Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• A kitchen fire destroyed Anita Lo's Annisa over the weekend. [SE]
• A roundup of restaurants that just opened, or will be open shortly. [Eater]
• Adam Platt reviews Marea in this week's issue of New York and doesn't walk away all that impressed: "For all its impressive, even dazzling qualities, it feels less like a labor of love than like one of ambition and duty." [NYM]
• A rebuttal from Josh Ozersky: "Adam Platt is out of his mind." [TFB]
• The owners of the River Café have filed a $3 million lawsuit over damage they claim was caused by Olafur Eliasson's "Waterfalls" art project. [NYP]
• Despite a last-minute petition, Joe Jr.'s closed its doors yesterday. [GS]
• The Health Department may take away the permits of as many as 500 street food vendors after investigators found evidence of "widespread fraud." [NYP]
• Joey Chestnut took top prize at the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest. [NYDN]

Waterfalls No Longer Falling | After 15 weeks—and a bit of controversy—Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls exhibit will bid goodbye to New York today. [NYT]

The Falls' Unintended Victims | Olafur Eliasson's East River art installation was supposed to delight both New Yorkers and tourists and even make money for the city, what with an uptick in tourism. (Yes, city officials actually expected people to travel from far to see the man-made waterfalls.) One party that hasn't seen much of a benefit: the environment. The plants and trees outside the River Café in Brooklyn have turned "prematurely brown," but, thankfully, they're expected to survive. [NYP]

The Times has details on weather-manipulating Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's soon-to-debut public art project, "New York City Waterfalls." On June 26th, the city will flip the switch on his four 90-to-120-foot-tall freestanding waterfalls parked at different points in the East River. Sounds magical, doesn't it? Actually, it might be a whole lot more breathtaking than anybody bargained for: This is the East River we're talking about, a body of water that makes most people gag when they merely catch a whiff of it. There's likely to be a whole lot more than water raining down (raw sewage, needles, severed limbs), but what a sight it will be for tourists on the Circle Line!