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Keith McNally Takes on the Post, ‘New York’s Trashiest Newspaper’
Restaurateur and beef aficionado Keith McNally persists in his habit of berating critics: now it's Steve Cuozzo of the Post. After Cuozzo wrote a column lamenting the quality of new restaurants,...
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Foursquare Begins Office Renovation
Construction started today at Foursquare's future 56,000-square-foot Soho office, rounding out a year of new horizons and new funding—to the tune of $50 million—for the location-based startup....
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8,000-Square-Foot Capsouto Frères Space Hits the Market in Tribeca
Capsouto Frères, the French bistro at 451 Washington Street that closed for repairs following Hurricane Sandy, will not reopen, and Town Residential has listed its 8,000-square-foot space for rent at...
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Bowery Mixed-Use Portfolio, Home to Keith McNally’s Pulino’s, Sells for $62...
A family trust sold 11 mixed-use buildings on a newly fashionable strip of the Bowery between Houston and Canal Streets. An investment group led by hip-hop clothier Joseph Betesh bought the...
View ArticlePrada Intifada: With Luxury Chains Driving Soho Rents to Record Levels, Shops...
Descending into Lure Fishbar, one enters a world that is at once a fantasy of the moneyed life—the subterranean restaurant’s gleaming teak panels and white leather banquettes call to mind the interior...
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Ian Legend: Hotelier Ian Schrager Talks the Lower East Side, Luxury and...
Stay Cool: Ian Schrager at his West Village office. Before he was in the hotel business, Ian Schrager owned the legendary Studio 54 with the late Steve Rubell, a club known for having the most...
View ArticleManhattan-Born Concepts Making The Jump Overseas
Concept expansion in general can be stomach-clenching. It's always scary to take a concept into which you’ve put your heart and soul and expand it to a new market. Will your new location be as...
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GFI’s Allen Gross Talks Downtown and the Old-Time Vibes at his Beekman Hotel
Below the room’s expansive sunlit atrium, Allen Gross surveyed the sumptuous lobby of the Beekman one morning last week with the abiding ease of a master of delayed gratification. Munching on a muffin...
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How the Meatpacking District Went From Seedy Side of Town to High-End Retail...
Given Google’s recent record-breaking acquisition of Chelsea Market for $2.4 billion, it can be hard to believe that Irwin Cohen, the market’s original developer, spent just $8.25 million to purchase...
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FiDine: Inside Lower Manhattan’s Burgeoning Restaurant Scene
Fine dining, Financial District: Two things you never expected to find in the same sentence. Yet here we are, looking down on the city’s oldest neighborhood, today bounded by City Hall and the Battery,...
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Openings From Carbone to Moxy Hotel Enliven the Miami Scene
Things were looking grim last year, when Miami’s hospitality industry took an estimated $3.4 billion hit from March to August 2020, according to a recent study. Fast forward to March 2021, when the...
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The New City
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and neighborhood associations are making great strides to ensure New York City and the New York Metro area remains vibrant and full of opportunity. Within New York...
View ArticleSunday Summary: Hail the Conquering Eric Adams!
Remember how you thought that after Jan. 20 you wouldn’t have to ever think about politics again? Oh, you’re adorable! Another first Tuesday in November, another election. This time it was for the...
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