Tag: closings

We just heard about some changes above 100th Street from a source deep within the commercial real estate community. Specifically, a new French cafe is coming to 107th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and a discount home goods store and a dry cleaners have both closed, says David Chkhedize at Massey ...

This month, we have lots of new Upper West Side businesses to talk about, including new restaurants serving everything from pizza, to beer and pickles, meat, milkshakes, and cupcakes -- and even vegan food for you good people. And we bid a fond farewell to some other businesses, including some ...

Two Korean delis have closed their doors after serving Upper West Siders for decades, part of a sad trend in the neighborhood and the city. Golden Boy Mart on Broadway between 98th and 99th Streets (above) closed recently after more than 30 years in the neighborhood. Sam Laroche, the owner ...

Eretz Kosher Market and Cafe, open since 2003, has closed its doors and the landlord has slapped a for-rent sign on the window. The restaurant was known for its schnitzel and dubbed itself the "Home of The Best Schnitzel in New York City."

Lots of new stores are cropping up throughout the neighborhood, beyond the big names that get all the attention like Century 21 and Momofuku Milk Bar. I was even offered a slice of pizza from a new place called Primo Pizza 84 on 84th Street between Columbus and Central Park ...

This month, we bring news of new cupcakes, novelties and outdoors goods on the Upper West Side, as well as the closing of two spots that were dear to locals

Aren't liquidators great? In case you didn't get the MESSAGE, Borders in the Time Warner Center is closing down, and everything is being sold at a ridiculous discount.

After 27 years on 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, Maxilla & Mandible closed its doors for good on Sunday night, stuffing brown paper into the display window where skulls and fossils used to sit and slapping a tiny sign on the front saying simply "Gone Digging."

Maxilla & Mandible, the fossil shop at 451 Columbus Avenue where thousands of New York kids gawked at the bones and fearsome skulls of dinosaurs, bobcats and crocodiles will close this month

The famous P&G Bar, perhaps the best-known dive bar on the Upper West Side, will shut its doors for good on August 16, the owners just announced on their Facebook page. Two years ago, P&G left its original location at the corner of West 73rd Street and Amsterdam, a space ...

The Blue Donkey Bar at 487 Amsterdam Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets has closed down after the police brought a Nuisance Abatement case against it -- but the police were just one of the groups that the bar blamed for the closing. There was also the neighbor, a guy ...

In the past month, we learned of the demise of Borders and some other well-loved or kinda-loved Upper West Side haunts. But tons of new stores and restaurants are coming to the neighborhood (match the numbers in the map to the numbers in the story). Read on! 1. West Side ...

Estelle's Antiques, a shop on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets that had operated for nearly 20 years, has closed its doors, the latest antiques store casualty in the neighborhood. Estelle's sold crystal glasses and other bric-a-brac, as well as some very unique pieces like suspended airplane lights. "We will ...

Cuban joint Cafe Con Leche has closed its location at 726 Amsterdam Avenue between 95th and 96th Street, and a new restaurant will open in its spot. It's unclear what that new restaurant will serve: according to a message on the restaurant's answering machine it's going to be a French ...

Bacchus Wines at 2056 Broadway between 70th and 71st streets  is shutting its doors on Wednesday because the owners lost their lease, and the company is liquidating its inventory. Wines, glasses and other supplies are flying off the shelf today at 30% off, and spirits are going for 20% off. ...

The city marshals have been getting awfully familiar with the Upper West Side, as they recently shut down another shop around the same time they locked the doors at the famous H&H Bagels last week. Café St. Honore, the quaint little cafe next to Bomboloni at 189 Columbus Avenue between ...

H&H removed its bagel oven from its 80th street store on Sunday and took the chandeliers out of the ceiling on Monday, presumably destroying whatever slight hope Upper West Siders had of the store being saved. But the company is already looking for a new place to sell bagels on ...

This month, we have plenty of openings and closings to report, but first, a moment of silence for H&H Bagels... Okay, now that that's over with, let's talk new wine bars, shirt shops, food markets, luggage stores, and doggie and human pampering businesses. As for closings: tea, pizza and makeup ...

H&H bagels is slated to shut its doors Tuesday, but one local resident isn't taking the news sitting down, with a hot cup of coffee and some lox and cream cheese. He is standing up to fight the transformation of our neighborhood into one giant waiting room for Duane Reade ...

This week we have lots of openings and closings to report. There are tons of new places to stuff your face, including burger joints, fine dining establishments courtesy of Daniel Boulud, and a new sweets emporium getting ready to take over the mess of empty storefronts on Amsterdam Avenue between ...