Frank the Tank shows up at 10 Downing this week to reassess the talents of one Chef Jason Neroni. Of course Frank makes mention of Neroni's brush with the law, his James Beard grovelling, the year-long delays at 10 Downing, but when he gets to the point of the piece—Neroni's cooking—we l...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Horine, 3/5/08] West Village: The long wait for Scuderia, Da Silvano's casual offshoot located right across 6th Avenue from the mothership (though the technical address is 10 Downing St.), is over. She opens her doors tonight at 5 p.m. Opened by ...

According to Scouting NY, this camper has been parked in the same area of the West Village for years. It's even pictured on Google Street View (top right corner), and amongst its piles of assorted junk are a dog crate, shelves, a lawn chair and other items that give the scout an inkling that maybe s...

We got some requests via Twitter for plugs.  Here are the 3 sites that made the cut: OutAboutBrooklyn: This blog hits the nail on the head when it comes to placeblogging.  They go to places and write about them, and they do it frequently. With the added angle of seeking out LGBT friendly places, O...

[Never fun to collect debts from shuttered restaurants] WEST VILLAGE — This just in from sandwich shop 'Swich: "We're closed up for some renovations ourselves today and tomorrow. We're installing lots of fancy new equipment that will cut the average time to get a Swich from 4.3 to 2.2 minutes ...

West Village: The shuttering of Rickshaw Dumpling Bar's 8th Street location and the 10 month-old Bar Q may not be the end of the problems plaguing chef Anita Lo's empire. A restaurateur in the market for a new space tells us he was recently shopped the Annisa space at 13 Barrow but didn't go for it....

Festival Reminders: SOBE Wine and Food Fest is only two days away. Lee is on site, working hard. WILLIAMSBURG — While their fried chicken is nothing to take lightly, we're happy to hear breakfast items at Williamsburg's Egg will now be served all day. Given the crowds they get for brunch, perh...

WILLIAMSBURG— 129 Metropolitan is a smallish new Williamsburg condo project with 12 two-bedroom apartments. One of those units is currently listed on The Developers Group website as "contract out." Kind of stinks to be that guy, because a Curbed tipster forwards an e-mail from TDG laying out so...

[Kalina, 4/9/08] West Village: We were right to suspect a Bar Q shutter scenario earlier today. According to an inside source, chef and owner Anita Lo told the staff two weeks ago that she was closing the just 10 month-old restaurant. And by the looks at our comments, the overwhelming response from ...

"I love the village but don't understand why people pay through the nose to live there. I have lived on Bank St. for a long time. Forget the hookers. What about the 5 times a month I see drunk guys pissing between cars. In the summer this leads to the most awful odor. In addition to the size of the ...