flowers cafe

After 10 years in business, Flowers Cafe will be closing at the end of this work week. Proprietor Bill Frazer tells us the independent sandwich shop will shut down on Friday, as the new owner of the nearly 200-year-old...

A Federal-style row house dating to the 1820s at 355 Grand St. is apparently not long for this world. According to Department of Buildings records, the new owner of the property, home to Flowers Cafe and Vic's Pizza, plans...

All day today, coffee is free at Flowers Cafe at 355 Grand St. (at the corner of Grand and Essex streets). It's their way of celebrating the first day of school. The locally-owned restaurant is right across the street...

In Lower East Side real estate market news this week, we learn that 355 Grand St. (aka 51 Essex St.) has just been listed for sale at $4.5 million. Per the listing from ERG Property Advisors: The building is 3,200 square feet...

Sweet Grapes Wine Bar at 39 Essex Street is finally ready for business. Owner Bill Frazer has set next Thursday, March 3, as opening day at the bar, which has been converted from its former function as Frazer's flower shop. Essex...

For the last five years, Mary Fitzgerald has baked custom-order sweets for weddings, birthdays and other occasions in a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, schlepping her ingredients and finished products hither and thither and relying on word-of-mouth...