Pommes Frites Reopens in New Neighborhood After LES Blast
Owners Omer Shorshi and Suzanne Levinson. Image by Courtesy of Pommes Frites
Fries served in a paper cone at Pommes Frites, which reopened in a new location after the original was destroyed in a gas explosion on the Lower East Side in Spring 2015. Image by Courtesy of Pommes Frites
More than a year after a devastating explosion destroyed its Second Avenue block, Pommes Frites reopened today in a shiny — albeit smaller — space near NYU in New York’s West Village.
Two employees died in the 2015 blast, which displaced Pommes Frites after 18 years.
“I don’t want it to be an opening with fireworks and fanfare,” co-owner Suzanne Levinson told The New York Times.
Israeli-born co-owner Omer Shorshi designed the “medieval-feeling” new space, which boasts stained-glass windows and reclaimed timber panels.
Pommes Frites, 128 MacDougal St., NYC, 212-674-1234
Michael Kaminer is a contributing editor at the Forward.
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