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- NYC local Steven Herbst won a Hall of Fame award at the International Whistling Convention in Louisberg, NC.
- When we wrote about former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's life-sized nude photo he had on display in his bedroom yesterday, we were thinking along the lines of Robert Mapplethorpe. It's actually less artsy than that.
- A bronze statue of Andy Warhol will be installed in SoHo's Father Fagan Park on 6th Ave. between Prince and Spring Sts. next month.
- Jean-Georges Vongerichten has pulled lobster dishes from all seven of his restaurants' menus and many other restaurateurs are following suit or hiking prices as the lobster fishing industry is having a particularly bad year.
- A drunk driver killed a woman who was driving with her three children early this morning in Queens.
- Brooklyn's oldest restuarant, Gage & Tollner (est. 1879), closed in 2004 to make way for a T.G.I.Friday's chain restaurant, but the successor never caught on in the neighborhood and closed. Now residents wish the space could be filled by an old-school chop house; some place with history and a little class.
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- Eater has pictures of the plywood coming off the old 2nd Ave. Deli to reveal the gleaming new Chase Bank branch underneath.
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Wonderful ... a famous and beloved restaurant is replaced by yet another bank branch.
And aren't bank branches supposed to be getting less necessary due to ATM's and electronic banking?
Of all of the things to replace 2nd Ave. Deli, this is the most insulting. I honestly kept holding on to a thread of hope that it would return.
Chase's new small business motto should be: "Helping small businesses close so we can open a Chase branch in its place".
Of all of the things to replace 2nd Ave. Deli, this is the most insulting. I honestly kept holding on to a thread of hope that it would return.
Dunno ... a fast food joint might've been even worse.
Irony.
Totally sweet! I thought the city was getting low on bank ATM locations, what with all the condos to spend money in...oh wait, I meant all the bank branches to spend money in...oh wait, I meant all the duane reedes and Max Brenner chocolate restaurants to spend money in!
Hey, at least it's not another Starbucks
hey, at least it's not another fancy burger place.
LOL. Wonder why these chefs don't want to tell us how much they really pay for the lobster. Maybe because people might feel cheated that a $40 lobster dish contains a $8/lb lobster? Or that the price of lobster "sky rocketed" to $9.50/lb so they end up having to charge $4 more? What a bunch of bologna.
Hey, at least its not another 2nd Ave. Deli...oh wait
Everyone's so fricking nostalgic about the 2nd Ave. Deli, but I thought it was a royal rip-off!
That said, is there really a need for a bank at this location, when there's one right across 2nd Avenue? Oh well, landlords love banks. They can pay whatever rent demanded, they have great security, there's no messy kitchen, there are no noise complaints...