hotel will have 356 keys with the entrance on Ludlow St. The cellar and sub-cellar will have a two story garage which is built full with parking for 115 cars.” Let’s start the betting on whether this will bear fruit [Curbed; Previously]
The five 2009 Vendy Award finalists have been announced [Vendy via Cityroom]
Jeremiah reports back on Gawker’s rooftop gallery exhibit “Mom and Popism,” located at their Elizabeth Street headquarters. Ironic, considering there aren’t many mom-and-pop shops left in this neighborhood [Vanishing NY]
The Riese Organization will be opening a Tim Horton’s and T.G.I. Friday’s in its new 34 Union Square East acquisition. ““We are pleased to be a part of the exciting resurgence of Union Square.” We aren’t [Grub St]
Tree-napping in Stuy Town? [Lux Living]
Saturday night circus at the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street. Definitely a WTF moment [Neither More Nor Less]
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The Projects Jockeying for the $20M Chinatown Revitalization Funds
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Displaced Chinatown Business Returns Months After Devastating Fire
Four months after a deadly fire knocked out 78 Mulberry Street, one of its businesses returned to the scene. Ewa Trading Company reopened in its former Chinatown home earlier this week. The store had spent some of the interim displacement period selling from a shuttered Vietnamese restaurant a few paces north. The two-alarm fire broke […]
EDC Sues Essex Restaurant for Back Rent over Former Essex Market Lease
Three years removed from its relocation across Rivington Street, the city filed suit against the Essex restaurant for alleged unpaid rent. The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) sued Essex for nearly $60,000 in unpaid back rent on the former Essex Market building it previously occupied, according to the lawsuit filed Monday. The city entity claims that […]
Exile on Orchard Street: Tenement Museum Recreates Exhibits During Renovations
The Tenement Museum is amidst a preservation project at 97 Orchard Street, but will continue its programming with replicas not too far away. The 1863-era tenement this past Sunday embarked on “vital” restoration work to preserve its walls, floors, roof, as well as the installation of a new HVAC system that will provide improved climate […]
