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| | The Mercury Dime | | | “Nightlife impresario Sasha Petraske and industry veteran T.J. Siegal open a coffee bar.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Coffee, Sandwiches |
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| | | | | | [I know I’m supposed to write about a dinner that took place about two…almost three weeks ago but I don’t feel motivated to write such a lengthy post about it yet. So, bear with me as I have a short post for you about my stop at the newly minted, The Mercury Dime.] Exterior I believe good coffee ... Read More | | | | | | Welcome to First Word, wherein Eater and its correspondents sit for hours at steamy community board meetings to bring back the first word of new establishments and what they're up to. Your reports from the field always encouraged to tips@eater.com. Last night, Community Board 3 held an especially l... Read More | | | | | | The Mercury Dime Many hours are spent by the East Village Podcasts editorial “team” in local coffee shops. For me, the coffee shop is a refuge from being cooped up in the “cozy” East Village apartment office. I can potentially order a cuppa and a bagel or something-or-other, not spend w... Read More | | | | | | A special correspondent notices the above note, posted in a door on East 5th Street, pleading the community to approve Sasha Petraske's Mercury Dime: "The saddest part of Mercury Dime not getting its license is that it means this flier... didn't work, and therefore there are no more romantics... Read More | | | | | | T.B.D.: After finally getting their paperwork in order, the new 2,500 square foot t.b.d. opened on Franklin Avenue in Greenpoint Tuesday night. As previously noted, the cavernous new lounge, located in a former warehouse, has twelve beers on tap, as well as wine and spirits. There’s also some comfor... Read More | | | | | | East Village: As reported last week, Sasha Petraske is having another go at getting his coffee shop/bar Mercury Dime a liquor license. You can see on the left here that he's asking the community to throw him a bone and get behind him in support. But don't think for a second that those seasoned pro... Read More | | | | | | Welcome to First Word, wherein Eater and its correspondents sit for hours at steamy community board meetings to bring back the first word of new establishments and what they're up to. Your reports from the field always encouraged to tips@eater.com. As usual, the neighborhood watchdogs came out in d... Read More | | | | | | A reader tells us Milk and Honey’s number was disconnected sometime in the past two weeks (a member of Rhythmism’s message board predicted the number would change after the secret digits were posted there in May, though the Department of Health’s site also exposed the number a good year ago). If yo... Read More | | | | | | We figured the lack of a liquor license at Sasha Petraske's Mercury Dime would be a financial setback given the rents on East 5th Street, but we had no idea just how bad it was. Petraske tells us that losing thousands of dollars a month on his struggling coffee shop is practically bankrupting his ot... Read More | | | | | | Coffee without the secret phone number.Photo: Nick Atlas A couple of weeks ago the magazine offered a peek into the Mercury Dime, Sasha Petraske's latest venture in the East Village. A year after the community board shot down its bid for a wine-and-beer license (not even the proprietor of ultraquie... Read More | | | |
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