Happy Saturday and welcome to the weekend. We had been out and about final evening and ran into a couple of publication readers. Hi to Linda, Sarah Ann, Mark, Spencer, Cassidy and Orr — together with Wendy, who has now joined the record. Orr reminded us that the final time we had corresponded straight was April 2020 when he had despatched W42ST an image of his and Cassidy’s socially distanced hall hangouts on W47th St on the top of the pandemic. How issues have moved on…
Hell’s Kitchen cocktail lounge The Molly Pitcher Club has opened on ninth Avenue with bespoke, intricate “spirits and concoctions” in a speakeasy setting (full with Shark Week cocktail!). Read extra…
Here’s what’s been taking place round Hell’s Kitchen this week…
Legendary (and sponsored) New York house advanced Manhattan Plaza has reopened its highly-coveted, oft-lengthy ready lists for choose studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom flats to potential tenants wanting to stake out residence within the coronary heart of Hell’s Kitchen. Read extra…
As New York returns to some stage of normalcy after 24 months of COVID-19, the streets and avenues of Hell’s Kitchen are saying goodbye to some companies and welcoming others to the neighborhood. Here’s a short roundup of what’s coming to city and what’s departed!
It’s spring and we’ve been engaged on a listing of New York contemporary air finds to move to. They can all be reached for the price of a subway/bus trip (or totally free) and can fill your soul (and lungs) with pleasure. Read extra…
Mayor Adams and NYPD have launched new “Neighborhood Safety Teams”. Do you recognize your rights? Can you report them in your telephone? Do they’ve to offer ID? Rachel Holliday Smith and Eileen Grench from THE CITY have solutions…
Back in May 2019, W42ST reported that out of 59 neighborhood boards in NYC, our neighborhood was 57th in line when it got here to the planning gods giving out inexperienced area. This yr, Hell’s Kitchen is about to get extra locations and areas for outside enjoyable! Read extra…
If you’ve got been captivated by TV streaming docu-scammer sequence like The Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna and Bad Vegan, you’ll need to get the early information on W42nd Street’s self-proclaimed “Wolf of Airbnb”. Read extra…
This week, we welcomed to the neighborhood Vanesa Kim and her model new espresso store on eleventh Avenue known as White Noise. Read extra…
W42ST has positively had a springtime theme this week as we solid off the winter of our discontent and embrace each signal of reawakening that comes our method! Assisting on this heat climate watch is a brand new information from NYC Parks with a handy-dandy guidelines detailing New York’s most recognizable spring symbols. Read extra…
Yellow taxis, gutted by the rise of rideshare app Uber, are lastly getting picked up, because the behemoth tech firm reached a cope with cab corporations to mix forces. Read extra…
The USNS Comfort wasn’t the primary floating hospital to dock in Hell’s Kitchen, as a brand new exhibit on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum reveals. On The Mend: Restoring Intrepid’s Sick Bay particulars the historical past and efforts to revive the vessel’s medical amenities. Read extra…
What we’ve been studying
There’s nonetheless a push for “drinks to go” in New York. (Brooklyn Eagle)
Chicago and New York don’t make this record of finest cities for pizza! (Chicago Sun-Times)
Corey Johnson’s Cojo Strategies snags the Nets as a lobbying shopper. (New York Post)
A brand new photograph e book captures New York’s empty landmarks through the lockdown. (Artnet)
The siblings creating nostalgic indicators for New York companies. (Eater)
Freeze Frame
Thank you to Chad MacDonald for this photograph from the streets of Hell’s Kitchen. “Walked home behind this guy today,” he mentioned on Instagram.
Happy birthdays to triplets Henry, Oliver and Alexander Hickman — together with Gary Burton and Richard Hillman.
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