Early this morning, we got a nebulous e-mail from an anonymous tipster: “Mayor Task force just moved in on Smith and Mills.…About get nailed lying on supreme court. SLA about nail them too.…Guess fraud on supreme court pretty big deal after all when in name liquor license. Every dept hammering them one by one.” Down by the Hipster today reprints a longer version of the screed, saying it comes from an upstairs neighbor: Best we can tell, it accuses the restaurant of everything from lighting a woman’s coat on fire (pyros!) to electrical, plumbing, and soundproofing issues, as well as pretending to have a kitchen (presumably their pâté is just magically created by Food Boy).

We’ve heard rumors that the team behind Beatrice Inn is doing something in the basement space of the Puck Building, and now Matt Abramcyk reveals that he and Paul Sevigny are trying to open a quasi–social club there. (This will go nicely with a new lobby.) Negotiations continue and nothing has been inked, but Abramcyk is eager to create what he says would be “one of the most special, beautiful spaces in the world.”

At one point Smith and Mills owner Matt Abramcyk was toying with the idea of opening a Skee-Ball bar in the financial district, but now it looks like he has a bigger project on the horizon — in Atlantic City! The Times reports that he and his Beatrice Inn partner, Paul “brother of the actress Chloë” Sevigny, are teaming with Curtis Bashaw, a developer of the Mondrian in Soho, to turn a former Atlantic City Howard Johnson into the Chelsea, a boutique hotel with a Stephen Starr restaurant. A spokesman for the project tells the Times that the Beatrice team is “going to be in charge of celebrity wrangling, including bringing Paul’s sister’s friends down” to a fifth-floor lounge. Chloë has gone to AC for a Morrissey concert, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. Our favorite part of the story? When the Times reporter gripes about getting turned away from the Beatrice.

SoHo Meets HoJo In Atlantic City [NYT]

Gawker reported earlier today that the Beatrice was closed last night, though “no one knew why.” Co-owner Matt Abramcyk fills us in. In order to address noise complaints, Abramcyk was doing renovations to facilitate quick entry and exit to and from the club. However, someone failed to apply for a permit to do some plumbing work. “When [the mayor’s task force] shut construction down,” Abramcyk says, “they left us with our pants half down, since we were doing it to satisfy them.” He’s working with his lawyers to get his pants back up in time to open tonight — not that it matters to the 99.9 percent of the city that can’t get in anyway.

Paul Sevigny’s Beatrice Inn Shut Down Last Night [Gawker]