Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in West Harlem?

It has been rumored that Dinosaur BBQ of Syracuse was interested in expanding to Manhattan. As I drove up the short stretch of 12th Avenue behind Fairway yesterday morning I saw the sign above. A bit of Central New York is coming to NYC! Sure enough, according to their website Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is looking to open in late-September or early-October.

Their bbq sauce is really good but I've never eaten at the Syracuse location. My niece Jan lives in a suburb of Syracuse and likes it.

Will it be any good? We shall see. Will people want to eat at a place so close to the North River Sewage Treatment Plant? The odor tonight was not a palate pleaser.

The neighborhood they will be in is known as Manhattanville. Columbia wants to expand to the neighborhood and is in the very early stages of doing so. If they do there is a small chance that my job will move from its current location to either the main campus or the new campus. That's a few years off but the thought of having good barbecue for lunch is a pleasant thought.

Speaking of Manhattanville, the Columbia expansion proposal has generated some controversy in the community. I walked through the neighborhood a few months ago in a BlueJake-esque photography tour to get a better feel for the neighborhood. Maybe this will be my motivation to post those pictures.