Tamarind

  • Another Hot Tribeca Restaurant Takes Down its Dining Shed?

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    The New York Post published an article on Thursday identifying a trend of hot NYC restaurants taking down their outdoor dining structures. They identified a few restaurants around the city that have removed their sheds, such as Locanda Verde, Keen’s Steakhouse, and Buddakan, but they noted that, among others, Tamarind Tribeca’s “truly charming, creative treasure” still stands and deserved to survive.

    Coincidentally, I was walking by Tamarind today and I noticed that one of their outdoor dining sheds is being taken down, so Steve Cuozzo might be out of luck on that one. (By the way, Steve, I also hope that Don Angie’s structure survives!)

    I mentioned in an article last week that the scaffolding around 99 Hudson had been taken down, revealing the full extent of how grimy the dining structures at Tamarind had become after a couple years of steady use (including from me). I had hoped that they would either be removed or revitalized, so maybe somebody from Tamarind is an AlgoNYC reader, but I couldn’t find anybody to confirm that they’re all being removed, so Steve still might have a sliver of hope.

    A partially deconstructed dining shed at Tamarind.
    One of Tamarind’s dining structures with graffiti on it.

    Nevertheless, the Post is spot on in identifying the beginning of a trend. By my unofficial count, in Tribeca north of Duane Street, Locanda Verde, Jungsik, Wolfgang’s, Paisley, L’Angolo (now closed), Greca, and possibly now Tamarind have all removed their outdoor dining structures.

    Still standing are One White Street, Mr. Chow, Sushi Azabu, Estancia 460, The Odeon, Bubby’s, Frenchette, Tribeca Grill, Chanson, Sarabeths, Scalini Fedeli, Yves, Terroir, Khe-yo, and I’m sure plenty of others.

    Given the popularity of outdoor dining and the forthcoming release of New York City’s Permanent Open Restaurants Program, which will be run by NYC DOT, I have to assume that the restaurants who took their structures down will be applying for new outdoor dining areas in accordance with the permanent regulations sometime in the spring.

    New York City’s concept for permanent outdoor dining.

    According to the DOT’s website, applications for that program open this winter and the program will launch this year, but we won’t be seeing plywood sheds or elaborate structures. The city’s permanent concept is more simple, calling essentially for removable tables and chairs with umbrellas surrounded by planters. This is an attempt to strike a balance between the high demand for outdoor dining when the weather is nice and the genuine concerns about quality of life/public health issues that arise from having real structures on the street (vermin, dirty streets, rundown sheds, poor visibility, etc.). We’ll know more as the weather turns warmer.

  • Real Estate Sightings in Tribeca & Hudson Square

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    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.

    A big blue for rent sign in the window of 415 Greenwich’s retail space, previously occupied by CycleBar.

    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.

    Signage showing a restaurant, LTD Pizza, at 225 Hudson Street.
    The old sign for Concepts still hangs.

    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.

    99 Hudson Street is no longer hidden by a sidewalk shed.