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Vogue editor Anna Wintour makes appearance at community meeting to battle Jamaican eatery
The Devil wore outrage Wednesday night.
Vogue editor Anna Wintour, stern and adamant, successfully rallied fellow West Village residents Wednesday night to tell Miss Lily, a Jamaican eatery being built by nightlife impresario Serge Becker, to get lost.
Wintour and others claim the joint will be noisy, attract dangerous elements, and create a traffic nightmare.
All but three of about 100 residents at a Community Board 2 committee hearing voted against the project at W. Houston and Sullivan Sts.
"I am completely concerned," Wintour, clad in a chic, high-collared black and white print dress, told the gathering at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua.
"This is a unique historic neighborhood. I'm also concerned for the safety of the kids here."
At the end of her piece she looked out over the crowd and rallied them.
"I would like everyone who wants to vote against this project to raise their hand," she said.
A board member quickly butted in, shouting, "You can't do that!"
But a voice from the audience shouted back, "but we can clap," and they did with gusto.
Wintour's son, Charlie, 24, a bit less chic in a white undershirt and blue jeans, also had something to say.
"This is not a place for bars," he said. "I don't care if you call it a restaurant. No restaurant stays open until 2 a.m."
Becker's reps insisted Miss Lily would be a "restaurant, not a club" and would be quiet and safe.
Their boss, co-owner of celebrity hangout The Box, Joe's Pub, La Esquina and Café Select, couldn't be reached for comment.
The community board committee said it will issue a recommendation on Miss Lily soon. lstandora@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz0qSXLML4j
The Devil wore outrage Wednesday night.
Vogue editor Anna Wintour, stern and adamant, successfully rallied fellow West Village residents Wednesday night to tell Miss Lily, a Jamaican eatery being built by nightlife impresario Serge Becker, to get lost.
Wintour and others claim the joint will be noisy, attract dangerous elements, and create a traffic nightmare.
All but three of about 100 residents at a Community Board 2 committee hearing voted against the project at W. Houston and Sullivan Sts.
"I am completely concerned," Wintour, clad in a chic, high-collared black and white print dress, told the gathering at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua.
"This is a unique historic neighborhood. I'm also concerned for the safety of the kids here."
At the end of her piece she looked out over the crowd and rallied them.
"I would like everyone who wants to vote against this project to raise their hand," she said.
A board member quickly butted in, shouting, "You can't do that!"
But a voice from the audience shouted back, "but we can clap," and they did with gusto.
Wintour's son, Charlie, 24, a bit less chic in a white undershirt and blue jeans, also had something to say.
"This is not a place for bars," he said. "I don't care if you call it a restaurant. No restaurant stays open until 2 a.m."
Becker's reps insisted Miss Lily would be a "restaurant, not a club" and would be quiet and safe.
Their boss, co-owner of celebrity hangout The Box, Joe's Pub, La Esquina and Café Select, couldn't be reached for comment.
The community board committee said it will issue a recommendation on Miss Lily soon. lstandora@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz0qSXLML4j