{"id":60820,"date":"2025-12-04T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:17:11","slug":"a-4am-showdown-hells-kitchen-diner-splits-the-room-and-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60820\/","title":{"rendered":"A 4AM Showdown \u2014 Hell\u2019s Kitchen Diner Splits the Room and the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/w44-diner-dies-hells-kitchen-community-board\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plans for a 1950s-style diner in Hell\u2019s Kitchen collapsed<\/a> at the committee level, the team behind the would-be establishment returned for round two \u2014 this time before nearly 50 members of the Manhattan Community Board 4 Full Board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DSC_2562-Adam-Schop.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Schop at MCB4\" class=\"wp-image-121765\"\/>W44 Diner co-owner Adam Schop speaking at Wednesday evening\u2019s MCB4 meeting. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>Stephane Bibeau and his business partner, chef Adam Schop propose a 24-hour diner on the corner of 9th Avenue and W44th Street, replacing La Pulperia, which closed earlier this year and migrated to Restaurant Row. They came for one more shot at winning back support for the 4am liquor license they say is essential for their 24\/7 project \u2014 in their application called W44 Diner \u2014 to survive and prosper.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading This Story for FREE!<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" 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\" 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":"Two weeks after plans for a 1950s-style diner in Hell\u2019s Kitchen collapsed at the committee level, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,1887,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-60820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mcb4","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820","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=60820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}