Where cooks once tenderized beef, people will soon be sitting around in their underwear waiting for a doctor.
The space on the corner of 88th street and Broadway that used to house Aged restaurant, which closed a few months ago, will become the Upper West Side’s second CityMD medical office, Crain’s reported. “We pick neighborhoods with easy access and being a ground floor business made sense to us,” Dr. Ned Shami, chief operating officer for CityMD, told Crain’s. “There’s more visibility and it makes it easier for patients to get to us.”
City MD hopes to move in by the end of this year.
I love CityMD, but is it really necessary to have 2 just 4 blocks away from each other? Wouldn’t one a little further South or East make more sense?
Te CityMD at 92nd and Broadway has a “for rent” sign on it.
Aix made a good burger. Too bad that place didn’t make it. Maybe the CityMD at 92nd will turn into a yogurt place – we don’t have one on that block.
Argh. This neighborhood already is terrible for restaurants, and you take some prime real estate and turn it into an Urgent Care?!?
So frustrating.
Yes, but there’s a certain karmic appropriateness to this.
What better place for treating aches and kvetches (also ‘Kvetchers’ (n) Those who kvetch) than……………(wait 4 it) ………………………………… a place once known as “AGED.”
Personally, I always thought that place was a nursing home.
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Could have been worse, Jay. Might have become another bank…
Give it time. It will.
The CityMD location next to Equinox/92 is moving. A physician who works there told me the property owner of the 92nd Street location wanted a six-fold rent increase when the current lease expires in less than a year. CityMD declined to renew. CityMD has seven Manhattan locations. As an aside – they rock. Always available and very respectful of your time.
Interesting that the landlord thinks he can get a lot more rent than what City MD is already paying considering that the space that used to house a Capital One branch across the street has been sitting empty with a for rent sign for what must be a couple of years now.
Well that’s a shame (yes, I live right near by and it’s SO Damn convenient. I guess the additional 4-5 blocks won’t hurt SO much!)
As for the landlord… that space was ugly prior to CityMD moving in. A wasted space. This upgraded the street. It wouldn’t surprise me if Equinox did take it over to expand. But unless that’s imminent, it just means that block is empty again. As someone else posted, similar to the bank across the street. Oh well. Progress (!) (?)
Maybe Equinox will take the space. 92nd needs more space and a pool!
by the middle of the decade we’ll have a CITY MD in every block. You will be required to spend 75% of your income on medical care
I’m a big fan of CityMD. Great hours, great staff, no waiting, unlike our regular medical providers. Have everything on site, rather than having to go on a scavenger hunt for labs and xrays. And reasonable fees, even if you don’t have insurance. We first went to them a few years ago on the UES when our daughter had a bad earache/fever late on a Saturday. Have been to them several times on the UWS since they opened at Broadway/W92 for random illnesses and even got work medical clearances/physicals there. Now will be even more convenient.
The City needs to stop its undeclared war on restuarants and bars (legal needed service that provides jobs and tax money and adds to lively street activity).
The Community Boards have made it impossible to get a liquor license, the taxes, penalties, inspections, shakedowns, theft, tickets, delays make it impossible to make a living.
No restaurant should employ parentheses in its name, so I am not sad that (aged. ) is going away. Good god!
There are lots of ways one can evaluate a restaurant, including quality of the food. But whether the restaurant has parentheses in its name is a new one to me!
Aside from that blatant and fatal deficiency, the food at (aged.) was good, and the place was an asset for the neighborhood. I’m sorry to see it gone.
(Agreed!)
Miss you, Boulevard.
What a fabulous idea.
I visited the location at 92 /Broadway two weeks ago and was very impressed.
The doctor was wonderful and the surroundings were clean and bright
A welcome addition to the neighborhood
Don’t expect to be able to get out of a wheel chair accessible vehicle at that location — too much in the way!
“Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!”
Another death knell for north of 86th Street. This area is turning into a highway for the homeless and the infirm.