Last spring, a 33-year-old British banker named Euan Rellie got a
call from his old roommate, Chris Weitz, co-director of American Pie . A decade ago, the two men, then in their early 20's, had lived in the Police Building on Centre Street. "I'm working on a pilot for DreamWorks," Mr. Weitz said, "kind of loosely Read MoreOn Thursday, Sept. 27, lines were forming in New York stores, but
they were on the other side of the cash register. At the cavernous Hermès store on Madison Avenue and 62nd Street, a saleswoman was propping herself up on a cash register, bored. At Prada on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, an employee was listlessly Read MoreIt figures that after nearly a decade of affluence, excess and hot-toweled pampering, a New York restaurant could come along and make a big splash simply by offering people the opportunity to fend for themselves.
That's much of the appeal of Craft, an oddly conceived new restaurant in the Flatiron district launched by Gramercy Tavern chef Read More
