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Museum of Jewish Heritage planning September reopening: The Museum of Jewish Heritage at 36 Battery Place in Battery Park City is making plans to reopen in September on a three-day-a-week schedule.

Metropolitan Museum of Art planning August reopening: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning to reopen its Fifth Avenue location (1000 Fifth Ave.) on Aug. 29. There has been no word yet about the Cloisters reopening. The Met Breuer, formerly the Met's third location, is now permanently closed. When the Met reopens, days and hours will be reduced and the museum won't have tours, talks, concerts or any other events through the end of 2020. The Met, which closed on March 13, had to lay off 80 employees and faces a budget shortfall of approximately $150 million.

 

United States Census 2020 is hiring: The 2020 U.S. Census will require a massive effort to document everyone in the country. The U.S. government is hiring census workers with a promise of "great pay, flexible hours, weekly pay and paid training." The jobs include census taker, recruiting assistant, office clerk, and supervisory staff. Applications can be made online at 2020census.gov/jobs. For more information, call 855-JOB-2020.    

Dine Around Downtown, Cooking at Home edition: The last and final installment of the Downtown Alliance's "Cooking at Home" edition of its popular food festival, Dine Around Downtown, takes place today, July 9, when Einat Admony, chef and co-owner of Taïm at 75 Maiden Lane, will call on her upbringing in Israel as she makes eggplant sabich salad and cauliflower shwarma.  

 

The three-part series featuring Lower Manhattan chefs is being hosted by Rocco DiSpirito, celebrity chef and cookbook author. In the first installment, Billy Oliva, executive chef at the legendary Delmonico's, demonstrated how to make a pan-roasted, dry-aged cowgirl ribeye steak paired with cowboy butter and a roasted corn and shrimp salad. The second installment featured chef Michele Iuliano of Gnoccheria Wall Street, who deftly made gnocchi from riced potatoes and flour and then created three different kinds of sauces in which to serve the gnocchi.

 

Participants in these Zoom-enabled cooking lessons were provided with lists of ingredients and invited to make the dishes themselves before posting their work on Instagram for a chance to win a personal, 30-minute cooking class with one of the chefs. In the practiced hands of these award-winning chefs, everything looked easy. It probably wasn't as easy as it looked.

 

In any event, the sessions introduced Lower Manhattan foodies to some talented chefs and raised money to support the staff members in these superb restaurants that have been closed for months because of Covid-19. The donations have been most welcome but voluntary.

 

Einat Admony's cooking demonstration will start today, July 9, at 4 p.m. Sign up for it by clicking here. 

Interactive map of restaurants with seating on sidewalks or streets: The New York City Dept. of Transportation recently released an interactive citywide map of all Open Restaurants with seating on sidewalks or streets. The map can be searched by borough, by zip code and by restaurant name. To access the map, click here.

Tribeca Greenmarket now open on Wednesdays: As of July 1, GrowNYC's Tribeca Greenmarket on Greenwich Street between Chambers and Duane Streets is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to the Tribeca Greenmarkets, there are Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets at Bowling Green, City Hall, the Oculus and the Staten Island ferry.
GrowNYC asks that shoppers wear a face covering inside the market space and maintain a six-foot distance between themselves, Greenmarket staff, farm stand employees and other customers. Dogs and bicycles should be left at home.

Click here for a list of the fruits and vegetables now in season.

"How Black Organizers Fed the Occupy City Hall Protests With Restaurant and Homemade Meals," Eater.com, 7/7/2020. "For the past two weeks, hundreds of people have camped out in Lower Manhattan's City Hall Park, demanding that the city cut at least $1 billion from the NYPD's 2021 budget, in light of the nationwide protests against police violence," says Eater.com. "The movement started on Tuesday, June 24, with just a few dozen people. Overnight, it grew into a group of a few hundred, who in the subsequent days and weeks were sustained by a tight-knit network of chefs and volunteers that mobilized to feed the protesters - often at 2 a.m. and always free of cost. ....Occupy is a protest, though anyone who has ventured into Manhattan's City Hall Park in the last two weeks will know that at the heart of the movement, there is also a vibrant community." For the complete article, click here.

"FiDi's Timeworn China Chalet, An Underground Party Spot for NYU Kids, Shutters for Good," Eater.com, 7/6/2020. "China Chalet, the FiDi Chinese restaurant on Broadway, near Exchange Place, that was once a go-to spot for office workers, and in recent years became a hangout destination for New York University students, appears to have permanently closed," says Eater.com. "Fifty years ago, commercial parts of Manhattan were paved with such ambitious Chinese restaurants that served as centers for business meetings and banquets. Usually tucked away on the second floor, many of these were often sumptuously carpeted, with swagged curtains at the windows, and waiters formally clad in vests and ties. These places offered a luxurious feel and a full bar, which increased their attractiveness for businesspeople who frequented the darkened premises in the waning era of the three-martini lunch. In modern times, the venues that remain had often become timeworn and ragged. Located way downtown at 47 Broadway since 1975, China Chalet was one of those places, and probably the only one of its sort still fully functioning in the Wall Street neighborhood. Now it, too, will become a memory." For the complete article, click here.