Jackson Heights Life

FYI, that is not a new pharmacy opening near Table Wine. That's B&B Pharmacy, which is currently on the next block (37th between 80th and 81st), moving due to high rents. B&B has been in the neighborhood for a long time, and always provides friendly, caring service. When I returned home from the hospital after having my daughter by c-section, my mother went there to fill a prescription for me, the pharmacist, Elena Bover, sent a care package of baby products home as a gift. They are valued community members, IMO.

Excellent to know! Thanks for sharing.

Good news.

Long meeting with the gentleman, also from the theater world, who is in charge of the lighting for the restaurant. His ideas are wonderful.

Also, we're in discussions with a sculptor who may do some works that are integrated into the restaurant. She is extremely talented and has an international reputation. If this comes together, it is thrilling.

I'd like to point out, given a couple of recent posts, that I will be the chef/patron. There are a number of investors, one of whom has said things in the past to which two or three of you take exception. He is not in the restaurant business, he is entitled to his opinion, and he expressed the opinions in question before he became an investor. Indeed, his view that Jackson Heights can support an alternative - and I stress the word alternative - to what is currently available, is why he is backing up his opinion with actual cash that will help make this restaurant happen and create jobs in Jackson Heights.

Here's the point. I've been, for a long, long time, having and cultivating great relationships with local area restaurateurs and business owners around where I live. Yes, I know it's in their best interest to be kind and put on a good face for their business. But we're talking getting invited to private parties with the staff, buying gifts for their kids at times, basically a feeling that we're good friends, almost family in some cases. I'm not naive, but it truly is a good feeling to feel like when you're patronizing a local place that they actually act like they care about the hood, and you and your family.

I've never seen the likes of this, ever. It's baffling, and frankly extremely telling. I don't even know how to make any sense of it. I'll try it, and see if the in-person experience is much better. If it isn't, it definitely won't be around for long in a place like JH. Sometimes things just come out wrong in writing and can be much better in person. But really. You need to stop. Do a reset. Fast.

Here's the point.

I've never seen the likes of this, ever. It's baffling... I don't even know how to make any sense of it.

You have made it clear, repeatedly, that you don't like what we are doing. Which is totally cool. There are lots of other restaurants in Jackson Heights that you say you would not only be happier with, but that treat you like family.

stew:

no one KNOWS what you're doing, aside from pitching a fit about the (admittedly byzantine) rules about liquor licenses and community boards, and the hurdles every restaurant owner in new york city has had to surmount for decades. it's not as if there's a secret handshake that's allowed every single one of your peers to have info you don't have, after all.

your wild, over-the-top, me-against-the world reaction to this makes me wonder what will happen when, God forbid, someone criticizes the food coming out of the kitchen. i know, i know, no soup for me.

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Here's the point.

I've never seen the likes of this, ever. It's baffling... I don't even know how to make any sense of it.

You have made it clear, repeatedly, that you don't like what we are doing. Which is totally cool. There are lots of other restaurants in Jackson Heights that you say you would not only be happier with, but that treat you like family.