Good morning and happy Wednesday. The sun’s making an early appearance, but don’t get too used to it — clouds will roll in through the day, with rain showers expected late afternoon into the evening. We’ll hit a high of 47 degrees, but gusty winds will make it feel more like the high 30s. Layer up and keep that umbrella handy…
The Grey Dog has opened on W56th Street with its signature brunch plus a new dinner menu, reviving a long-vacant Hell’s Kitchen space. Read more…
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Hell’s Kitchen landlord Steven Kashanian has settled with Attorney General Letitia James for over $600k, which includes over 90 violations at a property on W36th Street. Read more…
What We’ve Been Reading
Former head of NYC Sanitation (and Mayoral candidate) Kathryn Garcia is to head up Port Authority. (New York Times)
Pollution has been reduced by 22% in the congestion charge zone. (Bloomberg)
New York’s Catholic church is raising funds and selling assets to compensate 1,300 abuse victims to the tune of $300m. (The Guardian)
Retiring the penny makes economic sense — but low-income New Yorkers risk paying more for everyday life. (Washington Square News)
Project Safe Flight is on the case to protect NYC’s migrating birds. (Eyewitness News)
Freeze Frame
There’s star power on both sides of this Hell’s Kitchen hug. Longtime W42ST readers Nancy Shankman and her son, entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman. A decade after being “discovered” by a casting agent outside her granddaughter’s preschool, Nancy is making her on-screen speaking debut “in her 80s” in Marty Supreme, the new Timothée Chalamet–Gwyneth Paltrow film opening Christmas Day. As Peter put it on his social media post: “My mother has a speaking role in a major movie… I’m very, very proud of her.”
Nancy is a West Side fixture, conducting the River Place/Silver Towers Community Chorus at the end of W42nd Street. Their next holiday performance is this Thursday at 7pm in the Silver Towers lobby — a perfect chance to cheer on a neighbor whose star is rising.
Happy birthday to Simon Lobachev and Philippa Lynas.
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