The West Village restaurant Market Table occupies the old home of the legendary Shopsin's. Shopsin's and its mercurial owner Kenny Shopsin have since moved to a smaller place in the Lower East Side's Essex Street Market. Now, Market Table is the child of Little Owl's Joey Campanaro and Gabriel Stulman and ex-Mermaid…
The Marc Jacobsification of the West Village is like a slow gay manifest destiny. The ass-baring designer is opening his third store on Bleecker Street. Like the Creek, Navajo and Shoshone before them, the natives are upset. According to one West Village resident quoted in the Villager, "They scream, they shout, they…
Has the high-end real estate bubble popped? We ask because painter Jennifer Bartlett's insanely great West Village office, studio and home is still on the market (at $17.9 mil). We noted it for sale two months ago! Don't you need a 42-foot indoor lap pool? And 2500 square feet of gardens? We can only conclude that…
If there's one thing the West Village doesn't need any more of it is Italian restaurants. Those and Marc Jacobs stores are the Lernaean Hydras of West Village real estate. You cut one off and two pop up in its stead. That said, Centro Vinoteca, the newly opened and much anticipated Italian restaurant on 7th avenue and…
As noted earlier, New Victorians are today's Utopian anthroposophists of yesteryear. Among other things they value monogamy, dinner parties, pets, careers, garden parties and yoga. They dislike cocaine and spontaneity. If we had to guess, we'd say this trend is confined to the wealthy. And if we had to conjecture…
Adam Gordon, the dreamy self-storage baron who is still trying to sell 92 Jane St., is taking over the Bouwerie Lane Theatre on Bond Street, home of the Jean Cocteau Repertoire Theatre. Great, now where will we catch L'Epouse injustement soupçonnée? [NYO]
Artiste, award-winning director and painter Julian Schnabel just exposed his massive West Village building and the neighbors aren't happy. We haven't seen Pink that hot since 2001's Missundaztood. But Schnabel's mind works differently than us normals. Did you really expect the thought process that gave way to his…
It wasn't too long ago that clubbers would play Frogger across 7th Avenue South, shuttling between Movida on the west side and Luke and Leroy on the east. But those days of giddy crossings have been put down, ever since Movida closed. Now that space will soon be occupied once more. By what you ask? Another skinny…
With Equinox, Fantasy World, Day-O and mxyplyzyk all crammed close, Greenwich Avenue perhaps embodies all that is blandly, cleanly gay of the West Village. It's a thoroughfare for harmless homos into fitness and quirky interior design. And just when you thought it couldn't have gotten anymore safely gay, Jonathan…
When Mstislav Rostropovich's mother carried the then-embryonic and now recently deceased cellist for a 10 month gestation, she said the extra month was to better develop his hands, hands which later "dazzled listeners with both his richly personalized interpretations and a majestic warmth of tone." By that logic, …
We would like to blame some combination of Sex and the City, Stephanie Klein, and Sister 2 Sister for this party taking place at West Village boutique Elizabeth Charles tonight.
Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.
Giuliani-style American hero Dwayne Buckle, a sound engineer from Queens, has successfully made New York safer by getting four young women sent to prison yesterday. Congratulations to all of us! His initial campaign to make the streets of the West Village a better place for right-thinkers began last summer, when he…
Chumley's, whose chimney collapsed yesterday and whose demolition we predicted was imminent, has lived to greet the new dawn. The FDNY and the DOB have decided not to demolish the whole building but rather to shore it up and sally forth with renovations 'n' reconstruction. Tragically for bookish alcoholics, Chumley's…
This one hits close to the hearts and livers of many. Chumley's, the venerable West Village watering hole, is being demolished by the FDNY even as you read this. Good thing that last week's BookForum party got out alive! We recommend Curbed for the blow-by-blow.
The owners of twee West Village comfort foodery Tea & Sympathy have banded together with other Brit businesses, including Virgin Airlines (!?) to wage a publicity stunt: they're campaigning to have that stretch of Greenwich Ave. officially dubbed "Little Britain," like in that episode of Arrested Development. "The…
Last time we'd checked in with the Sex in the City tour's fave street, it was barely hanging on to some semblance of charm, what with the hordes gathered on the sidewalk in front of Magnolia Bakery and the ever-multiplying Ralph Lauren stores. Now WWD reports that the street is mere leases away from becoming…
How can you not love Ellen Barkin's 2nd floor balcony? When she first moved in to her West 12th Street townhome, Barkin erected a miserable privacy fence around the balcony, blocking her neighbors' courtyard view. Then she had a change of heart, and the fence has since been removed. Alas, without a privacy fence,…
A few weeks ago, as you might recall, New York mag announced that Shopsin's, the West Village institution with an interminable menu and a cantankerously charming — charmingly cantankerous? — owner, was up and moving to Brooklyn, looking for cheaper rent. Then the Daily News followed up on the story, downgrading the…
Just in case you care — and God knows we certainly don't — that cat is still stuck in that wall, and what seems like every New York City press organization has a representative camped out on Hudson Street waiting for its triumphant reappearance. (Waiting for it to be risen?) As of a few minutes ago, it hadn't.
