By Chris Shott 4/02/07 12:00am

Of Mice and Mangia in Midtown

A mustachioed man in a tan trench coat milled anxiously outside the newly reopened Cafe Fonduta at 1:35 p.m. on Monday, admittedly wondering whether it was actually safe to go inside.

Just 24 hours earlier, a state lawmaker had grandstanded upon the same spot on East 57th Street, condemning the Upper East Side eatery as Read More

By Chris Shott 3/26/07 12:00am

‘It’s Inspectors Gone Wild’

Location: The Feb. 23 video of rats overrunning a health-inspector-approved KFC/Taco Bell in Greenwich Village triggered a city Health Department crackdown, resulting in three times as many daily restaurant closures as usual.

Hunt: It’s actually four times as many.

O.K., four times. Isn’t it about time the city put some teeth into the inspection process? Read More

By Gillian Reagan 3/05/07 12:00am

Rat-a-Tat-Tat!

"This is the best local news story you could possibly have,” said Peter Bunin, assignment editor for WNBC’s Today in New York.

Mr. Bunin had been on duty in the early-morning hours of Feb. 23 when the station fielded a phone tip about rats in a West Village fast-food restaurant. Freelance cameraman Rafael Garcia Jr. Read More

By Staff 2/23/07 6:15pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • A skinny, possibly “gloomy” Harlem townhouse is granted “Estate of the Day” honors at Luxist. Why? The 1910 house has a planted terrace, garden, 12-foot-high parlor floor, and original details like mahogany-framed windows and carved staircase. [Lux]
  • The ‘New Park Slope’ bears shockingly little semblance to the original. Unless the old Park Slope Read More

    • By Staff 8/16/05 9:41pm

    New Times Tower: Now, More Snobulous!

    Fast food restaurants, educational and medical facilities not permitted to lease space in the 52-story building include: Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, juvenile or adult day-care centers, social-services offices, job training centers, and auction houses (except “high-end auction houses specializing in art and historical artifacts”).

    That’s according to The Village Voice‘s Paul Moses who Read More

    By George Gurley 4/12/99 12:00am

    Sarah Thyre, Actress and Bride of Richter

    Sarah Thyre, 30, grew up poor in Louisiana and now lives in a big apartment in Chelsea. The place has his-and-her bathrooms, one for her, and one for her husband, Andy Richter, the sidekick on Late Night With Conan O’Brien .

    On Easter Sunday, Ms. Thyre was standing in her bathroom wearing a burgundy taffeta Read More