Save the Date: July 22

That’s weird. Bar 13, which has been at the corner of University and 13th for more than 20 years, has been reborn as Cheers NYC, which is a non-alcoholic bar. Mocktails only. Go figure. Seems it’s true the kids are drinking less these days.

Striking barbers meet to talk things over at the north end of Union Square in 1913. Those were the days.

Soon to arrive on University Place, our first boba tea shop. Soon we’ll bey trying He He Cha.

Portland, Oregon’s wildly popular Voodoo Doughnuts will open its first East Coast branch at 41 Union Square West, formerly the site of Republic. No opening date is scheduled yet.

Not exactly Occupy Wall Street, but this is what Union Square looked like on Labor Day 1882. Fun parade.

Read this fun and interesting New Yorker article about artists who get together in our nearby smelly Taco Bell.