Newly polished

Brass (Nomad)

RESTAURANTS • First Person

There aren’t many new restaurants below 42nd Street that look like Brass. Just above Madison Square Park on East 27th St. and set deep in the back of the Evelyn Hotel (itself operational since 1903, fully updated in 2017), the restaurant easily captures the feel of old New York: dark mahogany bar, booths lining the dining room,…