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• what’s open in Battery Park

  

  Wednesday, 7:30pm: We’ve been crazy-lucky. Haven’t lost power, Internet, cell service, anything at all. (Know that every time I say that, I fear I’m tempting fate. Knocking wood once again.)

  What’s even crazier is that our very-immediate neighborhood is running, seemingly, almost normally. Maybe that will change tomorrow or Friday, if all the food runs out. But for now, things are close to normal. (Not to discount any of the damage that’s been done, of course.)

  I’ve had this sense of guilt this entire time, How did we get so lucky, while almost all of lower Manhattan has gone dark?  So I hesitate to even write all this because the last thing I want to sound like is smug. But in the interest of spreading the word, if you haven’t yet headed to the UES or UWS or Brooklyn and you need to refuel, know that the southwest corner of Manhattan is an option, too.

  Starting at Murray St and heading south, here’s what I’ve found: 

  In “Goldman Alley” (between Murray St and Vesey St)

  • Shake Shack: Re-opened this afternoon. Sign said they would stay open till 8ish. (No shakes right now, reports @fimoculous.)

  

  • Harry’s Italian: Opened at 5 today.
  • Vintry Wines: Open.
  • Battery Place Market: Open.
  • Beans & Greens: Open & taking credit cards. 
  • Pick a Bagel: Was open this morning, mobbed.
  • Regal Battery Park Stadium: Open. (Enter on North End Ave.)

  Around the corner:

  • Blue Smoke: Open.
  • North End Grill: Opened at 4 today. 

  

  World Financial Center:

  • Rite Aid: Open.
  • PJ Clarke’s: Open. Had lunch there today with Kate because HowAboutWe’s office in Dumbo is still closed. Cash was “strongly preferred” but I don’t know what their policy was if you only had credit; they weren’t saying “cash only.” Limited menu, paper plates, delicious. First outside meal since Sunday.

  

  

  

  • Starbucks: One of the only places that was closed. (Update: Open as of Thursday morning.)
  • Financier Patisserie: Open. 
  • Devon & Blakely: Open.

  South End Ave:

  • Au Bon Pain: Open.
  • Cafe Express: Open. 
  • Battery Park Pharmacy: Open.
  • Gristedes (315 S End): Open, taking credit and debit (and giving up to $20 cash back). 
  • Bull & Bears Winery: Open.
  • Picasso Pizza: Open. 
  • Hudson Produce: Open.
  • Benvenuti: Open.
  • Gristedes (71 S End): Open — though this one’s cash only.

  That’s as far south as I got, though I heard Inatteso is open as well.

  p.s. Another reminder for friends — if you need a place to shower/internet/etc, we’re happy to have you. We hosted our first refugee today, and Zuki was pretty psyched: 

  

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  • #sandy
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  31 Oct 2012 / 13 notes