350 West Broadway has a lot to say. Words upon words wrap around its glass street-level exterior, the stuff of luxury condos. All that condo-porn verbiage.

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Six notable nightlife openings.

Fedora’s new owner: “I’m already bracing myself for the criticism that I’m going to get. People are going to say, ‘It’s not like Fedora, Fedora looked nothing like this.’ … I’m choosing to keep the name because it’s a great name. I’m keeping the bar because it’s brilliant, the original bar from 1917. Aside from that, it’s now our restaurant.” [Esquire]

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In the next installment of the Potemkin Village saga, the Chelsea Hotel erects fake stores in their empty storefronts. [LWL]

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There was nothing that struck fear in the hearts of many high school students like the slide rule. I could never really understand because I loved mathematics and my slide rule. But so many seemed terrified. Perhaps it was all those numbers.
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With the movement of Habib’s Place from Avenue A and 6th, the removal of his sign revealed an under-sign: France’s Beauty Salon.

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On the block of West 4th where Left Bank books and Lee’s Laundry were booted, Cafe Minerva takes their place. It’s a cafe with framed posters of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean on the walls.

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