Here are some particulars via the listing at Meridan Capital Group:
• Historic full-building restaurant opportunity
• Previously owned by Andy Warhol and art studio/home of Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Fully equipped restaurant space with venting & gas in place
• Massive skylight in ground floor dining room
• The lower level consists of 2 walk-in boxes, dry storage and office space
• The second floor consists of open loft space with high ceilings and multiple skylights
• All uses considered
The back of the ground-floor space had been home to Bohemian, an invite-only Japanese restaurant that provided some intrigue for food writers 10-plus years back. (As we understand, Bohemian's parent company, Play Earth Inc., owns the building.)
In July 2016, Village Preservation, in partnership with Two Boots Pizza, unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark Basquiat's time here from 1983-1988.
The building's façade served as an ad-hoc memorial to Basquiat through the years. As we first reported back in February, workers painted over all the tributes... though, as the top photo on this post shows, the tags are making a comeback.
You can read this post at Village Preservation for more history of the building, which once served as the HQ for Five Points Gang ringleader Paul Kelly.
Previously on EV Grieve: