Thursday, October 29, 2026 · No. 73
Good morning. The team behind Mimi's Pizza on East 86th Street is planning two more concepts, including one built around pasta and focaccia. Also today: three construction sites at once are wearing on Lenox Hill, and the long weekend ahead in one line.
Openings & Closings
Mimi's Pizza is planning two new spots: pasta and focaccia, and a gourmet pizzeria
The team behind Mimi's Pizza, the Yorkville pizzeria on East 86th Street, is preparing two new Upper East Side concepts, Upper East Site reports. One centers on pasta and focaccia; the other is a gourmet pizzeria. Upper East Site earlier reported Mimi's was working on a coffee and ice cream shop on 86th. Via Upper East Site.
via Upper East Site
Nearby on the East Side
In Lenox Hill, three construction projects side by side, and the neighbors have had enough
Neighbors in Lenox Hill say they are fed up with noise from three adjacent construction projects running at the same time, Upper East Site reports. It's south of our patch, but anyone living next to a scaffold on a Yorkville side street will recognize the complaint. Via Upper East Site.
via Upper East Site
This Week
The long weekend in one line: Halloween, the Marathon, clocks back, and Election Day
Asphalt Screams is Friday and Halloween is Saturday. Clocks fall back an hour early Sunday morning, the same day the Marathon comes up First Avenue and early voting ends. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and alternate side parking is suspended that day (meters still run, per 311). Times, the First Avenue no-parking notice and the early-voting details are on our events page.
via The Yorkville Ledger
Yorkville, Remembered
Yorkville's tenements came after the 1879 law, with a window in every room
Most of Yorkville's tenement blocks went up after the Tenement Law of 1879, which made them newer than the Lower East Side's older stock and required a window in every room. In practice the 'Old Law' produced 'dumbbell' tenements whose windows often faced narrow airshafts that filled with garbage. The 1901 law answered with a requirement for courtyards to let in air.
source: 6sqft
Sunday hands everyone an extra hour. Spend it on the curb along First Avenue, or asleep. Both are defensible. Enjoy your Thursday.