Restaurateur to Landlord: Check the Basement
“These roots go down into very rich soil,” said Toney Edwards, owner of Le Madeleine restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen.
Mr. Edwards was referring to the tall ficus tree he had planted as a sapling nearly a quarter-century ago, in the garden-seating section of his then-fledgling French bistro on 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue.
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