Below are a few nuggets from my daily travels around the neighborhood over the past week or so.
CycleBar Vacates the Retail Space at 415 Greenwich
I noticed a few days ago that CycleBar, located in the retail space of luxury residential condo building 415 Greenwich Street, seemed empty and suspected that they had closed. Today my hunch was confirmed by two big signs showing that the space is for lease. The brokers are Gary Alterman, Richard Gelber, and Andrew Stern of Newmark. Before CycleBar, FlyWheel occupied the space.
LTD Pizza Coming to Hudson Square?
I’m not sure when this went up, but I recently noticed bright yellow signage for a restaurant called LTD Pizza at 225 Hudson Street next to the Arlo SoHo hotel just north of Canal Street in Hudson Square. The only thing I can find on LTD Pizza is a branded Instagram page that references three people: Michael D’Armi, Dennis Arakelian, and John Villa.
Michael D’Armi is a private chef with prior experience as an executive chef at Avra Madison and executive sous chef at Lavo Restaurant & Nightclub. Dennis Arakelian runs a hospitality consulting business called DENYC Consulting with marketing experience at Tao Group (which owns Lavo). Chef John Villa is the culinary director of Tao Group. It’s always exciting to see new restaurants pop up, so I’m curious to hear more about their concept whenever more information comes out.
The retail space at 225 Hudson Street was previously occupied by Concepts, a streetwear company that focused on sneaker collaborations.
Tamarind’s Sidewalk Shed Comes Down
All of my blog posts to date have contained sidewalk shed and scaffolding news, so it makes sense that this post would as well. The news here is that the sidewalk shed at 99 Hudson, whose retail tenant is the phenomenal Indian restaurant Tamarind, has recently been taken down. Sight lines down Hudson and Franklin are back, but the dining sheds still crowd that space. We’ll see if Tamarind does anything with them.
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