{"id":154315,"date":"2026-03-05T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:36:14","slug":"coffee-by-day-jazz-by-night-spike-wilners-new-club-opening-on-restaurant-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154315\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee by Day, Jazz by Night \u2014 Spike Wilner\u2019s New Club Opening on Restaurant Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant Row is getting a new sound. Spike Wilner, who runs <a href=\"https:\/\/sideways.nyc\/discover\/4EjQ5P8nZFBZcNUPKBM5KK\/smalls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smalls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sideways.nyc\/discover\/5DKYjwT0qjqCWVdexBM5hN\/mezzrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mezzrow<\/a> in the West Village, has taken over the former Swing 46 space and is reopening it as Jazzcultural \u2014 with coffee in the morning and live jazz at night.<\/p>\n<p>When Spike Wilner talks about opening Jazzcultural on Restaurant Row, he doesn\u2019t sound like a man chasing nightlife glamour. \u201cI\u2019m a dad,\u201d he told W42ST this week, laughing. \u201cI get up very early, get my girl ready for school. My late-night days are behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurant Row is getting a new sound. Spike Wilner, who runs Smalls and Mezzrow in the West Village,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6160,75,84,83,2538,9,24,63,23047],"class_list":{"0":"post-154315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-jazz","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-restaurantrow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}