Eyes on the Street: Brand New Pop-Up Café on Sullivan Street
Reader Ian Dutton sends these shots of the pop-up café that just went up at "local" -- a coffee shop on Sullivan Street in SoHo. Ian says owners Craig and Liz Walker worked hard to make this public space enhancement happen. Among other things, they had to bring a crew of supporters with them to Community Board 2 when their application to DOT's pop-up café program came up for a vote. Their bid was the only one of six applications to withstand the onslaught from local reactionary Sean Sweeney.
Ian reports that the seats filled up just about instantaneously after the installation was finished this afternoon:
In related news, a new pop-up café also went up at Ecopolis in Cobble Hill today.
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