The owners of Haymaker Bar and Kitchen on 29th Street & 8th Ave are opening a brewery and restaurant called Future Self Brewing on 24th Street & 6th Avenue. As we understand it based on materials filed with the local community board and this article, the brewery would be on the basement level, where guests can do tours and sample craft brews, and the restaurant (which is huge and can seat 165 people) would be on the first floor.

New Jersey is a state in our general vicinity which we understand has excellent views of New York. As first reported by our sister publication the New York Post, a popular Indian restaurant & lounge called Samudhra in Franklin Park, New Jersey (about an hour away) is opening up a second location on 43rd Street & 8th Avenue, on the ground floor of an apartment building called The Ellery. We took at look at the menu for the new location and it is very close to the menu for the NJ location.

“Noona” means older sister in Korean and is used exclusively by a younger brother to refer to an older sister. So in serious honor of someone’s little brother (Ed. note to him and probably you as well: you really need to call your older sister and probably your mother as well), a Korean wellness and beauty establishment called Noona’s is opening soon on 20th Street & 7th Ave. As we understand it, the owner Christine Kim is cultivating a lounge-like atmosphere that should feel like your tasteful and approachable older sister’s room. It will serve coffee, smoothies, and small bites (some of which you can see here); and then at night it turns into a wine bar.

We’ve written a few times now about the new Equinox opening on 28th & 11th, at the incredible Terminal Warehouse space. The Equinox folks (Dominick and Alyssa) now inform us that a date is set for the opening: November 10, 2026! Reminder that this will be “destination club” that you need a premium membership for (though if you go to the Hudson Yards location, you can go here); the focus is on weights rather than cardio; and you get a discount if you join early as a founding member, which you can do here.

A new bagel place called Pio is about to open on 23rd Street & 10th Avenue (northwest corner)—thanks to neighbor Eric Marcus for pointing this out to us. Our investigative team went up and visited another Pio location on 39th & 9th, which is the picture to the right you see here. You can see the Yelp reviews for the Hell’s Kitchen location here (the reviews are very good); their menu here; and their Instagram here. Upshot is this is a classic New York-style bagel place with some Latin flair. It specializes in the cream cheese blends (or “schmears,” which candidly is a word I’m not yet entirely comfortable with), egg sandwiches, smoothies, and pastries.

We’re getting a new Irish tavern on 24th Street & 9th Avenue (name of the place TBD). The owner’s name is Nicholas Brennan and he owns two other Irish-style taverns in NYC, called Sutton Bar Room ‍on 1st Ave and 58th Street and The Canary in Crown Heights. You can see the menu in here (scroll to page 18)—you’ve got your traditional bangers and mash, truffle buratta cheesesteak, smashburger, mini sausage rolls, and even your “Irish Toastie,” which is a lot of Irish: “Irish ham, Irish cheddar, and Kerry Gold Irish butter on Brennans bread served with a cup of tomato soup or Tayto crisps.” Deas!‍ ‍

Neighbor Bridget writes in with an important question, concerning a long-vacant ground-level space on 29th Street near the restaurant Kahlo: “I’m also curious whether you have any scoop on the construction at 515 W. 29th. A retail store? A spiritual sanctuary? The long-awaited Chelsea outpost of Medieval Times? I’m deeply intrigued by the stairway leading to the basement, which I’ve caught glimpses of when the construction workers occasionally leave the door open. Is this how neighborhood conspiracy theories begin?” We like your style, Bridget, and thus we put our very best investigators on the case; here is what they came back with: A showroom for a plumbing fixture company.‍ ‍

We call ourselves serious and ridiculous in generally equal measure, which is why we have to tell you about Fishs Eddy, an iconic and ridiculous (in the best way) home goods store which just opened its latest location in Chelsea Market. You can read great write-ups of it in Chelsea Community News and Time Out. You can also watch neighborhood force Maryam Banikarim interview one of the founders, Julie Gaines, here.

If you know, you know; and if you know, you know we are big fans of Terminal Warehouse, the historic brick building covering a full city block from 27th to 28th Streets, between 11th and 12th Avenues. As first reported by our sister publication the NY Post, the second of two tenants in the redeveloped warehouse is Equinox, which we have covered rather extensively, and the first is Convene Hospitality Group, which designs event and office spaces. This fall, Convene is bringing to the warehouse an events space called “The Mallory,” which will host events like galas, award ceremonies, and Eyes Wide Shut-style parties. (Ed note: Don’t believe literally everything you read on the internet). Anyway, we like this development.

Block resident and gym enthusiast Danielle Liberman did some impressive investigative work and shared new details on the upcoming Equinox opening on our block:

It looks like we’re getting a new Equinox at 28th Street & 11th Avenue (right next to Porchlight)—it’s called Equinox Terminal Warehouse and you can read about it here: https://www.equinox.com/clubs/new-york/midtown/terminal-warehouse.