Can't NYC Get A Little More Original?

Looks like we're bound and determined to follow in the footsteps of a certain West Coast town when it comes to the newest foodie project on the city's slate:

The little-used Battery Maritime Building, a freshly renovated and richly riveted Beaux-Arts landmark in Lower Manhattan that still serves as the gateway to Governors Island, would become a culinary temple in a redevelopment plan offered yesterday by the Bloomberg administration.

A detail of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.
Dozens of market stalls might fill the grand public hall where commuters in the early 20th century waited, under the fierce gaze of grotesque dolphins perched atop 30-foot-tall columns, to cross the harbor to 39th Street in South Brooklyn. A wine or coffee bar might be placed at one end, a demonstration kitchen at the other. Diners could sit out on a monumental loggia overlooking South Street and Battery Park.

Sounds a wee bit familiar, doesn't it?