Chumley's Reopening: Six Months and Counting

Perhaps come Thanksgiving 2007, we'll all have something to be thankful for.

Curbed.com is reporting that work dismantling the historic speakeasy's collapsed chimney has begun, brick by wearisome brick. After that is completed, steps will be taken to stabilize the structure, which, to the eye, looks to tumble at any moment.

The time frame for the work: six long months. It's gonna be a long dry summer.