Check out some recent Upper West Side openings and closings below.
Nut Box is opening in the former home of Hot & Crusty location on the East side of Broadway, between 104th and 105th Streets. Nut Box is a store that sells nuts, dried fruits, and other food. It started in Brooklyn. Thanks to Daren for the tip and @Above_96th for the photo.
Fresco Tortillas at 100 West 83rd street has closed, and says it is moving to 146 West 72nd street, which is now a Mexican restaurant called Taco Grill.
Bestall, a men’s shirt company, is opening in the former home of Montmartre on Columbus between 73rd and 74th streets. The website is here. Thanks to Wendi for the tip and photo.
The Ribbon, a restaurant developed by the brothers behind the Blue Ribbon empire, is set to open in the next few weeks at 20 West 72nd street, the former home of Sambuca. “We will be doing some very exciting and unique things at the new space and can’t wait to open our doors to all Upper West Siders very soon,” a rep tells us. “The 200 seat space, due to open late February, will have an elegant industrial design, a bar top converted from a Brooklyn factory floor and a broad menu featuring a rotisserie and raw bar,” Eater reported last year. We’ll be getting more info about the restaurant (and hopefully a sneak peek) soon.
The Subway sandwich shop at 109th and Broadway has shut down, one tipster tells us: “Not that anyone would miss a Subway sandwich shop.”
Friedman’s Lunch is coming to 1187 Amsterdam Avenue at 118th street this summer. We first reported on it in January. Thanks to our anonymous tipster.
Re The Ribbon’s “bar top converted from a Brooklyn factory floor”
Is that meant to make the restaurant “authentic”?
Somewhere in Brooklyn, a solitary factory worker is sprawled in the basement, having fallen through a bar-shaped hole in the floor.
Lol!!!
I hope it doesn’t draw any of those “Internet people” 🙂
Lol!!!
boy, that “elegant industrial design” for The Ribbon sounds underwhelming. Ick. Soho the UWS isn’t.
Good to see something finally going in the Hot & Crusty space. Now if only they would finish whatever work they have been doing on that building for the past four years and take down that hideous scaffolding.
The nut box describes that block pretty well, that’s where the SRO tenants hang out and the barber shop next to it still brings folks over from Amsterdam. A little too colorful for your average WSR yuppie, especially that McDonalds but it should be fun to watch.
I get my son’s hair cut at Juanitos. There is nothing wrong with getting a $12 haircut and going for a Ben & Jerry’s cone afterwards.
$12 haircut? is it good? i’ve gotta try it.
Thats what the UWS is all about Mark… You can spend $6k per month for your 2 BR but still mingle with the people that make this neighborhood wonderful. We need more shelters and supportive housing!
When one takes on the role of a community activist you have to expect a certain level of privacy is lost. When one uses their real name on an Internet forum in the information age, one must also expect a loss of privacy. When someone does both, well I think you get the point.
If people knowing your business creeps you out, do as everyone else on this forum does, don’t use your full name, frankly Bruce it’s a pretty foolish thing to do.
When one takes on the role of a community activist you have to expect a certain level of privacy is lost. When one uses their real name on an Internet forum in the information age, one must also expect a loss of privacy. When someone does both, well I think you get the point.
If people knowing your business creeps you out, do as everyone else on this forum does, don’t use your full name, frankly Bruce it’s a pretty foolish thing to do.
Sam, I’d prefer those housing units going to the working poor, i.e., people who actually get up and go to some sort of job every day, not the economically inactive loitering class who stand outside all day and aggressively panhandle. There’s a huge distinction between the two; sadly you don’t seem to understand it.
Sam doesn’t seme to understand that 25% of people in homeless shelters these days ARE “working poor.” It could be your bank teller to the server at MacDonalds. many of the rest are disabled or mentally ill.
Scott my post is all sarcasm,I’m with you 100%.
we wouldn’t want Sam to “mingle” with anyone from upper Amsterdam Avenue, given that he’s spending $6,000 a month for his apartment.
Nah I wouldn’t pay 6k a month to live in your neighborhood Bruce that would be criminal! And yeah I wouldn’t want to mingle with a lot of people on Amsterdam, that doesn’t make me a bad person. I wouldn’t want to mingle with you either, no big deal.
you seem to spend a lot of time doing searches on my private life and living situation. that is sad but also very very creepy.
I never said you don’t deserve it Bruce, I’m very happy for you. That being said if someone who isn’t as fortunate to gain access to a rent stabilized unit, they will have to pay market rent. A 2BR in a doorman bldg runs around 6k.
I do find it interesting that in addition to you being in favor of providing assisted living for those in low income brackets, but also have reaped the benefits of living in a rent stabilized apartment when I’m fairly certain that your income was quite high.
In my previous post I didn’t imply that rent stabilized units should not gain access to amenities, etc. I do however find it sickening that people who most likely have very healthy incomes are still afforded the opportunity to suck on the teet of rent stabilized apartments. Not only are you in favor of spending my tax dollars on assistance for the poor, but my market rate rent subsidizes your own rent stabilized unit.
So from what I can gather from public records and from your various quotes in the NYT, etc, you lived in a rent stabilized unit that was subsidized by your market rate neighbors and then went on to purchase your unit when your building went coop. Nice work Bruce, you played within the rules but I’m not sure it jives with your ultra liberal positions on most issues.
Greedy landlords huh?
Sam seems to know what type of apartment i’m living in.
Sam said:
“Please pardon me if I (like most people) have had to cough up fair market price for my living arrangements.”
the “like most people” in interesting. Sam doesn’t seem to realize that more NYers , including on the UWS, live in rent stabilized apartments than so-called “market rate” apartments.
Sam implies that people who live in rent stabilized apartments in some way don’t deserve the same considerations as so-called “market-rate” people.
And it’s certainly well within anyone’s rights to not want to hang with me, nor enjoy my company in “their” clubs, whatever that means.
Bruce not everyone on the UWS has been as fortunate as you to live in a rent stabilized apartment. Please pardon me if I (like most people) have had to cough up fair market price for my living arrangements.
you might be amazed to find out that a lot of the people who are lower income than you would not really want to “mingle” with you. maybe they wouldn’t want you in their clubs.
your latest posts have been very educational for me… teaching me what is really going on with all the complains about “crime” and “danger.” it’s really about the $6,000 apartment crowd not having to see any poor people when they travel around the neighborhood.
Yay. Friedman’s Lunch will be a fantastic addition to the neighborhood!
Sam — Yay!! The free market economy!! Unfortunately Manhattan is a skewed and bloated example with the UWS being a rather grotesque off-shoot. It’s all a mute point. Y’all ruined Manhattan years ago. Now your claws are in Brooklyn too. Congrats on your success. Bid up on that rat hole. It is so worth it.