Serafina is expanding its chain of quick in-and-out shops by being the first retailer to arrive in the new apartment building on University between 12th and 13th. It’s been about five years since those spaces were ready for occupancy. Now we’ll have yet another spot to buy overpriced coffee.
A company controlled by a Philadelphia 76ers co-owner was negligent when it allowed a lounge chair to fly off a Manhattan roof and hit a woman, leaving her with brain injuries, a new lawsuit alleges.
Annabel Sen had been on her way to lunch with her boyfriend on Jan. 25 when she “was struck by a heavy wooden lounge chair that fell from the terrace of the 12th-floor penthouse” of the 15 Union Square West Condominium building, according to her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Thursday.
“How [the chair] didn’t kill her is a miracle honestly,” Sen’s lawyer Benedict Morelli told The Post. “She is very damaged but she is not dead.”
The then-23-year-old Midtown West resident — who was heading to lunch at Xu’s Public House nearby — “suffered a severe, life-threatening, traumatic brain injury, among other injuries, that required emergency brain surgery. [Sen] has since had two more brain surgeries,” the court papers claim.
After more than 15 years, the very first location of Crunch Fitness is closing on March 16. All members will be directed either to the new and much larger branch at 4th Ave. and 12th St. or the Lafayette St. branch.
CAMP | 110 Fifth Avenue
Camp is now in session! Bring the whole crew for this family fun experience – it’s a store, a play space and a canteen store all in one! Stop in on Fifth Avenue for activities in the campitheater, rotating events, and only-in-usq treats from Milk Bar.
Gupshup | 115 East 18th Street
From Bombay to the Big Apple, this dramatic new Indian hangout eatery is bringing a 70’s flair to Union Square. Step into this decked-out space to try Indian fusion dishes like lamb shank with rogan josh sauce and roasted bone marrow with 5 spice naan.
Filson | 876 Broadway
Established over 120 years ago, Filson is the leading outfitter and manufacturer in high quality outdoor goods. At their new flagship NYC location on Broadway, find camping, hunting and climbing gear, all with a guaranteed lifetime warranty.
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Over on East 12th St., it was Piola, the Brazilian pizza place, and now it’s Ribalta, the Italian pizza place. And it’s a pizza school, too. UrbanDaddy writes:
There are book smarts.
There are street smarts.
And then there are pizza smarts.
Today, we’re going to focus on that last one.
Also, we’re going to eat a bunch of pizza pies.
So let’s enroll at Ribalta, the only pizzeria in New York with three different types of ovens and its own university (but alas, no football team), now open.
Bottom line, this restaurant is really quite absurdly serious about pizza. The dough: imported from an Italian mill and aged 48 hours before baking (we’ll let you imagine what this does to a crust). The tomatoes: all San Marzano and all hand-crushed. The ovens: plentiful, varied and powerful.
Yes, these master pizzaiolos/fusspots felt it was necessary to install three different ovens in the place. Brick. Wood-burning. And stainless-steel convection. Reason #1: to bake your sausage-and-sage pie precisely the way God intended. Reason #2: the syllabus required it.
See, when this place is not standing in as the prototypical Friday night date spot, it’s doubling as the city’s first Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli—an esteemed pizza school that’s been around in Italy since the ’80s. So eventually you’ll be able to register here for classes, seminars and lectures on the science of the slice.
Assuming you scored high enough on the pizza SATs.
Looking west on 13th St. at the corner of 5th Ave., 1915
