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Major restaurants and cafes seek rent cuts, irking landlords
As coronavirus closed stores across the country in March and April, many landlords proved willing to work with tenants...
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More national food brands are opening stores in NYC
Call it factory to table. A growing number of food and drink producers are opening stores in Manhattan to...
Meow Parlour officially opens on LES on Monday
Tomorrow the city’s first permanent cat café will open at 46 Hester Street on the Lower East Side.
A Fifth Avenue café creates cross-district imbroglio
A cross-district dispute is playing out in the City Council over a sidewalk café Application On Lower Fifth Avenue.
Business owners change tune on pedestrian plaza
The Department of Transportation’s pedestrian plazas have largely gotten a bad rap from the business community, but at least one group...
Pete’s Tavern sues over sidewalk café rights
Pete’s Tavern, the historic ale house located near Union Square in Manhattan, is suing its landlord after the owner...
Macy’s to get NYC’s first non-branded Starbucks
New York City’s very first “stealth” Starbucks location is set to come to the under-renovation Macy’s Herald Square flagship,...
Empire State Building tenant seeks $10 million for lost profits
As the owners of the Empire State Building embark on taking the Midtown landmark public, and battle a court...
Locals fight with club owner over fate of UWS mural
A proposed Upper West Side nightclub located at 240 Columbus Avenue is advancing in the approval process, but it’s...
Famed EV eatery closes doors over landlord construction dispute
Life Café, the well-known East Village Eatery and 30-year tenant of 343 East 10th Street and Avenue B, has...