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Batali and to a lesser extent Flay headed in this direction. But they kept their flagships going. Puck too, I guess.

Nobody is disputing that. I am disputing that it gave its name to the neighborhood. And it's down to 3% support on the map now.

Yes, I saw that. And I have a really embarrassing one. For more than 30 years I have believed that Neneh Cherry was Don Cherry's daughter. Nope. She is African/Swedish, that part was correct, but Don Cherry was her stepfather.

Dude, really? Don't tell me how you eat your pizza, I don't need to know.

Melissa Errico on Friday at 54 Below. Almost 20 years since I first saw her, talking of old. I remember the first time I spoke to her after a set at the Oak Room. I told my wife about it, including the detail that she enthusiastically grabbed both my wrists. Wife: "Self defense."

Right, maybe four people responded and one lives in the building. Otherwise there would be a least a search result or two.

As the stats show, hardly anyone says Alphabet City any more.

Hmm, it doesn't say Lower East Side unless you point your cursor at it. @rozrapp I have never heard of Waterside Plaza either. The only Google result for it is an individual apartment building around E. 26th. So that just looks wrong.

It has Ocean Hill, so it has credibility.

The Noodle Bar wll be 20 years old next year. These are long runs by NYC standards.

Yes, horrible opening sentence.

Here’s one that transfixed me.

I got there yesterday and was headed here to recommend it. Essential and surprising large. I will say that I thought it was uneven, that some paintings simply didn't work (he reportedly paints at speed and sometimes it shows). But there are enough amazing paintings here that that doesn't matter.

"(Henry) Taylor doesn’t really paint paintings at all; he paints faces and occupies the rest of each canvas with bright, dead space." Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud... (Sorry, digression.)

Well, I agree with the last two posts anyway. (I am currently trying to decide if Jackson Arn is going to be tolerable as the NYer's art critic.)

It has certainly kept a low profile. No entry in my 1300 page [i]Encyclopedia of New York City[/i]. It goes straight from Swope to Sylvia’s. In the landmarks book it’s listed as a historic district; map, no photo. I am feeling less bad about my ignorance.

Times Square has a sardine store? Is it aimed at tourists?

Only match I saw was England losing narrowly. Well done Springboks.

I have the landmarks of New York book and am looking it up. I am sure the residents don’t want tourists gawking at it.

Is that different from the one we would have used? I don’t know the acronyms.

Doubtless mentioned back in 2019 but I was invited to a (corporate) Lady Gaga concert. I assumed it would be okay, but yes, she was great. The corporation that mounted the event was (is) big enough to rent a stadium for its guests and book her. Not cheap.

I think rather than travel to Bognor Regis I will continue to bug Ana in her DMs.

Any New Yorkers here know Sylvan Terrace? I had never heard of it. Stumbled across it heading for the Morris-Jumel mansion; 12 blocks from me so I was overdue to visit. The Terrace, with its row houses, was one of several streets providing accommodation for people working at the mansion and the estate. Now practically a gated community with the (small) wood frame houses selling for a fortune. But visually striking: looks imported from another city.

It’s not a UK/U.S. usage thing. I would never have put a definite article before Carnegie Hall even when I was in the UK. And I bet knowledgeable American journalists would not write “Arts Council.” Queen Elizabeth Hall has no “the” in front of it. And if anyone but you called me “mid-Atlantic” I would deliver a Bronx cheer.

For almost everyone, a waste of a first choice. I recall some useful guide that told you how many applications schools received versus places available.