Plus: Parkour classes for kids; Broadway condo sales office (and narrow entryway); donate a gently used bra to help fight sex trafficking; meeting about Peck Slip park design; BMCC pool delay.
Plus: The new Franklin Street mural is an ad; the former Ichimura has changed names again; the inside of St. Nicholas National Shrine; candidate Aaron Foldenauer; "reimagining education" at Portfolio School; restaurateur Drew Nieporent.
Plus: Tribeca Art+Culture Night is coming up; Landmarc's reinvention as an event space; new restaurant at the Trump Soho hotel; 91 Leonard from the west; the sales office in the former Matsugen space; counterfeit vendors in curb cuts; two-tower building at the Holland Tunnel. / 5 comments
Plus: Skidmore Owings & Merrill is designing 91 Leonard; a review of the Wooly Public; Chase branch robbed of $1000. / 2 comments
Another Chinese restaurant has taken its place. Plus: 91 Leonard appears to have topped out; pop-up gallery coming to Broadway; new Brookfield Place tenant; tattoo parlor on Lafayette; Harrison storefront; Jane Lynch's Christmas show; "Instinct" shoot.
Plus: Soft serve ice cream; frame sale; local petition to get 2 World Trade Center built; checking in on the Nunu Chocolates store at the World Trade Center mall; progress at a new Broadway building. / 1 comment
Plus: Beach volleyball tournament this week; cornhole in FiDi; progress at the Flea's new theater; protected parking at New York Dolls; Broadway condominium halfway to its final height.
Plus: Man posing as police officer shakes down wrong-way driver; offering plan for 91 Leonard; the state of J. Crew. / 3 comments
Plus: Spring has sprung at the Saturday Tribeca Greenmarket; storefront revealed at W. Broadway and Worth; disruptive construction on Broadway; painting classes; Lexus ad shoot. / 4 comments
Plus: New Con Edison transformer being installed two nights next week; Jack's Stir Brew Coffee confirms Reade Street café; locally known restaurateur involved with popular spaghetti donut; Broadway condo progress; El Ad's disrespect for the neighborhood. / 3 comments
Plus: Opening date for the Saks Men's Store; the transformer that clogged up W. Broadway on Saturday; checking in on Pier 17; the 19-story building under construction on Broadway; "Power" TV shoot. / 3 comments
Toll Brothers City Living has finally posted a rendering for the 19-story building underway at 353-357 Broadway (between Leonard and Franklin), which will have its entrance in the narrow dog-leg that connects at 91 Leonard. / 2 comments
A beautifully written piece about an even more beautiful family. — Jennifer / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
May he rest with the angels. — Native / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
What a lovely piece about a lovely person. Thanks so much. — Bob / Peter Bianco, who loved his wife, his family and his adopted neighborhood, has died at 51
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