REVOLVING DOOR.(restaurants)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 12-MAR-07

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New York, unlike the great capitals of Europe, has always been a city of reinvention. Manhattan schist excavated during the construction of the subway finds new life as an apartment building on Riverside Drive; meat lockers on Gansevoort Street become expensive shoe salons; an Art Deco bar, abandoned in Murray Hill, is transformed in 1980 when it's relocated, like a Lego block, to a new restaurant in Tribeca called the Odeon.

Evan Blum, who runs the architectural-salvage shop Demolition Depot (and who facilitated the Odeon transfer for Keith McNally), is the city's recycler-in-chief. He is the major dealer in "vintage doors." On the third floor of his warehouse, on 125th...

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