Bouley defenders Chef David Bouley threw in the towel at least temporarily last week and withdrew his application for a liquor license at what will be his first Japanese restaurant, Brushstrokes, but that didn’t stop some community members from continuing to lobby on his behalf.
Wendy Chapman, Dawn Cook and Sarah Reetz, co-chairpersons of this year’s Taste of Tribeca, wrote a letter to Community Board 1 singing Bouley’s praises.
“These establishments are the top of their industry and well run,” they wrote of his Tribeca restaurants, Bouley and Danube. “People from all over know about our little triangle of the world in part because of what [Bouley] and other top chefs built here.” They call Bouley a generous neighbor who has steadily supported local schools through Taste, and Bob Townley’s new community center.
That’s a remarkably different picture than the one painted by Julie Nadel, a C.B. 1 member who led the fight against the liquor license and called Bouley anything but a good neighbor.
But since Bouley withdrew his application for the W. Broadway spot, the fight appears over, at least for now.
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