Showing posts with label Dia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dia. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2022

Dia has closed (again)

Closing the book here on Dia, which has not been open in recent months at 58 Second Ave. between Third Street and Fourth Street.

The inside of the restaurant that offered Roman-style pizza and coastal Italian seafood is in some disarray (thanks to Steven for this photo) ... 
The phone is no longer in service, and Yelp lists the restaurant as closed.

Dia first opened in the fall of 2018... and it was one of several Second Avenue restaurants to shut down coming out of the summer of 2020.

However, at some point last year, new management revived the space until it quietly closed in the early summer.

Meanwhile, as some residents have previously asked, who is responsible for clearing out and/or taking down curbside dining spaces after a restaurant closes? Here's a look at Dia's outdoor structure...

Saturday, July 25, 2020

[Updated]: Good samaritans slashed outside 2nd Avenue restaurant



ABC 7 is reporting that an intoxicated man slashed two diners who were trying to help restaurant workers last night on Second Avenue.

The incident was said to happen before midnight at Dia on Second Avenue between Third Street and Fourth Street. [Updated: The location changed to Black Ant, right next door to Dia.]

Per ABC 7:

According to witnesses, the incident started when an intoxicated man approached restaurant workers and demanded to be served.

The workers refused to serve him a drink, which angered the man, and that's when the couple attempted to defuse the tense situation.

The man was slashed in the back and the woman in the arm.

The couple, said to be in their 20s, were treated and released from Bellevue. The NYPD has not released a description of the suspect.

Updated 9 p.m.

A lot more details about what happened have emerged throughout the day.

The location of the slashing has changed to Black Ant next door. The Post had six reporters on the story:

The mayhem erupted at around 11:30 p.m. at The Black Ant on Second Avenue, where a man, who appeared intoxicated, tried to get a table at the cozy eatery. He was rebuffed because the restaurant was about to close — sending him into a dyspeptic tailspin, multiple sources and bystanders said.

The drunk wouldn’t leave the restaurant, and instead began fighting with a male diner, who picked up a chair and began swinging it — and soon, more than a dozen employees and onlookers joined in the al-fresco free-for-all.

That's when Spencer Grammer, 36, and her friend Jan Phillip Mueller, 31, who were not originally involved in the argument, tried to diffuse the situation.

Per the Post, the suspect was "described as buff, bald and wearing a white shirt, and who may have had a female companion — had already fled on Third Street. Cops don’t believe the attacker was homeless, sources said."

The NYPD released this image of the suspect...



Grammer, an East Village resident, is a voiceover actor on Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty" and the daughter of Kelsey Grammer.




Thursday, August 16, 2018

Dia bringing Roman-style pizza and coastal Italian seafood to 2nd Avenue



Just noting that the awning is up at the new restaurant coming to 58 Second Ave. between Third Street and Fourth Street.

Once open, Dia will specialize in "Roman-style pizza and coastal Italian seafood," per their (still under-construction) website. Their listed hours are 5 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, with an 11 a.m. weekend opening.

Not sure at the moment who's behind this venture. The applicant, who had not been previously licensed, received the OK for beer-wine from CB3 back in March.

N'eat, which offered "new Nordic fare," had a nearly 8-month-run at the address before "closing for renovations" and never reopening in July 2017. Before N'eat, Cellar 58 served Italian fare here.