Location: Steve, you’re opening a second Magnolia Bakery on Columbus Avenue this week, and Danny, you just opened a second Mermaid Inn on Amsterdam Avenue this past November. Both of you used to live here on the Upper West Side. What is it about the neighborhood that brought you back for these new endeavors?
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Hallowed cupcake mecca Magnolia Bakery has spawned a second location — three times bigger — on the Upper West Side.
For this week’s Observer, out tomorrow, I sat down with Magnolia owner Steve Abrams and brother Danny Abrams, owner of the Mermaid Inn, who similarly opened a second location in the same neighborhood. Read More
Given everything that happened a few blocks away, it’s amazing that the Harrison opened at all. The restaurant, planned for early fall, finally made its debut in late October, when some sense of normalcy had returned to Tribeca. I wanted to show support by going there for dinner right away. Fat chance. It took several Read More
As buzz saws whined and packing peanuts swirled around their feet, a roomful of bright-eyed waiters took notes about the menu they would soon be serving at the Harrison, a new Tribeca restaurant which should have been opening in the shadow of the World Trade Center, but is now opening in the shadow of a Read More
