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Business Journals
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
Hampton Chutney Co. to return to Manhattan
Hampton Chutney Co. is returning to Manhattan after a four-year absence. The Hamptons-based café will occupy an approximately 2,800-square-foot space, located at 740 Broadway in NoHo, that includes around 1,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 1,500 square feet of basement space for storage. Coffee shop Felix Roasting Co. previously occupied the space. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events The lease is for 15 years. GFP Real Estate, the landlord, was represented by in-house by Neith Stone along with Newmark's Ross Kaplan and William Chaplin. CBRE's Spencer Levy represented the tenant. 'This high-visibility location puts them in the center of a vibrant neighborhood filled with students, locals, office workers and tourists — an ideal spot for the brand to reconnect with the city and reach a wide, diverse audience,' Stone said in a statement. Founded by Gary and Isabel MacGurn, Hampton Chutney Co. serves South Indian-inspired dosas and chutneys. The pair opened their first café in 1997 in the Hamptons' Amagansett hamlet. In 2001, they opened cafés in Manhattan in SoHo and on the Upper West Side. Aside from moving its SoHo cafe in 2015, according to Eater New York, the two cafés remained open until 2021, the company said. The MacGurns also relocated their flagship location to East Hampton Village that year. Now they're returning their café to Manhattan with the space in GFP Real Estate's 12-story, 152,000-square-foot building. Sign up for the Business Journal's free daily newsletter to receive the latest business news impacting New York.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Investigation continues into fatal Washington DC airline crash
(WHTM) — American Airlines Flight 5342 was approaching Reagan National Airport from the south, a common approach. Lined up for Runway 1, something else common occurred — air traffic control asked the pilots to move over and land on Runway 33 instead. Video captures fiery crash between American Airlines flight and Army Blackhawk 'We call it a circling approach,' Airline Pilot Ross Kaplan said. He's made the same maneuver 'many times' at the airport earlier in his career, when he flew smaller jets similar in size to the Bombardier CRJ-700, flown by PSA Airlines for American Airlines that collided with a military Blackhawk heliopter. 'In order to accommodate all the traffic going into there, they have to make use of the runways that they have available,' Kaplan said. Smaller airplanes can more easily land on the smaller runway, and do so safely all the time. Air traffic control asked the pilot of the Blackhawk, known to ATC as PAT2, if he saw the CRJ. They asked the helicopter to pass behind the jet. Instead, data seems to show the Blackhawk going in front of the commercial flight. Another preliminary focus: restrictions sources familiar with the airspace around Reagan say normally limit the Blackhawk to flying at an altitude of less than 200 feet where the accident happened. 'But we know PSA was at roughly 375 feet at the last transmitted altitude,' Kaplan said. 'Is it possible the helicopter was also above the altitude that they were supposed to be at in that area? That may have been the case unfortunately.' Suggesting the Blackhawk might have been the aircraft that was somewhere it shouldn't have been, which of course is not to assign blame to the Blackhawk pilot. Investigators will examine flight and voice recorders from both aircraft and key exchanges between pilots and air traffic controllers. They'll look at whether the Blackhawk pilot mistook another plane for the CRJ. 'It's very difficult to spot aircraft against the backdrop of city lights,' Kaplan said. Reagan National is among many airports, including Harrisburg International, where military exercises take place alongside commercial traffic. The Pennsylvania National Guard tells abc27 News it's not yet ready to talk about that out of respect for the family's of those who died in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board often releases a preliminary accident report within a month. The full report often takes more than a year. One thing is already clear. 'We pride ourselves on this being a very safe profession,' Kaplan said. 'The last one among U.S. Airlines was 2009, and you always hope that the last one was the last one.' PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines, the latter with a maintenance and crew base at Harrisburg, are both regional airlines for American. Both have excellent safety records. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
