Topic: Simon Hammerstein

Neighbors Mobilize Against The Box

The New York Observer - 1243 days ago
Just in time for the new Depression, something that sounds like a courtroom scene about an embattled speakeasy (like the actual Prohibition kind, not Death & Monday night, Eater sat in on a community board meeting during which Lower East Side hotspot The ...

At Big Box Bash, LeeLee Sobieski Remembers Her Mortality

The New York Observer - 1530 days ago
Late last night at Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel’s celeb-infested, serially newsworthy Lower East Side cabaret, The Box, the actress Leelee Sobieski wore a top-hat and slinky tank top and carried a mold of her own skull (it had been commissioned ...

Angry Young Men

Esquire - 1614 days ago
New York City is full of Big Names with Big Ideas, so when Simon Hammerstein -- of the great theater clan -- envisioned a vaudeville theater that would rescue nightlife from the tyranny of industrial megaclubs, he was easy to ignore. When John Connelly ...