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Star Turns
Battery Park City Restaurant Loses Michelin Ranking, But Five New Downtown Eateries Are Honored
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Above: L’Appart (in Brookfield Place) lost the Michelin star it has held since 2017. Below: New entrant Saga (on the rooftop of 70 Pine Street) gained two stars.
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The annually updated gastronome’s bible, the Michelin Guide, has released its findings about New York restaurants for 2022, which include several upgrades and one notable demotion for Lower Manhattan diners.
In the latter category is L’Appart, an intimate, 28-seat hideaway nestled behind a leather-padded door within the Le District dining complex at Brookfield Place, which was awarded a single Michelin star to much fanfare in 2017 (less than a year after opening, in April 2016), a distinction that it had retained each year since. The eatery, which takes its name from an abbreviated form of the French word for “apartment,” is outfitted to resemble a dining room within a private French home more than a traditional restaurant. One half of the space is given over to an open kitchen, where guests can watch the chef prepare selections from the five- to eight-course tasting menu, which is priced starting at $230 per person. When Michelin recently announced its results for 2022, L’Appart’s star was taken away.
The Michelin Guide has been publishing handbooks for traveling gourmands for more than a century, conferring rankings based on one star (“a very good restaurant in its category”), two (“excellent cuisine, worth a detour”) or three (“exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey”).
In New York City, there are only 73 restaurants in three of the five boroughs that appear on Michelin’s 2022 roster. (The Bronx and Staten Island didn’t make the cut.) Of these, five made the top tier with three stars, 13 were granted two stars, and 55 were awarded a single star. There are 11 formerly one-star restaurants that, like L’Appart, lost their designation.
When L’Appart was recognized in five years ago, it was the only Michelin-starred restaurant anywhere below Chambers Street, and one of only four below Canal Street. (The others were Jung-Sik, at Two Harrison Street, and Bâtard, at 239 West Broadway, with two stars, and Atera, at 77 Worth Street, with one star.)
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Crown Shy (also at the top of 70 Pine) garnered one star.
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Since then, the list of local stars has lengthened. In addition to the three peers noted above (all of which have retained their Michelin rankings), two restaurants located at 70 Pine Street were newly honored by Michelin this year. Saga, on the 63rd floor, notched two stars, while Crown Shy, on the 64th floor, garnered one. (The bar between these restaurants, Overstory, was recently named No. 34 on the prestigious list, the World’s 50 Best Bars, compiled each year by 650 professional mixologists.)
Additional Lower Manhattan restaurants newly honored with a single Michelin star this year are Icca (20 Warren Street), L’Abeille (412 Greenwich Street), Shion (69 Leonard Street), and One White Street (with a toponymic address).
Matthew Fenton
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Street Wise
Local Advocacy Group Seeks to Make the Pedestrian King in Lower Manhattan
Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to “develop a vision for a Financial District streetscape that prioritizes pedestrian mobility and safety,” three years after that agency allocated half a million dollars for a study that would have kickstarted this process, but never took any further action. In a resolution enacted at its July meeting, the Board also demanded that DOT “account for the $500,000 mobility study promised in 2019.” Read more…
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Viral Outbreak in FiDi
Gutsy Guy Gambles on Gambol Along the Gambrels
A impromptu video of a man leaping from one parapet to another along a rooftop 300 feet above West Street went viral on Thursday, after filmmaker Erik Ljung looked out an office window in Brookfield Place, saw what appeared to be a daredevil tempting fate, and then began recording the event with his phone. Read more…
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Valorizing Velocipedes
Borough President Proposes Turning One Lane of West Street Over to Bicycles
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has proposed to remove the westernmost traffic lane of West Street, from Chambers to West 57th Street (and, eventually, beyond), to create a new, two-way bike lane. Read more…
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Wednesday, October 12
10am-12pm
Rector Park East
Observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike poses for participants to draw. An educator will offer critique. Materials provided. Free.
11am
Livestreamed
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage to virtually explore the ninth district of Vienna. $36.
1pm
St. Paul’s Chapel
The “expert and versatile musicians” (The New Yorker) of NOVUS NY celebrate composer George Crumb. Free.
2pm-4pm
Rector Park East
Create with drawing materials, pastels and watercolors. An artist/ educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials provided. Free.
2pm
12 Fulton Street
Several buildings in the South Street Seaport Historic District are considered to be some of the oldest standing structures in Manhattan. Free.
5:30pm
Oculus Plaza, World Trade Center
Bring your own mat. Free.
7pm-8pm
Pier 17
Community meditation event with Dr. Deepak Chopra, including a 20-minute guided meditation and a conversation between Dr. Chopra and Gabriella Wright, founder of Never Alone, an initiative that aims to build mental health awareness.
7pm-8:30pm
Stella Adler Studio of Acting, 65 Broadway, second floor
Novelist Jennifer Egan in conversation with Melissa Maxwell. Free
7:30pm
McNally Jackson, 4 Fulton Street
Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside them. RSVP required.
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Thursday, October 13
1pm
Tour of the urban vegetable farm and perennial forest farm, led by park staff. RSVP required. Intended for ages 13 and up. Free.
2pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
Judith Koeppel Steel was born in Berlin at the beginning of World War II. Her family escaped Germany in 1939 aboard the MS St. Louis, only to be turned away by both Cuba and the United States and sent back to Europe. Her family was later imprisoned in Gurs concentration camp. Hear her story. $10 suggested donation
3pm-4pm
Kid-friendly tour of our urban vegetable farm, led by park staff. RSVP required. Intended for children under the age of 13. Free.
7pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
Fifteen years after the release of the award-winning The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, the book is being reissued. Daniel Mendelsohn will be in conversation with author Francine Prose. $10 suggested donation
Friday, October 14
12pm
Rector Park East
Explore the parks of BPC, and see what makes this spot a hang-out for urban birds and marvelous migrators! Binoculars and field guides provided. Free.
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Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets
Tribeca Greenmarket
Greenwich Street & Chambers Street
Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8am-3pm (compost program: Saturdays, 8am-1pm)
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Broadway & Whitehall St
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8am-5pm (compost program: 8am-11am)
World Trade Center Oculus Greenmarket
Tuesdays, 8am-5pm
The Outdoor Fulton Stall Market
91 South Street, between Fulton & John Streets
Indoor market: Monday through Saturday,11:30am-5pm
CSA pick-up: Thursday, 4pm-6pm; Friday, 11:30-5pm
Outdoor market: Saturdays, 11:30am-5pm
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Today in History
October 12
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Digitally restored version of a drawing by John Clark Ridpath, published in Witchcraft Illustrated in 1892, of the death of Giles Corey by being pressed with heavy stones during the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials ended today in 1692.
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539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
1492 – Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Bahamas. He thinks he reached Asia.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1915 – In World War I, British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1960 – Television viewers in Japan witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, Japan Socialist Party leader, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1999 – The 6 billionth human in the world is born
2017 – Long-lost bust of Napoleon by Auguste Rodin found in the borough hall of Madison, New Jersey; worth at least $4 million
Births
1710 – Jonathan Trumbull, colonel, politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785)
1932 – Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author
1935 – Tony Kubek, American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan terrorist and murderer
1968 – Hugh Jackman, stage and screen actor and singer, born in Australia
Deaths
1576 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1858 – Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
1870 – Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
1987 – Alf Landon, lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1997 – John Denver [Deutschendorf], pop songwriter, dies in a solo plane crash at 53
1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
2013 – Oscar Hijuelos, novelist, dies from a heart attack at 62
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