The magazine shop and discount store on the north side of 14th west of 5th are both gone. What is next?
The Times reports that Jackson Diner on University Place will be replaced by Nix, a high-end vegetarian restaurant. Gentrification by carrots.
An urban planner who has been looking around for ways to make the city more pedestrian-friendly (and to open up more space for protesting) wrote “Union Square could be greatly enhanced by following through on a 2010 plan to pedestrianize Union Square West. Also pedestrianizing University Place would be a bold step that could link Union Square and Washington Square Park, merging two vital public spaces into a permanent platform for open expression.”
That would certainly change the neighborhood.
The Union Square Partnership’s annual Harvest gala is coming up. Here is the link for tickets.
Walk down East 18th St. east of Park Ave. and you’ll see a new Zen Palate on your left. Welcome back!
This appears to be the north side of 14th St. east of Union Square in the ’40s. Note the cool “Turkish” subway entrance.