On opening nights for the neighboring gallery, hipsters wait for seating amid Littleneck's whitewashed wainscoting and cute nautical doodads.
Off-putting, however, was our being made to wait for seating even though the restaurant was nearly empty.
People waiting for seats fill the bar area and spill out into the street.
And as the number of charter schools grows — the Bloomberg administration spent years lobbying state lawmakers to allow more of them to open — the number of students waiting for seats has slowly dropped.
The thousands waiting for seats on a bus to the library were an assorted lot, some in their Sunday best, others in simple black and still others in patriotic outfits usually pulled out of the closet on the Fourth of July.
Continental (now United) had seven planes waiting for seats for months at Boeing's Paine Field.
Instead it announced it was still in negotiations and would wait for more seats to be finalised before making its decision.
"You had to stand behind someone to wait for a seat," Mr. Bennett, 72, said on Tuesday, recalling the breakfast rush at the restaurant, on Lenox Avenue, where stools outnumbered booths 15 to 6.
IPPUDO WESTSIDE The theater district branch of this Japanese ramen chain has opened to a crush of would-be slurpers that's almost as big and as willing to wait for a seat as at the original Ippudo near Union Square.
