News that ancient West Village restaurant Fedora is being taken over by hot-shot restaurateur Gabe Stulman has not been greeted warmly by Vanishing New York, a bad taste made worse when Stulman misstated Fedora's age. A sample: "While we're not being beaten with baseball bats, those of us who are homesick for the old city do need refuge from what has become a hostile world. Fedora is such a refuge--from the cell-phone sleepwalkers, the frat-boy tag teams, the screaming sororities..." [VNY]
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