The restaurant installation will always be viewable from the street.
So, for part of his masters thesis at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, the 27-year-old designer put his frustrations to work: he created a zero-waste restaurant installation.
In November, the city's Department of Buildings issued a permit to K & S of N, which owns the restaurant, for installation of a high-voltage air-conditioner and some partition and plumbing work in the cellar.
He's been working under the radar and ahead of the curve since 1969, when he opened the restaurant-as-installation Al's Café, in L.A., paving the way for generations of food-serving artists, from Gordon Matta-Clark to Rirkrit Tiravanija.
The artist Susan Cianciolo, left, closed Run Restaurant (an art installation that served meals) and moved on to Run Home, an offshoot of her Run Store (an art installation that sold things).
Live music, art installations and restaurant deals round things out nicely.
It was less restaurant and more art installation, a notion Momo is clearly taken with.
Her newest installation, "Run Restaurant," in the Alleged Galleries, a meatpacking district space owned by her art dealer husband Aaron Rose, is a celebration of her retreat from commerciality.
In recent years, gunmen have shot up fast-food restaurants, post offices, military installations, a movie theatre, a holiday party, a night club, a health clinic, a congressional softball game, churches, high schools, colleges, an elementary school.
According to a Kenyan intelligence report, he has been connected to plots against Kenya's Parliament, the United Nations office in Nairobi, Kenyan military installations, an Ethiopian restaurant in the Kenyan capital and an airport, none of which materialized.
