Word got out yesterday that Tavern on the Green may be on the fast track for a new era of pond-side dinner opulence. The beloved Central Park restaurant has been closed for over a year since union and bankruptcy issues shut the doors in early 2010, but it seems to have found a savior in Read More
The developers Steve Roth and Veronica Hackett have, after years of court cases and millions of dollars, finally secured their jewel on Central Park, as The Observer‘s Laura Kusisto reports in this week’s print edition. The dumpy rental building at 220 Central Park South will soon be replaced with yet another soaring luxury building. Tentative Read More
Last week we warned cyclists to look out for cops cracking down on even minor bike infractions to gin up enforcement stats. It appears to be even worse than The Observer initially fathomed, as Streetsblog has a nightmarish tale from the former bike haven, now bike hell, that is Central Park.
It all Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
As rents climb back toward record highs and the city’s unemployment rate stays above 9 percent, affordable housing remains just as critical an issue now as it was during the real estate boom. Fortunately, two hoodlums from Florida may have a solution to the city’s housing problems.
The Times ran a quixotic story on the Read More
Interview magazine publisher — and Polo enthusiast — Peter Brant and former supermodel Stephanie Seymour reunited yesterday after a year and a half of vicious divorce proceedings. Now they’re making the recommitment even more official. The New York Post reports that the couple is shopping around for townhouses on both sides of Central Park. It seems there Read More
In the wake of the recent gassing of Prospect Park’s popular goose population—one that appalled local goose-lovers and even prompted a protest outside the mayor’s Upper East Side mansion—the Central Park Conservancy is quietly continuing its considerably more humane geese expulsion method.
Starting in late August, when molting season ends, a Conservancy contractor Read More
If you’re anything like us, Sheep Meadow dining brings to mind Triscuits and questionable street produce dipped into sun-baked tubs of Alouette or browning containers of guac’.
No more.
From July 10 through Labor Day weekend, CityMint, a new iPhone app, will deliver orders from participating local restaurants (including Big Nick’s, China Fun, Read More
So every year I promise myself I’m never going back to this totally intimidating but really-for-a-good-cause luncheon of women with endless resources to spend on hats. And each year, like a drug addict drawn to a fix, I’m back gawking at the crowd of ladies who don’t know from the word recession, or the fact Read More
The Post’s Steve Cuozzo, in tip-top Cuozzo form Wednesday morning, excoriates the Bloomberg administration for allowing Tavern on the Green to languish in a state of empty decay.
In a column entitled, “Cavern on the green: Shame of famous eatery’s dark decay,” Mr. Cuozzo writes:
Nearly four months since Tavern on the Green went Read More
On Thursday evening, Community Board 7′s Parks and Preservation committee will hold a meeting to discuss having three translucent “bubbles” cover public tennis courts by the Central Park Tennis Center, located at 94th and 95th streets. Originating from the Parks Department, 26 Har-Tru courts would be weatherproofed from Nov. 15 to March 24 every year for Read More
