Plus: New sculpture at Tribeca Park; pole-dancing fitness studio closed; opening date for City Acres market in FiDi; Pegu Club. / 6 comments
Plus: Peeking inside the restaurant coming to the Cercle Rouge space; best-ever use of a sidewalk shed; American Apparel's Soho store looks iffy; state senator Daniel Squadron's community convention.
Also on Community Board 1's April agendas: A second try for the Roc space; beer-and-wine license for the Truffles convenience store; Khe-Yo sidewalk seating; changing the direction of Beaver Street; new windows on Worth Street; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: Poet Max Blagg's solstice celebration; Knicks player Lance Thomas lives here; Calvert Vaux, designer of two Tribeca parks; appreciating artist James Rosenquist
Plus: Cute new restaurant at Howard and Centre; a day in the kitchen at Bâtard; thefts at two local malls.
Plus: Massive art installation on Wall Street; more on City Hall restaurant's closing, and how it served the homeless a free lunch; when Trinity Church was the New Year's Eve gathering point; homeless couple with 10 cats; theft at FiDi Mexican restaurant.
Plus: Treating cabbage like steak; female superintendent in Battery Park City; Time Inc. moving in soon; helicopter industry fighting proposed ban. / 3 comments
Plus: High-end amenities now include stroller garages and slop sinks; OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder bought in Tribeca for $11 million; "euthanasia road trip" film shooting on Duane; DAIN art; Tribeca Park piano; Battery ticket-hawker gangs. / 8 comments
Plus: Grand Banks's new food menu; "Head of Goliath" reception; settlement over Battery Park City security abuse; is Beekman Street safer now?; Austrian restaurant opening in FiDi; screening of never-before-seen Hitchcock documentary.
Plus: The Hideaway was closed by the Department of Health; New York Sports Club has been emptied out; Liberty Street Bridge closure; a likely tear-down on Fulton; Lea DeLaria shopping in Tribeca; adorable bird's nest. / 7 comments
Plus: Añejo is opening a downstairs lounge called Abajo; new Tribeca Park sculpture to be installed today (also, a talk with the artist); Maison Kayser build-out; something up at Nassau and Beekman; El Vez Burrito soft serve. / 1 comment
Plus: Modell's said to be expanding, not moving; wedding dress company relocating here; 66 Reade restoration; death row art exhibit; "Good Wife" shoot; go buy flowers. / 3 comments
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Those helicopters are from the 160th special operations aviation regiment. They are the best helicopter pilots in the world. The... — Jim / Military Helicopters Scare Lower Manhattan
These helicopters are military. They are part of the 160th SOAR, the US Army’s Special Operations Aviation Regiment. These pilots... — BKR / Military Helicopters Scare Lower Manhattan
The Long object on the front of the helicopter is not a gun. It is a fuel line and connection... — BKR / Military Helicopters Scare Lower Manhattan
Good work Erik! — Robert Ripps / Seen & Heard: Teens Attack Battery Park City Man
Yep, but I don't know whether those are Parks Department restrooms or Seaport District ones. — Erik Torkells / The First Real Look Inside Pier 17