Staten Island Advance: The coffee’s perking, the steaks sizzilin’ , the cocktails — and ice cream — are cold. It’s happening at Urby

Like the tide in the Upper New York Bay, so has been the ebb and flow of food places at Urby.

As Urby started to take shape in 2016, the idea of what the old Navy homeport could be sounded incredible. It turned out to be quite a ride in the retail department these four years. The high turnover of places had been attributed by an Urby rep in a prior Advance report as a lack of “walk-in traffic” to the facility.