Tag: openings

The new four-story Lincoln Square Synagogue on 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue is complete, replacing the squat spaceship-looking synagogue down the block. The new synagogue cost $50 million, with $20 million coming from an anonymous donor and $20 million more from American Continental Property, the developer that plans to build ...

Il Cibreo, an Italian restaurant on 2888 Broadway between 112th and 113th that lasted about a year and a half closed this week to make way for a new concept: Mexican food! A new restaurant called Amigos is expected to open in the same spot on Friday, offering mid-priced Mexican ...

Some new restaurants recently opened on the Upper West Side, or are close to opening.

Simit & Smith, a small cafe, just opened at 124 West 72nd Street on Thursday night, selling simit, the pretzel-like pastries shown above, as well as coffee, tea and sandwiches. Simit comes in various flavors: original with sesame, whole wheat with sesame and whole grain. You can have it with ...

In the past few weeks, the West 70's have experienced lots of changes. Here are some of them:

Hiro Sushi at Ollie's just opened on 68th Street and Freedom Place (just East of Riverside Boulevard), replacing The Backyard @ 160, which closed a few months ago. The restaurant is a spinoff of the Ollie's Chinese food chain, with a twist: they're now serving Japanese food. Ollie's is a ...

For a year, we've been waiting to find out what would replace the Gap that closed at 2373 Broadway on the corner of 86th Street. It turns out the spot will stay within the family -- the Gap

You read it here first: the Upper West Side is becoming a hotspot for good Chinese food again. Today, a restaurant called Legend opened on 109th near Broadway, in the former home of Rack & Soul. That, and the upcoming opening of Red Farm on 77th, is making mouths water ...

The Columbus Circle holiday market opened today, selling everything from winter clothing to wooden gifts and jewelry. The market is located just in front of the

We've got some new information about two new businesses we've been writing about in the past few weeks:

This fall has been filled with restaurant openings, and three more restaurants recently came across our radar.

A brand-spanking new Verizon store opened today at the site of H&H Bagels on 80th Street and Broadway. The new store also replaced the stores that were next to H&H, including Magic Smile and Oz Moving stores. H&H was one of the most famous bagel stores in the city, taking ...

L'Occitane just opened a new store on 76th and Broadway. To celebrate this weekend they reminisced about the olden days -- no, not the Upper West Side's gritty days in the 80's, but the olden days of Renaissance times: someone was playing a harp and the store was giving away ...

A small tea shop called Palais des Thes just opened on Columbus Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets. Michelle Young, the founder of the Untapped Cities websites and a friend of the owners, sent us a description: Palais des Thés was created in Paris in 1986 by François-Xavier Delmas as ...

An H&M will open on the second floor of the Time Warner Center tomorrow morning with a series of giveaways, the company said on its Facebook page. We heard inklings about the store almost a year ago. "For the grand opening, the first 500 shoppers in line will receive an ...

Le Sportsac will open up a new store in the space formerly occupied by Betsey Johnson on Columbus Avenue between 71st and 72nd Streets. Amazingly, Le Sportsac is not French! It was started by Americans but the brand has been purchased by a Japanese company. But a French-sounding name is ...

Cafe Tallulah's mural of a worker and oxen in Cuba's sugarcane fields has been restored, and the upscale cocktail lounge and cafe on 71st Street and Columbus Avenue  is set to open its doors within weeks. The bas-relief sculpture had originally been created for Victor's Cafe, a Cuban restaurant in ...

Baconery, a bakery/cafe that infuses bacon into sweet dishes and drenches bacon with chocolate, just opened at 911 Columbus Avenue, between 104th and 105th Streets. Don't ask for the "light" menu. The idea for the cafe was born when a guy dipped his bacon into some maple syrup and said ...

Our inbox has been filling up with news and rumors of openings and closings on the Upper West Side.

Rigoletto Pizza, a favorite spot for Upper West Side families that was located on 69th Street and Columbus Avenue for about 20 years, shut down a few months ago to make way for El Mitote, a new Mexican restaurant from the same owners. But Rigoletto has reopened at 141 West ...