“I moved on a whim. My lease was up in L.A., and all my best friends live in the city,” the 26-year-old tells me when we meet just weeks before the launch of her beauty line, o.piccola. Watching all six seasons of Sex and the City five times through might have also had a hand. “In my dreams, I would like to be a Carrie.”
Exclusivity, like any product, gets more valuable the more people want it; it is both the cruellest and the most honest thing that a restaurant can sell. The Eighty-Six, a mega-swank steak house that opened in the West Village last fall, was, from Day One, clubby, celeb-packed, and impossible to get into-no surprise, as it's the latest from Catch Hospitality Group, which previously brought us the impossible-to-get-into Corner Store.
By morning, Aperitivo operates as a café, serving espresso drinks and teas, along with pastries from Paloma Bakery. There are patisserie favorites like pain au chocolat and a decadent pistachio pain suisse, but also breakfast options that skew nourishing without being joyless, like steel-cut oats with seasonal fruit and croissants topped with smoked salmon, avocado and arugula. Midday tweaks the mood slightly, turning Aperitivo into a casual lunch stop with salads, soups and sandwiches.
Born in New York City, Meg Darda eventually moved away from the city for life, school and work reasons. With her husband, macro economist Mike Darda, they spent over 20 years making the commute into the city, "always making time for a night out in the West Village," Meg begins. "It was our favorite neighborhood to eat, wander, and imagine a future where we might someday have a little place of our own there."
Police are on the hunt for six people responsible for the firebombing of a West Village smoke shop on Wednesday morning. According to police sources, a group of about six men was spotted outside of 131 Christopher St. around 3:11 a.m. on Dec. 3. Cops say they smashed the business's window and tossed an unknown incendiary device into the building. Afterward, the group fled the scene westbound along Christopher Street.
A small bakery in the West Village is making rich, Halloumi cheese-filled pastries that are unlike any other. The brick-and-mortar launch of Hello Halloumi happened a few weeks ago and their savory pastries are bringing Cyprus' diverse flavors alive in the Big Apple. Originating from the birthplace of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, Cyprus is home to the production of halloumi cheese. Known for its unique savory, salty and slightly tangy flavor, the cheese has a growing market in the U.S. in recent years.
Livvy Dunne has been having a hard time finding an apartment. But what started with the influencer's failed attempt to buy Babe Ruth's apartment now has a happy conclusion: A "lightly lived in" West Village condominium where Babe Ruth has never stepped foot. According to the New York Post, TikTok influencer Dunne recently closed on a one-bedroom on West 14th for $1.95 million.
Among the 19th-century rowhouses of Bedford Street in New York's West Village its enduring, the city's narrowest townhouse stands that just 8 feet, 7 inches wide. Fronted by a three-story brick facade, the unusual home at 75 1/2 Bedford Street was built in 1873. Now listed by Sotheby's International Realty, the renovated residence distills a century and a half of adaptation into a vertical sequence of precisely composed domestic spaces.
They plant in the diner's mind an awareness of being a body in space, amid the warmth and rhythm of other bodies. Bartolo, a Madrid-inspired restaurant that opened, in the West Village, at the end of July, is one such spot. It occupies a double storefront a half step down from street level, comprising three small rooms: a tiny bar area, golden and warm, and two dining areas, one with forest-green leather banquettes and the other with oxblood-red ones.
The area near McCarthy Square, a small patch of green space at the corner of 7th Avenue and Charles Street in the West Village, has become an epicenter of drug abuse for down-on-the-luck individuals openly injecting themselves with opioids, and local residents say few people are doing anything to stop it. McCarthy Square has seen a surge of individuals spread out on the sidewalk, some with needles jutting out of their arms.
Assaf Tamir had a simple idea: open a bar for the sake of music. It was a bit of a shift for him, business-wise, as he and his sister Naama dabble more in the restaurant sphere, running the long-standing Lighthouse in Williamsburg, as well as , a Mediterranean-meets-Japanese skewer concept in SoHo. But as the two hosted shows inside their Williamsburg restaurant over the years, they figured it was time to a create a space that musicians deserved.
A new affordable housing lottery geared toward New York City seniors has officially opened in the West Village. Located at 570 Washington St., the units are designed to support individuals aged 62 and older. The units are being delivered as part of the 550 Washington Street / Special Hudson River Park District rezoning. Of the 176 units, 57 are studios (for households of 12; income up to $64,800), 40 are one-bedrooms (for households of 13; income up to $72,900),
"After 52 years at 68 Greenwich Avenue, the beloved West Village café will serve its last brunch service on August 17, closing for good after more than five decades of omelets, burgers and low-key celebrity sightings."
The last remaining New York City property owned by the estate of celebrated pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has found a buyer, reflecting the dissolution of the artist's expansive real estate footprint.
The transformation of Lenox Health Greenwich Village into Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital demonstrates a commitment to enhancing healthcare access in Manhattan's West Village community.
