Lazin' on a sunny afternoon

No, this isn’t a continuation of the Gwathmey@Astor rant (I do promise to quit that one day). This is a continuation of 7/14’s rant regarding the laziness of Sunday’s (7/11/10) NYT real estate writer who, when writing about Noho, failed to explore the area above Great Jones St.

Now here is an article that justifiably limits the scope of discussion to the 3 blocks of Lafayette just north of Houston. The writer, Christopher Gray, had a specific reason to limit his perimeters. It was an historic piece specifically about those 3 blocks.

This is the exact same swath that C.J. Hughes wrote about last Sunday. Mr./Ms. Hughes didn’t have any such reason to restrict the boundaries.

While Mr. Gray does mention two restaurants: Bite and Pinche Taqueria, he does so to emphasize some of the particular challenges that greeted developers. Both are housed in a lilliputian triangular building that gives the taco place 12 feet of working space and the sandwich restaurant is “barely 5 feet wide where the cook stands, and about 18 inches at the tip”. Those dimensions make the restaurants worthy of comment.

Curiously, these are the only 2 restaurants featured photographically in last Sunday’s article.

Coincidence? Or as I suspect, the photos were left over from the earlier article.



OK, now I'm done ranting.

(lauren T)




(thanks to DS for pointing out the Gray article. And BTW, DS and family used to live in the Gwathmey/Astor building while they were renovating their West Village home. Please know that because some of the finest people have lived in that crazy building does not mean that they themselves are not crazy. They are wonderful)