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Renovations continue inside and out on the NW corner of Fifth Street and Avenue B... where an art gallery called Gratin is in the works for the space...
The arrival will likely make at least one upstairs resident happy... back when the storefront was on the market in the spring...
... there was a sign in the window reading: "No Cafe. No Food."
Oda House, which served the rare-for-Manhattan Georgian cuisine and other Mediterranean staples, closed here in August 2020 after seven-plus years in service. Caffe Buon Gusto was here for a bit after the corner market Zips.
11 comments:
Art galleries are the first sign of the end for an affordable neighborhood. Don't believe me, consider Soho, West Chelsea, The Bowery, parts of Chinatown....
Noble,
You're funny. The East Village hasn't been affordable in years.
You'd also be apoplectic if a bar-restaurant was opening here.
anon 8:57
Your are right I must have imagined the changes which have occurred to NY in the past 50 years.
i remember when this place was a dinky shop selling some kind of cookie called "stage planks"!
LOL - complaining about galleries too? Can't be a chain store or a gallery or a bar or a restaurant. Must be business that barely survives or totally vacant. You know a vibrant business ecosystem leads to foot traffic which leads to more stores being able to be sustained which supports more businesses. Hence why we should all celebrate/encourage uses that are anything other than vacant storefronts.
This is great news!! Instead of yet another smoke shop, we're getting an art gallery!
Leave it to the EVGrumps to complain about the opening of a new art gallery in our neighborhood, unreal. You can please some of the people all of the time and EVGrumps none of the time.
I am happy about the art gallery, but I DO miss Oda House and their wonderful exotic menu. Oh those khachapuri with eggs...
Wonderful news! Very excited to see some life here ( RIP Oda ;( )
What I miss is a shoe repair place, a place that repairs small appliances, a place where you can get quality tailoring, etc. places like that---that are useful for those of us who actually live here.
Those places all exist
Loved ODA House! I miss it everyday. Amazing food. Come back to the neighborhood, Georgians!!
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