The facade will be split into four "storefronts": a hat store, a hardware store, a neighborhood bar and a bodega. The designer calls it an "ironic statement...reminiscent of independent businesses." Read more.
Come for the well-curated "summer reading" table, but stay for the mezzanine's starbucks cafe-- you might be supporting two megachains at once, but the city recently gave them an A for cleanliness Read more.