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New on EveryBlock today July 24, 2008

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23 East 22nd St. Manhattan's Clocktower: Designer Condos by Versace.
...Madison Park. A 60 story luxury building One Madison Park is is being constructed at 23 East 22nd St. Those apartments will have incredible views of the Clock Tower. The building is mostly sold...

Published by Mitchell's Manhattan Real Estate Blog on July 24, 2008.

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50 business reviews

5 stars out of 5: Otto Tootsie Plohound, Shake Shack, L'Arte Del Gelato, Dia Center For the Arts, Cru, La Bonne Soupe, Manhattan Maids, Biscuits and Bath, yaya tea garden, Tartine, Pylos, Wild Ginger, Manhattan Men, Water Moon, Backyard Chicken, Scott's Flowers, 53rd and 6th Halal Cart and Morimoto reviewed on Yelp.com.
4 stars out of 5: Burger Joint, Cosi, Maroons Restaurant, Verve, Karahi Indian Cuisine, Tamarind, Gawker Media, Craft, Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Cubana Cafe, Country Club, Megu, Doma Cafe & Gallery, Chang Wang Restaurant, The Bar Room at The Modern and Perry Street reviewed on Yelp.com.
3 stars out of 5: DessertTruck, 21 Club, Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Air Canada and Wendy's reviewed on Yelp.com.
2 stars out of 5: Gracie Mews, Pookie & Sebastian, Nino's Positano, Hooters and Kittichai reviewed on Yelp.com.
1 star out of 5: Arriba Arriba East Side, Charlie Mom Restaurant, Bourbon Street Southern Gourmet Pantry, megabus, Tao and Tgif reviewed on Yelp.com.

New on EveryBlock yesterday July 23, 2008

45 news articles

26 Federal Plaza Unhinged ex-sergeant is slain by cops
He showed up at 26 Federal Plaza without an appointment on Monday to speak with the agent assigned to the case but couldn't get in because he was armed.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.
National Action Network They're not 'Al' out to get me: Sharpton
That is a big shift in attitude for the usually combative Sharpton, who has claimed that investigators unfairly targeted him and his National Action Network because of his civil rights activism - as they did the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.
Hospital for Special Surgery No word on Jorge surgery
Posada met late Tuesday afternoon with Dr. David Altchek, the Mets' medical director and a noted shoulder specialist, undergoing another MRI on his injured arm at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA boss says he'll appoint chief for each subway line
Metropolitan Transportation Authority brass, confronting massive budget gaps that may lead to fare hikes, also said they anticipate savings by reorganizing and streamlining the underground bureaucracy.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.
National Action Network STATE TO GET ITS $HOT AT REV. AL
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's own probe into the National Action Network's suspicious lack of records isn't over.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Midtown STATE TO GET ITS $HOT AT REV. AL
"Clearly, they found no criminal reason to go forward," Sharpton scoffed at a Midtown press conference.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Chelsea STATE TO GET ITS $HOT AT REV. AL
Another lien filed by the state taxman seeks $175,902 from Rev. Al Communications, one of the many business ventures Sharpton has registered to a Chelsea office.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Crain's WEINER: HEY, NOW I LIKE MIKE
"The irony's going to be - I don't know if the mayor believes this - but I think probably years from now, when the mayor looks back and says, 'Who was there who did the agenda that I cared about?' I think he's going to find that I'm the kind of pro-development person [who qualifies]," Weiner said at a Crain's New York Business forum.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 GOV: NOT SO FAST ON NEW FARE HIKE
Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint slapped down the idea that his the union could be pressed to chip in with cost savings.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Straphangers Campaign GOV: NOT SO FAST ON NEW FARE HIKE
Gene Russianoff, of the Straphangers Campaign, fired back: "The city now gives so little to a transit system that makes New York possible, it's like they are jumping the turnstile."

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Upper East Side $5M MAN: I'D SLAM DOOR
The man who opened doors and hailed cabs for Upper East Side millionaires became one himself in May after scoring big in the state's "Set for Life" scratch-off game.

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
Central Park MR. SNL 'STALK' TERROR
"He wrote him a couple of times. Then he visited the concierge" at Michaels' Central Park South apartment building "and spoke to him in a very nice voice."

Published by New York Post on July 23, 2008.
National Action Network Sharpton Says Federal Inquiry Has Ended
The Rev. Al Sharpton’s lawyer said on Tuesday that federal prosecutors had ended a criminal investigation into his finances and those of his nonprofit organization, the National Action Network.

Published by New York Times on July 23, 2008.
Tishman Speyer Stuyvesant Town Revenues Have Fallen, Report Says
Legal costs associated with removing tenants from the complex and a soft real estate market have contributed to Tishman Speyer’s losses.

Published by New York Times on July 23, 2008.
Central Park About New York: Great Lawn: A Bubble of History Bursts
The city’s official head count of 48,538 people at Bon Jovi’s concert in Central Park suggests that past events’ attendance figures in the hundreds of thousands were most likely inflated.

Published by New York Times on July 23, 2008.
565 Fifth Ave. Blog: Starbucks closings killed their coffee buzz
His Starbucks, at 565 Fifth Ave., is among 11 in the city targeted for closure by the overextended coffee-shop chain.

Published by amNY.com on July 23, 2008.
575 Fifth Ave. Blog: Starbucks closings killed their coffee buzz
“It’s not right,” he says. Dayan works nearby, comes down “two, three times a day” and knows the people who work there. He asks if there is anything that can be done to save it, and finds no relief in the fact that the Starbucks on the other side of the block at 575 Fifth Ave. has been spared.

Published by amNY.com on July 23, 2008.
East 36th Street and Madison Avenue Blog: Starbucks closings killed their coffee buzz
That won’t be a problem for Sandy Yadad. He was sitting comfortably the other night at a Starbucks at East 36th Street and Madison Avenue, just before closing time.

Published by amNY.com on July 23, 2008.
Science Business Industry Library Blog: Starbucks closings killed their coffee buzz
Yadad is here twice a week. He studies at the Science Business Industry Library nearby, but sometimes he comes from his home in Jersey City just to work in this well-lighted Starbucks.

Published by amNY.com on July 23, 2008.
42nd & Madison Wednesday One-Liners Haven't Met Most Of Their Friends
--Office on 42nd & Madison

Published by Overheard in New York on July 23, 2008.
South St. and Whitehall St. Driver in fatal S.I. ferry crash on drugs: cops
Police sources said Greenberg of Brooklyn sped past the parked bus on South St. and rear-ended two motorcycles, sending the riders flying to the pavement. His Volkswagen Jetta finally came to a stop after it crashed through a chain-link fence and mounted a cement barrier near Whitehall St., police said.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.
West 76th St. and Broadway Underground explosion on the Upper West Side
A manhole fire damaged two cars parked on the Upper West Side this morning. Eyewitness News has learned a manhole caught fire West 76th Street and Broadway at around 6 a.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 23, 2008.
West 76th St. and Broadway Underground explosion on the Upper West Side
A manhole fire damaged two cars parked on the Upper West Side this morning. Eyewitness News has learned a manhole caught fire West 76th Street and Broadway at around 6 a.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 23, 2008.
East 65th Street and Lexington Avenue Expansion Sought of Upper East Side Landmark Area
The Department of Buildings said it is reviewing a demolition permit for the Kean House, a historic structure originally built in 1880 at East 65th Street and Lexington Avenue, just yards outside the perimeter of the landmark boundaries which were established in 1981.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
980 Madison Ave. Expansion Sought of Upper East Side Landmark Area
Area residents have used Friends of the Upper East Side to successfully lobby against a number of development proposals, most recently developer Aby Rosen's plan to build a residential tower above the Parke-Bernet Gallery at 980 Madison Ave., and the Whitney Museum's plan for a new gallery on the Upper East Side two years ago.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Whitney Museum Expansion Sought of Upper East Side Landmark Area
Area residents have used Friends of the Upper East Side to successfully lobby against a number of development proposals, most recently developer Aby Rosen's plan to build a residential tower above the Parke-Bernet Gallery at 980 Madison Ave., and the Whitney Museum's plan for a new gallery on the Upper East Side two years ago.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Stuyvesant Town Elected Officials Urge Developer To Pay Legal Bills
A number of local elected officials are calling on the developer Tishman Speyer to pay the legal bills of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village tenants whom Tishman wrongly accuses of breaking rent-stabilization rules.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Peter Cooper Village Elected Officials Urge Developer To Pay Legal Bills
A number of local elected officials are calling on the developer Tishman Speyer to pay the legal bills of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village tenants whom Tishman wrongly accuses of breaking rent-stabilization rules.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
City Hall Remembering a City Hall Assassination
Five years ago this afternoon, a New York City councilman was shot to death inside City Hall by a political rival who accompanied him to a Council meeting, pulled out a pistol and began firing in front of scores of stunned lawmakers and onlookers.

Published by New York Times on July 23, 2008.
45 Greene Street Bush cousin buys Village townhouse for $14M
After serving as the head of Goldman's Hedge Fund Strategies, Walker left to become Lehman Brothers' the global head of its $188 billion Investment Management Division in 2006. He lives at 45 Greene Street in Soho.

Published by The Real Deal on July 23, 2008.
Matsugen Matsugen: When Good Noodles Go Vong
Soba, those nutty, austere Japanese buckwheat noodles, were once considered dirty peasant food, and unfortunate nobles were forbidden from slurping them. Fast-forward about 400 years: The nobles have broken into the soba stash with a vengeance. At Matsugen, Jean-GeorgesVongerichten's new, high-end soba-noodle venture, you can get your soba garnished with yolk-orange sea urchin for $36.

Published by Village Voice on July 23, 2008.
Hundred Acres Restaurant Hundred Acres Is Miles Better, the Second Time Around
When Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman took over the old SoHo favorite Provence, they kept the name but imbued the space with a dark louche-ness ill-suited to the sunny Provençal cuisine. The food, in turn, wasn't bright enough to penetrate the sleaze and rescue the restaurant. Now, though, they've reworked and renamed it Hundred Acres, and have refreshed the menu with the source-conscious, "farm-forward" style of cooking with which they've had great success at Cookshop.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Tabla From Mexico to India, the Wine Way
His Mexican heritage, however, came in handy when he was put in charge of the wine program at Tabla, after stints at Gramercy Tavern and Craftsteak. Confronted with chef Floyd Cardoz's inventive Indian cuisine, he realized he was not entirely in alien territory.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Grammercy Tavern From Mexico to India, the Wine Way
His Mexican heritage, however, came in handy when he was put in charge of the wine program at Tabla, after stints at Gramercy Tavern and Craftsteak. Confronted with chef Floyd Cardoz's inventive Indian cuisine, he realized he was not entirely in alien territory.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Craftsteak From Mexico to India, the Wine Way
His Mexican heritage, however, came in handy when he was put in charge of the wine program at Tabla, after stints at Gramercy Tavern and Craftsteak. Confronted with chef Floyd Cardoz's inventive Indian cuisine, he realized he was not entirely in alien territory.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
145 Sixth Ave. Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
A PUGLIAN AFFAIR Restaurateur Jimmy Carbone has opened a 30-seat café and wine bar at SoHo's HERE Arts Center. Called 1 Dominick (145 Sixth Ave., between Spring and Broome streets, entrance on Dominick Street, 212-647-0202), the restaurant draws its influence from the Italian region of Puglia, although there are plenty of innovations — such as the nontraditional fried baloney panini.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
50 Carmine St. Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
LUNCHTIME GOAT Cabrito (50 Carmine St., between Bedford and Bleecker streets, 212-929-5050) is open for lunch, Monday through Friday, from noon to 4 p.m.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
11 Madison Ave. Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
OUTDOOR INDIAN Tabla (11 Madison Ave. at 25th Street, 212-889-0667) now has an outdoor takeout stand in front of the restaurant from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offerings include a chicken tikka "Frankie" (the Bombay version of a wrap), a salad of green apples, green mango, and puffed rice, and a frozen chocolate kulfi pop.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Village Pourhouse Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
SIDELONG GLANCE Restaurateur Michael Sinensky of Village Pourhouse, Proof Bar & Lounge, Hudson Terrace, and the Big Easy has opened SideBar (120 E. 15th St. at Irving Place, 212-677-2900). Chef Jason Bunin is cooking up "a contemporary American menu of light fare and unique snacks," and according to the press materials, did work as a sous chef at Patria.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Ammos Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
ALL IN ONE The owners of Ammos will be opening a new restaurant, bar, and gourmet market at the Helena this fall. Hudson Café Market (601 W. 57th St. at Eleventh Avenue) will occupy 4,300 square feet of the luxury rental building on ground level, and another 2,300 square feet downstairs. Ammos chef David Ogren will be in charge of the "contemporary American comfort food" that will be served there.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
601 W. 57th St. Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
ALL IN ONE The owners of Ammos will be opening a new restaurant, bar, and gourmet market at the Helena this fall. Hudson Café Market (601 W. 57th St. at Eleventh Avenue) will occupy 4,300 square feet of the luxury rental building on ground level, and another 2,300 square feet downstairs. Ammos chef David Ogren will be in charge of the "contemporary American comfort food" that will be served there.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
181 Lexington Ave. Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
BROTHERLY RUB Another Brother Jimmy's BBQ is slated to open this Friday, in Murray Hill (181 Lexington Ave. at 31st Street, 212-779-7427), serving pulled pork and barbecue chicken wings, to be sure, but also fried green tomatoes, hush puppies, fried pickles, and other Southern delicacies, as well as Buffalo wings and quesadillas. A décor highlight will be 40 high-definition, flat-screen televisions.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
Proof Bar and Lounge Kitchen Dish: Ammos Spawns a New Market, and More
SIDELONG GLANCE Restaurateur Michael Sinensky of Village Pourhouse, Proof Bar & Lounge, Hudson Terrace, and the Big Easy has opened SideBar (120 E. 15th St. at Irving Place, 212-677-2900). Chef Jason Bunin is cooking up "a contemporary American menu of light fare and unique snacks," and according to the press materials, did work as a sous chef at Patria.

Published by New York Sun on July 23, 2008.
254 Park Avenue South 254 Park Avenue South
After completing an extensive series of renovations, 254 Park Avenue South hopes to entice new residents looking for a pad in the Flatiron District. Standing 287...

Published by nycondoblog.com on July 23, 2008.
260 Park Avenue South 254 Park Avenue South
...the unit is well above the Manhattan average but similar to asking prices at nearby 260 Park Avenue South. Most units are large with high ceilings and generous layouts. That being said, it’s...

Published by nycondoblog.com on July 23, 2008.