Year: 2010

No sooner did the Giant Bagel Shop and its associated pizza shop close than the pizza shop got retiled and reopened as Little Italy Pizza. That was quick.

University Place gets crepes. Visit Vive La Crepe on the west side of the street between 12th and 13th.

Join your neighbors on the roof on October 1st at 6PM. It’s pot luck, so bring something.

A true neighborhood standy is officially gone. So long to the Giant Bagel Shop on the corner of University and 13th. Who knows what will take over that high-traffic space.

More branches of Barnes & Noble are closing. Most recently, the huge store at Lincoln Center was shuttered. However, the megastore on the northern edge of Union Square Park is safe.

Osso Buco on University is closed for renovations. Rumor has it that it will return in a more “contemporary” form. We’ll see.

Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York has a look back at the old Union Square Theater, which once stood on the site of the big (former) Virgin store building on 14th St. Interesting!

Walk down East 18th St. east of Park Ave. and you’ll see a new Zen Palate on your left. Welcome back!

Click here to see drawings of how the new traffic flow around Union Square will affect your daily walk. They are huge changes.

What happened to Big Enchilada on 12th? It’s suddenly gone!