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If you’re thinking about buying into the future Soho Mews condo but still unsure whether the “doorman, concierge and a curator” will be enough for you, the news in today’s Post might just be your tipping point. The under-construction condo, which is comprised of two buildings joined by a shared courtyard garden, has announced a partnership with Centovini, the Italian restaurant on West Houston, four blocks north from the condo on West Broadway, across from...

We love fine dining as much as the next gourmand, but there’s something about fancy French restaurants with their retinues of waiters, sommeliers, captains and bread sergeants that we find slightly offputting. Upon arriving at Last Thursday’s tasting of Vérité wines at Bouley we were in a bit of tizzy, not because of our issues surrounding Le/La/Les establishments, but due to our walking in some five minutes before vigneron Pierre Seillan’s speech ended. This gaffe was largely due to our looking for the restaurant on Broadway instead of West Broadway. In retrospect, this may not have been a bad thing, since the hourlong vertical tasting of three wines started at 11:30 a.m. In order to do it justice, Gothamist would had to have sampled 21 wines, or vintages from 1998 to 2004 of each red on offer, all on a relatively empty stomach. Besides as Seillan, the creative force behind the acclaimed Sonoma County winery, graciously pointed out, our lateness allowed the wines to open up a bit more.

Yesterday we headed to the 3rd Annual Art Parade, an event that manages to make West Broadway a little more colorful for an hour each year. The scene is one of surrealism and modern day statements.

TIP: According to Paper's Mr. Mickey, Chloë Sevigny is having a tag sale on her block this Saturday. We're guessing there will be lots of vintage Balenciaga. Check out her apartment in House & Garden...pretty nice!

Sure, September 8th may seem like it's ages away as we slowly sweat our way through the summer, but the Deitch Art Parade is just around the corner. Even though it's taking place on the aforementioned date, the deadline for submissions is July 20th.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking on 130th St. and 15th Ave. in Queens, an overturned auto on Spring St. and West Broadway in Manhattan, and a stabbing on Caton Ave. in Brooklyn.
• Remember when Paris Hilton forgot that she'd left her Tinkerbell with her grandma and papered her neighborhood with Lost Dog flyers? New Yorkers hire private detectives and publicists to get the job done right. A tiny dauchsund is missing.
• New York Magazine re-examines the "conceptual-Marxist street-art supervillain" daubed "The Splasher."
• We're no "law-talking guy", but find the Times' account of a police officer posing as a legitimate news outlet's reporter to lure a protester to an arrest fairly alarming.
• Roller skaters continue to boogie down in Central Park just north of the Sheep Meadow every weekend, and have been doing so since 1977. If you have never seen this in person, you must.
• A bolt out of the Jet Blue struck a plane flying into JFK yesterday and the passenger jet carrying 140 people made an emergency landing. There was no fire or injuries, but the passenger cabin was filled with the smell of ozone.
• The Daily News continues its report on Building Boondoggles, setting its sight today on disasters in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
• On Memorial Day, The New York Times examines the efforts of praiseworthy volunteers to identify and re-mark more than a thousand graves of New Yorkers who were killed during the Civil War and are now buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetary.

Finally, we have two reasons to discuss Lost. First a warning: stop reading this if the show is still on your DVR, unwatched.

• Aurora Soho -- This Williamsburg joint has made it across the bridge. Executive Chef Riccardo Buitoni of Piedmont, Italy, brings his Slow Food passion to Manhattanites with an Italian menu and wine list. You'll find some of the Williamsburg favorites on the menu, like 10-hour slow roasted pork belly, and burrata with shaved grey mullet bottarga and agrumato oil, but there are a few newcomers for the new location -- castelmagno cheese raviolini and baby goat roulade with crispy artichoke. 510 Broome Street between West Broadway and Thompson, 212-334-9020.
• Saucy -- as one might expect from the name, this new Upper East Sider features over fifty sauces; the menu outlines recommended pairings with organic chicken, pasta, and sometimes beef. You'll see some traditional sauces, such as arrabiata or bordelaise, and others of Chef Simon Mann's creation, like the Bloody Mary -- a blend of tomato, celery, tabasco and vodka. 1409 York Avenue at 75th Street, 212-249-3700.
• Sandro's -- Sandro Fioriti has resurrected his Upper East Side outpost (leggings aren't the only thing from the 80's making a comeback). He'll be serving hearty Italian fare until 2 a.m., including sea urchin ravioli and a slew of house-infused grappas. 306 E. 81st Street, 212-288-7374.

THEATER: Biography is a largely forgotten 1932 comedy by S. N. Behrman, who wrote witty and flattering plays for high society. In the Pearl Theatre’s current revival, Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order) plays Marion Froude, a free-spirited, liberated lady in her 40s who draws heat when she decides to write a tell-all about her eccentric life. One of the colorful characters from her past who dreads the exposure is a U.S. Senate hopeful; sparks fly when Ms. Froude refuses to self-edit. Martin Denton calls it “a delightful, giddy, smart screwball comedy of ideas.” - John Del Signore

The Tribeca Film Festival is starting this Wednesday night, so you still have a few days to get your tickets and make dinner reservations. The New York Times gave a few local suggestions including Dennis Foy, Mai House, and Turks and Frogs. Cercle Rouge is offering a prix fixe, three-course menus for lunch ($19.95) and for dinner from 4 - 7 p.m. ($34.95), just for the occasion.

Losing Something is a new play by theater and media group 3-Legged Dog (3LD), whose headquarters at 30 West Broadway were destroyed on 9/11. Their new space at 80 Greenwich Street is just three blocks from Ground Zero – a seemingly fitting spot in the shadow of no towers for their new multimedia meditation on loss.

Pair of 8's owner Ron Didner and new Chef Matthew Hamilton (formerly of Prune, Uovo, and Zuni Cafe, pictured at right) pair up with Best Cellars to host the first of this monthly series starting with Wine 101. Wine will be paired with five courses. $70 for a single class and $65 for two or more classes, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Call 212-362-8730 to register. 568 Amsterdam Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets.

We thought things were a little too quiet in the Busta camp. Yesterday a Manhattan judge took back her previous plea offer of no jail for his two outstanding assault arrests, stirring things up once again.

We just discovered Greg Martin's wonderful drawings of Soho fire escapes. His site obsessively chronicles just about every one in the area bounded by Broadway, Houston, Canal, and West Broadway. A graduate of Columbia's MFA program, Martin also does a great polar bear. Good work!

EVENT: Talking Head David Bryne joins Elizabeth Diller, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, for a talk about new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music. Christopher Janney moderates. More information here.

The Villager is reporting that the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation last week submitted a report calling for the creation of a South Village Historic District. Comprised of 38 blocks and about 800 buildings, it would be the city’s first tenement-based district.

Waiting for Kent Avenue to Be Finished, by Ben500.

Busta Rhymes surrendered to police last night for for beating his ex-driver. He was charged with assault in the third degree (a misdemeanor). He was expected to be held over night, but was only at the 1st Precinct station house from 7:30 to 11:30 pm.

Sin Sin's Body Work, by mdpNY.

- Grub Street reports that the Frying Pan rumors are true -- it will, in fact, be closing, at least at its current location. Their lease at Pier 63 has expired, but accoring to the owner's wife, there's no need for despair quite yet. "Pending recently commenced negotiations, the John J. Harvey fireboat, the Frying Pan, the kayak storage shed, and the recently opened Cafe du Soleil will tie up at Pier 66A, an old float bridge, and the Pan will serve food at another newly installed section of the park as early as next spring."

Port Authority 9:45am, by Travis Ruse.

After over 200 hundred bone fragments have been found in recent searches for remains at the World Trade Center site, Mayor Bloomberg is expanding the search considerably. Here's the Mayor's press release about a report from the Despartment of Design and Construction:

Although the report finds that the vast majority of the site had been thoroughly searched and is free of human remains, it recommends the continued excavations on the haul road where remains have been recovered (the haul road runs parallel to West Street, from Vesey to Liberty Streets, along the western edge of the World Trade Center site); the exploratory excavation of the 140 Liberty Street parcel, the former site of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church; the searching of selected subterranean structures in neighboring streets, such as Con Edison, Verizon, and DEP manholes (at the Mayor's request, these searches will exceed the report's recommendations because all the material from these locations will be removed and sifted by OCME); and the development of protocols for future construction on the site which would include having the City's Medical Examiner on site to observe all future construction in areas that have not been excavated since 9/11. This work will continue to be coordinated with the Port Authority and no construction delays are anticipated as a result.

Continue reading "New Search for WTC Remains Planned"

FILM: Going to movies can sometimes suck a lot of time and money out of you. Which is why we love film shorts. They cater to our attention span, and in this case - our wallet, too. “Made in NY Shorts,” is a whold bunch of shorts that'll leave you filled up like you'd just seen a feature length.

A totally creepy story in the Post about a man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a friend last Halloween. Medical resident Jason Jaramillo, his wife, and a friend went to a costume party the weekend before Halloween, and Jaramillo was dressed as Johnny Knoxville, his wife as a flower, and the female friend as Wonder Woman.

At some point before dawn, Jaramillo, his wife, and the victim... left the party and went to an apartment on West Broadway.

Continue reading "Guilty Plea in Halloween Sex Attack"

Julia Levy was on the scene for yesterday's Art Parade and filed this report:

If you're going to be in Soho this afternoon - or you're interested in some public spectacle - go to West Broadway at Houston and see the Deitch Art Parade at 4PM. Expect wild and fun floats and performers. The parade will go from Houston to Grand Street, all along West Broadway.

Last night, there were two big three alarms fires in the city. NY1 reports that over 100 firefighters responded to the fires in Queens and SoHo. The Queens fire occured in Bayside, and "destroyed a furniture store that had been in business for 20 years, damaged a Carvel ice cream shop and gutted several apartments." The SoHo fire, was at West Broadway and Spring, the building where the Emporio Armani store is located. Reader aj wilhelm has photos of the fire on Flickr and it looks bonkers - and it was really smokey for a couple blocks. The authorities do not know what caused either fire.

"Is the cover art for The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soliders" really a cry for help? Or is it simply The Raconteurs way of supporting a public health campaign?"

We had a lunch date down at Lucky Strike yesterday, but unfortunately, they were closed for renovations. Instead, we went across the street to Felix, a bistro on the corner of Grand and West Broadway. BIG MISTAKE. No one told us, but Felix is the home of the most polluted glass of water in lower Manhattan. The picture above shows the second glass we received after sending back the first round-- note the grime and unsettlingly large pieces of crud floating in the glass. If only we had known what Citysearch said about the place before we set out:

Ooh, the Department of Consumer Affairs is going to allow "unenclosed cafes" to place nonpropane heaters - think sidewalk cafes! The Post gets confirmation from the DCA that they're looking to make the heaters legal, and this is good news, especially after reading the Steve Cuozzo's suggestions for sidewalk dining the other week and how restaurants jump at installing them, because they are the "cheapest real estate in Manhattan." Gothamist loves sidewalk dining - great people watching, the din of the street is sometimes preferable to too-loud restaurants, and sometimes dogs will eat our scraps! One of our favorite stretches of sidewalk dining is West Broadway in Tribeca, where you can try your luck at getting seats at Odeon, Petite Abeille (we live for their rich macaroni and cheese with ham as it's the ultimate in comfort food), and Edwards. What about you?