Will Chumley's Ever Reopen?
Eater today takes a look inside Chumley's—er, more specifically, the seemingly eternal construction site once known as Chumley's.
Last month, The Observer checked in with longtime proprietor Steve Shlopak, whose optimistic forecasts for reopening the crumbled Greenwich Village watering hole keep getting pushed back.
At that time, Mr. Shlopak, who compared the place's present condition to a "bombed-out farmhouse," said the long-anticipated grand reopening likely wouldn't happen until March 1, 2008, at the earliest.
Now Eater speculates that date is looking more like April 1—at best:
No work has yet begun on rebuilding the bar. What a site inspection yielded yesterday is that, while the chimney is now dismantled, nothing else appears to have changed since April—before yesterday, the last time the interior was photographed (by amNY).
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Someone do something! Bring it back! I had this honey beer there - I think I died and went to heaven and came back. I love historical places. NYC needs to hold onto to some of it's past!
Hey, New York!! Get use to it! Everything the RICH piled into Greenwich Village for, (the ambience, the uniqueness, the one-of-a-kind shops, restaurants, bars, etc.), THAT is all being crushed under their stampeding Philistine hooves!!! Look at how Bleecker Street has turned into West Broadway or Madison Ave. Every block in the Village has at least one townhouse or brownstone being "dumpsterized" by the junk-bond/hedge-fund/WHATEVER set that throws all the original woodwork and architecture, (and residents!), and replaces them with stainless steel kitchens, spiral staircases, and hot tubs. How could something as wonderful as Chumleys possibly survive ina place where the Beatrice Inn, Sazerac House, Le Metairie, and dozens of other "originals" have gone down? I know, I know...there are some jackasses that say that New York is always about change, that the history of the city has been built on it. But NEVER in the history of the city, have all neighborhoods become the SAME neighborhood! The individual businesses that opened in each neighborhood are being erased by the mass produced culture, both high and low, that's swallowing every part of the country. And with them goes the character. So while you're celebrating how much better Times Square is now that it's been Eisnerised and Disneyfied.....come on down to the Village, cause they're going to do the same thing here. Why don't we just Formica the whole thing over!!?? So much easier to sponge up!!!