News Summary

• Queens' Eclectic/Encore Props is closing up shop after nearly a half-century in business.
• Bronx's Montezuma Restaurant has closed after 40 years serving Tex-Mex and Caribbean cuisine.
• Bebop drummer Joe Strasser and his longtime friend Mark Quinn have newly opened a literally named jazz club up a narrow flight of stairs, on the second floor of a Financial District storefront.
• The Carrot Cup Cafe in East Harlem has hopped into a brick and mortar space uptown.