Waiting on Warhol

Paris Commune

99 Bank St. at Greenwich Street,
212-929-0509

Opened: 1979

That was then: When Paris Commune opened in the West Village, it was a tiny, funky café serving French bistro fare to locals like Debbie Harry and John F. Kennedy Jr. The restaurant was a low-key neighborhood hangout for 25 years, but in 2004 the bourgeois overhaul of Bleecker Street inspired upheaval in owners Hugo Uys, Laurence Isaacson and Jaime Martinez—the restaurant is named after a 19th-century anarchist government, after all—and they've moved the restaurant to its current home at the corner of Greenwich and Bank streets

Pictured: Phyllis Diller