{"id":7754,"date":"2010-08-20T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=7754"},"modified":"2013-10-16T06:32:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T10:32:54","slug":"harlem-couple-invest-in-where-they-live-creating-harlem-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=7754","title":{"rendered":"Harlem couple invest in where they live creating Harlem Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_1365_768_ef9c6e76-63ea-4870-b78b-087c9fcc4dd5.jpeg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_1365_768_ef9c6e76-63ea-4870-b78b-087c9fcc4dd5.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By HarlemGal for HarlemCondoLife<br \/>\nWhat does The Tonic Bar located in Times Square have in common with Harlem? The Tonic Bar is owned by a couple who live in Harlem. They&#8217;ve been residents of Harlem since 2006. The couple behind The Tonic Bar in Times Square have now decided to invest 100 percent in where they live by launching <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemtavern.com\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Tavern<\/a>, a neighborhood bar &amp; grill, at 2153 Frederick Douglass Blvd. This is the space we told you about back in <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2010\/04\/07\/another-metropcs-appears-and-auto-shop-no-more-on-116th-street-and-frederick-douglass-blvd\/\" target=\"_blank\">April<\/a> how the corner gas station\/auto shop was up for lease. (Oh&#8230;and a reader too had sent us an update on the recent construction happening at this corner space.)<br \/>\nToday, one of the owners of the upcoming Harlem Tavern spoke directly with HarlemCondoLife to tell us why they are putting their dinero dollars into where they live-particularly Frederick Douglass Blvd.<br \/>\nAccording to Sheri Wilson from SoHa 116 Restaurant Corporation and co-owner along with her husband says Harlem Tavern will be a restaurant that is representative of Harlem. &#8220;Harlem Tavern is going to be a place for everyone. Harlem is such a diverse place. We are creating Harlem Tavern to capture and accommodate that diversity,&#8221; says Wilson.<br \/>\nWilson says word recently got out about their exact plans cause their website was just finished and hit the internet. She said &#8220;you&#8217;re the first we are speaking to.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey still have several processes to complete with NYC&#8217;s Department of Buildings. However, they&#8217;ve built-in plenty of time to open in their business timeline, which is not soon. Wilson says they are aiming to open after the new year. &#8220;If all things go as planned, we plan to open in February 2011.&#8221; She said if they make that deadline they will get heating lamps to accommodate customers and the winter weather.<br \/>\nIn closing, Wilson explained why Frederick Douglass Blvd? &#8220;Harlem is a great place to live and Frederick Douglass Blvd is a wonderful street that holds enormous potential for growth.&#8221; We could not agree more with Sheri Wilson! We have dubbed FDB as <a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?s=restaurant+row\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;restaurant row&#8221;<\/a> and the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2009\/11\/18\/new-condo-readies-on-harlems-gold-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\">gold coast<\/a> of Harlem.&#8221; As each day passes, our predictions are becoming more and more of a reality.<br \/>\nA special congrats to our fellow Harlemites on their plans with Harlem Tavern! May everything fall in place and so that we have another new and interesting place to hang! Salude!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_54375fda-b965-413f-9925-365ae247f439.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_54375fda-b965-413f-9925-365ae247f439.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_ebda2de6-1bc5-4fce-b3b0-06dc87e811a3.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/l_2048_1536_ebda2de6-1bc5-4fce-b3b0-06dc87e811a3.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HarlemGal for HarlemCondoLife What does The Tonic Bar located in Times Square have in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155,3225,1662],"tags":[40978889,77809719,640586,124718158,44368477,124718187,93470272,124715658,1942829,271574,15427,40980762,40980765,334497,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}