In the News: More on Bogardus Park

••• More in the Architect’s Newspaper on the transformation of Bogardus Plaza into Bogardus Park: “The existing fence around the garden would be removed and the planted area expanded 20 to 30 percent in area to create a C-shaped garden around a seating area. The street bed will be raised to the existing sidewalk level and new permeable granite pavers—a nod to the historic street paving in Tribeca—will be installed. [… Landscape architect Signe] Nielsen said the existing mature tree canopy served as ‘the bones’ of the plaza’s landscape and plans will add a mix of height and color with flowering trees at each end with shrubs and flowers in between. At the north side, a clock will honor the plaza’s namesake James Bogardus and a new segment of fencing along West Broadway—for buffer and to keep people from walking through the garden—might include an homage to Bogardus’ few remaining buildings in the neighborhood. Space has been reserved at the south end of the plaza for a future  kiosk.”

••• 93 Worth is 70% sold. —New York Daily News

••• An early rave for Aroy Dee Thai Kitchen, now open on John. —Downtown Lunch

••• Grub Street gets a preview of Cherrywood Kitchen, now open on the same block of Spring as Giorgione.

••• “Coinciding with Ringling’s run at Barclays Center in Brooklyn is something of a little top: the Popovich Comedy Pet Theater, which is playing two shows at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in Manhattan March 30. […] Mr. Popovich, 48, a gregarious Dr. Doolittle from Moscow, has been traveling around the United States for 15 years with his show, a 90-minute hodgepodge of wacky skits with animals in colorful costumes performing tricks like his signature one, featuring a cat riding piggy back on a dog.” —New York Times

 

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  1. Congratulations to the Bogardus Plaza group. Taking a street back from cars for pedestrians and people watching is better than man bites dog! Isn’t there a Tribeca Film Group making a movie or documentary about this? It’s a wonderful story.

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