{"id":328674,"date":"2026-08-24T20:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328674\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:28:36","slug":"ev-grieve-last-call-for-chopt-on-astor-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328674\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Last call for Chopt on Astor Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh3Al3ZxYtGDdUBR64_wAT9wQsLTl_lDcHfQkk2MWitxH23Zv_Dtred_g7oaCBY0HKEi8riGu_Us41BTEd-8mLxO65-KbUZYbxbk2FvgS-23du6EcyVici3K2wuVSPc84-FwEyasiNBszvjFubM-xNlX6bnzG_SWjJ_J-BkNZeZSdxmTSkkQOfbumgQx50\/IMG_5877.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5877.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chopt is closing its Astor Place outpost after more than 10 years in business. (Thanks to EVG reader Seth for the tip!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiSGo9lqQI9jFqjUuk8krPRJsH5rReBzANwYbKrQJYDXGpDp7dGJIjD6oJFkZYtXTAanNYrjTA3euawMKZ4TuX1s8xSF7oQ0nSIeElJbFNV8e_3KmbxFo7PBYiGCxYJ_Sf0BgOl4tdpJXXC2lPmVQyzEF3lyvJMwGptzDnt-eRS8AGjOKGeFKqPLkMchXg\/IMG_5878.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5878.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday (Aug. 28) is the last day for the fast-casual salad chain at 51 Astor Place \u2014 aka the IBM Watson Building\/the Death Star \u2014 on the Fourth Avenue side at Ninth Street.\u00a0Meanwhile, the adjacent storefront that housed Bluestone Lane Coffee (<a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2025\/02\/bluestone-lane-has-closed-on-astor-place.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RIP Feb. 2025<\/a>) remains vacant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJy5ohQKaaOWsakGDiGCV1vYNjtbyykkoMMlnOBqZQNhSCuu8u0m7aG8k_EZtNED5esFDx__djWkozCLVNI8809n2SqHY-nLkRMPtfg3OI5zek7_h6GcNvrwdU66vJXP_gfy2JT559CBTQJHF_OtfVmx04HqyIp0FNO9EkpGoeEelgBo_8fmG14Wt78qE\/IMG_5880.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5880.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chopt is closing its Astor Place outpost after more than 10 years in business. (Thanks to EVG reader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-328674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328674","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=328674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}