JetBlue's new terminal
Rendering: Courtesy of JetBlue Airways
- The Ellis Island Immigration Museum announced a $20 million expansion that will be called the Peopling of America Center—an extension with a focus on illegal immigrants and citizenship. [NYT]
- On Monday, JetBlue Airways unveiled its new terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, which includes 22 food concession areas. [Newsday]
- For Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, the new home of the Museum of Arts & Design—which opens to the public tomorrow—"is not the bold architectural statement that might have justified the destruction of an important piece of New York history." [NYT]
- Thrillist gets the first look at the upcoming Lucky Strike outpost in Midtown West. [Thrillist]
- Graydon Carter's got big-name investors including Ronald Perelman and John Goldwyn backing his latest project, a retooling of Midtown eatery Monkey Bar. [NYP]
- Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino resort announced that it will delay its $925 million expansion, which was scheduled to be completed in 2010. [Newsday]
- On Wednesday, the City Planning Commission approved plans for the development of Willets Point and Hunter's Point South. [Curbed]
- While talking to The Sun about the opening of the Upper West Side outpost of Shake Shack, restaurateur Danny Meyer said that he and his employees are "big believers in not overpromising and underdelivering." [NYS]
- Curbed has details on the hotel development that will be built on the site of the Moondance diner. [Curbed]
- The Hudson Yards Development Corporation showed off renderings from the competition for the design of the West Side Boulevard. [NYP]
- Restaurateur Danny Meyer thinks New York is "electric," and "cultural communities and parks need to continue to be fed." [TONY]
- For Adam Platt, Sheridan Square, the "blandly appointed restaurant" in the West Village, serves some "predictable" items, but offers "beautifully textured" New York strip and "satisfying" and "elegant" desserts. [NYMag]
- At Delicatessen, Frank Bruni finds "reliably mobbed feeding grounds for young diners who want a sleek theater" that serves "all-purpose crowd pleasers" and "hearty gut busters," but sometimes the execution is "sloppy." [NYT]
- Although celebrity chef Todd English is attached to Libertine, the new restaurant in the financial district, Ryan Sutton is disappointed with the restaurant's "mediocre fare." [Bloomberg]
- Danyelle Freeman remarks that at Apiary, like some other restaurants, there's a "dish that reads well on the menu and tastes good in theory—but not necessarily on the plate." [NYDN]
