Picture this: an art gallery for 5th and B

Top 2 photos by Stacie Joy

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... 

We don't know anything else at the moment about what to expect here from the new gallery... which marks the second art space to open along this corridor after Half Gallery debuted in 2020 on the NW corner of Fourth Street and Avenue B.

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.