Omakase sushi bar coming to former upholstery shop on 7th Street

An omakase sushi bar is in the works for 208 E. Seventh St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

The applicant, Linda Wang, had received administrative approval for a beer-wine license from Community Board 3 this month. 

According to the questionnaire on file at the CB3 website (PDF here), the still-unnamed establishment (reservations only) will be in service from noon to 10 p.m., with seats for 12-16 patrons. 

Wang is a partner in Shinn East, which opened in May 2020 at 119 E. Seventh St. She is also an owner of Ume in Williamsburg. 

The space was, since 2013, C.Y. Upholstery. The shop run by Charles Young quietly closed late last year.

A sushi counter for 4th Street

A long-vacant retail space (previously the Postal Shipping Center) at 75 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery is being fitted for a small restaurant.

Derek Berg reports that a small sushi counter will be opening here perhaps as soon as the end of the year...



We don't know anything about who's behind this venture... and will update when more info is available.

Tsukimi bringing sushi to 10th Street

Sushi is coming to the small, subterranean space at 228 E. 10th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Applicants for Tsukimi are on this month's CB3-SLA agenda for a beer-wine license. (The meeting is tonight, though this item won't be heard in front of the committee.)

According to the questionnaire (PDF here) on the CB3 website, Tsukimi will be open from 6 p.m. to midnight Tuesday through Sunday. The space will have four tables seating eight people plus a 10-seat sushi bar.

The application shows the Tsukimi Kaiseki Menu (9 courses) at $85 per person.

The applicants also run SakaMai, which opened in 2012 on Ludlow Street.

No. 228 was home until last September to Dieci, which closed after 10 years in service.

Sushi comings and goings

An EVG reader noted the recent closure (end of June) of Iron Sushi on East 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... a for rent sign has been up on the storefront... their Upper East Side location remains open...



Meanwhile, one block away, a sushi restaurant is opening at 350 E. Ninth St. near First Avenue...



The space was home to A.K. Shoe Repair until last August ... then a tobacco-variety shop came and went here fairly quickly.

Thanks to Steven for the photos

New sushi restaurant on 1st Avenue has portion sizes for men and women

Shin Bashi, the new Japanese restaurant at 85 First Ave. between East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street, is now officially open...

We don't know too much about the place just yet, other than – as their sidewalk sign shows — they feature portion sizes for men and women...


[Photo by Michael Hirsch]

Looks pretty much the same for men and women, other than the extra special roll for the gents, which accounts for the $4 price difference.

No word on a children's menu.

As the sushi rolls on 1st Avenue

Sometime in the past week or so, Milosun Sushi closed at 141 First Ave. … quickly giving way to an all-you-can-sushi place called Kikoo, per EVG reader Charlie Chen.

The new restaurant between St. Mark's Place and East Ninth Street hasn't opened yet, though they do have a website:

Our restaurant offers a wide array of fine Japanese fusion cuisine, ranging from traditional Sashimi Lunch, California Roll to new style entrees such as Tempura Udon, Color Dragon and Butterfly Roll.

Previously the place was Ippin, a sushi and noodle bar that lasted about six months here in 2013.

The 'Sushi Defense' rests: Housing court sides with landlord in 6-year apartment battle

An East Village resident, who has used a so-called "sushi defense" to keep her rent-stablized apartment, has lost her last court battle, the Daily News reports today.

Back in October 2012, State Appellate Division judges ruled 3-to-2 that Masako Mogi could stay in her $992-a-month studio at 409 E. Sixth St., where she has lived since 1980.

Her landlord had been trying to evict her for six years. The landlord's attorney offered records showing that Mogi used a below-average amount of electricity — evidence she spent most of her time in a second home in Vermont.

For her part, though, "Mogi testified that she often eats out, orders takeout or makes sushi, which doesn’t require much juice."

As the Daily News notes, the Court of Appeals ruled that the Appellate Division "used the wrong standard for evaluating the case and bounced the matter back." And now, a Housing Court judge ruled in favor of her landlord, who will, of course, be charging much more than $992 a month.

According to Streeteasy this morning, a 1-bedroom unit in the building is going for $2,800.

[Image via the Daily News]

Sushi in the works for former Polonia space

[EVG file photo]

We're curious about what will take the place of the dearly departed Polonia, the Polish diner that closed in December on First Avenue near East Seventh Street. We had heard rumors about a big-name suitor...

The address is on the docket for the October CB3/SLA committee meeting. According to documents on file with CB3, the space will become a Japanese restaurant called Sushi Dojo. There's not much information on the CB3 website. Proposed hours are Sunday-Monday from 5 p.m.-1 a.m.

The CB3 documents lists a "David Bouhadona" as an applicant ... maybe that's a typo, and that should be David Bouhadana, the onetime executive chef of the former Sushi Uo on Rivington Street.

In six-year eviction fight, 'sushi defense' keeps East Sixth Street resident in apartment

A so-called "sushi defense" has saved a longtime East Sixth Street resident from eviction. The Daily News reports today that State Appellate Division judges ruled 3-to-2 that Masako Mogi could stay in her $992-a-month studio at 409 E. Sixth St., where she has lived since 1980.

The landlord, not named in the article, had been trying to evict her for six years. The landlord's attorney offered records showing that Mogi used a below-average amount of electricity — evidence she spent most of her time in a second home in Vermont.

But! For her part, "Mogi testified that she often eats out, orders takeout or makes sushi, which doesn’t require much juice."

I looked at Streeteasy, and found that the average price for an apartment here runs $2,715.

The most recent "gut renovated" apartment went for $3,000 this past summer. The listing included one of those stalky YouTube videos of the unit...