Thompson Lower East Side
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- Jason, Michael, and Larry Pomeranc, who run the Thompson Hotel Group and recently launched a restaurant management division called Do Not Disturb, hope to expand their business into the international market within the next few years. [Crain's]
- The owners of Skylight are converting a Fort Greene site into a 15,000-square-foot event venue to be called the Clocktower at One Hanson. [BizBash]
- The battle continues between Upper East Side residents and the Rose Group over the use of a Park Avenue property for events. [NYT]
- On Thursday, the Discovery Channel and Running Subway Productions opened their 60,000-square-foot Discovery Times Square Exposition hall. [BizBash]
- Despite recession fears, a report claims that there are 50 new hotels in the works for Midtown West and Lower Manhattan, which are slated to open over the next two years. [The Real Deal]
- A Chelsea site best known as the home of an antiques flea market will become a 29-story hotel. [NYO]
- Jennifer LeRoy, the current owner of Tavern on the Green, is hoping to drum up support for her bid to keep the historic eatery's license by inviting fans to note their thoughts on a Keep Tavern on the Green Web site. [NYT]
- On July 25, Midtown seafood restaurant Oceana will move to a new location in Rockefeller Center; New York magazine has the renderings of the planned space. [NYMag]
- After revisiting Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Spice Market, Frank Bruni drops the Meatpacking district restaurant to one star, complaining that while the kitchen has skill "it just doesn't have nearly enough discipline." [NYT]
- Steve Cuozzo takes a look into Italian restaurants in the works, including Lever House replacement Casa Lever, the Time Warner Center outpost of A Voce, and SD 26. [NYP]
- At Montenapo, the new restaurant inside The New York Times headquarters, Ryan Sutton finds that unlike Inakaya, the modern Italian eatery is "largely quiet," but "serves mediocre hotel-Italian at absurd prices." [Bloomberg]
- Like other reviewers before her, Danyelle Freeman finds that the food at Graydon Carter's Monkey Bar doesn't quite measure up to the scene. [NYDN]
