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- Busy chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten has 10 restaurants in the works for this year, with plans to take his eatery concepts to other cities through a joint venture with Starwood Hotels. [Fortune]
- Bruce Ratner has another opponent to his Atlantic Yards project—New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell is asking the Obama administration to block Barclays bank from securing the $400 million naming rights deal with the new arena for the Nets. [NYO]
- The new stadium for the Yankees, due to open early next month, will have a wide range of food available for ballpark patrons, including stations run by well known chefs. [BizBash]
- The New York Post offers the first glimpse inside the new, $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium. [NYP]
- The concerts that took over McCarren Park Pool last summer might be heading to East River State Park. [Brooklyn Paper]
- The plan to turn the Paramount Hotel into a 610-room property operated by Hard Rock Café International fell flat, but the Landmark Preservation Commission wants to label the building as a city landmark. [NYO]
- The W Hoboken, a 25-story hotel on the New Jersey waterfront, opened on Friday. [NYDN]
- Gourmet takes a closer look at three recently opened upscale restaurants—Corton, the John Dory, and the new incarnation of Bouley—and finds that even in a tough economy these businesses are thriving. [Gourmet]
- For Frank Bruni, "the new Bouley is a labor of obvious and obsessive love" and the critic awards the restaurant three stars, claiming "no restaurant outdoes Bouley when it comes to dessert." [NYT]
- Bouley is also the focus of Steve Cuozzo's review, which applauds the chef's efforts—"the best since his first one"—and claims that it "feels just right for the waning, anguished" times. [NYP]
- However, Bouley doesn't quite measure up to the expectations of Jay Cheshes, who alleges that the eatery is "a B-list runner up to the likes of Jean Georges, Daniel, or even Corton just up the street." [TONY]
