The Smooklers are expanding their culinary empire by taking over the former Alobar space and renaming it Ravenswood Tavern according to Eater. The menu will have more in common with the prior occupant than Mu Ramen, with chef Joshua Smookler creating [Read more…] about MU RAMEN OWNER TO TAKE ALOBAR & RENAME RAVENSWOOD TAVERN
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY GETS ITS OWN NEW FACTORY
The Chocolate Factory Theater has scored a golden ticket and secured a permanent home for $3.8 million with financial help from the NYC government according to The New York Times. Currently located on 49th Avenue in Hunters Point, the theater will be moving into a 7,500 SF single story brick building at 38-29 24th Street in Dutch Kills, for now the home of Earth Stone Design Inc., a stone supplier, for the 2018-2019 season. I imagine acquiring a new home will allow the Chocolate Factory to largely stay the course in terms of avant garde programming, which leaves only two questions lingering: [Read more…] about THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY GETS ITS OWN NEW FACTORY
FREE SHAKESPEARE, YOGA, PLASTICS & SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
FREE Shakespeare! No it’s not a protest movement, but literally a free fully-casted play on the waterfront. Two actually, no make that four if you count identical shows the following night at Socrates Sculpture Park. This Saturday and Sunday and next, at 7pm on Saturday at the field on Gantry Plaza State Park and 5pm on Sunday at Socrates, the Hip-to-Hip Theatre Company will perform Measure For Measure and Henry IV. Check the schedule below for full information and here are my earlier thoughts on this great program.
//FREE Yoga, free movies, so much going on in LIC this week. Alas my two week “residency” at Les Caves du Roy is in mid stride and I’ll be missing Anne Bancroft taming the shrew in ‘The Graduate’ tonight on the oval. The following morning The Yoga Room will be holding a free yoga session by the Oval and will continue to do so every Saturday in August from 10am – 11am.
//READING the local and non-local articles in the last week on the Water’s Edge developer announcement was like watching [Read more…] about FREE SHAKESPEARE, YOGA, PLASTICS & SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
TF CORNERSTONE NAMED DEVELOPER FOR WATER’S EDGE SITE
There will be no pedestrian bridge to Roosevelt Island, nor will there be a community center. TF Cornerstone was selected by NYC officials to develop the Water’s Edge site and their plan largely adheres to the bells and whistles in the RFP put out almost a year and a half ago by the city. In fact the only one who seems to be surprised that it will have a token industrial component is The New York Times reporter who broke the story. He obviously must not have bothered reading his colleague’s lengthy story from over a year ago which touted this novelty plan in the development site.
In fact the biggest thing that will differentiate the pair of towers on this plot from their brethren further south along the waterfront in LIC [Read more…] about TF CORNERSTONE NAMED DEVELOPER FOR WATER’S EDGE SITE
ODE TO WATER’S EDGE AND WHAT LIES AHEAD?
SO, The New York Times released a hatchet job on Mayor de Blasio and his supposed tinkering on behalf of the Water’s Edge restaurant. While I’m not overly interested in the he said/she said of it all, I did enjoy the follow-up article that delved into greater detail about the restaurant’s history, dating back to 1980. Equally intriguing from a historical culinary standpoint was the link to the NYT restaurant review by Bryan Miller in 1992, which like all the paper’s restaurant reviews back then were categorized under ‘Arts.’
As most readers already know, what does interest me in regards to the Water’s Edge, is the future of it. Today’s NYT ode to the Water’s Edge reiterates in equally vague terms as I did last month that the “agency [EDC] will soon select the developer.” Hopefully there will be no meddling from above and the one they select will be based on the objective criteria that best suits Long Island City.
//RESTAURANT news is aplenty, or maybe not as seen in the stories below. Pulling one nugget, [Read more…] about ODE TO WATER’S EDGE AND WHAT LIES AHEAD?