Who Gets The Ashcan: The Chelsea Hotel or the Fedora?

Good news for 23^rd Street & West 4th St!  Noel Ashman, who was attempting to take over Star Lounge from Charles Ferri, only to be thwarted in his pursuit of a liquor license, was recently rumored to be ready to seize the venerable Fedora   Restaurant on W. 4th Street.  However, it appears that he didn't make the cut at that landmark institution either.  Has Ashcan given up on the Chelsea basement space (where work continues sporadically),  or on his bizarre Argentinian restaurant scheme? We here at Legends, as cynical as we are, refuse to believe that any one man could be heartless and soulless enough as to try to desecrate two landmark institutions—at least not at the same time.  Oh well, where will we throw our $5 Lard Lad doughnuts, if our Ashcan is gone?  (Source: Grubstreet)