Three Corners of Greenwich and North Moore Are Changing at Once

The Independence Plaza corner of Greenwich and North Moore sat empty for years before Caliza opened there, and it now has two restaurants. Across Greenwich, behind the doors of a room that defined Tribeca dining for 35 years, Major Food Group is building a steakhouse it plans to open in 2027. On a third corner, a pair of early-1800s buildings has city approval to grow taller and get back storefronts that were removed in the mid-1900s. Each of the three runs on its own schedule, and all three point Greenwich Street toward rooms built for a long sit, as its quick counters close.

The corner that already turned

Tribeca Citizen described Suram as "bringing some welcome light" to the corner, and said the space had been "lying dormant for years" until Caliza fitted it out. Suram opened in late August. It comes from the team behind Friedmans, and its first location opened in 2023 at 60th Street and West End Avenue. It serves lunch, and the menu runs from seaweed salad at $10 to salmon crispy rice with togarashi at $18.

Friedmans opened next door and was serving by mid-September. The same reviewer's first look at Friedmans describes how the room is built for staying: a raised sidewalk café that is partly covered, a private room in back behind sliding doors, and a bar along the whole south wall, where Caliza's bar also stood. The architects took out the raised section of the old dining room. The menu is built around all-day breakfast, with lemon ricotta pancakes, pastrami hash and B.E.L.T.s, and dinner adds schnitzel, brick chicken and meatloaf. The posted hours are Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., though the reviewer thought the weekday opening was actually 10 a.m., so check before planning a breakfast there.

So one operator took a corner that had trouble holding a tenant and split it into two rooms: a sushi counter that fills the lunch hour and a diner-style restaurant with a private room that fills the evening.

The corner on a 2027 clock

Across Greenwich, between Franklin and North Moore, is 375 Greenwich. Drew Nieporent and Robert De Niro opened Tribeca Grill there in 1990, and it closed in March 2025. Eater NY reported in June that Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone and Jeff Zalaznick of Major Food Group are opening an unnamed American tavern and steakhouse in the space in 2027. Eater's account says Jean-Georges Vongerichten had looked at the address before deciding against it, and that De Niro still owns the building.

Torrisi told Eater the room "felt like a tavern":

"But in this city, a tavern can also have the polish of a grill and the seriousness of a great steakhouse."

According to the same report, the team is working on a Japanese veal chop, a pounded cutlet that Torrisi compared to a Milanese, along with steakhouse staples. For anyone who walks past 375 every day, the address is on a 2027 timeline, and the plan returns it to the kind of room it was for 35 years, a full dining room with a bar and a steak menu.

The corner that will look older when it's finished

The third corner moves slowest, and the change there is in the building itself. Tribeca Citizen reported in August that Landmarks approved the combination of 385 Greenwich and 71 North Moore, home to Yves and Smith & Mills, this spring, after DXA Studio revised the design. 385 Greenwich gets one more story and 71 North Moore gets two, making a five-story building with two residences and retail on the ground floor. The projecting storefronts from the late 1800s will be restored, along with the cut-away corner entrance that was removed in the mid-1900s. The penthouse's arched steel spans are meant to recall the district's old market halls and rail lines. Construction "will likely start in the spring."

The same report traces the parts of the building to 1805, 1815, 1874 and 1898, with a new storefront facade added in 2016. The finished street level will look closer to the 19th century than it does now, with new retail inside those restored storefronts.

Up and down Greenwich, the same trade

Away from North Moore, the street shows the same pattern. Over the past three months the departures have been quick-service counters:

• Juice Press, 415 Greenwich at Laight, opened in 2014 and closed this summer, Tribeca Citizen reported August 4. The chain still runs a location at Murray and Greenwich.
• Chip City, 325 Greenwich at Duane, arrived in 2022 and closed in early October, when the company shut every location it had. Its statement pointed to "significant macro-economic headwinds."
• Koh's Kids, 311 Greenwich, closed in September, and Luxe Concierge has since moved into the storefront.

The arrivals mostly lean the other way. Matchaful soft-opened on August 25 at Greenwich and Harrison in Independence Plaza, a local chain adding a Tribeca shop. The clearest example is 428 Greenwich, between Vestry and Laight, in the former Sushi Azabu space, where the Sankaku sake bar opened in 2019. Two Japanese concepts are planned there. On the ground floor is a New York outpost of Tokyo's Land Bar Artisan, run by bartender Daisuke Ito, which was scheduled as of July to open this fall. The basement will hold a 10-seat wagyu restaurant from chef Satoru Tanaka, who opened Yakiniku Tanaka in Tokyo's Ginza neighborhood in 1992. Eater NY's October news roundup calls it Tanaka New York and says it follows locations in Singapore and Hong Kong. Neither one has posted a firm opening date yet, so for now 428 is still a building to keep an eye on.

A juice bar, a cookie shop and a children's boutique have closed. Meanwhile the street is adding a diner-style restaurant with a private room, a Tokyo cocktail bar run by Daisuke Ito, a basement with ten seats, and a steakhouse due in 2027. Both 325 and 415 Greenwich are still waiting for new tenants.

Halloween Saturday, mostly on Greenwich

October 31 falls on a Saturday this year, and most of the day's plans line up along this street or just off it.

1. Morning, Tribeca Greenmarket. GrowNYC lists the market as year-round, Saturdays 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Greenwich between Chambers and Duane, with clothing collection from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check GrowNYC's market page before you go.
2. Early afternoon, Barnett Newman Triangle. At Sixth Avenue and White Street, the Friends of Barnett Newman Triangle are giving out free candy and setting up photo ops from 1 to 4 p.m., according to the Tribeca Trib's Halloween guide. The city's street permit covers Church Street from Franklin to White, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
3. Mid-afternoon, Bogardus Plaza. The Friends of Bogardus Plaza hold a free Halloween Spooktacular from 3 to 7 p.m. on Hudson Street between Chambers and Reade, including a haunted garden for ages 5 to 12.
4. After dark, 21 Jay Street. Worth A Shot Events' installation at 21 Jay Street, at Greenwich, has been running since October 10, and it is meant to be seen at night. On Halloween, NYC DOT's Trick-or-Streets list closes Jay Street from Hudson to Greenwich from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for "Nightmare on 21 Jay Street," a free block party with a DJ and a walk-through inflatable haunted maze.

Dinner afterward can be on the corner where this post began. Friedmans and Suram are both at 378 Greenwich, and the corner with the dark windows across the street is the one to come back to in 2027.

The tenants opening on Greenwich Street will shape what living on these blocks looks like for the next few years. If you own nearby and want to understand what this run of new tenants means for your building, or you're hoping for a home here before the 2027 openings arrive, Charlar Acar offers discreet, building-by-building guidance. Get access to our private listings.