“If you had said twenty years ago, ‘you know the meatpacking district is going to be a cultural hub,’” Council Speaker Christine Quinn said in a short documentary on the neighborhood, “People would have looked at you like you were in some sort of beef-induced overdose haze and you had lost your mind.”
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“We want it to be about the food,” said Michael Ferraro, executive chef at Delicatessen, the trendy yet critically trashed restaurant at 54 Prince Street. “We want to turn this into a food restaurant, where people are not just coming for the scene and because it’s cool.”
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On Friday, Dec. 1, Bungalow 8 proprietor Amy Sacco arrived at a dinner party celebrating the new film The Good German with her friend Sean Penn. Once there—the fête was held at the Plaza Athénée—Ms. Sacco met up with some other familiar faces: George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Sam and Eva Mendes. So far, nothing out Read More
Boozy Beat:
Are ‘Noise Cops’ Coming? One of the chief arguments posed by opponents of the smoking ban was that in solving one problem, the city would simply be creating another: noisy smokers out on the streets. The ban has been in effect since late March, and already a remedy is being sought for combating Read More
A war of words has erupted between two prominent nightclub owners over the city’s smoking ban. “He’s the biggest non-politician hypocrite in New York,” Lotus co-owner David Rabin said of Jimmy Rodriguez, the owner of Jimmy’s Uptown and Jimmy’s Downtown. After an article appeared in the Daily News on Sunday exposing Mr. Rodriguez’s Jimmy’s Downtown Read More
Wake up and smell the meat carcasses! That’s what some New Yorkers could be saying if developer Stephen Touhey, who has proposed a 32-story luxury building steps from the meatpackers at the Gansevoort Meat Market and the biker bar Hogs & Heifers, wins a variance to build in this commercial district at a meeting that Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg likes to advertise himself as a consensus-builder who prefers compromise to combat. But when it comes to his war against smoking, Mr. Bloomberg is about as flexible as an iron lung.
The Mayor is privately threatening to retaliate against City Council members who fail to support his current proposal to ban smoking Read More
