September 5, 2009 Community News, Events, Newsletter, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News, Shopping
• Endorsements are coming in for the City Council primary on Sept. 15. The New York Times recommends P.J. Kim: “This vibrant area from the Lower East Side to Wall Street and TriBeCa deserves a vibrant council member. Newcomer Jin ‘P.J.’ Kim is a South Korean immigrant with degrees from Princeton and Harvard Business School. He has worked in business and more recently used his skills to manage and coordinate antipoverty programs.” Downtown Express, meanwhile, endorses Margaret Chin: “Margaret Chin has passion, deep community roots and a strong record of accomplishment. She has been fighting for Downtowners for decades…. [She] has fought hard for affordable housing all over Downtown and has helped get hundreds of apartments built in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. She also has worked for many years on voter registration and rights, and will be good solving constituent problems. We did have concerns that she would not focus enough on the west side of the district, but she has also been active on the quality-of-life issues, including traffic safety and congestion, as well as schools and affordable housing, that are issues all over Downtown. She and her family have lived in the Financial District for more than two decades. We’re confident she will fight hard for the entire district.”
• New Amsterdam Market—returning to South Street, outside the Fulton Fish Market, on Sunday, Sept. 13—has posted its vendor list. Organizers are also planning seminars for the day, including ones on making jam ($40, one hour) and alcoholic drinks from old New York ($55, 90 minutes). For details, see newamsterdammarket.org.
• The New York Times pondered the notion of private pools in New York City, mentioning Matthew and Adriana Keiser’s $500,000, 17-by-11-foot pool on the roof deck of their Reade Street loft. (“Other people buy Ferraris,” said Mr. Keiser, while Mrs. Keiser said she didn’t mind if neighbors could see them frolic because “There’s no point in having all this if you can’t show it, right?”) Also noted was the 48-foot-long top-floor indoor lap pool owned by Steven Schnall, a venture capitalist and real estate developer, on North Moore.
• The folks at Eater sat through the Community Board 1 meeting in order to learn that “The folks from BLT Grill at the W Hotel on 123 Washington—the newest addition to Laurent Tourondel’s BLT Empire—practically got the green light before opening their mouths. Among the few things the reps shared about the project were that they’ll have standard hours (closing no later than 11:30 p.m. on the weekends), two floors, and a small plaza/patio with about 20 seats.”
• Tribeca Trib, Downtown Express, and Curbed all wrote about Battery Park City residents’ objections to the state’s plans to tear down the “Tire Swing Park” playground in order to build the 43,000-square-foot West Thames Park.
• “Tribeca Treats is back for another round of its cupcake flavor competition,” reports Time Out New York Kids. “From Tuesday, Sept. 8, to Friday, Sept. 11, for just five bucks, the bakery will be doling out samples of tasty treats from three or four semi-finalists. This year, flavors such as chocolate hazelnut with Nutella filling, orange creamsicle and key lime are in the running.”
• Downtown Express weighed in on the closing of Yaffa’s.
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