It's happening everywhere

Take a look at the NY Press
CHAIN INVASION
Neighborhood haunts lose out in the restaurant renovation battle

By Jill Colvin

"From Yorkville on the Upper East Side to Astor Place in the East Village, the bar and restaurant landscape is becoming shinier and more corporate, and, as in the Heights, robbing residents of their cozy long-time local dens."
http://www.nypress.com/20/29/news&columns/feature.cfm