Panera Bread to Arrive

Oops. 61 5th Ave. did not sell, so they’re going to change its color and hire a new broker. Details here.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/03/17/61_fifth_avenue_changes_facade_design_will_relaunch_sales.php

 

It’s all happening in Union Square’s south plaza:

July 10th

5:30 PM – TheaterMania.com Presents an Off-Broadway Review

July 17th

5:30 PM – The John Malino Band

July 24th

5:30 PM – The Nashville Attitude

July 31st

5:30 PM – Jukebox the Ghost

August 7th

5:30 PM – Virgin Presents World Music Night

August 14th

5:30 PM – Virgin Presents World Music Night II

A new bar-restaurant is now open at the Hyatt Union Square

At Bowery Road, a neighborhood American restaurant, Chef Ron Rosselli’s flavorful and thoughtfully prepared dishes are inspired by long relationships with local farmers and purveyors and loaded with seasonal produce from the Union Square Greenmarket. The restaurant takes its name from its location on 4th Avenue, which was formerly called Bowery Road when it served as the pathway to Peter Stuyvesant’s farm.

Located directly off the lobby, Bowery Road is open from 7am-11pm for breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
Rosselli has also worked at Locanda Verde and The Standard Grill.

The hotel now also sports The Library of Distilled Spirits, which: “pays tribute to liquor makers and their craft with over 700 bottles made around the world. Explore the collection neat, or shaken and stirred into more than 150 classic cocktails. Barkeepers and encyclopedic volumes of single spirits will help you choose.”

The Fourth and Singl, the hotel’s two dining-drinking options, have closed. The two new establishments are operated by APICII, “a multi-concept restaurant company.”

NY Laughs: Laughter in the Park 2009

Sunday, June 7, 2009
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Laughter in the Park is New York’s only free outdoor comedy series. Every week, we present two hours of comedy at one of six different city parks. NYLaughs, Inc. is a unique non-profit that wants to change the cultural landscape of the Big Apple through humor. We seek to elevate the comic arts and provide laughter for free to New Yorkers on a consistent basis by producing free live comedy shows in New York City’s public spaces; from its parks and streets to its subways. We want to make New York a better place through laughter!

Save it from commercial interests setting up shop at the north end of the park that is. Here are all the details.

Union Square’s BlueWater Grill may be gone as of next fall because the landlord, the same guy who priced Union Square Cafe out of the neighborhood, is at it again.