"Dave Arnold, a cocktail veteran behind the acclaimed bar Booker and Dax, has signed on at Bar Contra. The cocktail bar in the former Contra space, at 138 Orchard Street, between Delancey and Rivington streets, will be run by Fabían von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone, who closed their tasting menu restaurant last fall after a decade on the Lower East Side." - Luke Fortney