Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
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- Following a full renovation, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum returned to New York harbor on Thursday and will open to the public on November 8. [BizBash]
- The latest proposal for Pier 40 has failed to meet the Hudson River Park Trust's criteria. [Crain's]
- Macy's may aid the renaissance of Harlem if, as is rumored, the department store will take one of a handful of vacant spots near the Apollo Theater. [WWD]
- The Port Authority's revamped plan for the World Trade Center site schedules construction for completion by 2014. [NYT]
- Page Six hears rumors that chef and restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten will open a place inside the new Mark Hotel. [NYP]
- Regardless of the lawsuits and protests that have plagued the Atlantic Yards construction, Barclays Bank—the company that will pay $20 million for the naming rights of the planned basketball arena—still supports the Brooklyn development. [Crain's]
- Following up on Nicolai Ouroussoff's criticism of the new home for the Museum of Arts & Design, City Room blog is polling readers on which city buildings should be demolished. [NYT]
- Sam Mason tells Grub Street that he's working on a bar that will be adjacent to his restaurant Tailor. [NYMag]
- Looking to get approval from the City Council on the Willets Point redevelopment plan, the Bloomberg administration is asking for support from local leaders and union officials. [NYP]
- In honor of New York magazine's 40th anniversary, restaurant critic Gael Greene highlights 14 of the city's most important restaurants from the last 40 years, with Lutèce in the top spot. [NYMag]
- Convivio, the revamped L'Impero, is still pleasing critics—Frank Bruni awards the restaurant three stars and claims chef Michael White is doing "even better work with pasta at Convivio than he has done at Alto." [NYT]
- Alan Richman believes Todd English's new restaurant Libertine is more of a men's club as the place "does not have a ladies' room" and two female diners who ate with him "cracked under the strain of consuming so much protein and fat." [GQ]
- For Danyelle Freeman, Hell's Kitchen eatery Braai "looks like an African date-hut," has "way too much music," and the best thing might be the restaurant's wine list. [NYDN]
- Jay Cheshes likes Allegretti, a restaurant that he claims "serves what may be the city’s most elegant niçoise salad" and has a chef whose "technique and presentation are flawless." [TONY]
