Tag: openings

For months, David Schatsky, the operator of a website called Stop Sugar & Plumm has lambasted the restaurant and candy store "Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm" slated to open on 78th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. He's called it "offensive," ridiculed its Macorons, and said it "degrades the character of ...

For months, we have been hearing rumors that RedFarm, the hugely popular West Village Chinese food restaurant, is planning to open a new restaurant on the Upper West Side. And now we know exactly where the restaurant is planning to open

To those of you who had longed for another H&H Bagels store in the old H&H Bagels spot on 80th and Broadway, we have some pretty depressing news. It ain't happening.

Two new shoe stores and a major shoe store expansion will turn the upper-70's/low-80's into the shoe capital of the Upper West Side by the end of the summer. As we reported, Harry's Shoes on 83rd will be nearly tripling in size and DSW will be opening a new store ...

Someday, people will stop opening stores that sell sugar-filled treats on the Upper West Side, but that day is not coming soon. Two new stores are bringing some new sweet options to the neighborhood. On Broadway between 61st and 62nd Streets, IT'SUGAR is set to open in August. This place ...

In the process known as gentrification, people and stores deemed undesirable are forced out of a neighborhood in favor of higher-end stores and wealthier folk. But what about un-gentrification? Our tipster Sharon sent us word that the Gourmet Garage on Broadway between 96th Street and 97th Street that closed last ...

Doctors from the emergency department of Mount Sinai just opened a new urgent care center on 91st Street and Columbus Avenue. "Our Emergency Medicine physicians possess extensive experience in caring for patients of all ages and medical backgrounds," the center's website says. "Our Urgent Care Center physicians are the same ...

When the Alamo Drafthouse announced in April that it would be opening a new five-screen movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on 100th Street and Broadway next year, it was arguably the most exciting news to hit the Upper West Side in years. The Metro, which opened in 1933, ...

Maybe it's a coincidence, but landlords have been renting space to banks in a hurry in the past few months ahead of new rules that will limit the size of banks on the Upper West Side. Some of the banks are gobbling up space that used to hold multiple smaller ...

As we've noted before, Columbus Avenue businesses don't tend to stay vacant for long. And two stores that recently vacated their spaces are already being filled by new stores. Paper Source, a Chicago-based stationery store that we've written about before, is expecting to open next month in the spot on ...

Score one for the little guys! Harry's Shoes, a staple on 83rd Street and Broadway for 37 years, is expanding later this year in a big way. Harry's will lease the space formerly occupied by the adjacent Talbot's (which downsized) and will be building the space out over the next ...

We had heard that the Upper West Side was getting a new Chipotle, and that it would likely be going into the old Nëo Sushi spot on Broadway between 82nd and 83rd. But now we've gotten word that Chipotle is actually opening two new restaurants in the neighborhood. Jeffrey Roseman, ...

An iconic space meant to represent all the good things on the Upper West Side that have been demolished by corporate greed has a new owner who will gladly starch your shirts for you. The exterior of the store at 106 West 69th Street was the set for "The Shop ...

When you live a life consisting of waving and smiling at people, you'd better look good. And Princess Kate Middleton has achieved that goal. One of her go-to stores has just opened on the Upper West Side, allowing women who have not yet found their princes to nonetheless look royal. ...

Columbus Avenue commercial real estate is hot -- so hot in fact that there isn't a single vacant space on the entire stretch from 67th to 82nd Street, according to the Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District. We have already reported on many of the restaurants and retail spaces that are ...

Down & Quilt Shop, the bedding store that has been on Columbus Avenue and 85th Street for 28 years, is closing, and they're liquidating much of their inventory. But the good news is that the owner has found a new space nearby, at 527 Amsterdam Avenue (between 85th and 86th), ...

A new vegan restaurant just opened last night in the old Trattoria di Vino spot on Broadway between 89th and 90th Streets. Candle Cafe is an offshoot of an Upper East Side restaurant of the same name (there's also an upscale version of the cafe called Candle 79 on the ...

Gastronomie 491, the new food market and restaurant on Columbus between 83rd and 84th, opened today at 7 a.m. after offering some journalists, bloggers and friends a sneak preview last night. I got a chance to check it out and can't pretend to be fully objective: they fed me well ...

The Upper West Side is bursting with phenomenal grocery stores and markets. From Zabar's to Citarella to Fairway to Trader Joe's to Whole Foods (not to mention Westside Market, Gourmet Garage and dozens of smaller specialty shops like Barney Greengrass and Epicerie Boulud) we are never more than 10 blocks ...

Columbus Avenue, which is gradually morphing into the Madison Avenue, is getting two new stores in the coming weeks. Therapie, the gifts and cosmetics store on Columbus between 74th and 75th Streets, closed after a liquidation sale a couple of weeks ago, and the landlord has already signed a lease ...