| VENUE NEWS 07.02.09 12:25 PM |
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| This Week: Solar-Paneled Hotel Planned for SoHo, City Saturated With Too Many Arenas |
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- New York may have too many arenas—a number that will grow to five when Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards facility opens sometime in the next few years—and not enough events to fill them. [NYT]
- An environmentally friendly 26-story hotel on Varick Street will be powered by solar energy, with glass that could generate as much as 100 kilowatts of power. [NYO]
- There's also another hotel planned, this time a 24-floor, 175-room Midtown site from Extell Development. [NYO]
- The owners of Brooklyn Bowl, the bowling and entertainment venue expected to open this week, took care to create an eco-friendly site. [NYT]
- Hill Country, the barbecue joint in Chelsea that opened in 2007, is expanding to Washington D.C. with an expected July 2010 opening date. [WaPo]
- Susan Dominus thinks Times Square's pedestrian mall is "a little unworthy of New York" and currently looks like "something between a crime scene and an audience." [NYT]
- Current Tavern on the Green owner Jennifer LeRoy is being supported by locals such as Martha Stewart, Regis Philbin, and Yoko Ono, who have petitioned the Parks Department to allow LeRoy to keep the lease on the restaurant. [NYDN]
- According to Eater, Steve Hanson is looking to take over the Hog Pit space in the meatpacking district. [Eater]
- On Tuesday, chef Michael Psilakis opened his latest, a gastropub by the name of Gus & Gabriel. [NYMag]
- At Bar Artisanal, Frank Bruni finds the restaurant is "not all that reflective of [Terrance] Brennan" and deems it worthy of only one star. [NYT]
- In a fully fledged review of DBGB, Steve Cuozzo claims that the eatery is "Boulud for the masses." [NYP]
- Gael Greene is one of the first to file on the Standard Grill, finding a "gorgeous room," "moderate prices," and a "first-rate" burger. [Insatiable Critic]
- Graydon Carter takes the nightly seating arrangements at Monkey Bar so seriously that he scrutinizes the layout every afternoon. [NYT]
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