Madison Square Park

Grub Street and Eater are reporting that soon-to-be displaced Central Park eatery San Domenico will be reopening in a much bigger, 350-seat space at 19 East 26th Street, right across from Madison Square Park -- Danny Meyer country.

"Right now Danny Meyer is king of the park. We plan to challenge him," as Mr. May told Eater.

The new restaurant will be called SD26.

Watch out, Equinox! New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter is partnering with the international 24-Hour Fitness chain to open three new “classy” sports clubs in Manhattan this year.

What, you were expecting a Roger Clemens-run juice bar?

The first will be a 28,000-square-foot facility on Fifth Avenue, conveniently located just a short guilt-ridden walk from Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack in Madison Square Park.

Additional locations are planned for SoHo and also in Midtown, a few blocks from the pro slugger's own $13 million pad in the Trump World Tower.

The healthy and wealthy Yankees shortstop recently took a breather to talk with me about the project.  read more »

Behold! The city's first public pay toilet. It might look shiny and clean -- built of stainless steel, according to a technician -- but boy, was it cold on opening day!

Chilling down to the toes, in fact, despite the added layer of protection of an optional disposable seat cover.

Just 25 cents (coins only) buys you up to 15 minutes on the self-sanitizing throne at Madison Square Park, plenty of time, I thought, to sit down, flip open the laptop, and compose this blog post.

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Danny Meyer's hallowed outdoor dining destination Shake Shack reopened shortly after noon on Thursday -- the coldest frickin' day of the year.

A planned heating system (as earlier reported by Eater) was still under construction. Yet even windchill in the single digits couldn't hold back the Shack heads in Madison Square Park.  read more »