Slum Goddess' new BFF: Grimace. [SG]
Edie the hamster fixes her flat tire. [Gothamist]
So what's going into the former East Village Chocolates by the Bald Man space? It's none other than a bank--the fourth one in a two-block radius:
Chase banks on every corner. [CR]
Hyper-gentrification is happening all over--Don Everett Pearce sings about it in LA. [youtube]
Brooklyn Navy Yard history saved one artifact at a time. [NYT]
Thor's Coney Island flea market is for lease. [ATZ]
Great. 8th Avenue b/w 14th and 23rd, already a wasteland of mediocre cuisine (minus the gem Taza de Oro and the fine, but pricey Gascogne, has added the following in the past year or so:
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Chipotle
Original Roy's Pizza (how about that one?)
...and now Ruben's Empanada's
Wonder what will arrive when the Blockbuster shutters...
I used to love Ruben's until last year when they renovated their space in the EV and started putting raisins or something in the empanadas. It was a dive and it should have stayed that way.
ReplyDeletedive? There will be no dives in Bloomie's new New York!
ReplyDeleteIs this an off-shoot of their location in the EV??or are they leaving the EV and moving to Chelsea??
ReplyDeletei think Ruben's is expanding
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