Healthy food, wine and cosmetics are on their way to the neighborhood.
Salad chain Chop’t now has signs up at its long-awaited spot on Amsterdam between 76th and 77th street. It’s set to open this winter. We first reported on the lease signing a year ago. Thanks to Lauren for the photo.
Cosmetics and beauty store bluemercury is set to open on the same block, in “winter 2016.”
Salad and health food spot sweetgreen is expected to open on the corner of 75th street and Amsterdam in the former home of Fusha on November 17, an employee told our tipster June. Thanks to Andrew for the photo.
NYC Wine & Spirits is opening on Broadway between 87th and 88th street between Hot and Crusty and Jeffreys Eyeglasses. Thanks to Rachel for the tip and photo.
Finally chopt! Been waiting years for this!!! Thank you! So happy!!
$100 Eve is a Millenial “been waiting for years…so happy”. FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE HER A SALAD.
You’ve been waiting years for someone to chop some lettuce for you?
why have you been waiting YEARS for
Pay Joe no mind, Eve.
Anonymous hostility is the refuge of the weak.
You know why, she obviously enjoys salad. Why do your feel the need to be a jerkoff about it?
Does anyone know when the “Bakery,” as per the signs on the outside, will open where the Popover user to be? Amsterdam between 86 and 87 Sts.
Was set to open in the summer but up until a couple if weeks ago they were still installing sheetrock so I am guessing it will still take a while…I am looking forward to that too!
Am I the only one who finds the name “Bluemercury” strange for a cosmetics store? Mercury is a deadly poison, why would anyone want to associate mercury with cosmetics? Maybe it’s because I worked in a chem lab for many years that my mind works that way.
It’s an odd name, but better than their first choice – fulminated mercury.
Ah, but this is blue mercury. Totally different stuff. (I’m just kidding.)
A sweet green branch just opened by Columbia University at West 115th and Broadway, too!
Why is it that suddenly two shops serving very similar food (salads) pop up 2 blocks from each other? Seems like the frozen yogurt store scenario all over again.
Because the younger generations seem to have money to burn. They are paying big bucks for lots of ingredients but no protein (which is extra) and boring taste.
The salad places have huge margins. They give you mainly lettuce greens and a bit of 4 toppings for about $8, or add some protein for about $11. But plenty of folks have no problem paying those prices. Seems like there are as many salad places as there are spin studios…
Frankly, Trade Joes has some really good packaged salad bowls for half the price..
These kids today!
There is also another salad store on Broadway around 70th street so that would make three salad restaurants in a similar area.
BTW – The wine shop that recently closed at 200 West 79th will be replaced by another wine shop. This info comes from the doorman (and as we all know … they know everything).
LOL, how many Bluemercuries can one neighborhood support?
I recall DNAinfo doing a story a while back about the wave of frozen yogurt places in the Upper West Side, and how they were closing and being replaced by salad. Wonder what will come along to replace the salad…
When the salad stores have run their course, I hope they are replaced by some stores where you can buy cosmetics, toiletries, basic groceries, greeting cards, prescriptions, that sort of thing. You know, like a Duane Reade or a CVS…
water. they will all be replaced by water stores.
Reverse osmosis?
Medical marijuana?
Sweetgreens is amazing . There will be lines down the block. it’s truly above and beyond the other salad places. Very poor timing by Chop’t .. They should have opened sooner and had a head start .
Bluemercury is owned by Macy’s now. Never see anyone in there buying ..
Sweet green is a satisfying, solid meal in a bowl. Great vibe, well managed, at least downtown. It’s 2015; nothing is cheap, but their quality and combinations are right on.
After reading the history of this American company and the impressive backgrounds of the owners, they can call themselves anything they want.
Addendum regarding a Bluemercury store/spa on the Upper West Side. Yelp! posters complained that the cosmetics salespeople were rude, condescending and ignored customers. However, the facials were good. Sounds like they could be fulminating mercury after all.
A Bluemercury stole my old korean grocery at 92 and Broadway. I really resent them. Will never buy anything in there. As a matter of fact,A: their products are too chemical for me B: they are also WAY too expensive. So we had since the 90: the banks, the nail salons, the yogurt, the bike /gyms places and now the salad trends. I loved it when we had Jake’s, the Butcher, Murder Inc, and yes for convenience, the KB toys…I am voting for a Trader Joe’s and a couple of affordable fun restaurants .
$100 Eve is a Millenial “been waiting for years…so happy”. FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE HER A SALAD.
Donkin donuts to open in old NY pizza on south side of 72nd st between Amsterdam and Columbus